My team’s baseball coach asked us if we knew anybody that could make a website for the team. He wanted to build a site to show off the teams statistics. Coach Larry wanted a site that would be fully animated and that would really show off how great our team is. I new how to make sites, but really didn’t want to volunteer to do extra work. Unfortunately my friend Jack decided to blurt out, “Chris knows how to build websites”. Of course I couldn’t lie and say that I couldn’t, so I ended up being stuck with the task.
I knew cheap coach Larry wouldn’t want to pay for a web site or seo services, so I decided to start looking for free sites that I could use. Using local Minneapolis seo company I’d be able to cut down on seo costs. I found some great blogging platforms, and built a site using Blogger. After showing the site to coach Larry I was kind of embarrassed. He didn’t want to offend me so he said it was good, but I could see in his eyes that he was not satisfied. I immediately told him that this was just an outline and that the real site would be coming soon.
I went back to the drawing board to think about what kind of platform I could use to make a great site. After searching around the Internet I decided that the best way for me to make a great web site would be for me to use flash. I’d be able to add visually appealing graphics with full animation. In addition to this I could place in some video highlights of the team. I figured the guys would really love to see some highlight clips of the team on the Internet.
After searching through the web I found an organization that hosted free flash sites. It only took me a few minutes to sign up and take a look at all of the functions of the site. This site was just what I needed. It took me another two weeks to get the site completely perfect but I am very proud of my work. After seeing the look the coach gave my new site, I knew it was good. After this we decided to use surgeseo.com to get the site listed. Coach Larry contacted a local seo company to get us search engine rankings.
The rest of the team loved the site as well and Jack’s dad even asked me to make a site for him. He said he’d pay me, but I think i’ll do it just for the fun of it.
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