How a Good Site Builder Program Can Reduce Your Website Costs

An up-to-date and well maintained website is important for a small business. It's your 24/7 salesperson and customer service representative, always there promoting your products or services and answering questions for your customers.

It can be a challenge for a small business start up to afford frequent website updates by a professional web designer (hourly rates can range from $25 to $100+). What can you do to reduce your costs? Consider a good website builder program.

A site builder program will allow your designer to create a website template either from scratch if you're just getting started or from your current website design, and then you can make your own updates and additions without needing to know any HTML code.

You also have the option of building your website yourself using one of the built in templates. This is a very budget friendly way to get your first website online. Good website builder programs come with a variety of professionally designed templates that you can add your logo or business name to.

Another great feature of website builder programs is that they make advanced features as easy as a few clicks. You won't need to hire a programmer to setup a contact form on your website, create a guestbook, photo gallery or blog.

If you don't feel comfortable editing/managing your website, even with an easy to use site builder, or just don't have time, you can still save money. With a site builder you can hire a virtual assistant (VA) to make updates to your site. VAs are generally very tech savvy and while many aren't designers/programmers, they can handle updates through a site builder--and they're less expensive hourly.

Two popular programs to consider are RV Site Builder and SohoLaunch Pro. Both have a relatively easy to customize template and support resources including video tutorials for users to learn to manage their websites.

Check with your website host to find out what your options are. Many include site builder programs in their hosting packages at no extra monthly costs.

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Michelle Shaeffer is the CEO of Creo Communico LLC, a website hosting and design firm exclusively for small and home based businesses. Our mission is to provide affordable website hosting along with resources and support to help our clients succeed, including 300+ video tutorials, a choice of free site builders, and dozens of easy install scripts. Visit www.creocommunico.com today for a selection of free website management guides on domain names, website hosting, e-commerce and more.

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