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i can share my thoughts with you no problems, the reason i decided to do it myself was that the company we were using looked to charge 2 800 euros for the website design plus hosting DB etc(150€pm) then if we wanted to make changes he was then asking a ridiculous 450€ an hour( and when i say changes i mean just in the wording of a sentence or adding a sentence or some other trivial chang)so this P****ed me off big time so i just started to do it on my own , bought a couple of books and spent a good few hours on line and gave it a go. Ok it isnt perfect but it is working.
i have a Page 3 on google.co.uk for almeria property.(since May, which beats the original company as they didnt even get us to the top 30 pages in 6 months).
So i suppose what i am saying is i had a bad experience and afterwards couldnt afford to do it again professionally and at the moment things are so slow i cant afford to pay anyone else. As soon as things pick up i will probably look for someone else to do the site for me but until then i need( out of financial necessity ) to keep on " Doing It Myself" and trying to improve and add extra features for usability of the clients.
Broke
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