Jordan Hardy

Getting a New Website Built for Your Business

Posted on: June 26, 2009 by Jordan Hardy Comments Off

Over the years I’ve done a lot of work for companies in regards to either helping them get the right Website built, or hiring the right vendor or team to do this. A website can cost in the thousands to millions to build, depending on a number of factors:

• Is this website being built from scratch with proprietary software?
• Is the website being built based on an existing CMS platform and code tweaked/customized? An example of an open source platform is Drupal.
• Has a team been hired just for this project?
• Is this project being done by a vendor?
• Have you or the vendor done a project such as this before?

To me, for a small to medium sized business the perfect website is based on existing tools and platforms but edited and tweaked to have:

1. A unique look
2. Unique content
3. Necessary branding
4. Updated content

This way, the Website will be affordable, in the thousands of dollars and not hundreds of thousands. The website should also be built on a platform where sitewide rollouts and navigation updates are easy and possible. The website can hopefully be updated by anyone with a login. And, of course the website should be built so that online marketing / SEO  elements and keyword strategy can be worked throughout.

For larger businesses, this website style can still work well plus scale. Or, a large website can be built from scratch. If you have questions, let me know as I’ve dealt with hundreds of types of top performing websites, from thousands to millions of pages.