Having Your Home Based Business Website Built
by Patricia Lemieux-Lewis
Normally, if you want to have a professional designer custom build your site, you must be prepared to pay at least a few hundred dollars. But this can change if you know where to find the best deals and the best designs for the lowest price.
Below is a rough guide:
- First, understand that it is a rip-off to have companies design a website. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay overhead costs: office rent, designer's wages, advertising costs and so on.
- It would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. Since freelancers often work from home they do not have a high operation costs like that of a brick and mortar company. And they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from the big companies, so it's a "no-brainer" choice.
- Choose freelancers with care. The best way to do this would be to go to elance.com. There, you can post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you will surely get the best deal. In addition, you will be able to choose the designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so the value for the money spent is secure.
- Design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? It can be done for free. Just spend a little time and sit down and do it yourself. You'll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as, Mozilla or My Free Website Builder. If you want to design a more sophisticated site, Hapedit is an excellent free editor.
Your home based business website can be produced from a variety of sources. Research the best option for your home based business based on what you want to achieve and then go for it.
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