A business website should always look professional. It should have good layout, graphics and most important it should have a good menu bar so that every pages of your site could be easily accessible.
If you have little knowledge of html or php then creating a professional website is going to be tough unless you hire a professional web designer for your site. But as I am suggesting you on this blog on how to begin your business online with little or no investment, so I will not tell you to hire web designer and lose your purse. Instead I am going to tell you how to create a professional looking website without full knowledge of codes and hefty investments.
First, there is no any other option, buy a webhosting service. Choose a good name of your website and buy that domain, begin with one year plan, later you can expand it. Yahoo small business, GoDaddy, Squarebrothers and many more were there who sell webhosting services at reasonable rate. Buy from anyone you likes and bravo! Here is your website ready to go.
Now, here is how to make it look professional. You may have heard famous Wordpress, if not—type this address www.wordpress.org on your browser and Enter. Setting up Wordpress site is too easy. Simply download the latest version of Wordpress and then upload it on your website, i.e. server and then everything is easy as abc by just click of “Install” button. Installing Wordpress on your website is same like installing any software on your computer. Your Installation finished- you got a professional looking site. There are lots of Plug-in (this are for adding features on your site as per your choice) and wonderful thymes available for Wordpress.
Second option is – Joomla, it is also like Wordpress, just install and finished. Later you may blend it as per your choice. There are many other free script provider available, just do little search, may be on Google, and it appears.
If you want to create a ecommerce site (sites meant for selling products/goods) like e-bay, for example, then too you can easily set up your website without knowledge of script or empting your pocket. Those types of codes/script were also available free of cost. Let me name one or two. Ecommerce will provide you free Cart script by which you can add cart on your site. Your visitors can put goods on it and then processed for billing; it is same like you can see one on e-bay or any other online selling site.
Now as your Cart is ready, you may need payment system so that your buyers can pay you online for goods they want to buy. Remember, most of visitors do not trust online buying system because of getting disclose of their Credit card number. So a good online payment system is highly recommended, a system which can be trusted blindly. Otherwise you potential visitors will leave your site without buying, so here is the script I am going to tell you which is not only a free script but also a trusted name around the world. It is Google Checkout, a script by world famous ‘Google’. Google Checkout provides many features for buyers, most useful for buyers because it gives options to buy with debit card too.
Google Checkout is free to use on your site for years over years, just you have to pay very little only when you sell something and receives payment though it. i.e. you will pay little percent of your selling amount to Google only when you make sells, remember, if you do not make any sells you do not pay anything to Google. Of course you can find more such kinds of script free or with little percent sharing system but remember the credibility of visitors. You can have successful online business only when, when your website can really earn credibility of your site visitors.
That’s all; your professional website is ready now. Roll your sleeve and start your business.
