In conjunction with SCORE, and the Greensboro Public Library‘s Better Business Series, I’m giving a FREE workshop on how to make your business website a success. We’ll review how to increase exposure, build brand recognition, and improve the effectiveness of your website. Attend this 2-hour workshop and learn techniques to make your website more successful. No matter your level of expertise – learn the things all business owners need to know about websites.
What: Making Your Business Website a Success
When: March 26th 2007 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Where: Greensboro Central Library (Tannenbaum Room)
Registration: Contact Martha Thomas at 373-4559
Cost: Free
About
John Ford presently works for Automattic, focusing his attention on VaultPress, a realtime backup service for WordPress.org users. Passion for coding is what motivates John, but some people are beginning to question his attachment to his iPad. Mix equal parts beautiful code writer, lover of healthy living, world traveler, living room DJ, and community giver and you'll have the geek known as John Ford.
Hi John
Thanks for the info at the workshop. It moved me in the right direction. I applied for a domain name at godaddy. What should my next step be and with a limited budget. Just looking for some guidence and a designer. Thanks again
Mike
Michael,
It depends how you’d like to move along. If you’re looking for someone else to create your site (which I think you are) then you probably want to start mapping out the blueprints to your site.
Contact web firms in the area and ask if they can help you create a blueprint and how much they’ll charge. You want to make sure that the “architect” has good knowledge of all areas of web design (experience design, interface design, technical design, search engine optimization, etc). To try and determine if they’re any good, ask them for references of clients they’ve helped in this arena before. They should have gone through a similar process when building websites for clients. Call and see if the client was satisfied with the results.
After you have blueprints it’s much easier to get real estimates and determine next steps. The blueprint can also help tell you if some of your site can be built now and some later (which might save initial costs).