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Can somebody please tell me the difference between hiring a web designer that will build a site for you using a certain platform (i.e. big commerce) as opposed to just going the Big Commerce site and just doing it yourself? Anything and everything y'all can think of would be appreciated, I'm just trying to get a better understanding this, thanks.
It is called BigCommerce (without the space). They allow you a free trial anyway, so why not just try it?
Here is my 2 cents:
When hiring web designers to build your sites, the advantages and disadvantages :
+Your site would be be the exactly the same as your requirements
+Easy to customize
+It takes time to build this kind of website
+Spend more money on building the site
+This will be effective if you run a big business
The differences when you will buy an template which is available on the market are:
+Many trendy and beautiful themes are available as a result you have many choice of how the website look like
+teh website style it can be used by another user who buys the same one as yours
+More money to do the customed works
+Easy to build a site on your own as you can down load the quickstart package, upload to host server then install following the guidelines
+Save money to build the site
+Get the quick support from provider
+This is suitable with small and middle business model
Hope this help :)
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We run into this question several times a week. The only reason you'd hire a designer to create your website is to make sure your site is fully optimized and has the finished look you need. We have been using the Drupal platform for about a year now and it is free to install. The reason we get hired to create the websites is pretty much like anything that comes out of the box, the finished product is not that appealing to the end user and the set up for the site is complicated if you don't know how to get each page and menu correctly optimized.
I think it also depends on how much time/energy you want to put into it. A designer is already aware of the aesthetic and functional design of a website much like yours... basically they know how to make what looks good work for your needs.
You might know what looks good, but you might NOT know the stuff that needs to go on behind the scenes... basically it may take a designer less time and less stress, and it might boil down to "how much is your time worth?" If you have to learn a little code (CSS and/or PHP) to tweak a wordpress template; manipulate some photos in photoshop (or Gimp); research plug-ins to optimize SEO (after you figure out what SEO is in the first place), add contact forms, shortcodes, social sharing, etc... your site might not ever get done.
If you know a little bit, and like to have control over everything--dive right in, but have someone programmed into your phone in case all goes horribly wrong and you're ready to cry "uncle" ;)
It's true, it does always boil down to "how much is your time worth". There's little in life that was can't do ourselves if we have the time to learn how right? Well....... maybe not brain surgery lolQuote:
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I reckon that I could learn brain surgery. And there are plenty of spammers to practice on. If I did it all wrong, they wouldn't lose much anyway. :)Quote:
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Lol, crazy spammers, we have several social sites as well as our design site, I actually found a way to stop then, well unless they are really sitting there creating the accounts, I wanted to tell everyone but then I figured that if I tell everyone how to stop the auto registrations, the spammers will just reprogram and I'll be back to swatting flys.Quote:
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I used to manage our website myself, but nowadays I am convinced to hiring a professional. Although it is more expensive, but since then I have more time to do my real job, which causes a bigger income, so alltogether it was a good decision. But I guess it depends on one's preferences.
A friend of mine started to use 1and1. He is quite satisfied with it, maybe if you like it, you could give a try :)
I think hire developer or designer to design your website as you want is way to meet your business model. However if you don't want to spend more money you can choose software template but It may not has look and feel totally like as you want.
I would suggest you to hire a designer n build your website on whatever platform you want to. It will save your time & get quality of work.
I'd also mention that it depends on what stage of your ecommerce site is at. If it's your first version of the business and it's not going to require a lot of custom functionality, then I could see just using a cookie cutter ecommerce platform which should get you up and running faster and cheaper. This way you can get a feel for if your products/services are selling before allocating the proper funds to do the site right.
One issue with using a hosting solution is if your site starts to do well and you decide you want to host your site somewhere else, you will most of the time NOT be able to transfer the website files and you have to start all over again from scratch. I recommend you own the software and host it where you want. This way if you want to transfer the site to another hosting provider, you have all the files needed to run your site. If you want your ecommerce website done correctly, then hiring a web designer obviously makes sense.
Web users are much more savy then just a few years ago too, so if an ecommerce site even remotely looks home made, or just using a common template users are more likely to just bounce out and continue surfing the Internet. If you think you can just slap up a site using a template site and you'll make $1,000,000.00, you're dreaming.
Yes, your hosting service provider wants to make a profit from you. He may be willing to invest a lot to give you a working eCommerce site, provided he knows that you can't move elsewhere, and will have to pay him a monthly income forever after. :)Quote:
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Hello Texan, I would recommend you to take a technology partnership with a ecommerce development firm who has an expertise on BigCommerce, this would cost you less also it saves your time, which makes you to spend more time and money on growth of your business. For eg., you can check this Ecommerce Solution Provider who offers a technology partnership. http://www.mercuryminds.com/services...rtnership.html
The relatively short answer is that this depends upon a) the platform that you plan on using, and b) your level of technical expertise.
