Web Site Building Services

Orange_King

Does anyone have exerience of an online web page builging service and if so can you please provide a recommendation?

The purpose would be for a retail service and the ability so it would ideally come with access to paypal and with social media connectivity.

It seems the costs vary significantly depending on the provider and whatthey are offering so any suggestions would be appreciated.

amorphix

Orange_King wrote: »

Does anyone have exerience of an online web page builging service and if so can you please provide a recommendation?

The purpose would be for a retail service and the ability so it would ideally come with access to paypal and with social media connectivity.

It seems the costs vary significantly depending on the provider and whatthey are offering so any suggestions would be appreciated.

There's so many these days. But one of the easiest and quickest I ever used was wix. It's simple to do, you don't need to be a web coding wizard, and they have some pretty decent looking templates, professionally done.

Wix is free and ok if you want a simple no thrills web presence, that looks tidy and professional. You will have to pay though if you want a domain name directing to the site.

You mention PayPal and it sounds like you may need an online store of some kind. If so, look at JustHost and check out their basic virtual hosting package which costs around $50 a year. Excellent value. You get unlimited bandwidth, cpanel, and a full suite of software including "click to install" free apps that will create a social media enabled website or webstore for you with PayPal (OpenCart is the best for ecommerce and has social media integrated), plus all the benefit of having your own domain name, e-mail forwarding addresses etc. So then you'll look like a proper big corp ;-)

chanz4

I would 100% recommend one.com

BJV

I would think about exactly what you want your website to do. Yes you can get off the shelf and customise yourself but they can look cheap and nasty unless you have a design flare.

You also have to think about how customers are going to find you. get it wrong Google will not like your website or the format and you will find you are low down the ranking and have to spend a fortune for pay per click.

At the moment Goggles flavour of the month is anything wordpress. Again depending on the industry you are in this may do the job. You can customise it yourself or if you prefer you can spend a little and get s professional to do it.

It costs nothing to start so always good.

Just please be careful, there are so many rouges all promising the sun moon and stars for a fee.

This is not an easy question to answer as there is the whole online marketing, seo etc. You also have the whole security issue, are you going to take payments?

What type of industry are you in?

SilS

There are plenty of known and unknown companies providing such services. However you should be very careful, because it is hard to recover after some bunglers break your website. I have an online store for parfumes and I sell online, my website was built by these guys https://www.nettrio.net/en/ and now I pay them for support. Up to now I am satisfied because they are giving reasonable prices and they do their work conscientiously. I cannot recommend you another web company because I don't have experience with others, but you know that there is enough information on the Internet.

BJV wrote: »

get it wrong Google will not like your website or the format and you will find you are low down the ranking and have to spend a fortune for pay per click.

Why do you think that Google will not like his site? It depends on his online presence. Working on SEO is a good option, it's not obligatori to spend money on Google Adwords!

poppasmurf_bewdley

Moonfruit is very good for building a website, even if you have little or no knowledge. What's more, it can be free for a website of a few pages.

http://www.moonfruit.com/

networkguy_2

SilS wrote: »

Why do you think that Google will not like his site? It depends on his online presence.

There are plenty of 'unwritten rules' which Google and other search engines use to downmark a web site (and some 'written rules' of course!). For example, hiding text by making it the same as the background colour (rendering it invisible to a person viewing the site) is a definite 'no no'.

Also, using things like 'splash pages' or Macromedia Flash may make the search engines 'miss' the content, to some degree, and they could lose out in the rankings.

SilS wrote: »

Working on SEO is a good option, it's not obligatori to spend money on Google Adwords!

Agreed, on not always needing to use Google AdWords, but there are a lot of claims made by firms offering SEO, and some of these firms are practically conning businesses out of money.

A friend had a photography studio in Chester some time ago, and was pestered several times per week by firms offering to get him to "number 1 on search engines" for cash. Clearly only one photo studio would be at number 1, so if there were (say) 10 photo studios, all being offered the chance to be 'number 1', do you think the firm ringing them would stop after the first said they would pay?

These would be ongoing contracts paying some fee each month, but from the company offering SEO services, it was only ever described as a 'best effort' (because in truth, they cannot guarantee anything about what position a listing may reach).