Week 5


These past couple of weeks in B250 have given me the opportunity to learn about website and hosting options. This has been very good for me to learn about as I had no knowledge of them prior to taking this class. In fact, my son in law works for Blue Host and I didn’t ever really understand what he did. Since learning about web hosting sites, I have talked to my son in law about them and have gained a little more insight into the process.

This week, I also really enjoyed looking at other websites in the same business as I want to have. It was very interesting to notice different color schemes, trends, instructions, etc. that made one more user friendly over another. Because I am selling a custom service, I discovered a great idea about requiring a deposit prior to the work being started. This helps know that if the customer doesn’t pay timely, or at all, at least you have something for your time. I really don’t foresee non payment being an issue as they are custom t-shirt quilts that the customer would really want to have otherwise they wouldn’t buy the service.

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