Website Design and Creation: Business Site?
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I can only speak for myself when I say that $500 isn't a very realistic figure.  If I were to design a site for someone I'd be looking at charging around $75 to $100 an hour so you're not going to get many hours work for $500.  That said, there are people who will charge more or less.  Some will charge per page and others per site.\n\nOne drawback of having someone else design your site is dealing with subsequent maintenance, technical problems etc - if you have to keep calling someone in and they charge each time the costs are soon going to mount up.\n\nIf at all possible, I'd look a designing the site yourself - the basics can easily be done using Front Page or similar.\n\nThere's a huge number of easy to follow sites that can help with flash, style sheets, specific scripts and so on.\n\nGood luck and I hope you manage to get your site sorted.
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If you want a good graphic designer, you'll have to pay the price. If you want to set a lower price, you will have to accept what you can get for the price.\n\nIf you want a proffessionally designed website, try --\nhttp://mikecox.com/\nor\nhttp://www.finerdesign.com/  \nor\nhttp://www.nrjdesign.com/\n\nIf you'd like to do it yourself, get a copy of "Creating Webpages for Dummies". It is a very informative book and comes with a CD containing several trials of web buiding software.\n\nOr try signing up with Yahoo for your website. They offer a free set of tools for building your site. Yahoo Sitebuilder is quite easy to use.
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About 60 % of small businesses see value in creating web sites for marketing and in e-commerce.\n\nSome of the issues facing development are what plat form do i use do i include flash tecnology and what vendor do i use for the e-commerce component.  it has to be user friendly and current at all times which means regular updating,  You must also alow user to give feed back and or have a help feature built in.\n\nThey see this as a very valuable asset to their business as the internet is becoming the fastest growing medium for any business and users are very comfortable in using this medium.
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Even though it's next to impossible to get a site that's ad-free and totally free to you, there are lots of great tools out there that are helpful, including sites that offer templates and help you get started. I have been impressed with the tools and service of GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com). If you'd like to learn more about the process, consider buying this book, which outlines the process, step-by-step: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764507206/103-8389304-7234204?v=glance&n=283155\n\nHere's some tips from http://website-design.mcdar.net/:\n\nSo you want to build a website here I will explain some simple but also key aspects that are commonly taken in to consideration when a website developer creates a website.\n\n1) Website Design - The website design must be neat meaning that everything looks like where it is meant to be (nothing out of place or out of proportion). Also your sites design is related to the topic of your website e.g. your site is about flowers then your design must have flowers.\n\n2) Site Navigation - Visitors must be able to get where they want to go without going through a maze a good way of putting it if you can get there in 3 clicks it should be fine. Also it helps when search engine spiders go through your site since it makes it easy for the spiders to index the site.\n\n3) Domain Name - Domain name is important since it is one of the first thing that your visitors will see. Your domain should relate to your site topic or business name. Length of the domain usually 6-8 characters is a good length and easy for visitors to type.\n\n4) Scroll Bars - don't make your website pages too long so your visitors have to scroll for hours it is also a good option to just create another page and don't make people scroll side to side.\n5) Returning Visitors - make your visitors return to your site by adding one or all to your site:\n\n- Email Newsletter (Ezine)\n- Community Forums\n- Online Tools\n- Online Games\n- Useful Content\n- Competitions and Prizes\n- and so on\n\n5) Website Logo - Make your logo unique and brandable so that people will remember your logo and then will remember your site and products.\n\nThese are some simple points that you may take into consideration when you build your website if you need some further assistance have a look at your competitors website and see what they have done. Remember what you put in is what you get out of your website and on that note GOOD LUCK and enjoy the whole process of building your very own virtual property.\n\n\nAll that said, if you'd like something simple and quick, here's the company that made my website, and they charged me less than $300. I knew nothing about doing it, but it came out great and they guided me every step of the way: www.wordtechs.com.\n\n\nGood luck with your new venture!\n~Tia~
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I run a Graphic Design Company who design and build websites, they range in price from £500 upwards. What sort of site are you after?
