DIY Website Design ?

A plumber would tell you that you need a professional if you don’t want to suffer leaks later, an electrician will tell you that you should employ an electrician if you don’t want your house to burn down and a business consultant will tell you that you should always focus on you key strengths and abilities if your business is to grow profitably. Your job is to deligate, not graft!

So why then, do so many trade and profession experts attempt to design, build and host their own websites?

Because they don’t know what they don’t know

The same is true of all trades and professions. Think about all of the times you as a professional have had to tidy up the mess left by an amateur trying to do a job on the cheap.

As a professional think about how long it took you to study your trade or profession to a level where you are considered to be an expert. Five years training and then another five years on the job experience?

Ok so I am setting the scene but the truth of the matter is that we don’t know what we don’t know and I for one would never try to plumb in my own gas boiler or represent myself in the high court.

DIY Websites Sell the Sizzle, but end up with a tough Steak!

OK I admit it, many DIY Websites look good on the computer screen (most don’t).

I am not going to labour on the many technical issues that help a website get found by meaningful prospects or how to make a website that can create the desire for the prospect to buy. But I am going to list the many questions and queries that I get asked by website owners who built their own website and want to know why they don’t work to deliver meaningful traffic.

Top 5 DIY Website Traffic Related Questions

1. How can I tell how many visitors I get to my website?
2. Why do I get lots of visitors to my website but no sales?
3. Why am I NOT getting lots of traffic to my website?
4. How can I optimise my website for search engines?
5. How can I optimise my website to get targeted traffic?

Top 5 DIY Website Design Related Questions

1. How can I make my website content appear as I want it?
2. What is CSS and how does that work?
3. I have a free website and a free blog can I join them together?
4. How can I resize and position my site images accurately?
5. The text on my website is really small how can i make it bigger?

Top 5 DIY Website Visitor Interaction Related Questions

1. How can I stop getting lots of unwanted spam?
2. How can I put a Newsletter sign-up box on my website?
3. How can I put a form for visitors to complete on my website?
4. How can I link my website to Twitter and FaceBook?
5. How can I set up a Newsletter on my website?

When I am offered work to repair DIY websites with the probles listed above, I always decline because in some cases the issues simply cannot be fixed but in most cases it is cheaper to start from scratch and build a new web 2.0 website from the ground up.

Its a bit like the tortoise and the hare story, using DIY Website software will get you up and running online very quickly and as you did the job yourself you will be proud of your effort, but will your effort be rewarded by increased revenue to your business or would your time and effort have been better spent in your own area of expertise?

The answer to this question lies in the 15 questions above. Don’t trust to luck and do not buy the Sizzle before you have tasted the steak!

Business Development

Your website needs to be the HUB of your business. Today a website is a hugely important business tool for building image and profile and for building trust and respect for your company.

The physical cost of building your own website over two years only to find that it does not do what you thought it would will be around £2,000.00 measured in software and hosting fees and the cost of your valuable time. For half of this cost we could make you State-of-the-Art Web 2.0 website which will amplify and project the image of your business and will represent you and your business as a 24/7/365 ambassador of the highest order.

Think profit – think professional website development team.

60% of Our Website Design Work is for DIY Website Owners

This simple fact should make you think twice before deciding to build your a DIY website.
60% of the websites that we make are for business owners who have built their own website and eventually had to concede defeat and replace them because they realise that they are not working for them.

And when you count the cost, this can be a painful pill to swallow. Please invest your time in doing what you do best and allow your preferred website design team build you a website that you can be truly proud of.

30% of our Website Design work is for website owners who purchased a “cheap” website and only around 10% of our work is for 1st time website buyers.