How to build a professional website for less than £50?
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Building an
internet business
from the ground up.
We have all heard the business gurus talk about how the
Internet is the perfect medium through which to present a
professional...
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in association with
W E B S I T E B U I L D E R T O O L S
Building an
internet business
from the ground up.
We have all heard the business gurus talk about how the
Internet is the perfect medium through which to present a
professional image of your organisation and reach a much
wider audience in the process.
Regardless of your company’s size, with a great website you
can have a sales team working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
right where your customers need them to be.
So you’ve
registered a domain name and got yourself an email address,
but what is the next step? How do you actually build
a website?
Building a website –
do it yourself or outsource?
As with the majority of business requirements, those that
cannot be fulfilled in-house can be outsourced to a third party.
Many large companies automatically hand the entire design,
development and implementation of their business website
over to a web design agency, but this is not necessarily the
right solution for a start-up business.
First there is the issue of cost – a basic bespoke website design
being likely to run into the thousands of pounds – but also
critically is the lack of direct control over the site’s look, feel
and content, meaning that additional charges for updates can
start to mount up.
Many start-up businesses who have the technical resource
internally take on the task of building their company website
from scratch themselves, but this can mean that the money
being saved on web development is now being lost in labour
costs.
So what’s the alternative?
There are a lot of hosting companies out there in cyberspace
who offer simple step-by-step site builder wizards helping you
to build yourself a professional website in no time at all.
Before
jumping straight in and buying the first product you see, let’s
consider exactly you want your website to do.
What do you want your website to do?
A basic template-based solution is all you need if your site is
going to start off purely as an information portal, with the aim
of informing potential customers about your line of business
and how to contact you.
“Template-based” means that
the basic look and feel of the site
is preset – all you have to do is
choose from the hundreds of
professionally made designs.
For each design you are usually given a choice of colours as
well.
Then you can personalise your site further by choosing
the colours, fonts and sizes of your text - although we
recommend a certain amount of caution here.
Pink text on
a bright green background is perhaps not the most
professional colour scheme for a business, regardless of
how much it stands out.
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