I am a web designer / multimedia programmer with 12 years industry experience and with the magic of google somehow stumbled across this post about websites.
A website is a shop window into your business and you should make it look as professional as possible. The design should reflect the image of your business and the products & services you are offering customers.
The most important things to display should be:
Company Name
Contact Information (telephone / location / email address)
Services
A Marketing or Design Agency will charge you alot of money for a website because they are used to working with corporate clients where £10,000 - £20,000 is nothing to them.
Smaller companies like eMarketing Agencies & Online Advertising companies try to sell you google advertising and often offer very cheap deals on websites to suck you in.
If you are smart refuse the advertising but snap their hands off for a quality website. Some of these companies are offering websites for less than £300 and your website is built by somebody like myself who is a professional web designer.
If you came to me personally for private work I would refuse to do anything for you for less than £500. Why?
domain registration fee £5 - £10
hosting costs £8 - £10 a month
my hourly rate £25
Design (upto 8 hours)
Build 4-5 pages (8-32 hours) maybe longer, you might not like the design and what to make several lots of changes to the website (eating into any profit I may have and I end losing money :Scared: )
The other option is to build the website yourself... buy some books from Amazon and learn :biggrin:
- HTML Dog:The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS: Amazon.co.uk: Patrick Griffiths: Books
Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: The Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design 2nd Edition: Amazon.co.uk: Jason Beaird: Books
If you have the money available its worth investing in a professional to build you a decent website. If you have enough time on your hands then give it ago yourself.
another tip: http://www.1and1.co.uk/ one of the best hosting providers around they offer packages for as little as £4.99 a month and it would do what you need.
Good look anyone know a good salon in Widnes, Cheshire btw?
A website is a shop window into your business and you should make it look as professional as possible. The design should reflect the image of your business and the products & services you are offering customers.
The most important things to display should be:
Company Name
Contact Information (telephone / location / email address)
Services
A Marketing or Design Agency will charge you alot of money for a website because they are used to working with corporate clients where £10,000 - £20,000 is nothing to them.
Smaller companies like eMarketing Agencies & Online Advertising companies try to sell you google advertising and often offer very cheap deals on websites to suck you in.
If you are smart refuse the advertising but snap their hands off for a quality website. Some of these companies are offering websites for less than £300 and your website is built by somebody like myself who is a professional web designer.
If you came to me personally for private work I would refuse to do anything for you for less than £500. Why?
domain registration fee £5 - £10
hosting costs £8 - £10 a month
my hourly rate £25
Design (upto 8 hours)
Build 4-5 pages (8-32 hours) maybe longer, you might not like the design and what to make several lots of changes to the website (eating into any profit I may have and I end losing money :Scared: )
The other option is to build the website yourself... buy some books from Amazon and learn :biggrin:
- HTML Dog:The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS: Amazon.co.uk: Patrick Griffiths: Books
Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: The Web Designer's Idea Book, Volume 2: More of the Best Themes, Trends and Styles in Website Design
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design 2nd Edition: Amazon.co.uk: Jason Beaird: Books
If you have the money available its worth investing in a professional to build you a decent website. If you have enough time on your hands then give it ago yourself.
another tip: http://www.1and1.co.uk/ one of the best hosting providers around they offer packages for as little as £4.99 a month and it would do what you need.
Good look anyone know a good salon in Widnes, Cheshire btw?
