Department Websites

[bvfdfair]

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Users reminded they cannot promote their own businesses here, directly or indirectly. Suggesting you 'found' a business that has great deals for firefighters is great ... as long as its not your OWN business.

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[Maverick9110E]

ours is http://www.jtfd1.org

i think we have a really good looking one. havent seen many others.

[42VTExplorer]

Holy S**T!!!

If they are charging 350 dollars for that, then I'm being greatly under paid.

(Not to plug myself but) I would do the same thing for "near cost" to a FD.

[cozmosis]

http://www.maumellefire.com

If I charged what the guys at bvfdfair's link charge, my department wouldn't be able to afford my services. Heh. Seriously, it sounds like those guys are using a template... which means that the $350 is almost straight profit and the end product isn't worth it.

[42VTExplorer]

People,

Look at his name, look at some of the sites that companies made. Look at who made the site in his signature.

Somehow, they are all linked..

[nmfire]

It looks like that company made his department's website and a few others but I don't see any direct connection between the individual and company.

You can get 1gb of storage and 25gb of bandwidth, 200 e-mail accounts with a gb of email storage, 10 subdomains, and a million other goodies for $4.99/mo = $60.00 per year and that includes registering your domanin name.

Cozmosis, I suspect you are right about the template thing. They take pictures you already had and put them on a website. It probably takes them all of an hour to build the whole thing with all of 3 pages and 12 pictures. Someone is making a lot of profit off that.

I made ours for free and it is 16 pages plus a flash intro, and I took every image on the page myself with the exception of the banner. Not everyone's department has people well versed in web design, which I can understand but that is a LOT of money for a "special package" that doesn't include jack shizzle.

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Forgot the URL. http://www.nmvfc.org

[Epinephrine]

Nothing wrong with using a template, but charging $350 for that seems a bit out of bounds. For $350 the site should at looks good. I know firecompanies uses a template for most of thier sites, but the template looks professional, and thats what counts.

By the way... nice looking site, cozmosis. It is a great example of a quality job on a fire department website.

bvfdfair... it is a bit shady to say "If you dont have one I found a place" when you own the place you are promoting. Wasn't there a thread on here about being honest when promoting products and just say "I design websites for fire departments."

[42VTExplorer]

bvfdfair... it is a bit shady to say "If you dont have one I found a place" when you own the place you are promoting. Wasn't there a thread on here about being honest when promoting products and just say "I design websites for fire departments."

Take a look at Bou's 'Why I back Eatstress.com' thread...

[sconfire]

Coz... nice site! Here's Mine www.ncfd.org and www.sconfire.com They are working on servers right now (12-7-04 @ 0912 EST) They should be back up in a little while.

[SAFD46Truck]

These guys do a fantastic job with their "unofficial" site. Tons of updates/pics/info.

http://www.sanantonioFIRE.org