Why does my Farm need a website?
To state your presence
Make the existence of your farm known to the search engine, online maps, and local directories.
Introduce yourself to visitors
Farms are wonderful destinations for families. Before visitors head out your way they would need to know what activities and produce you offer, your location, opening hours etc.
Keep your Neighbors up to date
Farms change throughout the year. From flower fields in the spring, fresh produce in the summer, pumpkin path in the fall. Each season brings a different type of business and activity. Your website should be able to adapt and keep the information current.
What Information And Features Are commonly found on a Farm website?
Location and opening hours
Farm pictures
Current produce list
Farm history
Current activities and events
Farming practices
Farm etiquette
Online shop
Entry fees or ticket
Mailing list subscription
Contact Information
Job openings
Building your Farm Website with WP Help 360
Building a new site for your farm can be a joyful and exciting experience. It has been broken down into simple steps that make the process smooth and easy to follow. Completing the steps will provide your business with a clean, functional, simple, and healthy starter website. You will be able to continue adding content and features to it as time goes by. A website as a project is never finished. There is always a need for updates, changes, refreshes. Rest assured, you will have my support for these as well.
- The Farm purchases a domain name and WordPress hosting plan. There are many great providers with affordable rates available like Bluehost.com or GoDaddy.com. If you already have a domain name and reliable hosting you can move to step 2.
- The Farm sets up a merchant payment account if you would like to offer online orders or online ticket sales to any events on the site. We support Stripe, PayPal, Authorize, Braintree and many others.
- The Farm completes the Farm Information Questionnaire. This information will be used to create the content for your website.
- Once the questionnaire is complete, WP Help 360 schedules a 30 min call to discuss the design details and expectations for the website.
- Give us about 2 weeks to complete the building of the website.
- WP Help 360 schedules another 1h meeting to review the final draft of the site and make any changes.
- The Farm website goes Live!
How much does a website cost?
The hosting and the domain registration cost about $150 per year, depending on the provider. WP Help 360 estimates the website development time at about 10h which is $650 (including online store and event ticket sales). Any time spent above the 10h mark is billed separately.
What happens after the launch?
WP Help 360 will perform regular updates, maintenance, and SEO review on the site. We can also make content, features and styling updates for you at any time. You always have full access to the site, if you wish to make any changes to it yourself.
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