Creating a website to sell a boat
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KellysEye
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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.
The whole point is it simple to change easy on the eye.
The whole point is it simple to change easy on the eye.
MARNEN
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Many thanks for all the helpful advice. I will have a go over the next few weeks.
KellysEye
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>http://www.merryfisher645.co.uk/
If you right click and look at the page source code it is a classic example of a code writing program it contains about twice the code needed compared to hand written code. All code wrting programs are the same it's looks as though they are making it impossible for anyone to make any changes. If you right click on this http://www.kellyseye.net/caribbeanjuly051.htm and go to page source you will see what I mean.
If you right click and look at the page source code it is a classic example of a code writing program it contains about twice the code needed compared to hand written code. All code wrting programs are the same it's looks as though they are making it impossible for anyone to make any changes. If you right click on this http://www.kellyseye.net/caribbeanjuly051.htm and go to page source you will see what I mean.
Reptile Smile
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But a) the Merry Fisher one looks much more professional than the Kelly's Eye one, which is half the battle in selling a boat, and b) it's not redundant code - it's dynamically resizing to fit the device it's viewed on, amongst other things.
Directing a novice towards creating web content by hard-coding really is barking up the wrong tree, I think, but certainly in terms of the final output, I fear the examples you give make the opposite point - that the hard-coded example looks amateurish whilst the other (whilst not perfect) seems rather more polished.
Directing a novice towards creating web content by hard-coding really is barking up the wrong tree, I think, but certainly in terms of the final output, I fear the examples you give make the opposite point - that the hard-coded example looks amateurish whilst the other (whilst not perfect) seems rather more polished.
prv
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Certainly the source of the Merry Fisher page looks like it's been auto-generated rather than hand-written - but so what?
Pete
sprocker
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Reptile Smile and PRV have got the point exactly! My Merry Fisher website was very easy to do for an absolute novice, it was minimal cost, and it helped to sell my boat very quickly at the wrong end of the season. Who cares whether it was hard coded or done via a website builder. It did the job it was intended to do perfectly.
FulmarJeddo
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Following the untimely death of our club webmaster and no one experienced in coding, I have just rebuilt our club website using a free website builder, Mobirise. It has lots of pre built blocks that you just drag in to place and modify to your own requirements. With very little web building experience, I'm quite pleased with the result. There are various add ons available. I bought the code editor to be able to add a few extra bits like the Google Calendar and tide widget, but the basic free download would be ample to sell a boat. My attempt is here http://www.lhyc.org.uk
Buck Turgidson
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If you want to sell it don't bother making your own web page. No one will see it. As others have said it's hits that count. For that you need it to be on Yachtworld.
Anything else is just a vanity project that will not get the boat sold.
Anything else is just a vanity project that will not get the boat sold.
pvb
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I'd disagree; I sold my Hallberg-Rassy using a website I put together, and used the same design to sell a friend's Sun Odyssey. Both were high up in Google search results. Both achieved excellent prices, without paying broker's fees.
PaulRainbow
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Utter nonsense, sorry.
If the web page is well advertised with cheap/free ads it will easily be seen. An ad on Yachtworld or anywhere else will not be as big and effective as a web site such as the Merry Fisher one just posted.
I sold my last two boats this way and like pvb incurred no brokerage costs. The last one i advertised in this way was in the first 3 to 5 hits on Goggle for searches relating to the boat make/model. You don't get that with a Yachtworld ad.
FulmarJeddo
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I also disagree, a well presented website dedicated to the boat can be linked to from other free adds such as Appolo duck, boats and outboards etc.
MarcJ
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I bought our current boat seeing an ad with a link to a Weebly page, then sold the old boat by advertising a link to a page created by the same. I'd recommend it seems pretty easy!
http://vivacitysailboat.weebly.com
akyaka
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+1 so easy to use and comprehensive multipages can be set up with videos etc in a straightforward manner https://www.weebly.com/uk
stuartwineberg
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+1 my website hardy36.weebly.com sold the boat in 24 hours. As previously mentioned though weebly have crippled their model so that unless you pay to get rid of the weebly bit of the URL, search engines won't see it. So there is a small cost you have to bear. I did get hits on another boat I was selling by putting a cheap ad in the cheap boats press with a link to the weebly site. Hard coding is a no no for an amateur. The new weebly sites are fully responsive, changing their format automatically to suit tablets, phones or computers.
SimonD
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As others have said, the formula is simple: create a good looking website and advertise it. I've sold two boats that way and used www.moonfruit.com to create and host the site.
stuartwineberg
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Not sure what the bump is. The advice still stands, just check any changes to their systems since 2016. Also more companies are doing this now wix seems to be popular
lw395
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Another plus for Wix.
I used one of their templates, inserted and captioned loads of photos.
Took less than an hour.
It worked, boat sold.
It wasn't first contact, it was for when you put a boat on goatsandoutlaws or whatever and people want more, high def pictures.
Instead of trying to email them pictures, you just email them a link to your wix site.
The free photo hosting sites seem not to allow inserting a whole directory of pictures, only one at a time. I have little patience and a lot of photos...
With the wix editor I just selected a whole directory of shots with ctrl A and inserted them with ctrl V.
I suggest using any free route you can find to make first contact. Facebook, Apolloduck, Gumtree, ebay maybe, class associations, clubs, forums,,,
Jim@sea
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Put me down as a +3 on Wordpress. Clean, simple, does it all for you, eg thumbnail galleries linking to large scale photos.
Then just link to from elsewhere, eg here, Ebay, etc to drive traffic to the details.
Yes, and I'm a +2 on Boatshed and their dumb photos (you'll also avoid commissions!).
Facebook I can't stand, it fits like wearing two left shoes and is too limiting. It'll also excludes anyone who is not a member. Many people refuse to join it.
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