The Internet has undoubtedly become the most important tool for most people involved in business. Moreover, nowadays, contact with a company usually begins with a website. Having a website significantly increases the number of inquiries, business contacts, and has a major impact on building the image of a solid company. Of course, a good website fulfills all these tasks. A good one, meaning one prepared in a professional manner. How to create such a site without spending a fortune? In this article, I will try to show what is worth paying attention to when creating a company website.
What do I need to know?
Hosting, monthly transfer, quota, DNS, domain registration… Searching the Internet for information on setting up your own website, you can find a mass of terms foreign to most of us. You should not assume that just because you want to have a website, you must be an expert on the Internet.
It is worth going to a web design company that takes care of comprehensive services. Otherwise, you will end up in the role of a negotiator between 3-4 companies, each of which deals with a different aspect of your presence on the Internet.
How to find comprehensive service, what do you need? The minimum that a company serving you should guarantee is:
• domain registration, i.e., your address on the Internet
• creation of a website
• publishing and maintaining the website on a server
• maintaining email accounts on a server
This list is also a list of services you should ask about first.
• creation of a website
• publishing and maintaining the website on a server
• maintaining email accounts on a server
This list is also a list of services you should ask about first.
Fees for maintaining a domain, websites on a server, and email accounts are usually paid once a year.
It is worth calculating these expenses to know what fixed costs having a website will generate.
What should be on the website?
Unfortunately, many smaller web design companies do not offer their clients help in developing the structure and content of the website. Especially when you want to reduce costs, you should take the initiative yourself and present proposals for what should be on the site. At the beginning, it is worth considering what your site is supposed to serve and what your users might be looking for on it. This stage of work, called analytical, will allow you to prepare a set of requirements that we should
present to the webmaster.
The article comes from the magazine “e-Fakty” 6/2005.