Hello, I'm going to give you something to think about and try to help you make good choices before you put up a website.
This isn't meant to be a "catch-all" for new webmasters and explain everything. This is however my personal experience from both sides of the fence, both website purchaser and website developer.
Buying a website
Building a website is an ongoing process that takes dedication, focus, understanding of not only one programming language but multiple languages. So before you go about buying a website for your business understand, a good website isn't built over-night and a good webmaster doesn't make successful websites, they just make websites.
Don't expect your webmaster or the site they've created for you to solve all your financial problems. Even a stylish and fancy website will fail if it is not maintained and updated frequently. You should never submit to buying a website without any plan or direction also don't buy a website in the middle of a big advertisement campaign, wait until the time is right and you have time to focus on helping your webmaster understand your needs.
Webmasters know a lot about websites and can be very helpful and even wise, but no matter how smart a webmaster is we can't read minds! The communication between you and your webmaster should be constant, positive and full of detail. Telling your webmaster that "Your site is broken and they need to fix it" is suitable I suppose. But giving your webmaster informed details about any errors or what you were doing which may have caused the error will greatly reduce the time a webmaster takes to solve any issues or errors.
Good webmasters care about their work and can spend a long time going over a website to make things as solid as possible and me personally I like to finish something, let it resonate for a day or so and think on it before giving it the "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs down".
Webmasters
First off I believe it is always best to building websites yourself and save money and possibly time. Most people usually end up turning to a website developer for website help which can be expensive depending on the size of the project.
If you're aspiring new webmaster and you don't really know where to start, I suggest you install a Content Management System (CMS) of your liking and start editing, tweaking, hacking it until you are comfortable enough to create the type of website design you like with that CMS.
Choosing a CMS doesn't mean you have to build a cookie cutter website or even keep the default themes which come with the CMS you decide to choose. You can in fact modify almost every Free CMS to your liking or to the extremes, it just depends on your personally driven desire to see your project through.
Using a CMS takes a large chunk out of development time once you get used to the CMS work-flow compared to a static HTML website which you very well might end up editing many other pages at once just to change the menu on a single page.
With a CMS connected to a database ready to drive your website's content you can free yourself from multiple page1.html, page2.html and page3.html edits and just edit a single page to reflect the changes site-wide.
There's quite a lot of tools at your dispense for the theme aspect of your CMS if you so choose to go this route. Some of my favorite are Firebug (For FireFox), IE Developer (For Internet Explorer), Microsoft FrontPage (For rough drafting ideas) and go old Notepad++ (replacing Windows Notepad.exe). These are just some of the tools I use when building websites I suggest you try them for yourself and even find more better tools to assist you in your website development.
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This isn't meant to be a "catch-all" for new webmasters and explain everything. This is however my personal experience from both sides of the fence, both website purchaser and website developer.
Buying a website
Building a website is an ongoing process that takes dedication, focus, understanding of not only one programming language but multiple languages. So before you go about buying a website for your business understand, a good website isn't built over-night and a good webmaster doesn't make successful websites, they just make websites.
Don't expect your webmaster or the site they've created for you to solve all your financial problems. Even a stylish and fancy website will fail if it is not maintained and updated frequently. You should never submit to buying a website without any plan or direction also don't buy a website in the middle of a big advertisement campaign, wait until the time is right and you have time to focus on helping your webmaster understand your needs.
Webmasters know a lot about websites and can be very helpful and even wise, but no matter how smart a webmaster is we can't read minds! The communication between you and your webmaster should be constant, positive and full of detail. Telling your webmaster that "Your site is broken and they need to fix it" is suitable I suppose. But giving your webmaster informed details about any errors or what you were doing which may have caused the error will greatly reduce the time a webmaster takes to solve any issues or errors.
Good webmasters care about their work and can spend a long time going over a website to make things as solid as possible and me personally I like to finish something, let it resonate for a day or so and think on it before giving it the "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs down".
Webmasters
First off I believe it is always best to building websites yourself and save money and possibly time. Most people usually end up turning to a website developer for website help which can be expensive depending on the size of the project.
If you're aspiring new webmaster and you don't really know where to start, I suggest you install a Content Management System (CMS) of your liking and start editing, tweaking, hacking it until you are comfortable enough to create the type of website design you like with that CMS.
Choosing a CMS doesn't mean you have to build a cookie cutter website or even keep the default themes which come with the CMS you decide to choose. You can in fact modify almost every Free CMS to your liking or to the extremes, it just depends on your personally driven desire to see your project through.
Using a CMS takes a large chunk out of development time once you get used to the CMS work-flow compared to a static HTML website which you very well might end up editing many other pages at once just to change the menu on a single page.
With a CMS connected to a database ready to drive your website's content you can free yourself from multiple page1.html, page2.html and page3.html edits and just edit a single page to reflect the changes site-wide.
There's quite a lot of tools at your dispense for the theme aspect of your CMS if you so choose to go this route. Some of my favorite are Firebug (For FireFox), IE Developer (For Internet Explorer), Microsoft FrontPage (For rough drafting ideas) and go old Notepad++ (replacing Windows Notepad.exe). These are just some of the tools I use when building websites I suggest you try them for yourself and even find more better tools to assist you in your website development.
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