Monday, April 6, 2009

Paying to have a website created" dont make this mistake

By Simon Reese-James

One of the biggest mistakes business owners make when buying a website is depending on the web designer to make all the future changes

The automatic assumption by business owners is that the web designer will make all future changes. It is often the assumption by web designers too; especially as it keeps the revenue flowing from client.

It is a key advantage for SME's to be reactive to their clients and the market. Being able to update your site to reflect changes in your offering daily on your site or fix a spelling mistake is important. Often web designers will take a long time to complete simple changes as they are too busy with other more rewarding projects.

It is possible to have your designer create a website that you can make changes easily. Often updates are made using a fill in the boxes type approach.

Ask your website designer for a content management system or CMS. These systems can be expensive but don't let this be an excuse to increase your costs by very much.

Content Management system do need some skill in programming for web designers to set up and running. A lot of website designers are missing the skill required.

To avoid having a website that doesn't reflect your business or worse is embarrassing don't end up depending on your website designer to make future changes.

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