Creating a website to sell a boat

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I am in the process of creating a website for selling our boat. I have tried a couple of free site making sites and found them to be not very user friendly. To be honest I struggle with web tech.
Any recommendations for a user friendly site I could use to good effect with my limited ability.
I want to make a site that I can put all the details and pictures on and then reference from a for sale site.
Many thanks in advance for any constructive help.
 
I use Frontpage 2003 which is pretty simple as I too am not very tech savvy. I think the only place you can get it is from Ebay as it is no longer sold by microsoft.
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Wix is brilliant and intuitive, and above all free. I wouldn't recommend Frontpage, or indeed anything you have to pay for
(however cheaply) when there are so many great free options.
 
Or a free Wordpress account/page. Intended for blogging but I've seen them used for boat sales. Free and easy to set up and get rid of without costs and no software needed.

One thing the OP does not need for this is dedicated web authoring software locally installed.
 
How about just creating a document in Open Office containing all your words and pictures. Export it as a PDF and put that on a bit of storage somewhere. Doesn't even need a web page if it's going to be accessed from elsewhere.
 
Sold two boats using a website designed on weebly. There is a small charge to make the site visible to search engines but it is minimal compared to a broker fee. Give the site a name that is obviously related to the boat. I had for example hardy36.co.uk
 
You need two things not one. Firstly a web site making tool, secondly a hosting service that holds (hosts) your web site on the internet so others can access it. If you are not tech savvy then that is a lot of hassle. If you only want to put up an album of photos and descriptions, like others before I would recommend making a Photobucket or Flickr album, Facebook page, Pinterest or any of the many free social sites that would be a lot easier and no hassle with the hosting. If you are slightly tech savvey then web site authoring is not difficult. I use 1&1 to host our recipe book site www.arfordbooks.com and www.boat-angling.co.uk (both Wordpress) I used 123-Hosting to set www.harleyraceboats.co.uk up just as a placeholder a few years ago (and it's still there!)
 
Our Corvette Motorboat Association site is a Wordpress free site.

The PBO guide to using Wordpress is available by PM

Fairly simple (I managed it) and completely free.
 
MARNEN said:
I am in the process of creating a website for selling our boat. I have tried a couple of free site making sites and found them to be not very user friendly. To be honest I struggle with web tech.
Any recommendations for a user friendly site I could use to good effect with my limited ability.
I want to make a site that I can put all the details and pictures on and then reference from a for sale site.
Many thanks in advance for any constructive help.
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You can use https://www.weebly.com/ to create a website for anything including selling your boat.
Hope this helps.
 
I agree with Steve Clayton. Making it doesn't matter at all - the platform or anything else isn't important. The only thing that matters is getting either enough people or the right people to see it. Putting something on the internet in itself means nothing, and you might get (quite literally) one or two hits. That's why you want to be on a bigger platform, or at least be a huge poster on a forum or something such that it can be in your signature (or some other way of getting lots of people to see the link).
 
karl.e said:
You can use https://www.weebly.com/ to create a website for anything including selling your boat.
Hope this helps.
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Agreed as per my previous post. I respectfully disagree with the ebay idea unless the boat is relatively low value. For premium boats you need to compete with the look and feel on yachtworld which is the site all brokers use. Weebly gives you hosting and seo optimisation as part of the package so you need no real skills in that area. As I said the trick is to give the site a name that defines the boat you are selling. That said, if the boats have a strong owners club, such as Moody or as the example above Corvette then that may be a better route than a web site or a broker.
 
The idea is to create a web page (doesn't need more than one page) that details the boat as comprehensively as possible and includes lots of good quality pictures. Not the tiny close up pictures that the likes of Boatshed do, where you often have a job to tell what the picture is of. An overview picture of the galley, with a good description and some close up pics of the bits you are describing, for instance.

Then, put ads on all of the free adverting sites, the odd paid one if you like, Facebook, signature on here etc etc, all with a link to the webpage.
 
Go to www.kellyseye.net it has a front page of links and you will see the page has word and word and picture links one above the other. Choose which you want right click on the page and open 'view source' then copy it. You can amend it to what you want, you will see pictures are in named img files so you need to set those up. The code that isn't there is the text type and size and format, PM me if if you do that and I will send the file.
 
KellysEye said:
Go to www.kellyseye.net it has a front page of links and you will see the page has word and word and picture links one above the other. Choose which you want right click on the page and open 'view source' then copy it. You can amend it to what you want, you will see pictures are in named img files so you need to set those up. The code that isn't there is the text type and size and format, PM me if if you do that and I will send the file.
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That would be just about the most complicated way of doing it for - no offence - the least graphical effect and visual impact.
 
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