There are a few "out-of-the-box" solutions like Magento, Volusion, BigCommerce, 3dCart, etc that will help you set up your eCommerce site without having to deal with TOO many of the nuts and bolts. Each one is different, though.
For example, the Community version of Magento is free, and open-source. This means there's no official support...but there is a huge community that has risen up around the platform. Finding developers, and information in the many forums is pretty easy to do.
Volusion, on the other hand, is a little easier to set up, and might find you wanting to get in touch with someone that has a more design-oriented skillset.
Of course, if you're pretty web-savvy, you might be able to tackle this project with either one of those solutions and just set things up yourself. What it might boil down to is doing the research to figure out which platform will allow you to work things out on your own, given your specific level of technical ability.
Hope this helps! You're more than welcome to PM me if you want to chat further.
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Really depends on your back end processes. If you want a lot of stuff integrated into one platform then going the custom site route is the best. This way you can have email, finance tracking, etc all tied into one system. However, those other pre-built sites are faster to get up and running since most tech stuff is done for you.
You should go for prebuild and self-hosted eCommerce software like Daily Deal Builder Platform and many others because using any Open Source software you have to face many challenges with less security and many more like below:
1)Requires a good hosting environment:
If your website is not properly hosted and you don’t have a good server, your users may experience slow load time. This means you will need to pay for good, reliable hosting.
2)Resource intensive:
Magneto/Shopify requires a lot of space and memory. You will need to appropriately optimize your usage to cut down resource space so the site can perform better.
3)Heavily layered and complex coding:
You may need the help from a developer for some of the more complex customization of your site since Magento does not use best practice programming and coding for deeper level customization.
Do you have a lot of design and/or back-end experience yourself?Quote:
Originally Posted by jtexan
Basically, if you hire a designer (and I'm saying this assuming that you don't have a ton of design experience yourself), you'll probably have a bit more control over how you can get your store to look.
You also give yourself the advantage of someone who is specially trained to understand the visual language. Graphic design is an interesting and complex thing, and the way that you execute various design elements of your store can seriously impact things like conversion, traffic, brand strength, etc.
If you plan to take your eCommerce operation as far as you can go with it, you might want to make the investment. Hire a designer, and carve out something unique and original for your store.
Of course, this doesn't need to be done at the very beginning. You can start with something relatively affordable, no-frills, and simplistic...and then simply improve your situation if and when you begin to see some serious growth or revenue increase.
Difference Between the website created by professional web designer and the ones which are created yourself are
1)Website are generally slow and unattractive if they are not designed by professional designers
2)Appearance and images of the websites
3) The navigation structure of the site
4) Content presentation
5) Site compatibility
6) Loading time of the website
7) Proffesional websites gain traffic
There are some really good points here. I can tell you from experience -- things like website development and design aren't easy to just wing if you don't really have a lot of experience and training. Especially not if it's something that you expect to generate your income. If you want to make money through your online selling, you're probably going to have to invest in it a little bit. This is good news, though! Because doing this helps you make sure that your solution is one that looks great and can grow with you as you expand.Quote:
Originally Posted by ayesha goyal
Choosing a Web designer is a good decision a web designer is a professional of this field and he definitely have knowledge about what should be done for a shopping site.Quote:
Originally Posted by jtexan
I also suggest you to hire developer or designer for your site.
Small, light-weight items are easily shipped and do not involve a high delivery cost that may deter online sales.
You put of a very nice questions.I will suggest your that first of all search very creative web designer after that give the more time with designer.A designer can't think creative and he is only work creative. A Honor should know that before Start the work how to create big e-commerce website . After that you are give the more time with designer.
Note: both should consider that how to build big e-commerce website according SEO, Mobile friendly,user friendly and according your best search engine like google, yahoo or msn.
Bigcommerce comes out of the box with nice, clean designs and many themes are responsive.
Depending on your skill level and the scope of the changes, you can either make the changes yourself via HTML/CSS/Javascript within the template files, get some help within the large design section of the Bigcommerce forum or you can consult with a developer or designer to make the changes for you.
Hire a web designer is better options. There are few reasons Firstly, he/she will design your web site mobile friendly and user friendly. Secondly, you can customize as per your requirements.
One of the most important things for e-Commerce nowadays is web notification systems. There are even some services like https://jeapie.com/web/ which provide developers with such Push systems. Think of using one for your website too.
I just like to say that move your website on Magento if possible. Magento is one of the best platform for eCommerce website.
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Will you provide Ecommerce website based on Wordpress ???
Don't use big commerce. I have worked in this site. you can't add blog in same domain and has many problem with big commerce.
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Website is design for one time, so my suggestion is to hire any individual for web design and design site. But hire the person who is very good specialized for development.
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