Help for Local businesses
Put a local business online with Exponential: opening hours, location and contact pages, local search, a simple shop and a small budget.
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Read these pages in this order.
- Local businesses: start here The landing page for small and single-location businesses - shops, restaurants, cafes, trades, salons and p...
- Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy o...
- Make a free website in 15 minutes The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a fr...
- New in 6.0.15: static publishing Exponential 6.0.15 publishes a site as a free, fast and safe static copy on GitHub Pages or any git host -...
- What static publishing is Static publishing in plain words - a copy of your site as ordinary files, served for free, while editing st...
- Is static right for my site? A short checklist to decide whether a static copy suits your site - good fits such as brochure sites, blogs...
Good to know
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A fast, free brochure site for your business
Opening hours, services, prices and contact details on a fast public site with no hosting fee - edited in Exponential, published as a static copy to GitHub Pages, and when not to do it (shops, bookings).
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Make a free website in 15 minutes
The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish.
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Key pages
All pages for Local businesses- Use your own domain Serve the static copy at your own domain instead of github.io - the CNAME file, the DNS records for a subdomain or an apex domain, the DN...
- Static publishing FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about static publishing - cost, hosting, editors, comments, going back, Exponential Layouts, Sm...
- Local businesses FAQ Short answers to the questions owners of shops, restaurants, trades, salons and practices ask about a website on Exponential - cost, doin...
- Local businesses glossary The words a local business owner meets when getting a website on Exponential, explained in plain language - from administration, alias an...
- Create a GitHub account and repository For people new to GitHub - make a free account, create the repository your static site goes to, and make the token Exponential pushes wit...
- Local businesses reading path The suggested order for reading the local businesses section - four stages from deciding to launching to running the site, with three sho...
- Getting started: local business websites The first decisions for a small or single-location business planning a website on Exponential - what the site needs, which pages to plan,...
- What a small business website needs The five jobs a local business website does - be found, answer the basic questions, build trust, take contact, and sometimes sell - with...
- Planning your pages A page list for a local business site - shop, restaurant, trades, salon or practice - with the content class behind each page, where open...
- Doing it yourself or hiring help An honest comparison for small business owners - which website tasks an owner can do with Exponential after a short introduction, which n...
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