Small Business Website Solutions

The best small business websites solutions are those that offer you the greatest flexibility as your business grows and that give you the greatest value for every dollar you spend. Here is a list of things to consider?

1. Do you really need to pay high web developer fees to design your website?

2. Do you have admin staff that can build your website for you, if you had the right platform and training, and it didn't distract from your core business activities too much?

3. If the website platform user friendly so that anyone can make changes to your website over time?

4. Will you have control over the passwords, even the admin passwords?

5. Is the web platform scalable?

6. Can you add other functions easily (ie: shopping cart, database, private membership areas, client logins etc) as your business grows, without having to pay for re-development of the entire site or a change in platform?

7. Does your web host have the capacity to receive a sudden influx of traffic without charging you an arm and a leg for it?

Remember if your web platform is not scalable, you are having it administered by a web developer and you anticipate growth in your business, you will be starting out with a very poor small business website solution that, in the long run, will add large expenses to your total cost of ownership.

So choose a highly scalable, easily changeable platform that you can control form the outset. Make sure you can upgrade your hosting package with your existing host at the drop of a hat. Then you have a truly cost effective small business website solution.

See my other lenses on Open Source Business Solutions and the Simple New Web System for more information on using video tutorials and open source to build your own professional website.