Friday is Resource Roundup day! Why? Because I just officially declared it, that’s why.
Today’s resource roundup: free and cheap ways to get a website up and running. If you have any kind of business, these days, you need a website even if you don’t sell your services online. Your website, at a bare minimum, is your online business card. Although you should also be filling it up with great content so that people can find your website, but that’s another story.
If you are short on cash and lacking in the mad design skillz, here are some free, easy to use website builder options – some of them have paid upgrades available:
- www.wix.com
- www.weebly.com
- www.blogger.com
- www.moonfruit.com
- http://doodlekit.com/home
- http://www.yola.com/
For those who are a little more DIY – I love wordpress. www.wordpress.org is where you would go to upload your wordpress theme.
I love wordpress for its ease of use…once you get it uploaded and customized. I use wordpress templates for all of my websites, but if you want to do this yourself, you need to be able to go get your own domain name, pay for hosting, upload wordpress through your FTP panel, and tweak the wordpress theme that you upload…or pay someone to do all of that for you. Generally you can get someone to tweak an existing wordpress theme and add a custom designed wordpress banner which results in a good, basic wordpress site for around $500-600…with prices going up to many thousands of dollars depending on level of customization required.
For a list of places that you can find designers to customize your website, read this post: http://www.danawillhoit.com/make-money-online/list-ofonline-freelance-coders
And there you have it. Your low budget and lack of design skills are no longer a legitimate excuse for not having an attractive website. Get out there and start webbing!