If you’re here it’s because you want a website, right? Do you know what kind of website you want? Do you want somewhere that feels like your part of the internet where you can scream into the abyss? Or do you just want to stick your flag in the ground and let the world know, “I AM HERE!”?
Whatever your reasons for wanting a website, it helps to know what they can do. To help you to get your head around this, and plan your own site, I’ll run you through things.
Single Page Sites
Where bigger sites, like the Damfino site, have a number of pages and blog posts, the Single Page Site consist of one page only. For many people, one page is more than enough.
It makes the site simple to use and easy to navigate.
The Single Page Site is there to simply impart information about you or your company. They are perfect for a small business who wants to simply get their name out there so customers can find them.
At its most basic, a Single Page Site would tell visitors:
- Who we are
- What we do
- How much we charge
- Where we are
- How to contact us
This used to be created in several pages but these days a single page split into sections is preferred. And you can still have a menu to make it easy for visitors to find the information they need as quickly as possible.
They don’t need to be overly fancy and can be relatively cheap to build. If you’re just launching your business, a single page, split into sections, might be all you need.
Multi Page Sites
This is the kind of site you’re probably most used to seeing, usually in the form of blogs or magazine style sites.
Originally a sort of online diary, blogs are great for individuals who might be trying to develop their personal brand, especially people like writers, artists and makers. But plenty of people use them to simply share information about their hobbies.
You can:
- Let visitors know what you’re up to
- Show off samples of your latest work
- Explain your process
- Offer tips and advice
- Advertise your work
Many businesses will find the Multi Page Site to their liking, especially those that don’t sell physical items. They really are the most versatile of websites.
E-Commerce Sites
If you’ve got products rather than services to sell, you’ll want an e-commerce site. You know, an online shop.
E-commerce has become easier these days thanks to WordPress plugins like WooCommerce.
With WooCommerce you can:
- Display your products in an easy to see way
- Have a shopping basket
- Connect to PayPal to handle all your payments (or other payment gateways)
- Control and keep an eye on your stock levels
- Keep track of sales
If you’re a maker, artist or author and want to sell a small number of items on your site, I can help with that. But while I can create a space for you to sell from, if you’re looking to open a large online store to take on the likes of Amazon, I’m probably the wrong person for the job.
Remember too, blogging on a sales site is a great way of increasing your visibility to search engines. Offering visitors information about your particular niche can increase your visitor numbers. And while they might not be spending money, they’re helping you to get noticed. So when those people who do want to buy items like yours go searching, you’ll appear higher up the search results page. And all because of those people who didn’t spend money with you.
Please note, e-commerce can get complicated which means things can also get expensive.
I specialise in WordPress websites and use themes and plugins to help me create a a variety of sites for a variety of people and purposes.
WordPress is hugely popular, well supported and very stable.
Here’s a few examples of what I can do:
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