Part II - Planning A Website

Written by Regina Stevens


This isrepparttar second article I have written about how to plan a website. You can find part 1 at http://keepitsimplewebsites.com/planawebsite.cfm or type in Regina Stevens inrepparttar 132542 Author Name box at http://goarticles.com.

This article is for people who may be thinking about getting a website for their business, but have not done any research to find out if they need one. Below are some ideas to think about before deciding on getting a website:

1) Think long-term before you build or have someone build you a website, you may not need one

2) Keep in mind that if you are selling anything online, you must make plans on how to market your business offline

3) Don't expect your web designer/developer to operate and/or market your product or service for you

4) Think about who will do website maintenance and how often

Think long-term before you build or have someone build you a website, you may not need one Just because "everyone else" has a website does not necessarily mean that you need one. In order to find out if you need a website ask yourself a few questions:

1) Will I save money selling my product or service online? 2) Willrepparttar 132543 shipping fee be higher than my product or service fee? 3) Will people buy this type of product or service online? 4) Am I willing to invest time in making my business work online?

Of course there are many more questions to ask yourself, butrepparttar 132544 above questions should get you started in making decisions on whether or not you actually need a website.

If you feel that your product or service will indeed sell online, go for it! There are millions of potential customers online! The good thing aboutrepparttar 132545 Internet is that you can sell your products or services globally.

Keep in mind that if you are selling products, you must make plans on how to market your business offline Now, althoughrepparttar 132546 Internet is great for maximum exposure of your product or service, you should work on selling your product or service offline in your local area. Sit back and think about a few things you could do. The first thing would be to add your website address to all of your advertisements. Below is a brief list of some ways to advertise:

Building websites using web templates

Written by M.Mukesh


Gone arerepparttar days when you had to rely on a web-designer to design your websites. New technologies with innovative ideas have brought out a new variant to this trend inrepparttar 132540 form of ready to use website templates.

So what are web templates?

Well, to put it in a simple way, web templates are nothing but readymade web-pages that can be used to create websites in seconds! How you ask? Web templates act as html coded dummy web pages that contain model content. Now these templates can be edited with ease (to add content, graphics, logo, pictures etc) to create professional web pages in less time.

How to edit web templates

Nowrepparttar 132541 next possible question that arises is as how to editrepparttar 132542 web templates; isn’t it? That’s simple! Most web templates are editable and can be edited using popular html editors like FrontPage, DreamWeaver, GoLive and Photoshop. These html editors are easy to use and have a friendly interface. You need not be a pro to use them. Anyway in case anyone findsrepparttar 132543 editing part difficult they can always go for template customization services that are provided by most web template providers.

Are web templates really that green?

As a matter of fact, web templates can really help you save up lots of money and time and best of all help you do professional work. Just imagine hiring a web designer to design your website. As most of you must be aware, a web designer can charge you anything between $50 to $200 for designing a single web-page! And then there isrepparttar 132544 time factor. Usually web-designers take a minimum of 10 -15 days to complete a website. Here’s where web templates come torepparttar 132545 rescue.

Using a web template to create a website would cost you anything around $20 - $40 and that’s not all; websites designed using web templates could be over within a day after editing and pasting graphics and will look professional too! So now it doesn’t take an extraordinary mind to figure out which is more lucrative.

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