New website almost finished

MOST evenings this week I have been copying content over from the old Peterborough Business website to a brand new one.

Click here to see the old site.

Click here to see the new site.

Weebly is fantastic. There are glitches with the system and some little jobs take two or three attempts to get right, but considering the power of the editing and formatting tools, it's worth persevering. It probably still takes less than a quarter of the time than to do things the old way.

For the first time in over ten years of website building, I've finally created a dynamic site from home. People are still charging thousands of pounds for sites less capable than this.

I aim to swap the main www.peterboroughbusiness.co.uk web address over to the new site in time for my meeting with Alchemy Marketing next week.

Welcome to Weebly

THAT'S what the email says, welcoming me to one of the most exciting web design and hosting services I've ever seen.

Since the minor flurry of interest in Peterborough Business a couple of weeks ago, I've been looking for a way of introducing a content management system to the site.

The original website was made using static web templates and an editing program (Dreamweaver) but this doesn't lend itself to fast, flexible news and features content.

I wasted a lot of time trying to learn about database-driven website construction, but this is not my strength and just gets in the way of what I want to do.

My next idea was to harness the power of a blog like this and use it for the Peterborough Business news feed.

And that's when I discovered Weebly. It's simply amazing and does almost everything I need.