Website On A Budget? Think Again.

I bet you need a new website for that new business you just incorporated.

The fragmented choices of which web program or person to use to create your site are starting to change once again. Most people choose WordPress today, but more and more DIY customers are venturing into the world of Wix and Squarespace, which has its positives and negatives. But the real question of what you need to do starts with asking an expert and reading more about it.

In the tech world we have a saying, you need to choose between fast, easy, good and low-cost. Choose 3 of the 4.

For almost a decade, I was a hard-core WordPress guy. You have probably heard of WordPress by now. And just like other stuff I work with, like Google, a sea of tech and marketing people just look at it all and see mediocracy.

Both WordPress and Google express this level of mediocracy, which I describe as not exactly state of the art, too difficult for my mom to work with, yet too big to ignore. There is a myriad of choices to actually build a website, like Wix to Weebly to Squarespace and then back to WordPress. Most people use a marketing agency or a friend. I highly recommend that.

In a land far far away, called 2001, a good year for Arthur C. Clarke, and A Space Odyssey, there were these pages called HTML files. These little files, combined with images, were composed by web developers and web designers to make web pages…