I'm giving this one away because, to be frank, it sounds a lot easier than it actually is. The dirty little secret behind a good cheap website is you can leverage the efforts of a whole lot of the truly talented people out there without paying them what they are really worth.
For instance, a good website is made up of a combination of three elements: eye-catching graphic design, captivating content and relevant, functional tools. So, at first glance, we need a talented graphics artist who knows user interface design, a skilled writer who understands our target audience and a programmer who can build fast and adaptive internet applications.
What's that worth? About $75,000 a year each? And that just gets the website built. You still have to pay someone to keep the content up to date and add new features to the applications as your users become more sophisticated.
So we start with a professionally produced website "template" offered by freelance artists on the web. There are literally thousands to choose from (this website is based on one of them) and they cost about as much as two hours worth of an in-house designer would cost. Then we adapt the template to your needs and pour your message to the world into this framework. If you need content to go with your flashy new website, we can develop it for you or aggregate relevant content for you from reliable sources on the web.
If you want to offer your users some form of tool or application, we will find the right one for you from the thousands of freeware and shareware developers plying their trade via the internet. Lastly, we will stay with you until you are ready to maintain the site yourself. If the transition never happens, we will be happy to keep it a vital part of your business or organization for as long as you want.
Could you assemble all of the pieces yourself? Sure you could. But we can do it a little faster and a little cheaper . . . and that's our dirty little secret.
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