Website Design for Small Businesses
Whether your business is large or small the basic and advanced needs are the same. You need to look good online and your website needs to be functional commensurate with your industry and your visitors needs.
The only difference between you and your larger or more established competitors is the budgets you have to build your business website.
If your budget is quite small you don’t have to settle for second best, you will just have to do most of the work yourself and this is where we come in. We will teach you how to build your business website.
Good Small Business Website Design is Critical
In many respects the small business needs to out-perform their larger competitors because they have more to prove. Your competitors are established and they already have a new client funnel working for them.
If you are to compete you really do have to look and be as slick and professional as possible. This means creating a website designed to impress your visitors and help them to make their buying decisions in your favor.
How will we help you to design your small business website?
STEP 1 – Website Hosting: Part of what we want to do is to help you become self sufficient so the first step is to set you up with your own server space so that you are paying around £100.00 pounds per year for web hosting instead of around £30.00 per month.
The right server technology is a crucial element to the success of your website and it needs to be set up and managed proficiently. Not all servers are the same and for sure you do not want to waste time learning how to manage a server or setting up File Transfer Protocols etc which you will seldom need to use but must have.
What you need is a server and hosting package which is set up for you and managed for you at a very minimal cost. When done right you will not even notice the maintenance which happens whilst you sleep. So we do this for you and it will never cost more than £100.00 per year for hosting your business website.
STEP 2 – Website Planning: We will help you to plan your website and decide which technology, plug-ins and widgets you need. We will help you to plan your navigational structure and website content and teach you about SEO and help you make your website design plan.
This planning stage is the most important part of your business website project and if done correctly it will save you a great deal of wasted time and a stack of money. It will also help ensure that you get it right first time and hit the ground running.
STEP 3 – Website Design: Once the website design plan is complete we will help you select the ideal website design for your business website and then we will set it up on your server and configure the initial website navigation for you.
At this stage you will be ready to populate your website with your initial content. All of the websites we provide for small businesses are developed around the WordPress content management system in order to allow website owners to enter their own content without charge from webmasters.
STEP 4 – Content Management: One of the largest investments in website design is content management so we teach our clients how to do this themselves from any computer browser without the need for extra software, tools or complicated coding skills. We make this ultra easy.
Our website content management training is really easy, if you can type and use a computer you can create great looking content as good as you see on the pages of this website. What’s more, we are real people you can speak to on the telephone so the training is very high quality.
Further business website design and online marketing training
Once you have completed step 4 you will own your a very high quality business website running on the internet. From here on in you are in full control of your own online destiny. Of course you may want to become more advanced or add new features. You may want to learn more advanced Search Engine Optimisation Skills or become expert in Social Media.
If you want to learn more you can call us for extra training and or support and we can provide you with one of our training packages or charge our provide webmaster training charged by the hour or day.
Read why getting good training from the outset is important on the Website Design Cost and Time Management page.