Started a dedicated pressure washing company separate from my window cleaning
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@Infinity Who are you using for hosting now? I remember a while back we talked about it. Page speed is huge and google is making a push for it now with their ācore valuesā.
Itās all becoming pay to play with google. Seo pushed down the page further and further each day. AdWords and local services huge. The power google has over small business is frightening.
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My website is a mess right now. Iām ātemporarilyā using a free site through google pages. Itās awful. I ran into some snags trying to get my hosting and domain registration to play nice (I canāt remember why, but Iām using two different companies for that). So I defaulted to the google option.
Web development is one aspect of technology that really overwhelms me for some reason. It was a lot simpler back in highschool 
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I use greengeeks for my web hosting because they have their servers in North America
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Duda uses AWS and is who mine is through.
@Infinity its crazy how fast it moves. You blink youāre behind. If it all just stayed like dream weaver weād all be good lol
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How did you like the process of setting that up?
I think my main hangup at the moment is that my domain is registered through godaddy, and I could not get it to direct to any other hosting except by setting up a redirect to the google page. Itās a headache that Iāve been avoiding.
IKR. I have a silver medal hanging in my office, that I got at the SkiilsUSA regional competition for web design. Pretty sure we (my partner and I) used DreamWeaver for our winning site.
But Iām straight up scared of the whole topic today, it seems 
A funny side note: I donāt think any of the students in IT shop had licensed copies of the software we ran on our personal laptops. It was all cracked & bootlegged stuff from limeware. Good times
@infinity. Haha. Itās crazy now with those page builders. Elementor and divi are pretty easy after playing around with it. I didnāt design mine but itās really simple making changes and swapping things out and adding removing stuff. Night and day compared to 5-10 years ago with all the hard coding.
I moved the domains to google. It was easy and took 5 minutes.
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I think I could get back into the design aspect. Itās all the backend stuff that keeps tripping me up. Like that hosting/domain registry stuff I mentioned earlier. Now that I think of it, I always had trouble with the backend. Donāt think we wouldāve gotten that silver medal if we needed to actually run our site on a server for some php scriptsā¦
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I agree using the UI for Duda is just like Elementor. Super easy and even more intuitive that Elementor in some ways.
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Awesome! I will look into that. I take it google allows some more versatility in the nameservers dept?
I use wordpress and use Elemonator to edit on 90% of my website. Very easy and convenient.
Hosting is through siteground. I left bluehost for them mostly for the site speed increases. They connect with cloudfare for storing your site which makes it as fast as it is. Iām happy.
I agree the whole concept of the website stresses me out. Iāll sure I could design the actual page but setting up domains and optimizing it seems to overwhelm me with how much goes into it
Yes you can use theirs or change them.
Just use my guy. He killed it. You also get total control of it.
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Which is one of the main reasons I made my own. Most website developers want to keep ownership of your website which is a hassle for communicating what you need when you need it but also can cost you
I mightāve missed your post. Who is your guy? Approx cost?
Nevin Shields
$497 one time fee which includes the first year of hosting as well. Will customize it however you want. Mine is done and paid for and if I want something changed or fixed he does it. Prides himself on customer service.
Example: www.texaspw.com
He also does SEO but I havenāt used that yet. First tier $300 a month no contract, guaranteed results or money back.
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