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How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way

Normally, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here’s a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer’s wages, advertising costs and so on.

Therefore, it would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. These people are often working from home so they do not have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it’s a “no-brainer” choice.

However, choose freelancers with care. The best way to do this would be to go to elance.com. There, you can post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you will surely get the best deal. On top of that, you will be able to choose the designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so your value for money is secured.

Another route you can take is to design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You’ll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and so on.

Outsource your next website project

As you know I have produced a few HTML templates that I’m quite happy with, but I have reasonable knwowledge of HTML, the language used to build websites, and it isn’t too difficult for me.

A friend on the other hand runs a shop and knows nothing about HTML so ha to rely on an expert to do this for her, she’s getting an ecommerce website made so that she can sell her products online. Finding an expert who knows about pulling a website and all the third party bits together is the secret to a successful website.

In my friend’s case her designer is creating from scratch all the code that she needs to be able to receive Paypal payments, and she’s paying a fortune to have the programmer do this for her, but the crazy thing is that she could have the job done cheaper and faster if she only knew that there are people who do this stuff all the time and re-use code from companies like Paypal to make the entire project work better.

Indian Coders do Free API Map, Photo, SOAP, Mashup and Shopping Cart Applications, and are based in India so they can afford to keep their prices down, far more competitive than anything in the west, yet their programmers are some of the most highly educated in the world.

I personally recommend outsourcing to India, it doesn’t harm me or my local economy, in fact the opposite. By getting Indian programmers and designers to produce websites I can actually get my sites up much quicker, that means I can start earning from them quicker, and because my costs are lower I can use more of my profits to reinvest in my business. It’s a win for me, a win for my business and customers, a win for my local suppliers, and a win for the programmer in India.

API Coders specialise in integrating code developed by other companies, like Paypal, Authorize.net, Google Maps, Flickr, etc into websites for online shops, realtors, almost any kind of business that wants to leverage of the power of a bigger service provider.