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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Road's End Farm website
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:37:10 -0400


On Jun 11, 2010, at 9:00 PM, KAKerby AT aol.com wrote:

One thing to keep in mind with costs, is what specific goal or goals you have for your website.  [ . . .]   if you need folks to find you via Google topic searches, then a more expensive website *should* give you tools to bring in that additional traffic.  Those tools don't come cheap and a website that provides those tools won't come cheap either.  And thirdly, if you're using your website to disseminate very detailed information about specific products, orders, charges, invoices, etc, that will also cost something.  For instance if you've got an online weekly ordering system where folks put in product quantities and/or pay online, via some kind of shopping cart setup, those are tools which need to be up to date to provide for smooth operations.  So the cost of the website must also be viewed in terms of what you expect that website to do for you.  


On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Jay Sleichter wrote:

We were trying to maintain a website and a blog and it go too time consuming.  We then decided to just route all our www.jaysjellies.com to our blog.  It automatically forwards you to  http://highfarming.blogspot.com/.  Problem solved.


Yes, we only wanted something very basic, and very quick and easy to update. Wordpress.com is basically a blog site; it allows us to post basic info and some pictures, in a form usable for the computer savvy but also functional for customers on dial-up and for customers who are just barely online and have very little computer knowledge. Steve set it up, but either of us can update the availability list; once we've decided what to list the update only takes a couple of minutes.

We're not intending to do any online ordering; we're not set up at all for mail order or complicated delivery systems. People who want more detailed information about availability, or who want us to pack something in particular for them to pick up at market or on the farm, can call or email us; at this stage that actually works better for us, as it lets us discuss those items we only have in very small quantities, which we may not have wanted to put on the website so as not to disappoint customers; and also lets us work out with people who want to come to the farm what a good time is for them to come, as we don't have set hours for a formal farm stand. 


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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