How To Get a Professional Business Website and Why

Any business owner and manager is now aware, whether their company is small or large that they need (at least)a website to progress in a competitive market. With a professional website you will get an edge over the competition.

OK, but what is considered "good enough" for a small business, should I build a big website or a two pages website will be enough to promote my company?

Well, you see, it's all about image, branding in general... plus the difference in money between a 3 pages website and 10 pages website it's not worth looking cheap.
For instance speaking about the web design market in Vancouver, BC, this Vancouver IT Company website, was a $1500 project (on June 2007) delivered promptly by ZoneArt Web Design from Vancouver, BC www.zoneart.net. That nice logo was basically free, included in the price for the website.

If you compare this with the cost of a Yellow Pages small ad, and considering that your website if promoted properly can be found easily in search engines I guess that it definitely worth to have a website.

And if you struggle with getting a domain name and a hosting provider, I recommend you have a look at 1 and 1, they are awesome so far with our sites, hopefully they are not going to change.

In conclusion, all you need is about $1500 (this price is ZoneArt's price in Vancouver) to get a nice 10-11 pages website with opt-in forms, photos, etc, a logo and if you ask them you could get a domain name and a hosting contract for one year from 1 and 1 included. All you need now is to promote your website, but this will be a separate topic.