Design a website and start selling!...sound easy?

Jun 6, 2018
2 min read

Updated: Mar 4, 2023

Save yourself the time and have your website done correctly from the beginning.

Creating Your website

There is a plethora of free website builders available online that you can use. Like most, you’re searching around for the best deal and are starting to notice the ones that offer free web templates. You’re impressed! They look simple enough and if you’re like the vast majority of people out there who aren’t web designers by profession, you might think what they offer is pretty attractive. The problem with most free website builders is typically their incapabilities of building out a fully customizable website especially an e-commerce site that require constant tracking and a more customizable product list. Throughout the weeks or months, you'll realize that you might need to add a rewards type program for your shoppers, a new analytics tool to track all of your sales, or simply a new plugin tool that is not accepted by the free website builder. By that time, you have invested a lot of time into your website and will need to start over again from the ground up.

Finding the right web developer

Finding the right web developer can be tricky. If you're not a web developer, you might be impressed with a lot of front-end features and aesthetics but have no clue what's coded on the back-end of a website. The first thing you'll want to do is check out their work and find out if the website they designed is responsive and mobile friendly. The second thing to do is simply check the site speed of their finished sites using an online speed check tool such as google's speed test...most slow running websites upload data very slow due to large uncompressed files and unnecessary lengthy code. Last but not least, ask the web developer how experienced they are with simple organic SEO work. Most web developers know how to read code but do not necessarily know how to properly write code line-by-line. Web developers such as ProjectDevs are creditable web developers capable of writing code and fixing long unnecessary and repetitive code created by less experienced web developers. Having incorrect code can slow down the speed of your website and in worse cases, crash your website.

Keep in mind, web development and SEO (search engine optimization) work hand-in-hand so find a good web developer that can work well with an SEO specialist such as cinch.