06-16-2011, 10:06 PM
Wow, started an avalanche, did I? What I'm looking to do:
* Set up a "business card" kind of web site, where the front page would be news & updates (info regarding the agencies my clients submit to, news regarding changes of form types, etc.) and also have a few additional pages such as my client list, resume, awards, and a simple FAQ.
* Set up a separate site for my RFQ (Request for Qualifications) tracking. The big requirements for this page are that it be (a) able to update quickly and easily and (b) be password-protected. It can't be a blog (due to the nature of the deadline-specific things I list).
* Set up separate sites for my clients to access and download the documents and forms I generate for them. I can do this via email (sometimes), or links via dropbox and/or file transfer sites like YouSendIt as well, but the website keeps a clean list of everything I'm working on for said clients, arranged by due date. In each entry I include links to the documents (easier with iWeb since it allows me to upload the files directly rather than futzing with dropboxing them). (For that alone I'm really going to miss MobileMe hosting.)
Within the above, as a separate page, set up a Project Description Plate page for each client, such as the example I used above; http://web.me.com/coreworks/LE/Projects.html . My clients use these links to send to their clients and prospective clients. This can be achieved via dropbox, in a way, but not as cleanly.
I shouldn't have gotten too comfortable with iWeb/MobileMe hosting, I know, but I did. I don't think I'm going to find a solution that quite serves the way the iWeb/MobileMe combo did.
FWIW, after a day of messing with three possibilities -- Sandvox, RapidWeaver, SquareSite -- Sandvox is winning. There's a few oddities here and there -- and none offer the masking I'm trying to accomplish such as on my sample site above -- but it's the most iWeb like interface and the easiest to use to rebuild things.
* Set up a "business card" kind of web site, where the front page would be news & updates (info regarding the agencies my clients submit to, news regarding changes of form types, etc.) and also have a few additional pages such as my client list, resume, awards, and a simple FAQ.
* Set up a separate site for my RFQ (Request for Qualifications) tracking. The big requirements for this page are that it be (a) able to update quickly and easily and (b) be password-protected. It can't be a blog (due to the nature of the deadline-specific things I list).
* Set up separate sites for my clients to access and download the documents and forms I generate for them. I can do this via email (sometimes), or links via dropbox and/or file transfer sites like YouSendIt as well, but the website keeps a clean list of everything I'm working on for said clients, arranged by due date. In each entry I include links to the documents (easier with iWeb since it allows me to upload the files directly rather than futzing with dropboxing them). (For that alone I'm really going to miss MobileMe hosting.)
Within the above, as a separate page, set up a Project Description Plate page for each client, such as the example I used above; http://web.me.com/coreworks/LE/Projects.html . My clients use these links to send to their clients and prospective clients. This can be achieved via dropbox, in a way, but not as cleanly.
I shouldn't have gotten too comfortable with iWeb/MobileMe hosting, I know, but I did. I don't think I'm going to find a solution that quite serves the way the iWeb/MobileMe combo did.
FWIW, after a day of messing with three possibilities -- Sandvox, RapidWeaver, SquareSite -- Sandvox is winning. There's a few oddities here and there -- and none offer the masking I'm trying to accomplish such as on my sample site above -- but it's the most iWeb like interface and the easiest to use to rebuild things.