Pucker Up! Building your new company’s first website.
When building your company’s first website, it’s important to keep the old KISS in mind…keep it simple stupid. The reason? The answer: The economy, of course!
Now, we both know that your company is going to take off with flying colors and sell more products/services than ever…but in today’s lovely unpredictable economy, it’s important that you stay based in reality and not sink all of your money into a website that no one will ever see besides your mother. It’s of course important to build a website, but remember, websites can always be expanded upon in the future. Build a simple, professional website. It’s a good base to have. In the future when you sell a million of those legged blankets, you can have the all-out site that sings and dances and even emits smells from the screen….but for now you don’t need that much!
For your simple website, just make sure you have the basics. The basics would include:
*A clean, attractive homepage
*Working links/navigation throughout the site
*Enough information regarding your company to entice potential clientele
*Contact info
That’s it! That’s all you really need!! Just get your product/company out there and see if you have the stuff to move forward (alright, I know you do, see if people have the intelligence to recognize this…better?). Once your website takes off and you’re rolling in money, THEN you can shell it out to build the amazing website. But WAIT until this moment has arrived for you.
DPro has a good program for starting a basic website: BizWebMachine. It allows for the quick and simple creation of a website that is not necessarily customized to the tee, but rather designed in a general manner allowing for the look and feel of your company but still allowing minimal cost. In short: it’s easy to build, but still looks amazing.
Check out one of our BizWebMachine sites: