I built a simple lightweight community website for FTAA. The admin can Add/Edit pages using simple editor. It has blazing fast load times (under a second), no annual hosting fees or domain charges.
About FTAA
FTAA (Federation of Telugu Associations in Australia) is the peak body representing all Telugu Community Groups in the Australia. It is an advocate on matters of interest to the Telugu Communities, promotes Art & Culture and helps to foster friendships with the wider Australian Community.
They needed a site that was:
- fast loading
- easy to edit and manage
- free hosting in spite of thousands of page views
I a web developer with 10+ years experience in setting up light-weight fast loading static sites that load in under a second!
Blazing Fast Static Sites – My offer
5 pages – including a blog and contact page.
Add unlimited pages or posts using simple CMS.
Free hosting and domain
Interactive guide included.
Free Hosting
The site is hosted on GitHub (by Microsoft).
Advantages of hosting on Github:
- It’s free. No fees ever!. Your web hosting will cost zero with GitHub. There are no ads, and you have full control over the content. No data limits or uptime restrictions.
- Security and reliability. It is the go to resource for developers.
- Look & feel. Fully customised to suit your needs.
- Simple content management. You don’t need to know code editing. See Editor below.
Free Domain
As part of the set up, you get an awesome free domain like myname.netlify.com
You can choose to use your free domain e.g. https://ftaa.netlify.app/ or for just $10 to $20 per year you can opt for a custom domain like https://ftaa.org.au/
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Fast Loading
FTAA is a static site with no additional overheads. The sites loads fast.
Have a look at GTmetrix report for FTAA – fully loaded in 0.6 seconds. Compare this to most other websites with fully loaded times of 8.1 seconds.
Have a look at Google Page Speed Insights for FTAA with first contentful paint of less than 1 second and a 99 score for Mobile.
This test is used to test the speed your website and can assist in finding problems that may be preventing your website from passing the Google Mobile Friendly test. Website load speed is a minor SEO factor. User will leave a slow moving site and are likely to spend more time on your website if the pages load quickly.
Easy Content Management
FTAA site is powered by a lightweight CMS (content management system). If you create/edit a Word document, you can create and edit pages and posts with ease.
As illustrated below:
- Use the simple Word like editor which allows you to format your page/post
- You can preview how the web page would look as you build your page
- Add images or documents, create links and more
- Once you are happy, hit publish to see your handiwork
Simple On Page SEO
FTAA admins can add the right meta descriptions and titles to rank well in Google! They can also, add tags to categorise/group your posts.
Training
I took the FTAA admin through basics of creating and managing content. It was so simple that they were up and running and able to edit and add content with just 30 minutes of training.
Blazing Fast Static Sites – My offer
5 pages – including a blog and contact page.
Add unlimited pages or posts using simple CMS.
Free hosting and domain
Interactive guide included.
