Websites on a budget

Many services have appeared online which offer websites for a minimal fee of a few pounds (or often dollars) per year. Customers have enquired about such services and whether they should choose one of these website services for their company.

Well as the old Chinese proverb says “if something appears too good to be true, it probably is”. Many of these services rely on the following:

• Using a very cheap template
• Adding your own content
• Promoting your website yourself
• Overburdened web hosting servers hosting thousands of websites which are slow and unreliable

High quality templates are fine to use for those customers on a budget but many of these services rely on the use of poor quality, cheap web design templates. A customer can tell a cheap, poor quality web design template almost instantly. This leaves a lasting impression on the customer not only about your website, but about your company. In some peoples opinion this might be worse than having no website at all, as your website has actually damaged your company image.

Adding website content and promoting your website alone are complicated, time consuming tasks to do properly. Every year dozens of books, hundreds of pages thick are written about creating effective website content and promoting your website. Why spend weeks learning the correct methods of website content and search engine optimisation, when web professionals are available to help you with this, leaving you with weeks to work on your business instead?

Successful websites on a budget are possible, but budgets need to be realistic. Small businesses need not spend a few thousand pounds on a website and search engine optimisation, often a beneficial website can be created for a fraction of that cost. Red Spider have helped many small businesses on a limited budget by designing a website that meets their requirements.