Thinking of Designing Your Own Website?

Is it worth designing your own website?

The advantages of designing your own website are that you have complete freedom to do what you want and you can update it anytime without help from anyone else. The disadvantages are that if you don't know anything about web programming, you'll have to learn it - and this takes time. You may find that, if you multiply the number of hours it takes by the amount you estimate your time is worth, the process will be a lot costlier than if you employed a professional web designer. You'll also need to buy programming books and software tools. And you should ask yourself if the result will be as good as it could be - your site visitors will judge you on how your website looks.

Is content management the answer?

Content management allows you to update your website without any specialized technical knowledge. The system works by storing your content on an online database that you can update via your web browser. When your web pages are entered, the content is pulled from the database. A system like this provides many benefits. Not only can you update your site whenever you want and as often as you want, but you can do it yourself without hiring someone else. This provides a secondary benefit. It allows you to try different strategies with your content. If a particular approach isn't generating sufficient interest you can scrap it and try another.

Is there a solution that allows me to change style as well as content? Smallbizonline can provide a system called Total Control that allows you to change, not only your content, but the style of your website also. The whole system is menu driven and allows you to completely change the look of your website using different colours, fonts and background images. You can create as many pages as you wish and site navigation is handled automatically. Alternatively, if you already have a website that you can't update then we can set up Total Control to look like your existing site - allowing you to update the site yourself using only your web browser.

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