New website

By sometime this evening, Pen Porter will have a new website. It's the same name as the current one, PenPorter.com. The complete redesign was necessary because we're moving the site from web.com to GoDaddy.com. Although web.com had a great three-month introductory deal (free), by the time we launched Pen Porter itself a few months later the price had gone up. Since Pen Porter is a REALLY small business, it was necessary to find a better price, which GoDaddy.com offered.

I also, quite frankly, like my new website better. I can't afford a professional website designer. If you can, I can recommend several, including one who will design a basic but functional website for as low as $300. If you need more bells and whistles like a shopping cart, I'll have to recommend someone a bit higher priced. But seriously, give it a try using a template at GoDaddy.com. I did. I'm happy.

I was even able to incorporate a blog onto GoDaddy.com. It uses WordPress, so I'm not sure I'll be able to transfer this blog over. I had some fantastic help from a technological genius getting this very same blog onto my web.com website. But since I don't work for the Chamber anymore, and it wasn't the Chamber's usual web designer anyhow, I probably don't have that help again.

And I'm not sure I will try to find that solution either. My blogging here was too sporadic, and started out as a social media class experiment. Perhaps now I can get into the habit of actually blogging on a weekly basis, and providing the world with my expert knowledge on public relations and marketing. I am hopeful.

But if I can't transfer these gems I have already written, this is it! In any case, goodbye Blogger.

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