Setting up a business?

**amazingbabe** · 19-01-2010, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by agent_44

Just a couple of quick points, as unfortunately I am in a bit of a rush!

Business rates only apply if the portion of your home you use for business, is used soley for that purpose and nothing else. So, if you have any non business items stored in there, or say the PC is used by the rest of the family, you are exempt from business rates which is good!

As for building a website (I'm a Web Developer) I would be very wary of building your entire site in Flash, especially if you want Search Engines to be able to index your site. If you are admant on building your own site and you aren't skilled in building web sites, I would personally reccommend keeping it as simple as possible, a lot of people like Mr Site, which can get you off the ground without you needing many web skills. A clean, consistent, easy to navigate site, that shows off your work well is far more important than slideshows and fancy effects, which whilst often being technically impressive actually make a website far less usable for a visitor. If you are really serious about your web site it might be worth looking in to gettting one professionally done, wether you are after a static on line brocure or an e-commerce system you can manage yourself.

Hope that's useful, and good luck!

Lucinda well i never !!!!!!!!!!! I never knew you were a web designer !!!! Where is Agent 44's website LOL ?????

**ps_bond** · 19-01-2010, 01:12 PM

One other point about Flash - which I personally loathe - non-jailbroken iPhones & iPods do not have a Flash client, so it'll exclude those mobile devices (as well as anyone who needs to use any accessibility software).

**agent_44** · 19-01-2010, 01:16 PM

In progress, lol! The 'real' job gets in the way!

**Ominicci** · 21-01-2010, 06:10 PM

Haha same as my brother he is a web programmer (is that the same as a designer) and hasn't done his website yet either, it's said 'coming soon' for about 4 years!!

**agent_44** · 21-01-2010, 09:43 PM

Not necesarrily the same thing, though they can overlap

Well my jewellery site is on the way, I want it finished in the next couple of weeks, or I shall have the right hump!

**Ominicci** · 22-01-2010, 05:56 PM

I did mine about six months ago and only now have I got the on-line shop stocked with something - more to come though (that's why I've been a bit quiet, that and trying to do RingaDay!!)