Over the 2-3 months I will be slowly releasing a ten-part informal course in farm web design. This course will explain the theory and practice of setting up and maintaining a farm website. This is a public service to the larger community and is applicable to direct-marketing farmers of all types, whether they are Small Farm Central [0] members or not.

The schedule of the course follows - use the subscribe form in the left-hand column if you want to receive updates as they happen.

Prologue: Farming is not equal to the web? [0]
Part 1. Stake your claim: choosing a web address. [0]
Part 2. Hosting options. [0]
Part 3. Active and elegent farm web design is possible [0]
Part 4. Design (Advanced): what does my customer want? [0]
Part 5. But I grow food not blogs - starting your farm blog [0]
Part 6. Getting right with google and other farm website visibility techniques [1]
Part 7. The humble art of farm photography for the web. [1]
Part 8. Connecting with farm customers through website and blog comments [2]
Part 9. Farm ecommerce brings direct, local sales to farm websites [3]
Part 10. Small farm web marketing requires patience and persistence [4]