I want to build a website for a small business. What is the best sitebuilder to use? I tried Yahoo but it seems their designs, etc are not that great…what about register.com, tripod, etc. Any suggestions?
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Well in my opinion since you asked, the ones that you mentioned are great but they are also very limiting. What I mean by this is they have different rules or different things that you are unable to change.
When picking what I think would be the best site builder you might want to put these things into consideration:
1)No Cost
2)No obligation or limitation
3)Not difficult to use
3)Not having to be on line to use it
Here are some open source editions that I have and I love. They work almost comparable to Dream weaver and cost no money.
Evrsoft First Page Free Edition
NVU
HTML-KIT – Lots of features
If you just want to build a website, the free ones are fine, if you know how to use them.
If you want to build a business website, however, you should use a proven system that not only builds your site, but helps you build the business by providing all the integrated tools you are going to need.
I use SBI to host, build, and maintain my business. I love it. You can look in my profile if you want to check out my site, etc.
They offer the best, in my opinion, all around package deal. They are especially good if you don’t know what you are doing (that was me), because they tell you step by step what to do to make your site a success and draw targeted traffic without paying for it.
They are not free. But the value of all the tools and all the work they do behind the scenes is certainly worth the annual fee.
I will give you this heads-up, too. They are running a special this week (until Aug. 28) that if you buy one site for the regular price of $299, they give you a second one for only $100.
I personally am buying another site package this weekend to start my second and third sites. That is how much I think they over deliver value for money.
Worth checking out.
if you are looking business website tools, i’ll definitely advice you to buy SBI!. the cost might be expensive at $299/yr but considering they have everything inside (keyword research, step by step action guide, web hosting, web designing) including fantastic world class online forum back by its owner, Ken.
Look, many said SBI if for beginners due to its not modern looks. but hey, as long as it can give you more money, who cares right?
trust me, it worth a shot. 3% of worldwide web is from SBI owners, and you’ll be amazed when you know you are one of them!
You need to use an SEO friendly content management system.
An SEO friendly CMS (content management system) combines the best of both worlds.
A CMS (content management system) means a self manageable web site. The site owner manages the content on their own. No IT specialist is needed, simply updating the content as easy as modifying a microsoft word document.
SEO (Search engine optimization) is the process of improving the quality of traffic to a web site. It is a dialogue between the web site and all the sources of web visitors. The web visitors can come from search engines, industry related sites etc.
An SEO friendly CMS allows the administrator to manage the web site easily and improving the quality of traffic, at the same time.
A few attributes of such a system are:
* WYSIWYG editor – What you see is what you get editor on the admin side.
* HTML Validation – This means that robots that come to the web site see no errors.
* Google site map – the system builds the google site map when the admin changes the menu.
* Easy applying Google analytics by the administrator.
* Separation of the web site content and graphics.
* Search engine friendly URLs.
* Treating humans and robots as equals.
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Lukene is correct, in 2007, a CMS is the ONLY way to go. However, he didn’t give you a specific, and I will… Wordpress.
A self hosted Wordpress site makes the perfect website, and here’s why…
I think Yor.com has a good option. $60/year and you make the site with a drag and drop system.
Hope this helps.