Hey OZBians
I wanted to understand how much does designing a basic website with upto 10 landing pages costs.
Is it easy for non-programmers to learn how to create one?
also which software is a logo created on?
Also how do I create an email with my domain?
I own the domain but have not started web hosting yet.
Thank you
Just a new business owner trying to save costs.
If you have no technical knowledge whatsoever and are not cut out to learn the skills yourself in a timely manner, there are websites where you can pay money for a point and click web design experience like Squarespace.
Those services are for people like you who just want simple websites and don't want to invest lots of time into learning general software development skills they may not have the talent for.
I wanted to understand how much does designing a basic website with upto 10 landing pages costs.
Varies massively on what you want those pages to contain and how much you want to control look and feel. Plus you need to think hard about maintenance as well.
Is it easy for non-programmers to learn how to create one?
Have a play with Wix, Squarespace, Canva, Wordpress and see how it suits you
also which software is a logo created on?
Again, what do you want to do? You could just use an online AI tool, or the free tools in Canva or Adobe Express. Adobe Illustrator is what professionals would use.
Also how do I create an email with my domain?
I own the domain but have not started web hosting yet.
Google or Microsoft small business accounts would be the easiest one. Likely whoever you bought your domain through would give you email hosting for free if you've purchased hosting.
Don't pay $2000 + imo. Seems to be what people charge. They lock people into bad deals, eg charge $200+ to renew hosting + domain name, when it's usually under $50 a year. Or if you want rewrites, that's another $500 or so.
You can play around with Microsoft word or search for a WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG means "what you see is what you get". You just move things around like any word processor. then save as .html. Open that file by right clicking and open in any web browser. Wix etc are the same thing but with professional templates applied. After that, just upload to a webhost and configure the domain to point to your web server. Could be other way around lol… Can use 00webhost for testing and should be up in a day or two.
WIX // WORDPRESS ?
Web designer here. Website costs varies depending on the design you want, any features, the agency your working with and platform etc. I use WordPress for my clients. Its a CMS which paired with a page builder, can be easily used to build a website. Although if you're looking to DIY, I'd suggest Squarespace instead as you don't have to worry about hosting, plugins, security etc as its pretty much taken care off but it does have its limitations. But WordPress is probably best since its suited really for any type of business. AFAIK small businesses that DIY their logo use Canva unless they get an agency whom designs for them. Email needs email hosting. I'd suggest either Microsoft Office 365/Exchange or Google Workspace depending on whatever your comfortable with. You can use it from your web hosting provider but not really ideal unless your comfortable with technical aspects. Any questions feel free to ask here and I'll try my best :)
This depends on how much free time you have.
If you have plenty of free time and/or a low income earner, it may be useful to learn how to do it yourself.
If you don't have much free time but am on a budget, consider looking at websites like fiverr for high feedback sellers who create cheap websites quickly. They won't be amazing, but will be OK. Also you are also more likely to find someone who hands you the keys to the castle - ie. you are not locked into some expensive related web hosting contract and you have access to all your created content. Another important thing is to have all your text content created to give to them.
Why go through the effort of learning how to do it if you'll only ever need one site? If you need a new door in your home, do you spend weeks learning carpentry? If you get married once, do you take a baking course to learn how to make a single wedding cake?
Website is hard to answer. Wix recommended if you have minimal idea what you're doing. If you have some idea, Wordpress on dirt cheap shared hosting will be mere dollars a year.
Zoho is free with a single domain email.
You could spend a hundred hours designing a half baked website. Which will be a good match if your business is half baked too. But you should probably just pay the few thousand it'd cost for a basic Wordpress site. They'll use a visual builder that you could in theory learn yourself, but the site will look good. Will probably look good. You could try to do it yourself but you could sink a lot of time into it and then decide you need to pay a pro to do it anyway. It's probably not a good sign that you are running a business yet have a lot of free time on your hands to dick around with stuff like this.
Wix
Squarespace
I forget the rest there are a few
15 years ago I got some very good results quite easily with a free copy of Adobe Dreamweaver. And hosted with Godaddy.com.
Websites have become a lot more complicated since then (if you want them to be). There is both software and online sites you can use to make your website.
Your best start is to watch some youtubes.
https://business.gov.au/online/business-website/set-up-a-bus…