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Hello,
I am just starting my business and looking into creating a website. Looking for opinions on whether people create their own website or have someone do it for them. If someone does it for you, can you provide an approximate cost? Also, would love referrals for people to look into for website design. Still trying to decide how to proceed.
Thank you,
HollyIn my previous firm, we spent a couple grand on a website and it turned out just okay and we can’t easily update it. I decided to use Squarespace for my new setup and so far it’s been really easy to use and affordable. Haven’t published, yet, though, so take it with a grain of salt!
If you want to do it yourself, places like Squarespace and GoDaddy have templates and simple processes so you basically fill in the content and publish and you have something pretty quickly. This will likely limit you to their templates so less flexible. But that will get you a Version 1.0 and you can always determine later when to move to a Version 2.0. The beauty of digital is it can easily be changed.
Even with a simple site, I would recommend engaging a marketing professional to review your content. Otherwise you can end up with a site that looks pretty, but doesn’t put your firm in the best light or connect with your intended audience. I can pretty much look at a website and tell if it was self-created or professionally done. Since I’m a techie, I chose to put my time rather than my money into my site since once I knew what I wanted it to look like, I could easily use web building tools to make it happen.
Nothing wrong with DIY if you are really ‘into’ building/maintaining your website, but I wanted to focus on client work. So I turned it over to the pros, and I highly recommend Greta Perry and her team at Kickify (https://kickify.com/about/). Kickify didn’t do my original website design, but they’ve cleaned and spruced it up and made it compliant (SSL, etc.). Responsible, responsive, and reasonably priced!
I’ve done by own using Wix.
Thank you for all of the responses. I decided to create my own for now to save on money and will look to hire someone in the future if I think my page needs more.
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