Small Business Web Site Building - The Easy Way

by Mike Tucker

So you have decided to start your own online business and now you have to figure out the process of small business web site building. How should you go about it? This article will help to answer some of your questions.

To build your first online small business web site you have several options. You could hire a professional web design company to build it for you. I have had several problems with this. First of all who do you hire out of the thousands of companies out there? Are they trustworthy? Will they deliver on time? will the site look the way you want it or the way they want it? Will they make changes for you in a timely manner and for the same price? These are some of the problems you will run into. Not to mention the high cost of hiring a professional company.

Another way to go about it is to hire someone from a freelance website. You place an add for the job you want done and people bid on it. This option is a lot cheaper than going with a professional company. But again you have no idea who you are hiring and what you are going to get.

Then there is the option of building it all your self. This presents several problems. If your site is data base driven do you know how to set it up? Will you be using a script written by someone else and will it work with your website without crashing or giving you errors? Believe me I have spent many hours trying to get several scripts to work with each other. All it takes is the simplest typo to bring your site down. I spent an entire day once trying to figure out what I did wrong. I finally found out that I had typed a , instead of a period.

Then we come to my favorite option and that is to buy a business web site that is already done. You will know what it will look like. You know it will work. You will know the final cost. You will know that everything will work with each other. Doing it this way is the most cost effective way. Once your site is up and running you can always change the look of it. A big piece of advice here is to always back up everything before making any changes. That way if you make a mistake you can always upload your backup copy and start over.

You have to decide on how much your time is worth. I would rather spend my time getting business to by website than working on the design. Believe me it is much more profitable that way.