Website Design

You must be excited now. By now you have learned the basics of Weebly designer. You know your way around and you know how to setup a basic website. Now equipped with that we're moving into the next exciting part - let's get your business site setup. That's the goal isn't it? To setup a website for you that encourages people to use you to develop websites for them.

Let's take a look at OutThereSites - our online website design business. We'll show you around so you can see what it offers, and then we will help you create your own business website too.

Firstly you need a Sales Page. You need to tell the potential customers what you offer, and why your offer is just so good they can go nowhere else. We will show you how to do this, and why you have an unbeatable offer because of the tool you're using.

Your business site is going to be really impressive because it will even have a video that overviews your business. Now you're thinking, "I don't have the skills to create a business video pitch". Again, don't worry. We are going to show you a simple, amazing, free tool you can use that will create an amazing animation for your business...your customers will be impressed.

We continue with our lesson on creating a video for your website...this is really worth it. And the big benefit, in addition to learning how to create a great promo video for you website is that you now have the skills to do the same for you customers - another reason they will choose you.

This is pretty straightforward, but very important - your About Page. What goes on it and how do you set it up. Let's find out.

Your customers want proof of what you can do. Now what? No problem, you just create an examples page. In fact all you need to do is practice by creating a few websites for your friends (they will pay you for these too eventually if you want) but these become your showcase examples. In no time, not only are your skills honed, but you have a portfolio of examples, and the business roles in.

By this stage you have created your own "Website Design" business site. You are now ready to create sites for customers. In this section we will talk you through the key aspects that could be included in a customer site. The more you include, the more they pay...so now you have lots of options.

The basics that need to be in place to create your customer site. As we said earlier, the first couple of times you dod this it may be for free for friends. This is a great way to practice and also to get your portfolio developed. 

Yes, we know you know this. We covered it in the intro section and in setting up your own site. However, the Home Page is the landing page (normally) for sites and you want to make sure it look good - so let's check it out.

In this lesson we look at adding pages to our customer's site. We will discuss how you can charge for the number of pages in a later lesson. This additional page could be anything, but typically customers want to showcase who their customers are - much like you did with your example websites.

Every business needs a Contact Us page...and we're going to show you how to set this up, and even include a map - which makes it appear a lot more professional.

We live in a connected social media world. Your customer, in all likelihood, will have various social media accounts. Your website will be the central hub for all of these and so in this lesson we will show you how you can easily link to all their social media sites.

Now your customer's site is moving beyond just simple into the professional zone. Not only is it a website, it now has an integrated blog too. That means there is another opportunity to charge more. So, let's see how easy it is to setup a blog for you customer, if that is something they want.

In a previous lesson, we looked at how you can link to various social media sites - well, on this lesson we take it further. We will show you how easy it is to embed a Twitter feed into the website. This is so impressive, yet so easy to do - when you know how.

Another feature that adds a bit of something extra is having an interesting visitor counter or country map on the pages. Let's see how easy this is...in fact, once you have figured this out, you will see that you can add just about anything to your customer's site using widgets.

Finally there is the issue of registering the domain name of your customer. There are several options around this, and we will talk about them and how to best go about this.

Everything is ready. Now all you need to do is tell the world. If we gave you all the tools - which we have, but didn't cover this, it would be like winking at someone in the dark - pretty ineffective. You have the tools, and the know-how, now all we need to cover is how to get the word out there, and your business off the ground.

We start off by talking about the basics of promoting and sales. This is really important to understand, so listen carefully, we really want to make sure your business is a success.

You need to make them really, really want a website. They already know they need one - but we want to equip you with the compelling reasons you must give your potential customers to go with you.

Your customers, like you, will look at alternatives. We will show you how you can show that you are the best choice for them when all things are considered.

One of the key factors when making a decision is minimising risk. So, if you can do that for your customers you will win more. In this lesson we will show you how to make your offering a real zero-risk decision.

The final part of the sales cycle is the sale. That after all, is what you really want. So, having dealt with all potential customer issues, we look at how to make the sale!

A brief review of what we have learned in this section, and the importance of a solid and well thought through sales cycle. Equipped with this you are ready to launch a successful online business.

What a journey. If you have followed the course and worked along with us, you now have a fully-fledged, Website Design business. Well done! We wish you all the success and look forward to hearing from you on how it's going.