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Designing a website is a careful balancing act. It requires a skill to match customer expectations and cause a sale, search engine compliance to prevent black listing and SPAM classification, and key words and phrase relevancy, density, and prominence to generate targeted leads, and the all important marketing and branding elements. Each market segment can provide your web site design with differentiation from the competitors and unique applications for web development. It's even harder to do than it is to type about it. But, a few businesses manage to do it better than their competition and succeed in online business, so we know it isn't impossible. Right? Anyway, I'll be glad to help you prove the web site out. You can contact me through the source link below.
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I'm a beginner in web-developing field. Visit http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ for Comments & Suggestions on your site design,layout,content and also reveneue generation.
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Web Design is a very broad subject. It is very much worth learning as a skill to have but in order to be of value in the industry you need to learn a fair bit. \n\nConsider the page design and layout just one part of it. You will need to think about what coding langauges you wish to learn, HTML, PHP etc. \n\nIf you want to create scripts to automate things then you may need to learn Perl, ASP. \n\nIt is very rewarding to create a site and get it functioning correctly on your own accord so even if it's going to be a hobby I would say yes, give it a go.\n\nThe 'for dummies' books are great to get started.
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There are lots of great tools out there that are helpful, including sites that offer templates and help you get started. I have been impressed with the tools and service of GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com). If you'd like to learn more about the process, consider buying this book, which outlines the process, step-by-step: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764507206/103-8389304-7234204?v=glance&n=283155\n\nHere's some tips from http://website-design.mcdar.net/:\n\nSo you want to build a website here I will explain some simple but also key aspects that are commonly taken in to consideration when a website developer creates a website.\n\n1) Website Design - The website design must be neat meaning that everything looks like where it is meant to be (nothing out of place or out of proportion). Also your sites design is related to the topic of your website e.g. your site is about flowers then your design must have flowers.\n\n2) Site Navigation - Visitors must be able to get where they want to go without going through a maze a good way of putting it if you can get there in 3 clicks it should be fine. Also it helps when search engine spiders go through your site since it makes it easy for the spiders to index the site.\n\n3) Domain Name - Domain name is important since it is one of the first thing that your visitors will see. Your domain should relate to your site topic or business name. Length of the domain usually 6-8 characters is a good length and easy for visitors to type.\n\n4) Scroll Bars - don't make your website pages too long so your visitors have to scroll for hours it is also a good option to just create another page and don't make people scroll side to side.\n5) Returning Visitors - make your visitors return to your site by adding one or all to your site:\n\n- Email Newsletter (Ezine)\n- Community Forums\n- Online Tools\n- Online Games\n- Useful Content\n- Competitions and Prizes\n- and so on\n\n5) Website Logo - Make your logo unique and brandable so that people will remember your logo and then will remember your site and products.\n\nThese are some simple points that you may take into consideration when you build your website if you need some further assistance have a look at your competitors website and see what they have done. Remember what you put in is what you get out of your website and on that note GOOD LUCK and enjoy the whole process of building your very own virtual property.\n\n\nAll that said, if you'd like something simple and quick, here's the company that made my website, and they charged me less than $300. I knew nothing about doing it, but it came out great and they guided me every step of the way: www.wordtechs.com.\n\n\nGood luck with your new venture!\n~Tia~
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I guess a lot would depend on just what sort of site you wanted - whether it was a business site or just a couple of personal pages.\n\nA good place to start is to get a free site and experiment a little.  Try Yahoo Geocities http://geocities.yahoo.com/ or Lycos Tripod http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk both of which are free.\n\nGeocities also comes with PageBuilder and SiteBuilder which are programs you can use to create your website.  They're quite basic but will give you a flavor of what's involved.\n\nIf you want to progress further then you'll need your own domain and hosting package which needn't cost any more than a few dollars a month.  At this point you'd want to look at something a bit more advanced for creating your pages and Microsoft Front Page is the industry standard.\n\nIt's hard to be specific as the questions is rather like saying 'procedure for writing a book' but start off with a free site and learn a few tricks from that.  You'll pick up lots of stuff as you go along.  Good luck.
