Plexus have been programming web sites of all kinds since 1995. As we've become busier over the years, and as our content management systems (CMS) have been developed, honed and polished for maximum ease-of-use, we've often been aware that for small business or community groups, or simply those with a life, getting a simple web site up and running can still often be a daunting, frustrating, confusing and costly process. But is doesn't have to be so.
Over the years, our content management systems have been adapted to provide myriad editing options and customisation for a wide range of professional clients. So, it struck us one day, why not take a subset of the most used CMS functionality, and build it into a web site system which lets Joe or Josephine Public set up a good looking and properly working web site with an online admin system that doesn't drive them to drink. Better than that, why not make it free for as long as they want to use it, and subsidise it with Google ads? That way, they get a good website, and we get a little advertising revenue. And, so, Spanglefish was born.
With a few Google ads, sufficient users numbers, and a paid upgrade available for those that wanted a little extra functionality (Spanglefish Gold – only £29.95 per annum), we thought Spanglefish would help those users without deep enough pockets for a full-blown bespoke web site, get them online, and do the business for them – quickly, easily and painlessly.
It did. 40,000+ of them. And growing.
Looks like we got something right ;} Make mine a Jam Doughnut.
Visit Website:: http://www.spanglefish.com
Updates:
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28 November 2005 – Free websites for Bed and Breakfasts
We’re now offering free websites for guesthouses and B&Bs throught the UK and Ireland – each of these can be easily updated by the site owner.
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19 January 2006 – Free websites for Self-Catering properties.
Latest in our Spanglefish portals.
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1 February 2006 – Spanglefish Goes Live!
Spanglefish is our new product designed to make easily editable websites available to everyone. Each Spanglefish site runs on a version of our WebStarter content management system – a really easy way to keep your site up to date.Spanglefish sites are available to any organisations or businesses in the UK and Ireland, and are FREE if you don’t mind a little advertising. (a low-fee non advertising option is also available)If you need a no-risk website you can update without having to learn about web design or FTP, Spanglefish is for you.
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4 April 2006 – Spanglefish goes international!
Spanglefish, the revolutionary free editable website system has gone international with it’s first French site. Based near Toulouse John’s Web is a family site showing their recent visit to Britain.
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10 April 2006 – First Europe, then the World
The free, easy-to-edit Spanglefish website system continued it’s rollout through Europe over the weekend. Another two French sites were up and running, as well as the first from Holland. The Spanglefish site Eindhoven-in-Beeld is based in the city of Eindhoven and publicises the runaway success of their image library, theoldhometown.
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13 April 2006 – Local clubs get support from Spanglefish
In the past two weeks, two local clubs have both signed up for free Spanglefish sites. Cromarty FC signed up two days ago and now hope to keep more than just their local supporters up to date with their progress up the league. The Cromarty Boat Club also signed up and have a great looking little site. They also opted to pay the £15 and can now be found at their own domain, www.cromartyboatclub.org.
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6 August 2006 – Inverness City FC
Inverness’s newest football club now has its own website developed using our Spanglefish system. City will be playing at North Kessock in the North Caledonian League.
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30 November 2007 – Small businesses use Spanglefish.
More and more businesses are realising that Spanglefish is a great platform for them to develop and maintain a website at minimal cost. Take Highland Liliums for instance, a garden centre in Kiltarlity near Inverness.
For under £40 per year they have a great promotional website which they can easily update themselves whenever they want.
Other examples of businesses and organisations using the system are Green Inverness, Donald Mackenzie Motors and Simon Fanthorpe Training.
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15 June 2009 – Spanglefish FREE websites signup process gets an overhaul
Our Spanglefish FREE websites system has been a tremendous success. We’ve already had over 10,600 sign-ups. However, we did feel the main website where people signed up for their website was starting to feel a little dated.
So we’ve built a new version using our webstarter 5 content management system. We aimed to make the signup process as simple as possible. The website also highlights some great looking websites which have been built using Spanglefish and testimonials from our happy users.
So if you need a free website to give you a web presence straight away, why haven’t you signed up for a free spanglefish website already?
