Just Getting Started?
If your business is new or you’re just beginning to think you may need a website, take a look at the information, below. You may want to start your preliminary game plan with answers to these questions. This information is especially valuable to business owners who, to put it kindly, haven’t yet mastered their digital worlds.
What message will your site convey?
Will your website only be used to give contact details, a brief company history and a few images of your projects? That would probably put your site into the “static” category. Keep in mind, websites like this normally don’t receive a ton of traffic.
Are you designing a new site from scratch?
Are you planning to use your website to re-brand your company or do you have existing logos and themes that you’re considering?
Who will be maintaining the site?
Many websites need to be updated, periodically, as market conditions dictate.
Will you need to offer customer/visitor interaction?
This takes your website beyond static and requires more design and creation time. A Content Management System (CMS) is required for a site like this.
How will you market your website?
Website marketing and search engine optimization can require lots of time and patience. It may even require money you hadn’t planned on spending, but, if you want a decent amount of traffic, you may need to re-budget. In a majority of cases, the search engines will be generating the bulk of your site’s traffic. All SAWD websites are designed to be search engine friendly. However, unless otherwise specified, we will only make initial submissions to the three major search engines.
One more thing to consider is how you’ll be handling your website’s email system. We can configure your domain to handle all of your email, through a Google Apps email system, for up to 50 users.
If you’re just getting started, we can take you through the entire process of setting up your website, including domain name registration, hosting, site design & creation, publishing your site to the web and marketing the finished product. Find out more about our website features or give us a call @ 325-227-8657!