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Learn html, buy domain space, decide what youwant on it, write content, design interface.\n\nOr contact a web designer like me (www.foneblog.ie/andym)! I am not lookin gfor wark, just making the point that it can be a lot to take on if you do not knwo what you are doing. If it is just a personal website you mean then consider a blog. If it is a business one (even a sole trader) you are best to get a web designer as it is what you rcustomers see as you so it should look great.
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You need a course in how websites are created!
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You Create HTML TAGS\nftp the html conent to a web server\n\n\nDon't hype yourself\nThe internet is a medium, just like radio, tv, and paper. It carries your message, that's all. Nothing to get excited and hot about. It's very easy to hype yourself into believing anything. Others may be succesful, but I'll bet you anything that they've worked very hard to get there. \n\n\nYou can't have it all\nThe triangle of expectations: cheap, fast, and good. You can choose any two, but can't have the third one. For example: fast and cheap means it won't be good.\n\n\n\n\nStart small\nBuilding a website takes time. Start small with a basic website, just a couple of webpages. It will give you a feel of what is possible and what not. It is very tempting to want to start big, with lot's of features and gizmo's, just like what you see on other sites. But it will delay the opening of your website. A website is never finished, plan for continuous updates and growth.\n\n\nGet a manager\nDon't put a whizkid, graphical designer, or a programmer in charge of your internet project. Whizkids are cheap and they have lot's of great idea's. But they focus on what's hot and new, not on finishing your project. A graphical designer will deliver a great looking but completely useless website. A programmer will make a website wich you can use, but don't want to. Building a website is just like any other project; lot's of little details have to be merged into a whole. You will need somebody to organise and keep track of the unruly designers and programmers. \n\n\nUse the possibilities\nInternet is a digital medium with a lot of possibilities. Making a flat copy of your company brochure is a valid way to start a website, but consider adding things like email, ordering, searching, sounds, link list. Maybe a game, chatbox, webcam, postcards. The extra's will make your site interesting to visit, will make visitors want to come back, and will set you apart from your competitors. You can also have protected pages for your own use, or for subscribers. Internet pages are cheap, you can have a lot more information on a website than in a brochure. \n\n\nDatabases\nConnect your database to the internet and pronto, another website is born. The database-sellers make it sound so easy, just make some templates and you're in business. Not! You can't break the triangle of expectations (see above). The speed of a database-driven website is an order of magnitude slower than a flat-file website. Search engines generally cannot index database-driven websites. Security is a big issue and must be looked at very carefully. Of-the-shelve programs have very limited customizing capabilities, or are so general that it's faster to build a custom solution. If you don't have sufficient database-knowledge in-house, then you may very well end up in the unbreakable grip of the company you have contracted to build your website. \n\n\nDon't relax\nUpdate your website regularly. Add new information, remove old stuff. Creating a website is step one, there is no such thing as a finished website. Maintenance will cost a lot more effort than creating the website. Investing to make maintenance easier will definitely pay back. \n\n \n\n\nPlanning\n\n\n\nDescribe, don't dictate\nThere are basically two ways of telling a professional how to build something. You can describe what you want in global and functional terms, or you can dictate exactly what you want. I favour "describe". It leaves room for the professional to come up with more creative, cheaper, easier, and faster solutions. Beware of wizzkids that may take the opportunity to sell you on using some unproven new hot technology they want to try.\n\n\nGet your own URL\nGrab your own domainname, before somebody else does. Don't limit yourself to the .com domain's, also grab .net, .org, and any others that you can get. Also take permutations
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Hi\n\nIf you know to use macromedia dreamweaver or frontpage you can create a website easily. But if your first time user you got to explore a lot. But if web design is not your passion then proably you can give it to me. I can do it for you. Also you can host you website anyone. I will give the full control to you. My recommendations of hosting providers\n\nwww.netandhost.com \nwww.verio.com\nwww.melbourneit.com.au
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not bad..the site has some potential. The page ends, but there is allot of empty space at the bottom that needs to be gone, and added with time.\n\ntry to add some more site info and have them on a link-page available on the left hand side of your first page (home page)\n\nthe graphics that load up in the top of the page need to re-considered. see the first part of the page (where that large picture is ) is taking  up the "prime real-estate" of your website. \n\nthat space needs to be carefully thought of when applying anything to it. if you put in advertisements, then that cheapens the site. but a large picture like that is very slow on a dial-up connection.
