Once upon a time you needed to spend a fortune on professional help to get even the simplest of websites up and running. If you wanted to add or edit anything, plan on some outrageous monthly invoices once the changes were made. Today’s many cheap website design options make this all a thing of the past.
Websites have many purposes from just providing information (medical sites for instance) to high level multifunctional sites that sell products, pay commissions, and allow privileged access with password protected pages. The simpler the site, the cheaper it should be to build.
There are many online companies that offer some very robust and comprehensive packages where users – work at home moms to large corporations – can quickly build a site for virtually any purpose using various templates and stock photos. Add ons and plugs ins such as shopping carts, blogs, RSS feeds and email accounts can be purchased for very reasonable amounts of money. One of these sites can cost as little as $15.00 a month and offer as much functionality as you need.
An average site with about 10 pages, a fully functional shopping cart, blog, and emails can easily be done for less than $15.00 with many of these template programs, and there are still many standard features included for free such as autoresponders, downloadable products, video, etc.
If you don’t have the time to do this yourself you can hire one of their own programmers to do it all for you, frequently for only a few hundred dollars. To do the same site about five years ago would cost over $1,000 and months of time.
There are many more reasons to change to a template do it yourself site. The most important one is that you are able to have constant and immediate access to your site. You can edit as often as necessary and have all the changes immediately visible to the world. Using an outside company to do this can incur some outrageous fees while simultaneously causing possible delays. If you last minute edits to a sales page or you want to offer a discount on a product, you can miss your window of opportunity by relying on someone else.
Templates still use the old fashioned FTP software, but you don’t need to try to figure out how to use it. No C Panels, no root files. Just edit what you need, and save your work. Done.
If you are paying someone else to maintain a website, check out transferring your site to a company that offers a do it yourself template process and bring it in house or do it yourself. The transfer should be totally seamless and the new site should be identical.
These companies have excellent customer service, usually 7 days a week, and plenty of online tutorials to get you up and running. Once you see the money you can save, you’ll wonder why you hadn’t done this before.
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