Put your Hawaii Business Online - Hawaii Websites

• I want a professional business website
  Your best bet in this case is to hire someone to create what you want. I've never hired someone, so I can't recommend anyone, but you can start looking at what's available in Hawaii web designers.
  
  

  If you want to do it yourself, as a learning experience, or to keep things inexpensive, try the options below

• I want to create a kind of online billboard
  This would be something you set up yourself and can put on your business cards - something that is simple and always available so potential customers anywhere in the world would always be able to access it. A really simple option is a free webhost or blog host.

• I want my own webspace to promote my business and attract customers online
  This can be simple or complicated. It can be one page or hundreds of pages. Learn as you go - that's what I did (I started back in 1997). You will probably want to get your own domain name, learn the basics of how people find you on the Internet, and read my e-book explaining in depth how to get traffic for travel sites (pdf file).

• I have a rental or similar product I want hosted on an established site
  Local real estate agents sometimes will create pages for rentals. You also could list with vrbo or similar sites. There are some just for Hawaii like this one. To search for sites like this, type in "List your _______" in any search engine and see what comes up. You also could e-mail me at lisa@ this domain and I could make some suggestions if you are not sure what to do. If you have a brochure you want to put online, Island Source does that. I also will put brochures up online, with a little blurb about the business for free. E-mail me. I also do interviews, so if you wanted to answer a bunch of questions about Hawaii travel or about your business I could put it up and link to your site or give your business contact details.

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• I want a logo
  I can strongly recommend The Logo Company . They did the logo for this site, and have the most reasonable prices in the industry. They also did the logo for another of my sites: pretendyousaw.com and I love what they did. With this site I had a specific look in mind for the logo but with my other site I did not - I just told them what it would be about and they came up with the awesome bridge that looks like an eye.

• I want to learn how to promote my website online
  A good place to start is with my free How to Get Potential Buyers to Your Travel Website ebook. Or, if you are really serious and want to know everything there is to know, you can get the Winning the Search Engine Wars ebook and newsletter.

• I need a good host
  This site is hosted at thmedia. I have no complaints - service is prompt and good and uptime is high. I also like Hostgator and talk more about that here.