December 11th, 2009 
dblogger If you cannot decide whether to build the website yourself or hire a professional then this article should help you. First of all you need to ask yourself whether you are a computer person. If not, then do you think you have the interest and eyes for design. Ok if you have asked no to both of these questions then you probably should hire a professional web designer.
There are many benefits. If you are planning to build just one website then it will most likely cost you less by hiring a professional. Why? Because the time you will need to spend in educating yourself on building a website will be days, if not weeks. Even then, you probably still cannot produce the kind of quality that a professional can, simply because they’ve practicing it for years. If you like doing math you can times the number of hours you think it will take you by your current hourly rate. For example, if your hourly rate is 60 dollar per hour and you think it will take you 50 hours, including learning time, then the total cost would be 3000 dollars.
Having done the math you can now see how expensive it REALLY is if you do it yourself. Depending on your budget but you certainly don’t have to go to the big web design companies in order to get professional results. You can easily get a professional web design for one third of this cost. And the end result will most likely be much better. If you’re lucky you might be able to get the web designer to do the logo, business cards and flyers for a bit extra. It’s always better to use the same person for as many things as possible. This way you can bargain with him/her. Some nice people will even do them for free and hoping you will do business with them again. So it’s definitely something to keep in mind and don’t be afraid to ask. You will find that there are many nice people out there still
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