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Create Your Own Farm Website: Tips and Benefits for Farmers

Discover how having a dedicated farm website can enhance your agricultural business. From promoting purebred livestock and unique products to supplementing your advertising efforts, a website is a valuable tool. Learn about the benefits of designing your own site versus hiring a professional. Understand design principles and the importance of quality photos. Get tips on utilizing free web hosting and how to effectively engage your customers online. Transform your farm's online presence today!

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Create Your Own Farm Website: Tips and Benefits for Farmers

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  1. Web Pages for Your Farm Lyndon Irwin Bois D’Arc, Mo pages.prodigy.net/lirwin

  2. Who may benefit from their own Farm Web Site? • Purebred Livestock • Anyone offering unique agricultural products • Anyone needing to supplement other advertising

  3. Who will design your web site? • Hire a professional • Learn to do your own

  4. Disadvantages of doing your own site • Requires ability • design • maintenance • loading • Takes time

  5. Advantages of doing your own site • Probably lower cost • Much easier to make changes and keep your site up to date • It’s more fun than hiring it done

  6. Designing your pages • Is it necessary to know HTML? • Consider using one of the page design programs • Front Page • Claris Home Page etc.

  7. Designing your pages • Look at other web sites for ideas • What colors, fonts, sizes work? • Keep it tasteful

  8. Photos / Scanning • Use either a scanner or digital camera • Scanning your own good photos is less expensive • Digital cameras are faster • Don’t “borrow” scans

  9. Scans • Be cautious with size of scans • Large scans are slow to load. • Will your potential customers be willing to wait for slow scans? • If you want to show a large scan, consider a thumbnail

  10. Plan for multiple pages • Link pages • forward • back • Future pages

  11. Where will you put your web pages? • Does your Internet server provide free space for home pages? • Free web page hosts • such as GeoCities or FortuneCity etc. • Free means banners?? • Get your own domain?

  12. Using web pages to supplement other advertising

  13. Supplementing Other Internet Marketing • If you have questions, email us. If you want to know more about our farm or our fleeces, visit our Farm Fleece Page . • Thanks for looking! Have fun! Click here if you want to see other fleeces that we have on eBay

  14. Web Pages • Be prepared to answer a variety of requests for information • “I’m doing a term paper about wool…..” • Use a Web Page to answer your Customers’ most common questions • “How do I fit a lamb?”

  15. Happy New Year • The End • www.lyndonirwin.com

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