vendredi 9 janvier 2009

Designing Your Own Business Website Will Cost You

03:18 Posted by: Marokko Suche 0 comments

By Stephen Grisham, Sr.

Designing your own website may seem like a good way to cut costs when starting up a new business, but in reality, the process of learning to design a poor website yourself can cost your business time and money in sales in the long run.

The cost of a website design professional is quickly offset by the time and money a professional designer will save you. It's important for a business owner to consider what costs he might incur in sales if he neglects his other business duties to build a website. You should consider how much your time is worth, and how much time you're really willing to spend putting together a website.

HTML coding does look easy up front, but most people don't know that there are many other programming languages necessary in a business website. Do you have all of the time you need to create an attractive, functioning and secure website? If you think your business needs and deserves more than a shoddy, pre-fabricated website, you should hire a professional web designer.

An introductory webmaster knows the 4 basic web programming languages: HTML, SHTML, Java, CSS. A more seasoned pro will have tons more to offer you. The more training the professional has, the more costly the web design fees will be, but also the better the results can be.

If you are on a tight financial rope, your business can always consider hiring a student as a designer. Most 2 and 4 year colleges have programs for web design, and there are many skilled students looking to build their portfolios who will build your website for free or very cheap

Next, you need to consider what your site is going to be and what you need it to do. The more features on a site, the more room and bandwidth it will eat up on your server. You need to consider your space limitations when designing your website.

Some website designs need programs to run. Since a programmer is often expensive, it might be best to buy a pre-made software program that meets your needs, which can be found for items such as your store's online shopping cart. It's important to create a secure shopping cart without scripting errors so your website's customers will be safe.

The most important consideration is hacker safety. Neither you nor your customers want your site or the private information on it to be stolen. Be sure that your webmaster offers support, and be sure that your budget allows for those emergency calls that are sure to come.

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