Cheap Web Design For Your Business

March 8th, 2011 // 5:32 pm @ admin

Cheap Web Design For Your Business

You may have heard that it’s possible to buy a website for just £50 and I’m sure it is! You can also obtain web hosting from just £1 upwards. However in my experience, what you will get for that price will be lacking in many, if not all fundamental aspects needed for a successful business website.

Cheap Web Design

Some clients approach me as their second or even third web designer that they have used as they have gradually realised that, by buying an ultra low priced business website that, the site did and will do nothing at all for their business and all they have done is wasted their money on them. At these bottomed out low prices, you will normally receive a quickly or badly thrown together, template web site. A cheap site that is often identical to many thousands of other sites on-line. A website that will just sit on the hosting taking up space, doing you no good at all. In such cases, you would have been just as successful on the net if you had simply placed your business card on line and not bothered with the site at all! It is much better, easier and cost effective to get a good site built at an affordable price in the begging, rather than trying to re-work, promote or replace a poor one down the line. Often, much of these website’s will not function correctly and parts will be broken. At this point you may find that your ‘bargain basement priced web supplier’ simply ignores all your attempts to contact them to get the site put right. Such sites may only take about an hour or so to ‘throw up’, little skill, care or knowledge is needed. So the chances are, that if you pay £50 for a website – you will receive exactly what you are paying for!

For your business website to rank highly in the search engines and generate leads and sales for your business, it needs to be a little bit more than something that ‘looks ‘OK’ for a bargain basement price’ at first glance, yet performs badly ‘under the hood ‘in it’s operation.

Cheap web design

does not mean’ no cost web design”

For your business site to be successful and be more than just a place holder on the Internet, you need a website that is search engine friendly, relevant and coded towards your keywords, making sure that all tags and elements are correct. You need ‘not just a web designer’ but a web designer that also understands and applies SEO (search engine optimisation) at the time of building.

Search engines seek out unique sites, with unique content to list first and foremost. To build a great website that actually gets you business, is a bit like following a complex recipe. The ingredients needed for success are:

• You need a good keyword rich domain
• To rank highly, your website must have excellent and well thought out navigation
• You must research and target the most relevant and beneficial keywords for your business
• Your site must be geared toward and contain the right amount and combination of your keywords
• Your content must be well written, clear, spell checked, grammatically correct and relevant to your business and users
• Your page size and amount of content should be measured to be optimal
• Your products, services and contact information need to be displayed correctly
• You need good web hosting, as it is also now known to help if your website is hosted in the country that your website targets
• Your web hosting must of good quality and your site must load fast or visitors will click off and not even view it if they are kept waiting for it to load
• Today, it is also becoming more important that your website works on iPhones, on iPads and on Android and PDA devices as many people today ‘get online’ without using a PC at all!

Whilst it is possible to build an affordable and fantastically successful business website and obtain cheap web design, with all of the above taken care of from the start, so a website will work well for your business, getting the recipe right takes a little, thought, time, know-how, expertise and care. Remember: It is just as easy to be taken advantage of by an extremely low priced web design company as it is the design companies that want a minimum of two thousand pounds before they will even talk to you! Huge companies may be erratic in their actions and work flow and you may even find you are waiting an awful long time for your ‘less than basic one hour to build site’ to even get online. (one client who approached me recently had been waiting 6 months for such a company) It can be a better and a less stressful option to instead seek out a highly skilled individual or smaller company who will give you their undivided attention during the course of your project through to completion. That will be there for you down the road if you want to expand your business or add additions to your website.

Locating a good business web designer for good cheap web design
Do be realistic about budgets (even if your budget is tight a good designer can still help).
Very low quotes can be deceptive. If a quote you obtain is ridiculously low – check that their are no hidden charges before proceeding.
Do seek out a knowledgeable web designer/developer who offers a quality service at an affordable price who is aware of all aspects of SEO.
Don’t be tempted to just go with the cheapest quote you can find as this action can prove costly in the long run.
Talk to the web designer first and find out if they are knowledgeable and what extra services such as ‘excellent free web hosting’, may already be included in their quoted price.
Take a good look at some of the sites they have built for other customers and don’t be afraid to ask for testimonials from previous clients.
Obtain a firm clear quote in writing before you begin your project.

It can be a minefield but there are good, efficient and caring web designers out there who will do a wonderful job for you at a very fair price providing cheap web design so persevere until you locate one instead of simply seeking the lowest possible price.

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