Designing your business website for the first time

When you make the decision to increase your company’s web presence by developing a website it can be a daunting prospect especially if your computer skills are not advanced. There are two main choices open to you and those are to learn the skills to do this yourself or to employ the services of a web developer to design your business website for you.

If you decide to build your own website there are lots of online videos and other content to instruct and enable you to develop an individual site however there are also companies that offer a template based design so that some of the basic programming has been done and you only need to upload your company details and images. This is beneficial to many who are unsure of their competency in this area and can result in a simple web presence with little cost.

If you have sufficient funds in your marketing budget it is probably wise to employ a web developer to design and build your business site as the resulting site will look more professional overall and will be able to be optimised so that it ranks higher on searches made, thus hopefully producing more business for your company.