Hiring a professional web developer for a website for your small business start-up, might disturb your budget. Why not do it yourself? You can do the task yourself too. Yes, you! You can opt for a website builder online and kickstart your business with a professional yet a personalized website. You can search for options on how to make a website and follow the step by step guide to make one for yourself. 

 Having a website is very important for the establishment of a new business. Having uncountable options of website builders makes the process more difficult. There are a few things that should be considered when choosing a website builder. There are numerous online website builders available, but you should choose the one that seems the most suitable. 

Here are some tips on selecting the best website builder for your website.

  1. Decide your budget first. Deciding the money, you would want to spend on the task would help eliminate options that are exceeding your budget. This would make you comfortable and tension-free. You will have limited options which would avoid excessive confusion. 
  2. Make sure the builder is comprehensive and user friendly. You should have a thorough overview of the website to understand its features. An add on editor or an automatic suggestion provider tool would help the user complete the task easily. Features that are easy to use and learn are an important factor in determining the user friendliness of a web builder. For example, the drag and drop feature helps ease the building process. Complex options would make the job harder and time consuming. 
  3. Do have a look at the reviews for all the options that you have. The user reviews might help you know about the pros and cons of the software that you are planning to use. User reviews would also give you an insight of the bugs of the software, making it easy for you to go with the one with lesser bugs and more options.  
  4. Always look for the option with the most available features. You should have wide variety of themes and features available when designing your website. A developer with limited features wouldn’t let you express your creativity or give a personal touch to your website. Having more choices and options would help designing a website that matches its purpose. You can’t give a funky theme to your accounts and bookkeeping services website.
  5. SEO friendly websites are the ones that are easy to find. Once made, you would obviously want more and more people to view your web page and know about your business. This is done by SEO optimization. A web builder that has an added SEO optimization feature would help you in this regard. 
  6. Availability of support and tutorials is important. You do not want to create your website on a website builder that lacks a proper user’s guide. You might get stuck somewhere and need some help or suggestion. Not only this, but you might want to learn some complex features of the website and need a proper tutorial for it. 
  7. This is an era of mobile technology. People tend to use internet on their mobiles. Your web builder should have feature of optimization of website for use in a smartphone. This would make it more accessible and easier to view. 
  8. There are hardly any websites that do not have a link to social media platforms. It is wise to opt for a web developer that has a tool for linking social media to the website. This will help sharing the link of the website easily. 
  9. Choose a web builder with minimum or no restrictions. You should go for a website builder which has unlimited text and figures availability. This would help you add as much matter to your website as possible. 
  10. Last but not the least, go for a customized website developer which matches the type of website you are planning to make. The builder should have features that suit the type of website, you want to create. For example, the option of adding a cart on an online shopping website would be necessary. 

Keeping these things in view would help getting your website ready in no time. You can always customize and edit your website time to time. 

By Eddy Z

Eddy is the editorial columnist in Business Fundas, and oversees partner relationships. He posts articles of partners on various topics related to strategy, marketing, supply chain, technology management, social media, e-business, finance, economics and operations management. The articles posted are copyrighted under a Creative Commons unported license 4.0. To contact him, please direct your emails to [email protected].