My Sons Mate Is A Whiz With Computers?

No doubt!, but get a professional to build your website

Unfortunately if you browse through the Adelaide yellow pages you will find far more bad quality web sites and few that have been built by professional web designers. These businesses spend thousands of dollars on the printed yellow pages advert, brochures, mail outs, newspaper adverts, business cards, all to obtain a professional image, and then get someone on work experience to create their business web site. This sends such a poor message about your company to prospective clients. While its sometimes hard to pick exactly what makes a bad web site, everyone knows when they are visiting one.

To give you an example of the damaging effect a poorly designed web site can have on potential clients, a while back we were in the market for a new kitchen. We had been given a recommendation of a fantastic cabinet maker from Adelaide. I was given their web site and eagerly looked it up.

What weI saw next was an abomination, the web site was appalling.
Even though I had received a word of mouth recommendation which is probably the most powerful form of marketing there is. Once we saw the website it gave us second thoughts, it crossed our mind that maybe their lack of detail and professionalism given to their website would be reflected in their kitchen cabinets.

On one hand we had received word of mouth, but on the other an example of their handy work was right in front of us, and it did not look good. As a direct result of their poorly designed website, they lost a potential client.

Don't be cheap, spend money on a proper domain name, pay for web hosting in Australia, preferably in Adelaide, although any of the capital cities on the eastern seaboard will do. Many people get their hosting done in the U.S. however there are a number of reasons not to do this, pay a few extra dollars for local hosting, its worth it. All of this should not cost more than $45 per month for a website based on business grade services compared to $10 per month for a substandard result that will drive visitors away.