Exactly, something basic like a blog, about the author, some links to relevant things, thoughts, etc. Then maybe a sales pitch. Ideally you'd use seo to spam, er guide people to your page, pitch em, have them click on a paypal link or some such, auth, and profit. Whatever such you intend for them to do once there, you first need to drive people there, meaning you need to be found, and not immediately closed as irrelevant. These will give you a somewhat secure and well documented way to make a basic, manageable, and attractive site.

Wordpress, joomla, etc all have a certain amount of presentation that makes your site relevant to google robots with keywords, or can be made to. I don't deal with that end of it, but others here can speak to them individually. Pick out a theme, just don't go crazy and make it myspace-ish with nauseating graphics everywhere. Then look up "search engine optimization" and dig to get it out there.

What you want in your cms is a wealth of community (support) and plugins/modules in whatever you choose, and all aforementioned software have plenty of them. There are also hosted solutions of most of them canned to minimize the sysadmin involved - upload a theme and content, off you go.

Tough part is giving someone a reason to stay around your site - one page won't do that, let alone sell a cause.

-mb


On 02/15/2012 07:11 PM, keith smith wrote:

Look for free WordPress templates. There are thousands for free. I would
suggest taking some time and look at your options.

If your site takes off and you build it wrong, you will pay later.

Do some research. Install WordPress and look at the free templates.

This is not a decision you can make in a couple hours.

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Keith Smith

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    From: Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com>
    Subject: Re: I need opinions.
    To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
    Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:12 PM

    wordpress won't work (I don't think)
    does anyone know of a forum template for kompozer that doesn't cost
    anything? Believe me..... if I had any money I would be happy to pay
    for things but I don't have any money. The last 4 bucks in my
    checking account went to go daddy to pay for a domain that I can
    hopefully make some money with :) (onlineworkfinder.us
    <http://onlineworkfinder.us>) This is the page I'm going to put my
    ad on.

    I was thinking that making it real simple without all the hoopla
    that the scam sites usually have would be the best idea.

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