Hi I am a non technical IT literate person. I got asked to help our local church to build a website that would be informative, cheap to build and host, simple and low cost to maintain. I looked at a lot of template based HTML solutions and finally in the end built the site with something called wisenav. I noticed that people ask not to push products on this forum so I won't. What I will say is have a look at the site clerewoodlands.org.uk and make up your own mind. But it took me a couple of hours to build once I got the content. and it takes a me a few minutes a week to keep the info updated. My wife then nagged me to build the charity she works for a site now I was cooking on gas that took a lot less time, mind you there is less content in it. homestart-nwhampshire.org.uk. Now my accountant, financial advisor and wine merchant all want my help - do you think I should start charging them or tell them that it's so easy they could really do it themselves. Anyway any feedback on my poor design efforts would be appreciated.
Mike

Your church site looks nice enough, but it's ALL Flash, which is very bad for a number of reasons. Good job using SWFObject though, I was glad to see that !

If you, or your customers, are at all concerned with showing up on the search engines, an all-flash site will be a ghost, the search engine spiders have nothing to crawl. While it may not matter much for a church, it might for a Charity and certainly for an accountant, financial adviser and a wine merchant.

The color scheme needs a little help. That bright pink on cyan is pretty rough.

The fact is, people who know nothing about building websites can't 'do it on their own'.. not and build a good site that will be visible on the search engines. If this is something you want to do, charge them for your time and efforts.