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Getting Your Business Online in an Hour
by Lucila
Duchesne
Published on this site: March 25th, 2006 - See
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Are you in a hurry to get your business online? Do you have a limited budget
but want professional results right away? In the past, this was an impossible
demand but today, with the advent of website builders, it is not only possible
but realistic.
You can get a website up and running with no knowledge of
HTML or any other web technology. If you know how to use a word processor, chances
are, you can figure out how to use a website builder. Different website builders
come with different capabilities but overall they are easy to use and quick to
setup. Most site builders also walk you through the step by step process of getting
your website live for the world to see.
But can you expect professional
results with a site builder? Most of them come with professional grade templates
for you to choose from. Some customization can be done to these templates. Things
like color scheme, logo graphic and the like are often customizable so that you
reduce the chance that someone else
using the very same site builder software
will have an identical looking website. Using the templates that come with most
website builders is actually a good thing. It keeps most people who are new to
web design from committing some common web design errors.
For most business
sites, the bare minimum number of pages you'll want to have live is two. The main
home page being your sales page stressing the benefits your prospective customers
will get by doing business with you and a contact us page that will let your visitors
know how to contact you. You could technically include your contact info on the
home page and reduce your overall page count to one but it is seldom necessary
to be so concise. Once you are up and running, you can always add more pages.
Keeping
your website creation project under an hour will require you to get to the point
right away. Remember the difference between feature and benefit. Feature being
what your product or service will do for the customer and benefit being
what
they will get from what the product or service does. Make sure to make a list
of benefits to doing business with your company as opposed to another one. Make
it easy for them to do business with you.
With a website builder, getting
a website up and running doesn't have to take you much time, money or grief and
the results may impress you.
Lucila
Duchesne is the owner of http://Yowling.com
a company that offers a feature-rich website builder that is really easy to use.
Reprint freely as long as
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