Farming the Web: A Course in Farm Web Design

Over the 2-3 months I will be slowly releasing a ten-part informal course in farm web design. This course will explain the theory and practice of setting up and maintaining a farm website. This is a public service to the larger community and is applicable to direct-marketing farmers of all types, whether they are Small Farm Central members or not.

The schedule of the course follows - use the subscribe form in the left-hand column if you want to receive updates as they happen.

Prologue: Farming is not equal to the web?
Part 1. Stake your claim: choosing a web address.
Part 2. Hosting options.
Part 3. Active and elegent farm web design is possible
Part 4. Design (Advanced): what does my customer want?
Part 5. But I grow food not blogs - starting your farm blog
Part 6. Getting right with google and other farm website visibility techniques
Part 7. The humble art of farm photography for the web.
Part 8. Connecting with farm customers through website and blog comments
Part 9. Farm ecommerce brings direct, local sales to farm websites
Part 10. Small farm web marketing requires patience and persistence