How to Select and Hire a Website Developer
This is real practical and honest advice on how to select and hire a website developer from the Editors of MarketingZone.com and small business owners who have "been there, done that" and are willing to share the lessons learned.
Do you really need a website developer?
Website developers are the equivalent of a custom home builder in the web world. They aren't architects in that they don't design websites. They are builders. They need the equivalent of very specific "blue prints" to work from. Do you need a website developer or can you create your...
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How to Design a Website for Your Business - Creating a professional-looking website can be done in less than a week, or take months if you're creating a complicated ecommerce website or have special technical requirements. Learn about your options, along with the pros and cons.
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Costs for Websites - Learn what it costs to create a website for your business along with specific tips for how you can save money creating and maintaining your website. With a website, you want to consider the ongoing monthly costs along with associated costs when you want to add or change information on your website.
Website Strategy & Planning - Failure to plan can result in not only a website that doesn't meet your goals and objectives, but also in increased costs. Just like with building a house, it is far more cost-effective to make changes during the planning phase rather than after the walls have gone up! Many small businesses rush to get a website online and then are frustrated with what's involved to attract website visitors and update or add to the website as their needs change. Planning upfront will ensure you avoid those frustrations.
Tips on Website Design, Navigation and Structure - A website is like a physical store or trade show booth, but without people to help visitors find what they need. In that way, websites have to anticipate what tasks, information, problems and needs visitors will have and then design (and continuously adapt) the site to operate to help people for these situations (called "scenarios" or "workflows" in the web world). In the web world this is referred to as "information architecture."
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