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

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

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

Disadvantages of doing your own site
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Requires ability
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 design maintenance loading
Takes time

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

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

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

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

Scans
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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

Plan for multiple pages
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Link pages
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 forward back
Future pages

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

Using web pages to supplement other advertising

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

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

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The End
 www.lyndonirwin.com