Where Can I find a web template?
October 11th 2010
I’m in the process of starting my own bakery. I’m low on cash and I con’t afford to pay someone to design a website for me. I know how to do some html, but as far as getting started wtihout a template I’m totally lost. Where can I find a template for a home based bakery? Thank you in advance.







October 13th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
If you’re going to start a bakery, you shouldn’t have a website. You should have a blog.
Get one from Blogger.com. Since you’re a baker, I would recommend you actually talk about baking. Share stories in the kitchen, recommendation from staff (or yours), and recipes that you yourself have come up with, or learned a lot time ago.
I would recommend you post EVERY DAY at least once. Believe me, Blogger is actually pretty good at bumping you on the numbers in page rankings (even if people won’t tell you that).
Talk about large orders that you make (never share customer info, of course). Update pictures about the step-by-step process of making a cake. Or take a video of it! And upload it to YouTube and embedd it in your blog! Have people see your bakery. That’s the beauty of YouTube. If you can shoot a video about it, you can put it in your blog. And people will notice it.
Now, as far as people getting to you, I would actually recommend using your phone. You know a little bit about HTML, and that’s all you need with Blogger. Put your little phone number in the corner, and who knows, maybe you’ll get an order from the other side of the country and be able to charge a little extra for the perk.
Now, if you REALLY want to take it to the next level, then make endless and endless and endless bakery books. To do that, go to Lulu.com. Read what they’re all about. They’re good. And legit.
Also: You may get tempted to use GoogleAdsense ads once you get your blog set up. I wouldn’t recommend it for you. Keep it extremely grassroots, and offer only what YOU have to sell.
Good luck. Below are some links to some useful tools for inspiring you along the way.
October 15th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
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