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Cost and speed is everything to business. Here, we are talking about SGD300 to launch a website. And we will show you the way to launch your site in less than 2 weeks.
But of course, everything comes with a price. If you do not engage a professional web designer to do the job, you will have to do most of the work. We will break down the procedures in simple steps below:
1) Get a domain name - SGD30 – SGD70 /Yr
Although not required, we always advise you to use your company official name as your site domain name. This helps your branding and business image. In case you are wondering why we are using www.singaporewebdesigner.com, we also have an official company web site: www.edlinkservices.com. The general guideline is to use a short, easy to remember domain name. The domain name need not follow the exact company name. For a start, you may search for suitable .com.sg domain names.
2) Look for reliable hosting solution – SGD96 /Yr
Normally a web services vendor will provide you domain name registration and web hosting service together. Things to look out for in hosting include the following:
a) Location of Server – whether in Sg or elsewhere
b) Technical Support – Do they offer 24/7 support
c) Pricing – Nowadays, hosting charges is competitively priced at SGD100 /Yr for starter package
d) Server Management Tool – Cpanel has been popular and widely used. Some other server management tools include directadmin etc.
e) Storage and bandwidth – This will normally be the main highlight of the hosting package. For a small website, 100MB should be more than enough.
3) Purchase a website template – Less than SGD100 / One time
Web design will be responsible for the bulk of your budget in launching a new site. To cut down your cost to the lowest possible, you may purchase some template to start with. There are many benefits in using web template:
a) Essentially, we can eliminate the cost and time of design conceptualization
b) Using web templates, we will have a wider choice in the look and feel of the site
After buying a template, we will need to customize it accordingly.
4) Customizing / tuning the template
By not asking a professional web designer/design company to do the job, you can cut down the cost of launching a new site if you do everything on your own. Here, you will need to edit the template by yourself. In order to edit the template, you will need web publishing software like Macromedia Dreamweaver / Ms Frontpage. These software will also allow you to make an FTP connection to the server. [FTP information should be provided by your web host]
There are many online web design tutorials which can help you. You may visit: http://w3schools.com to find some valuable resources for beginners.
5) Launching the site
After you have successfully customized the template to cater for your business, you will need to consider submission to search engines and web directories. In fact, you may submit to WebGuide.sg, which is a popular Singapore based web directory operated by us.
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