If you’re on a tight budget right now, here’s a recession-busting tip for you: Instead of blowing thousands of bucks on web design, you could be better off doing-it-yourself and creating a website for FREE.
There are quite a few products online which enable you to build websites for free. You could use Google Sites, Yahoo! Geocities or Facebook Pages, and I’m sure there are many other options, especially amongst the more niche social networks.
Facebook Pages is my personal favourite. This is because a Facebook Page comes packed with some pretty powerful features, such as The Wall, Photos, Discussion Forums, Video Gallery and more. These features allow your users to interact in much more profound ways than the average brochureware website from the average web designer. To build all these features into a custom coded website you would be looking at a substantial bill and a lot of heartache in trying to get your site launched. You can launch a Facebook Page in seconds. Which means you can be testing out your ideas on an audience in seconds, which in turn means you can make a decision on what to do with your project much more quickly.
If you need a site for a business, product, group, organisation, band or whatever you will undoubtedly create a better user experience using a Facebook Page.
The only drawback with Facebook Pages, and with the other options above, is that you don’t have much control over the look and feel and how your brand is presented. However, this hasn’t stopped other leading brands from using it.
If you know of some other options for building free websites, please post them in the comments below…
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Good article, Thanks. Thanks.