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The options for setting up a website are as varied as the options for choosing a car. Choose what you think your needs are from the left-hand column and follow the instructions in that row. \n\nWho You Are  What You'll Need to Invest  Do This  Don't Do This  \nI'm a student and need to be able to put my class projects on a website. \n\nI just want to set up a personal site with a few photos and some generic information. \n\nI'm campaigning for public office and don't want to spend any money on the Internet, but someone told me I need a website. \n\nThere's no way I'm going to spend anything on building a website, but I'm sure I need one.  Free websites are available everywhere. You'll need to spend at least half an hour to set up what you want, but you don't need any special skills. Your only investment is time.  Go to Geocities or Angelfire and follow their very simple step-by-step instructions for setting up a website. If you can follow directions, you can put up a website with one of these services. There are plenty of others available, but these two are the best-known. \n\nWhen you're done, be sure to add the address of your website to the signature line on your e-mail. If you have business stationery or other printed literature, put it there as well. It's just about the only way anyone will find your site. \n\nIf you know anyone with a website, ask them nicely if they would mind giving you a link. Unless some other site links to yours, the search engines will never find it. \n\nExpect to grow annoyed with the ads on your site. Free web hosts use pop-up ads, pop-under ads, and banners built-in to your pages in order to pay for their services. If you're not bothered, don't worry about them. Most users eventually grow tired of them.  Don't expect a lot of visitors. Your address will be long and hard to remember, so unless someone is really intent on finding your site, not many folks will visit. \n\nDon't expect to be taken very seriously. If you aren't willing to put any money into your site, don't expect visitors to think you're an authority. \n\nDon't get caught up in design. There's not much you can do to make your free site look great. Just put the basic information up and see whether it does the trick for you. Crazy backgrounds, wild color schemes, lots of pictures, and sounds that play whenever people visit your site will only serve to irritate. Keep it simple. \n\nDon't forget to add content. Since your page probably doesn't look very special, be sure to add things to it often enough that it serves a real purpose. \n\nDon't put your e-mail address on the page. Anywhere. If you do, you'll get so much spam you'll never forgive yourself.  \nWho You Are  What You'll Need to Invest  Do This  Don't Do This  \nI have a lot to say, and I want to blog.  As little as nothing. Some fees may apply, especially as you become more sophisticated. Expect it to become a regular consumer of your time.  Go to Blogger or TypePad or LiveJournal and follow their instructions. \n\nHave something interesting to say, and often. Keep your site fresh. Political campaigns and businesses are starting to realize the power of fresh information posted to people who actively want to follow what's happening directly from the source. \n\nYou may eventually decide to go solo and run your personal site without someone else's software or hosting. When that time comes, use PairNIC to register your domain and Pair Networks to host your site. Their prices are excellent and so is their service.  Don't expect it to be easy. Well-done blogs often absorb lots of their authors' time. \n\nDon't post so often that you create unreasonable expectations. Sandbag a little until you're comfortable with the amount of time you dedicate to your blog. \n\nDon't divulge personal secrets, proprietary information, or national secrets. Serio
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....Valid question. If you find... share the wealth!  The website you are looking is something the entrepreneur in you is going to create. Most business ops make others wealthy. Guard your idea and make it work! For You!