This is a Budding new business that is ready to serve the area.
Its name is Alliance Produce located in Alliance Ohio.
If you cannot find produce that is not cared for not, or sprayed with
heavy
chemicals.
Look no futher. Alliance Produce is commited to bring you produce that
has
been exposed to little or no pesticides.
www.freewebs.com/allianceproduce/
Chuckie in the Frozen north, Zone 5

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:03:21 -0800, Chuckie wrote:

This is a Budding new business that is ready to serve the area. Its
name is Alliance Produce located in Alliance Ohio. If you cannot find
produce that is not cared for not, or sprayed with heavy chemicals.
Look no futher. Alliance Produce is commited to bring you produce that
has been exposed to little or no pesticides.
www.freewebs.com/allianceproduce/ Chuckie in the Frozen north, Zone 5

Hey there Chuckie.....
I went to your sight and notices a few things.

1 Your title banner has a problem. The "fresh vine ripened produce" has a
huge line through it. The line make the "produce" word look like "produee".

2 Your web forum link goes to a dead group. Google doesn't have that group.

3 View product link is mis-spelled and is un-readable due to the color of
the text on the background. Also the link sends me a .doc file. This is
not a good thing seeing as I use linux and open office has to open so I
can read it. Mac users may also have this problem. Many people dis-trust
unknown .doc files because of the virus issues.

4 Red text on a black background may not be readable to the sight impaired.

One thing to remember is that everyone's desktop will be different and
your page will render differently on their machine than it does on yours.
Keep the design simple and straight forward with good contrast for the
text. A link to mapquest with the address of your location may also help
people find you.

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Thanks I have been needing a critque for my site and I do know about my
group link being dead because I changed the name last night but did not
change the link on the site last night.
I am working on it now and I am going to get a different background.
I am rather new at the website disign so I am still learning.
But please check out my group which is

Do you live in the Alliance area?
Thanks
Please if there is something else about my site I should change or add
let me know.
Chuckie in the Frozen North, Zone 5

Thanks I have been needing a critque for my site and I do know about my
group link being dead because I changed the name last night but did not
change the link on the site last night.
I am working on it now and I am going to get a different background.
I am rather new at the website disign so I am still learning.
But please check out my group which is

Do you live in the Alliance area?
Thanks
Please if there is something else about my site I should change or add
let me know.
Chuckie in the Frozen North, Zone 5

Thanks I have been needing a critque for my site and I do know about my
group link being dead because I changed the name last night but did not
change the link on the site last night.
I am working on it now and I am going to get a different background.
I am rather new at the website disign so I am still learning.
But please check out my group which is

Do you live in the Alliance area?
Thanks
Please if there is something else about my site I should change or add
let me know.
Chuckie in the Frozen North, Zone 5

Sorry about the triple post I think my computer has a problem.
Timothy I made some changes to my site I am having problems with the
picture though and I will try to have fixed by next week.
if you could look at and tell me what you think now I would appreciate
it.
Thanks
Chuckie in the Frozen North, Zone 5
www.freewebs.com/allianceproduce/

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:43:53 -0800, Chuckie wrote:

Sorry about the triple post I think my computer has a problem. Timothy I
made some changes to my site I am having problems with the picture
though and I will try to have fixed by next week. if you could look at
and tell me what you think now I would appreciate it. Thanks Chuckie in
the Frozen North, Zone 5
www.freewebs.com/allianceproduce/


The update is way better Chuckie. Much easier to read and the background
color is way nicer. If I understand things correctly, your using freeweb's
templates? There is nothing wrong with that , but the templates leave out
some important details. Two of those would be these :

meta name="keywords" content=""
meta name="description" content=""

If there is some way to input something into these fields, the more likely
you will be able to be found on the search engines.

Keywords are the words that are put into a search engine to find your
site. For you, words like orgainc, alliance, ohio, produce...etc. The hope
would be if someone put the words (alliance produce) in to a search
engine, your site would come up. What ever words you choose, try to use
those words in your page's text also.

Description is where you write a short blurb about what your site is
about. just for giggles, lets say this was your description: "Alliance
Produce is a budding new company ready to serve the Alliance Ohio area."

The quoted text above is what people would see under your page's title on
the search engine listing.

I highly suggest that you purchase a true DNS (dot com) address. You will
get better listing in search engines and it will be much easier for
customers to get your page. I would assume that you could care less about
global vistors, so I would assume that you'll advertise the business and
web page locally. Adverts in the local free papers, pay for adspace in the
local newspaper, glue a sign on the back of your car... however you do it,
you'll want people to remember your address. Just so you know,
allianceproduce.com is still advalible. 8 dollars a year for the .com
address and 10 dollars a year for dns hosting, will be some of the best
money you can spend for advertising.

When your ready to open, you should put a link to maquest or some other
map service, with a map to where your located. It will be well worth your
time.

Btw, I grew up in-between Stupidville....ummm,eh, Stubenville and Weirton,
WV. glad I'm somewhere a whole lot warmer than it is there! lol.

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Thanks Timothy.
I am very new to the web design and I am not sure what hosting service
to go through.
http://www.top-10-web-hosting.com/ I looked at this page and I know who
yahoo is but I don't know any of the others.
What hosting service do you use?
I am planing to launch a dot com site but I am not satified with any of
the options I have found.
I don't know how much space I need I don't know what type of service
options I need. I would in the future want to have the option of online
orders.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me.
Chuckie

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:24:46 -0800, Chuckie wrote:

Thanks Timothy.
I am very new to the web design and I am not sure what hosting service
to go through.
http://www.top-10-web-hosting.com/ I looked at this page and I know who
yahoo is but I don't know any of the others. What hosting service do you
use?
I am planing to launch a dot com site but I am not satified with any of
the options I have found.
I don't know how much space I need I don't know what type of service
options I need. I would in the future want to have the option of online
orders.
I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. Chuckie

I'm not using a hosting service, I made my own. If your using broadband
for net access, then you most likely can run your own web server from home
for free. As long as you keep the pages rather light on graphics and watch
your files sizes, then you can run one also. Ofcourse you would have to
learn about configuring a web server, hand crafting pages and the like,
but I sit on my butt for 4 or more weeks every winter. I had the time to
learn and besides.... I'm a super geek deep down.

With all that said, GoDaddy seems like the one stop for you. Cheap dot.com
address (on sale of 1.99 atm), and their hosting plans seem cheap also. I
really couldn't see your current site using more than 25 megs worth of
space. You should be able to find lots of cheap web hosting for that
ammount of space. Go and lurk at alt.webhosting and the other webhost
groups. I'm sure you can find hosting for 2 dollars a month.

Unsure what your business plan is, but I'm assuming that you wish to sell
directly to customers? Are you going to do farmer's markets, or are you
selling only from the farm? I ask because I know quite a few organic
farmers out here (wife's parents are a bunch of hippies) and they are
starting to go to subscription farming.

This seems like a good route for the customer and the farmer. In good
years, customers get a bounty and in bad years the customer suffers along
with you. This may seem kind of screwy, but the customer feels invested
and connected to the farm. You can also get some co-op help for harvesting
during the season. There is a lower price for those who wish to pick
themselves vrs you picking and boxing.

Another model that is growing out here is the direct connect farm. These
are relationships that the farmer creates with a few local resturants. The
higher end cheffs love having day fresh product to use and they also can
ask the farmer to grow much different produce than they can purchase from
commercial sources. Again the resturant is sharing the risk with the
farmer or sharing the bounty. In the end, the farmer get to concentrate
more on farming and less on selling and the cheff get much better produce
to work with and more freedom with their menu.

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