Website Development: Build it Yourself or Hire an Expert?

As technology grows ever more necessary for businesses to reach their audiences, technology companies try to offer solutions for non-technical people so that they can create their own websites.   Intuit's website building software or 1 & 1 My Website are the 2 most common sites that you may recognize.  For all of the advertising these companies spend to market and raise awareness for their website building solutions, the actual products fall short of graphical, structural, and functional design for most businesses.  The best example is my last client, Austin Simply Fit.  They began their website with one of these solutions and after they spent countless hours setting it up and then trying to design it within the software's construct they reached an unsatisfactory result.

A business website is the most effective piece of marketing material a business has to sell itself to its audience and keep them informed. Why go with and settle for a solution with an less than excellent result?    Companies like Intuit have a very strong brand name from products like Quickbooks and compared to the painstaking process of seeking out, vetting, and hiring a web designer  or web developer, the Intuit brand name persuades people to use their product.  Most of the time, these out-of-the-box type solutions yield a less than adequate means for a business to properly communicate ideas, services, and information to an audience.

When a web designer and web developer like myself encounter solutions like 1 & 1 My Website or Intuit Website Solutions they are a real let-down from a design, structural, and functional aspect.  Web technology and web programming has to be exact down to the very last punctation mark, yet at the same time it needs to be flexible enough because some pieces of code will conflict with other pieces of code and then you have to debug it to make it work together.  The problems with the out-of-the-box solutions, is that they DO NOT allow for flexibility in the layout code (CSS - Cascading Style Sheets) or functional code (programming) and therefore the user who is trying to design the layout will always end up with a bad graphical representation and a user who needs to add a functional database will not be able to do so.

If you are a small business owner and you want a website that will go the distance, the best option you have is to find a web designer  or web developer and let them guide you towards a viable solution for your business.  If websites consist of 3 moving parts: 1 part business, 1 part art, and 1 part technology- and you want your website to look good, work well, and convey the right information to your audience- you need to reconsider all your options and find a great technology expert, like Gennovacap Technology Services, to help you implement the best solution for your business.

Business Websites and SEO Services

At Gennovacap Technology Services, custom websites and SEO services are two of our specialties.  Since every business needs a website and the website needs to be search engine optimized, we have found an efficient way to build beautiful custom websites and combine the website with basic SEO services to facilitate the growth of a business' online presence.  Our custom web design and web development solutions are great for any business who needs a website and has to work with a budget.

We begin our webpage design by designing a website that has a good look and feel for the business and its industry.  Before we begin to design or create a single web page, we develop a roadmap for the website's content, graphics, and images using diagramming and outlining software.  Based upon the content provided to us by the business owners, we can then begin to design and develop the website.  Once the website is developed we can host and manage your website through through a variety of hosting services like GoDaddy, MediaTemple, or Rackspace.

After your website is online we can begin the SEO procedure.  Our SEO services include registering the website and all relevant URL's to all the major search engines including Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  We also create a sitemap and ensure your website is in good health for the search engines to crawl and index your site.  Once the SEO is implemented we can go a step further and submit press releases to the local media and news publications.  We also list your business with Google Places, Bing Business, or Yahoo Local.  The combination of these techniques will yield some relevance for your business website.

After your business website is optimized and setup on the web, we can actively manage your website with updates to your business service listings, new content for your blog, or press releases to the news media.  If you are serious about growing your business through the internet, then we can also increase your page rank through the use of internet marketing like organic SEO backlinking strategies as well as managing Google AdWords PPC Campaigns.  Call or contact us today for a free estimate for a business website, basic SEO setup, or mobile application needs.