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Each of the links below connects to a PDF home page instead of a conventional website. These customers are using the PDF format because it is the quickest, easiest and least expensive way for them to get all of their sales, educational, technical or personal information on the web. 

To learn more about this approach to managing your online content, read our two-page article, From Word to the Web Overview. It's explains the mechanical and marketing benefits of this process. For more information and pricing, go to www.marketingfirst.com

Example PDF Websites

Fred Carvel www.fredcarvell.com Individual artist who, even though he’s represented by several art galleries, wanted a simple, inexpensive online presence with his own identity. He made this page in MS Word in a single evening and we converted it to a PDF file, uploaded it onto the Web and attached his domain name. If he decides he needs a more extensive display of his work, he can easily expand to more PDF pages or convert to a conventional website. In the meantime, he has expended very little time and money to get his work displayed online.

Fresh Start Fitness www.freshstartfitnesscarmel.com This person is a sole practitioner personal trainer who wanted to get online but didn’t know where to start. Her needs were basic, so she was reluctant to go to a webmaster for a conventional website because of all the time and expense such projects require. Instead, she asked her graphic artist to create a single-page brochure. He then converted it to PDF format and sent the file to us for uploading online. She now has two additional pages (testimonials and fitness tip) that we linked from her home page. Her fitness tip is updated monthly.

NSGW 97 www.NSGW97.com The Native Sons of the Golden West is a non-profit service organization. Their main purpose is to preserve California’s history, which they’ve been doing since 1875. They have over two hundred “parlors” or chapters around the state. This parlor, having no online presence at all, wanted to change that but didn’t want to hire a webmaster to create a conventional website. Instead, they created a main page in Microsoft Word and graphics and photographs then sent it to us. There are links to two other pages related to their local activities and one link to their main website. Their calendar & news page is updated periodically.

Compliments of Youngevity www.OldTownHealth.com This site was built for a retail nutritional supplement business. The purpose of this site is to reach out to their extensive list of existing and past customers to educate them and motivate them to maintain their regimen of monthly purchases for optimum health. They chose to highlight three of their most popular products and one new product. Each of these four items described on the main page has a link another page or other locations on the web to learn more. This main page can be printed out to do double duty as a paper brochure in their store as well as being sent out as an email attachment.

Vision Plantscaping www.VisionPlantscaping.com This one-page site is experimental. The owner of this company commissioned the creation of a full-page magazine ad to promote her business. The ad turned out so well that she entertained thoughts of using it for the home page on her existing website. Since her website was created with a propriety dynamic system, technical issues arose that made use of this image as a home page within that system impractical. As a test, we converted the original artwork from .jpg graphic format to a PDF, uploaded the page and mapped a single link to her existing website.