How to Get a Website For £299
- By Ian Grainger
- Published 12/31/2011
- Internet
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In this day and age you can’t run a business and not have a website. Well, you can, but you’d be missing out on a LOT of potential business that you could gain from people searching online for your product or services.
Many small businesses are wary of the cost of setting up a website and going online but they needn’t be. While it is true that there are quite a few things to consider when creating a website for your business, there are many companies offering cheap web design services.
First let’s look at what you need to get started with your company’s first website:
Design – you want your website to look good, enhance your brand, show clearly what you offer and be easy to use for the visitor. Many fear that the cost of designing such a website is expensive – but it doesn’t have to be!
Website Address – if at all possible you want your website address to be the same as your company name but what if that’s not available? You can try to get an address – or URL – that is directly related to the type of business you are. Cheap web design companies can advise you on what would be appropriate and even purchase the domain name for you.
Hosting – once your website is designed and you have your domain name you need somewhere to host it. Many of the companies offering cheap web design services include hosting in their packages. If you don’t know how to go about getting your website hosted and ‘pointing’ your domain name towards your website then this would be the option for you.
SEO – once you have your design, domain and hosting arranged, you need to know that people will be able to find
your website, otherwise, what’s the point of it! This is where many cheap web design companies fall down, but there are a few who offer SEO services to make sure that your website is fully optimised for search engines – this is called, unsurprisingly, search engine optimisation. This involves making sure your website is built properly so search engines can read your content with no problems, ensuring your content contains the right ‘keywords’ related to your business and that there are no mistakes in your website that search engines do not like.
These are the main considerations when creating your first website for your business and they can all be achieved for as little as £299. There are cheap web design companies that offer these services as packages and can afford to do so as they already have templates for the design, the ability to buy domain names and host your website and expertise in SEO already in place.
A simple five page website could be set up and put ‘live’ in a matter of days and all you would have to do is provide your company logo in a format the company would request, the content for the website – the words you want including that describe your company, the products or services you offer and what makes you unique – contact details and a few images to enhance the look of the site.
The company you employ to design your website would do the rest and you’d have your first website and be tapping into a world of potential customers you never had before.
Of course, if you wanted to actually sell products THROUGH your website, rather than just receive enquiries then you’d have to spend a bit more, but even then many cheap web design companies offer packages for this too, from as little as around £1000 – and that is a great deal!
Many small businesses are wary of the cost of setting up a website and going online but they needn’t be. While it is true that there are quite a few things to consider when creating a website for your business, there are many companies offering cheap web design services.
First let’s look at what you need to get started with your company’s first website:
Design – you want your website to look good, enhance your brand, show clearly what you offer and be easy to use for the visitor. Many fear that the cost of designing such a website is expensive – but it doesn’t have to be!
Website Address – if at all possible you want your website address to be the same as your company name but what if that’s not available? You can try to get an address – or URL – that is directly related to the type of business you are. Cheap web design companies can advise you on what would be appropriate and even purchase the domain name for you.
Hosting – once your website is designed and you have your domain name you need somewhere to host it. Many of the companies offering cheap web design services include hosting in their packages. If you don’t know how to go about getting your website hosted and ‘pointing’ your domain name towards your website then this would be the option for you.
SEO – once you have your design, domain and hosting arranged, you need to know that people will be able to find
These are the main considerations when creating your first website for your business and they can all be achieved for as little as £299. There are cheap web design companies that offer these services as packages and can afford to do so as they already have templates for the design, the ability to buy domain names and host your website and expertise in SEO already in place.
A simple five page website could be set up and put ‘live’ in a matter of days and all you would have to do is provide your company logo in a format the company would request, the content for the website – the words you want including that describe your company, the products or services you offer and what makes you unique – contact details and a few images to enhance the look of the site.
The company you employ to design your website would do the rest and you’d have your first website and be tapping into a world of potential customers you never had before.
Of course, if you wanted to actually sell products THROUGH your website, rather than just receive enquiries then you’d have to spend a bit more, but even then many cheap web design companies offer packages for this too, from as little as around £1000 – and that is a great deal!
Ian Grainger
Ian Grainger is writing on behalf of the Cheap Web Design Company, specialists in cheap web design.
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