farm websites

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I am planning to create a website for my farm -- growing and selling vegetables and flowers for cutting. I want a website that is appealing and clean -- not too busy, but certainly eye-catching.

Do any of you have recommendations for sites to check out? I'm just trying to get ideas. Thank you.

-- TD Matheny (theny@intrex.net), March 02, 2002

Answers

Hello TD,

You can take a look at mine! I started it over a year ago and some say it is pretty good.

Sincerely, Ernest

-- http://communities.msn.com/livingoffthelandintheozarks (espresso42@hotmail.com), March 02, 2002.


If you are doing this yourself, then there are many sites that can give you good advise. Some of the basics to observe is to make it quick loading on dial-up connections, work well on 15 inch screens, work equally well with different browsers( IE, Netscape, etc.)and easy navigation/colors. The longest part seems to be getting indexed and making the top returns of a search engines' results.

-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), March 02, 2002.

Cindy also has a nice one..........hope she sees this and posts a link. I am not sure where her link went.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), March 02, 2002.

http://butterflyhollowfarm.com/index.html

The above site is one that I read through last year sometime and enjoyed. They might be on a homesteading webring, IIRC.

-- Susan in MO (smtroxel@socket.net), March 02, 2002.


Wisdom's Way Alpines

Agdoman is a nice place to build a website. It's free, no ads except a tiny agdomain logo, and they have an easy to use website builder.

-- Rebekah (daniel1@itss.net), March 02, 2002.



hello there mr.matheny, i too am working on a website for my csa farm. i would reccomend that you read 'phillip & alexs' guide to web publishing. it has already helped me avoid costly mistakes. [in time & money!] here's the link:

http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), March 02, 2002.


If you've been around the past few days, bet you learned from Gloria how not to advertise it! :)

Mentioning it on sites like this (once you get it going) in the flow of conversation & while helping others will bring many your way.

Good luck with it. :)

--->Paul

-- paul (ramblerplm@hotmail.com), March 02, 2002.


Thank you Diane. I have a lot of fun making the sites. I have 3 other Border Collie sites I do for other folks, and I'm also starting to do Flyball and agility pages also. Mine with the farm and critter pics is Solid Rock Ranch.

Solid Rock Ranch

Solid Rock Websites

-- Cindy in KY (solidrockranch@msn.com), March 02, 2002.


Forgot to say, some of my pages were made with Publisher 97, and then I got Publisher 2000. So the older version pages don't always look the way they did before, (don't know why) I gotta go re-do all of the older ones with Publisher 2000, so if it looks kinda funny on the bottom, that's why.

-- Cindy in KY (solidrockranch@msn.com), March 02, 2002.

Hi TD, Check out my website; http://www.localharvest.org/listing.jsp? id=3937 If it is what you are looking for, click on farmers only at the top of the page- It is FREE and takes about 10 minutes to do. Good luck,Daryll

-- Daryll in NW FLA (twincrk@hotmail.com), March 02, 2002.


Our web site has been a work in progress for 3 years ;-) Keeps us out of trouble. http://www.homestead.com/peaceandcarrots/

We like homestead.com You need only a few brain cells for drag and drop page building, it's cheap and my daughter was able to teach me how to publish ;-)

-- Wendy Martin (wsm311@aol.com), March 03, 2002.


hello mr. darryl, i could not get your link to work . so i went to the site & searched by state! nice wagon! :) & site.

wow what a small web! i love & often used your csa/sustainable agriculture links from your peace & carrots farm ms.martin!

-- bj pepper in C. MS. (pepper.pepper@excite.com), March 04, 2002.


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