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Creating my first website

I've been a personal trainer by trade for over 6 years now, and for my industry its vital that you have a good website to get business. In my 6 years I had a website that was made and managed by my brother. Which, in the beginning, was good as it was cheap and you had someone you could trust to manage it for you. The problem was that his work increased so that any time I wanted something done to the site it took a few weeks for it to be done, which I wasn't happy with. Around the time that I was looking for a new person to manage my site I was made redundant from the gym I was managing due to the financial climate so I decided from there to become self employed and do everything myself. One issue now was that I could not afford a web designer and my brothers work resulted in him going abroad so that was out the question too.

Moonfruit

My brother emailed me one day recommending me to look up sites where you can build and manage them yourself (something I didn't know existed) so I joined a lot of various sites but found they just didn't do what I wanted them too. A few days later I got another email from my brother telling me about Moonfruit and how it is highly recommended and won various awards so should give that a try. I joined it immediately and will be truthful didn’t like it at first as it takes me a while to get the hang of things. After some practice I realised it did everything I needed so started to create a free site. I liked the site so much and was able to put in absolutely everything I wanted including things my last site didn't have. I then chose to sign up to the lite package as I only wanted to add basic things to my site that you couldn't do when making it for free.

Once completed

The site has now been live a couple of months and to be completely honest I have got more out of this site than I did in the last 5 years of my previous site. It was made site of the day here at Moonfruit and also I’ve got a lot of business from it, as I went through the sites SEO guide to help the website get found on search engines.

I know this may sound like I'm writing an article to get everyone to sign up to Moonfruit, but I’m doing this purely because I never thought for such a low price and by making it myself I could get what I wanted and more. Everyday I am coming up with new ideas what to add to the site and doing that doesn't take long at all. I also like the fact that there’s a friendly community here, as the other web builder sites don't tend to have that so its nice to see sites that others have made here giving ideas on how to improve my own.

There's no way I could write all that and now promote my own site for you to see and if you do like it then any comments I am sure will flatter me :-)

Thank you Moonfruit

Anthony Mayatt, Personal Trainer, Breathe Fitness http://www.breathefitness.uk.com