Hiring a web designer or
doing it yourself.
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Guide to Making
Websites
Now you know some of what is involved in
creating and maintaining your own website. You can choose to do it yourself using
some of the techniques and ideas in this manual or you can choose to hire
someone to do it for you. If you are thinking of hiring someone, you now know
more of what you need from that company or person. You can pay for a lot of
money for a cool flash design or highly visual website, but it won’t do you any
good if you can’t get people to the website with search engines.
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You need a website that attracts targeted traffic
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You need someone to submit the pages to search engines
regularly
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You need someone to add pages and update pages regularly
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You need someone who knows how to create the pages so
the search engines find you.
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You need the ability to send out a newsletter, keep
track of subscribers.
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You need quality content. Most designers don’t
provide content and if they do, it is just a standard template and everyone’s
will look and say the same.
For the most
part technical website designers don’t know much about getting your website to
the top of the search engines. You will most likely have to tell them how to
build the pages and write all of the content yourself. Some of the do it
yourself templates lack the ability to get your site listed in the top results.
Free hosting sites are unprofessional as they usually have pop-up ads.
If you can’t
decide on which way to go with your website, try out this little decision making
tool -
Chooseit! That is also provided for free by
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should I hire to make a website that works.
