If you’re a start-up or small business, paying a freelancer or web design service to build your site is often a luxury you cannot afford, at least not at the beginning. It is nevertheless important to have a professional looking website if you’re to grow your online profile successfully.
For those that only know basic HTML or those that haven’t a clue about design, it’s important to go with a web host that offers helpful tutorials and advice included in their starter packages; this way you get the most out of what you pay for.
One Canadian web hosting service, HostPapa, provides their customers with a handy, build it yourself and easy-to-use website builder when they sign up. Furthermore, all the templates are optimized for mobile devices keeping your site accessible and looking professional no matter where a user is browsing from.
If you’re selling product, their layouts are also suitable for e-commerce sites and they offer one-click publishing as well allowing you to make changes quickly and maintain an active presence.
Website designers tend to charge anywhere from $1000-$5000 which is over ten times more what you’d pay for a website builder annually – and that doesn’t even include advanced features. Apart from saving money, other benefits of building your own site include control and clarity of vision – no one knows what you need emphasized online better than you; it allows you to make genuine and personal connections with your audience base by means of what you choose to showcase.
If you want to learn how to set up your own website taking the work into your own hands also lets you make adjustments on the spot if there’s something you change your mind about in the moment.
For business owners ready to take the leap and start coding on their own, the above web host will provide them with instructional videos to walk them through. They teach everything from how to use the state of the art control panel, to how to make the most of apps like Joombla and popular interfaces like WordPress.
It gives start-ups the power to be autonomous where their website activities are concerned, from cropping and editing images, to adding widgets, forms, javascript, and sitewide CSS. This web host even makes all pages SEO friendly, so it is easier for search engines like Google to pick them up and display them in queries; this is particularly helpful for Canadian businesses when they’re running on a local server.
If you’ve decided to invest in a website for your business, there are a myriad of benefits to building and designing it on your own. If you have design experience, see which web hosts offer instructions, tutorials, and give you access to an award-winning customer care centre should you have any outstanding questions or needs.
If not, ensure you find a hosting service that takes this into consideration when selling you a domain, one that will include a website builder as part of your plan which does not require you to have prior coding expertise, guaranteeing a smart looking website from the beginning.
Article by Vishal
Vishal Gaikar is a professional blogger from Pune, India. If you like this post, you can follow him on Twitter.
