Hi, would like to design a website, is it easy to do yourself or is there anyone that could do it for me?

Have an idea that i'd like to look at getting on the web.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

 

it is easy enough to do yourself if you have a bit of technical knowledge and the correct tools (I have built more websites than i can remember), however in the long term it is usually more beneficial if you get a pro to build your website, although without any details of what you are doing i couldnt give you an idea of what you could expect to pay

 

4 key elements to a decent website IMHO

1 - content
2 - visual design
3 - functionality
4 - SEO


Thats not in any order.

You will probalby find you are better at some bits than others, content for example you should be ok for if you know your subject well (ie if its your own company or something then you should know what to say to promote it)


Personally I such at the visual design bit, but am very talented at the functionality and am reasonable at the SEO bit.

Its the functionality stuff I do for a living though, so thats hardly surprisingly my best area.

 

I have never done a website before,but with the company that makes my business cards they have a section were you can build your own website, this is mine i did it all myself with the help of there tools (so easy) i dont think its to bad im still changing it and improving it all the time www.definedreflections.co.uk you can pick there designs or you can upload your own www.vistaprint.com it costs me iirc Ł8.98 a month and thats for the pro pack were i can have a gallery and paypal and youtube links ect

 

For how easy it sounds to setup, you cant moan at that Al

 

Thats a nice website mate, looking for something like this. Once you have a good base like this can you keep on adding new sections?

Tony

 

Does anyone else have any websites they've set up themselves?

Please post them up, tony

 

Did mine myself 10 years ago. Frames set up in Dreamweaver & now edited in Microsoft Frontpage. Hosted it with geocities & i sent it to the search engines myself after setting up the meta tags.
Over 100k hits now but i rarely change it these days.

http://geocities.com/rtarry_uk

 

I bought my domain name from 123reg.co.uk and then hosted it via flump.net I worte mine all in HTML and robbed some funky javascripts from other sites just to piss around with. Depends what you want really on your site. I googled a beginners guide to html and went from there, you could do the same or a beginners guide to building a website. I'm sure there's thousands of tutorials on the net to help.

 

Yeah you can have as many pages as you want,you can change the layout,they can do email marketing for you to promote special offers to your customers ect
Its realy good for a newbie like me i would never be able to do one from scratch

 

Defo cant moan at that