Thu 6 Jul 2006
Honest Farm’s New Web Site (Or Un-Blogging A Blog)
Posted by Cathy Chappell and Tom Bailey under Recent Work , Small Business , Small Business Blogging
We’ve posted a few times about Honest Farm (here and here). Well the site is now live, just in time for the Grand Opening.
For those of you within the Central Kentucky area, please stop by Midway this Saturday, July 8, and join Susie Quick for the Grand Opening of Honest Farm.
We are proud of this site. We really enjoy working with start-ups. The money is not even close to large corporate clients, but the work is satisfying. Big Business clients pay extremely, insanely, almost pornographically well, but they are also secretive. We can’t blog about them like we can our small business clients (oops, let me run and check the confidentiality agreements of our corporate clients and see if I just violated one of them, ha ha).
Honest Farm was our first official Non-Blog Blogs. Huh? Say What?
Susie wanted a blog. She had seen many small organic/sustainable farms use a blog to tell their story. But, she also wanted the standard elements of a web site, like a splash/landing page, and regular/static pages that didn’t have the typical feel of a “blog.” In essence, she wanted a blog, but didn’t.
What is even scarier is that we understood exactly what she meant.
So, check out http://honestfarm.org, and see a small business web site that is a blog, but doesn’t look “bloggy.”
Good luck Susie. We hope the farm is a success.
July 28th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
[…] I think this is very important to business bloggers, because the look and feel of a web site affects the overall branding of a business. We did an economy web site for a small, non-profit organic farm in Midway, KY, HonestFarm. We went with a blog because it provided a way for the small farm to get the word out on a very, very small budget. But, we made the blog look non-bloggish so that it also works as a more traditional small business web site. […]