Your Small Business and the Web

Small Business Web Design Tips

Make Your Own Website

If you can make your own web site for your small business, you can put yourself in a winning position quickly.

For most small business owners the problem of going online is the following:

1. How do I get a web site designed?

2. How do I get my web site hosted?

3. How do I market it to my target customers?

Fortunately, all these problems can be solved by modern all- inclusive eCommerce web site design packages.

The advantages of these all-in-one packages are that they save money as all the tools are in the same package. It saves a lot of time learning how to set up your business and it is easy to run because of the many easy tools at your disposal.

It also saves a lot in web designer fees.

One of the best of these eCommerce web site design packages is the free W3 Site Builder, which is recommended by many leading internet marketers for its comprehensive features. You can develop a free 5 page web site when you purchase an affordable web hosting plan at just $8.95 per month. The most expensive plan offered here is $24.95 per month and includes a 70-page eCommerce web site for selling online.

W3 Site Builder free web site builder has the following web site development and marketing features:

Create content with images using an MS-Word like tool
WYSIWYG HTML Editor helps you create rich HTML content with absolutely no prior knowledge or experience in HTML.

Create attractive Welcome Pages
With Welcome Page Wizard you can now choose from a wide range of attractive readymade design templates for your Welcome Page. Once chosen, you can go ahead and completely customize the content

Create a customized Flash intro animation
Flash Wizard allows you to select from a wide range of flash intro movies for your website. You can also customize the color, image, sound, text and the overall message of the Flash animation, etc.

Over 15,000 Professionally Designed Website Template Options
The 15000+ design templates are classified into convenient Categories for ease of choice and access. Some of the Categories include: Automobile Related, Health & Lifestyle, Education etc. The exhaustive range helps you create highly customized websites spread across verticals specifically created for these target categories.

Set up your complete online shop
Shop Wizard helps you display and sell a range of products online. With Shop Wizard, you can quickly list your products and pricing on the shop pages of your website with images. You can also seamlessly integrate the page with any online credit card payment processing solution in just 3 simple steps.

Create customized forms
Form Wizard helps you create customized forms for your website. With Form Wizard, you can now create any form containing any input field, for feedback, registration, sign up, etc. You can also include form elements like text box/area, pull down menus, radio buttons, etc.

Create & manage a complete web blog
BlogZone is a next generation Blog module with extremely easy to use interface that allows you to foster an active community of bloggers online. There is no need any third party tools or plug-ins for BlogZone.

Incorporate Banners on your website
With powerful banner incorporation tools, you can now embed banners on your website. This provides a powerful marketing and communication tool to users.

Customize the Footer on your website
The Footer feature enables you to provide highly specific content such as service information, branding, contact or copyright information, etc.

Incorporate any custom image or Logo on your website
All design templates have default images embedded within them. You may choose to replace these images with any image of your choice. This could even be your Logo image. This allows you to extend your branding/identity on to the newly designed website.

Optimize your website for Search Engines
This feature enables your to quickly add meta-tag information like keywords, title, description, etc. to your website. The meta-tag information would help search engines to index your website better.

Upgrade to more feature-rich packs at anytime
You can signup for any package initially and later upgrade to other more feature-rich packs at any time.

Perform photo retouching & editing operations
The Online Image Editor allows you to perform operations such as Flip, Flop, Crop, Rotate, apply Frames & Borders, change Brightness & Contrast, Resize, Annotate (text on image) and Change Image Format, etc. All this is fully browser based. You don’t need to install a thing.

Modify, rearrange your web pages at any time
You can add, rearrange, rename, or even delete pages and their corresponding links on your website. This gives you complete control over the site links and the order of page appearance.

One-step Change Design feature
You can change the design template on your homepage, inside pages and Flash intro, etc., in just one step by selecting any one of the available templates. What’s more, the entire content on these pages remain untouched and exactly the same as on the earlier design.

Attractive goodies to jazz up your pages
You can add powerful and attractive features to your web page such as Date & Time stamp, Animated Cursors, Background Sounds, Google Search, Maps & Directions, etc. by simply clicking on the 'Goodies' icon in the rich text editor.

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So you see, building your own web site is cost effective and easy for small businesses.