I’ve been blogging about using WordPress for local business site building. This may be a possible option for do-it-yourselfers: Tank.
While your website is “in development” it’s free and it’s hosted at a subdomain of withtank.com.
Once you stat talking your own domain, that’s when hosting fees kick in. The price is in the South African “Rand” so even when I can see it, I still have no idea what it costs. Once you translate the price, whether it’s a good deal or not depends on whether it gives you enough bandwidth and what you’re storing.
They look like they’ve done a good job making a web app that’s friendly and helps all the pages “hang together”.
You can see some projects done with their system here. The advantage for local businesses is that you can see some sites built for primarily brick and mortar operations, now just web gizmos.
Here’s what Web Worker Daily had to say about them:
After an instant signup process you can create a new site, choosing between various canned templates (business, personal, and so on) or starting from scratch. Sites are composed of a hierarchy of pages, any number of post-oriented sections (blogs or journals) and any number of photo albums. You can change the formatting and edit text easily in their tabbed UI, with the markup using a very simple text-based engine. It’s possible to bang together something that doesn’t look half-bad quite quickly.
It’s like alot of very interesting things on the web … I’ll be sticking with WordPress for these upcoming projects because I can put the application where I want to host it and add a variety of tools at my discretion like forums, etc. that I don’t see available here. So it’s an issue of control and expansion. But for what it’s designed to do, Tank looks like a great application.
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