Cheap website design in 10 days or less

So your taking the big step and have hired someone to redesign your old outdated website or your getting your first website built. Congrats! You’ve either been putting it off for a while or maybe business just picked up and you have budgeted for it or your old site just isn’t cutting it anymore. Whatever the reason, you’re excited and in a bit of a hurry. So you’d like to expedite the work, but keep your costs to a minimum. Possible? Yes, very and we’re here to offer you some tips on how to do just that.

Clients often think that a speedy turnaround time for a website means throwing more cash at the development team for faster results. Depending on your timeline, yes sometimes fees to expedite the project may be in order, but we’re here to offer you tips to work more smoothly and efficiently with your designer, in order to cut down on their time spent, which will likely cut your own cost. And of course, less time spent is less time that you’re waiting, stuck with your old site.

Getting started is potentially the most crucial step since this step is where you and the designer will not only start establishing the look and feel for your site, but also because this is where most clients lose a lot of time. It’s exciting to have a new site, but the process is fairly lengthy!

Have your content ready:

No matter who you choose to redesign your website, they are going to need your content. The content from the old site is a great start, but one of the reasons you are getting the site redesigned is probably due to the content being outdated. So rather than the designer programming your content in exactly how it is read in the old site, then revising it several times until it is to your satisfaction, you can speed up the process by having the content ready and proofed ahead of time. A tip I give to my clients is to open up a Word doc, copy the and paste the text into it from the current site and then revise it in the Word doc itself. Aside from the text portion of the site, the following items also fall under content and should be prepared in advance to speed up the web design process.

–> Images – If you’re going to use photos of your own for the site, it’s much more time efficient and you’ll see better results if you can provide at least a starter set of images at the beginning of the project. If you know that you want images but don’t have any of your own, not to worry, they can be purchased through stock photography sites at a range of prices (123rf.com, Istockphoto, Fototlia, ect.). Purchase your images and save them in a folder on your desktop that can easily be zipped up (compressed) and email to your designer as an attachment. You may also want to re-title the images based on the page they are to be built into.

–> Links to sites you have a presence on – We do not suggest placing links to other sites on the Internet on your site, unless they are ofcourse links to other sites which contain your business information or reviews (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp). The Internet is so competitive these days with billions of sites out there and you work so hard with your marketing efforts to drive traffic to your website, you should not give visitors an easy way out by linking to other sites, unless of course the site is promoting your business.

–> Navigation -This doesn’t mean that you must have everything set in stone, but just like the images, designing around real content from the start, allows your designer to leave realistic space for items, establish an appropriate hierarchy, create buttons and icons as needed, and all the other magic that you’re paying him/her to do.

Communication is important! This is YOUR business website, so your involvement is crucial.

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