{"id":9304,"date":"2008-12-22T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/22\/web-design-hiring-a-professional-to-save-money\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T20:45:19","slug":"web-design-hiring-a-professional-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=9304","title":{"rendered":"Web Design &#8211; Hiring A Professional To Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Stephen Grisham, Sr.<\/div>\n<p>It might seem like it&#8217;s saving you money to design a website yourself, but it will end up costing you more money and time in the long run. If you are busy running your own business, then it will be obvious that as a business <a href=\"http:\/\/millionaireforum.info\/blog\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about owner &raquo;\">owner<\/a>, you don&#8217;t have time to learn how to create good web design on the side.<\/p>\n<p>A business owner should take a moment to consider how much his time is really worth, and whether the time you&#8217;re willing to spend putting together a website will produce a good website. It&#8217;s important for a business owner to consider the cost of neglecting other parts of running the business in order to make a website. After considering this information, it&#8217;s clear that the money invested in a website design professional can be quickly recovered in sales and savings.<\/p>\n<p>HTML looks easy enough to do, but unfortunately, most business owners aren&#8217;t aware that many other programming languages are necessary in order to build a secure business website. A business owner should consider whether he really has the time to build an attractive, professional, and secure website like his company deserves.<\/p>\n<p>At the most basic level, a web site designer should know the basic web programming languages, of which theire are four: HTML, SHTML, Java, and CSS. Professional designers can work with even more languages. However, the better training a professional has, the more they will cost, but you will also see a better website as a result.<\/p>\n<p>If you are really in a budget crunch, consider hiring a student.  There are many professional and 2-year institutions that teach computer courses, and often some will be design students who need to build portfolios.  Some will work for free.  Others will work for nominal wages.  All will ask for a reference.<\/p>\n<p>It is also vital for a business ownder to consider what their online website is going to have on it, and what you need the website to do. If you have more features on your website, it will take up more space, and extra space costs money. As a result, it&#8217;s important to minimize your rpace to what your company needs.<\/p>\n<p>Some designs will require programs.  If you have a highly skilled designer who is very expensive, it may be cheaper to buy a pre-built module for some parts such as your online shopping cart.  On the other end, a student may not know how to build a bomb-proof shopping cart, so a module will be needed to prevent scripting errors.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody wants your site information or the private information on it to be stolen or misused,, so one of the the most important features, if not the most important feature of any website is the safety and security of your customer&#8217;s private information. . You need to be sure that your webmaster will give you support for the occasional, albeit entirely unavoidable emergency call.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a Staff Writer for InfoServe Media, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoservemedia.com\/\">Houston Web design<\/a> company that provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoservemedia.com\/design\/custom\/\">custom web design<\/a>. Visit today, or call 1 (800) 838-2203 for a free quote.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem like it&#8217;s saving you money to design a website yourself, but it will end up costing you more money and time in the long run. 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