Thursday, August 6, 2009

Build Your Websites The Cheap Way

By Ferdinand Emy

Commonly, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can transmute if you know where to find the optimal deals, the best designs for the lowest cost. Here's a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever found those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the volume they charge to pay off a good number of overheads: office rent, designer's wages, advertising costs and so on.

Therefore, it would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. These people are frequently working from home so they don't have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it is a "no-brainer" choice.

Notwithstanding, pick freelancers with care. The best way to do this would be to go to elance.com. There, you may post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you'll surely get the optimal deal. On top of that, you will be able to select the designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so your value for money is firmd.

Another route you may take is to design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only require 5 simple pages to present a good number of simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just expend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You'll be able to design your own sites even if you don't know a single line of HTML code with the aid of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and so on.

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