Create Home Business Web Site

It isn't that difficult to create home business web site to help out in promoting your work. In fact if you haven't got a website, it is high time you got one. Do you need to learn coding such as HTML/CSS/PHP and the various acronym of programming language? Actually you don't need to. There are many ways to make a web site without resorting to getting down and dirty to designing a home business web site.

Here are some good reasons why you should create a home business website:

• It is indeed a silent salesman promoting your small business online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year so long as you maintain your web hosting and domain name it will do the job for you.
• It means you mean business and having a website does provide some legitimate credence to your home business venture.
• And your email address will look profession with an yourname@yourhomebusinesswebsite.com
• People can find out more about what your business is all about, make an informed decision before giving you a call to make further inquiry.
• You get to list out your products and services and saves you time to explain initially about your business and you can get down to negotiation when an inquiry comes your way

What do you need for creating home business website

Firstly you need a webhosting company. There are many out there in the market. You may choose one near to your geographic location or look out further away from your shores. If your prospects and clients are near to your home base operation, a local web hosting company would make better sense as the turnaround time for web page download would be much faster. And you could easily communicate by phone if there is anything wrong with your web hosting. On the other hand there are many good deals out there and you may want to look for the lowest cost solution that fit to your budget.

Do note that you don't need high bandwidth or high storage capacity, your web site is unlikely to generate that kind of heavy traffic unlike the big tech boys out there. You just want a home business web site to showcase your products and services and get that sale!

I have made several web sites for friends and clients for their business, and up till now, the web site traffic is relative low. By the way, you don't need high traffic volumes to generate sales lead. These are targeting traffic looking for very specific products and servces and if your small business fits the bill, they will indeed call you.

Next get a Domain name. Usually you will need to specify your web site domain name when you sign up with the web hosting company. If your company name is called ACME Pvt Ltd, than register an ACMEPL.com. Sometimes you can't get your desired home business website domain name; after all there are many similar company names out there in the world. Whoever registers first gets the domain name. Perhaps you can name your website after your product names or services rendered. It might help you to get better website traffic and thus inquiries due to search.

Finally get down to designing and creating your home business web site. Some hosting companies provide site builders so you may want to make use of them. Another way is to use the provided script installation and use those software to make your home business web site.

Some good script software to use for building your home business website:

• Wordpress – this I find is the best of the lot. Easy to use, many wonderful and beautiful templates for free too! One of the most popular website software scripts for blogging and just as good for creating a business website.
• Drupal – this is not too bad, however there is not as many templates compared with Wordpress and the interface and navigation with the dashboard is rather clunkier.
• Joomla – this is a very popular CMS (content management software) and many large corporation uses it for the front end business website including news publishing. However I find the learning curve for this is rather steep and way too many features that a small business owner may not need. Also the script installation is rather heavy duty so might be overkill for your smaller needs.

There are many other CMS software such as b2evolution, Nucleas, Xoops, PHP-Nuke, Geeklog, Zikula, etc. Having tested some of them, I found the above three seems to be the best ones and most especially recommend is Wordpress.

On the other hand some hosting companies provide a different way for you to create home business web site. They are not your traditional web hosting companies. They provide easy to use site builder so that you don't have to do any website configuration at all. Just drag and drop, write your content and post it out.

There are quite a number out there and they start off by offering free website hosting. They give it free just so you can get a taste of their free hosting with site builder. And if you like it, you can upgrade. Usually their premium offering is somewhat more expensive than the traditional web hosting package, but if you don't want to trouble yourself with hosting configuration, script installations, and other back end maintenance stuff. Such site builder type hosting for small home business web site would be a good way to go about.

Here a quick list:

• Bravenet/Bravesites
• Blinkweb
• Webs
• Yola

Actually there much more than my list, but the above are what I have explored. They are simple to use. But you do need patience as you load each component onto the web site you are building. And each hosting company with and their site builder has their own features. Since they are all free, just sign up and see if they have what you want.

And if you really need a powerful solution to create home business web site, do consider this Site Build It (or SBI for short) for home business websites. They too have build it site builder, and if you prefer to upload your own templates, they could do that too.

In addition, SBI offers various other tools such as keyword research tool, action plan guidebook, and various SEO (search engine optimization) tools to get you ahead of the competition. They are constantly updating and upgrading their web site solution to ensure your home business web site would be truly successful in bringing in the bacon.

Do give this SBI a look (click here) and see if their offering is what you need to create home business web site.

Mon, 12-Sep-2011, 23:53 PDT