San Gabriel Valley blogger and web designer Susan Kitchens* (2020 Hindsight, Family Oral History Using Digital Tools) is offering local hands-on Build Your Website in 1 Day workshops geared toward independent creatives and people with small businesses:

You’re in the greater Los Angeles area. You’ve got some computer skills. You surf the net. You’ve bought stuff online. You’re comfortable using websites that make you fill out forms to get stuff done (send email, send message, sign up for something, make a purchase).

You’ve thought about web sites. You’ve made some inquiries. You’ve found the prices scary: $500? $1000? $2000? $5000? More!? Eeek– your inner CFO says you can’t spare that kind of money on a site. Not right now.

But you still need that web site.

So you weigh the alternatives.

You could build it yourself… Sure, buy that book, figure out HTML, how to construct pages. But you haven’t done that yet because, well, you’re working on the really important stuff — your idea or service that the web site is going to be about. The do-it-yourself route sounds like such an impossible time-sink. It’ll take weeks! Or months!

Is there some kind of in-between way?
A way to have a website that’s so well-behaved that it practically runs itself?
A way that you can work in the spirit of do-it-yourself without having to learn an entire new discipline? At a price that your Inner CFO will gladly authorize?

Yes.

This workshop is for you.

By the end of one day, you’ve done all the major work to get the website up and running. The total cost is about $250 — which includes domain registration, hosting and the all-day workshop. (more information)

*Susan is also a Computer Press Award-winning how-to book author, as well as an all around good person.