1 page websites. Is there a business?

[clintmaher]

Your time is worth more. Get someone else to do it.

In my early days I would spend weeks trying to build something passable that someone else could have made for $100.

I'm not even remotely trying to sell my services here. Your time is too valuable, if you're on a budget get on fivver or find a uni student to help you.

[ingenyes]

You might find it easier to just buy a webhosting package that includes sitebuilding software. My company has them for $8 a month.

http://www.ingenyes.com/create-a-website/

Although you have said you only need one page - I guarantee you that you will end up adding more pages and a contact form, photo gallery and blog and a lot of other stuff (all included for free). Websites only ever get bigger.

To set it up you just log into some software:
1 choose a design you like
2 tell it how many pages you want
3 type in some text
4 add a photo or two
5 press the publish button

Doing it this way saves you a heap of money in the long term because you don't have to pay anyone to make changes later. You can have as many pages as you want and change it any time you feel like it.

You can also set up as many email addresses as you like.

Tim at Ingenyes.

[JohnQ]

Originally Posted by WW2010

Hi everyone.
I need a static webpage done that requires only one page. The page will have basic info like location a few pictures and some other small content.

G'day

I wanted the same thing for my business a year ago. I used www.cliiz.com website builder. It is pretty cool. You can make your own website with everything! you can start with basic 3 pages and then add blog, youtube, facebook and ... to your website as your business grows.

A good thing about this website builder is that the result is like a professional website and you can add more features at no extra cost.

They charge only $9 per month and you dont need to pay for hosting and domains. and you can stop it whenever you want.

Also if you are lazy to do it by urself, these guys at tectual.com.au can help you with setting up your website. Just email them your images and business information and they create the whole thing for about $150.

[MatthewKeath]

For the love of God don't do it yourself.

1. It will take you a lot longer than you think.
2. It will look like you have done it yourself (Amateur hour)

There are plenty of free website builders out there, but most are pretty ordinary. Especially free sites given to you by your hosting provider.

Remember your website is usually one of the first things a potential client or customer sees. First impressions count! Would you do the sign writing on your shop window yourself?

If you really, really want to do it yourself, install Wordpress and buy a theme.

[DanielM]

Do you have a host? There is a social business card theme on WP that I suggest for this.

I could help you if you would like.

Daniel

[marketingweb]

Originally Posted by WW2010

Hi everyone.

I need a static webpage done that requires only one page. The page will have basic info like location a few pictures and some other small content.

So far all im getting all sorts of crazy results from google...

Anyone?
Cheers!

I know what you mean about the crazy google results for what seems like something simple!

When I develop a site for a client, If it's not a quick job I always put up a one page "site" while i'm working on the development, so that there isn't just nothing there etc. In the cast i'm talking about, I tend to make the page almost like a one page mini site rather than a coming soon page. Visitors can then tell the page is coming soon but still get full contact details and a bit of company info, and it gives a head start on Google rankings if done right.

Recently I thought I should improve the look of how I do these one page (temporary) sites to be a bit more modern. But not wanting to invest a lot of design time, I went looking for a nice neat standard template that I could purchase for this purpose.

But like you, I found a lot of crazy results, and even worse when using some sites I would normally get templates from. Apparently a "one page site" now means a full site with a menu system etc, that then scrolls up and down this great big long page using anchor tags - equivalent of a 4-10 page site on one page. This is crazy to me for so many reasons, and not what I or you want, but probably what you found!

So, I may soon invest a little bit of time in creating a standard, reusable, professional, high quality one page website template, done the way it should be. Because despite all the good suggestions offered, none of these and none of what I previously found lived up to the standard of what a professional but very simple website should be, at least to me.

Matt

[Khalid Adam]

did you want a webpage or something that helps you to attract and convert clients? a 1page can be a salesletter with a pop up optin box for those who don't buy.

there are too many broke webdesigners

hire an internet marketer to tell you how to create a webpage that creates sales and then get the web designer to create one for you.

if a web designer claims to know internet marketing, ask them to show you stats on visitors, length of stay on their site, sign up rates, the automated marketing to those sign ups and most importantly, conversions to sales from visitors to their sites.

ask them what their Profit per click is. if they dont' know what you mean, just use them for the web design but not web marketing.

[Uncomplicating]

Originally Posted by WW2010

Hi everyone.

I need a static webpage done that requires only one page. The page will have basic info like location a few pictures and some other small content.

So far all im getting all sorts of crazy results from google...

Anyone?

Cheers!

You should be able to find a professional who will do this for little more than $100.

Doing it yourself is much harder and much more time consuming than you think, and even with site builders, the results are typically rather mediocre.

[MatthewKeath]

Hi Khalid! Nice of you to come out. You know you can make you points a lot more effectively by not resorting to attacking an entire industry, but by simply making your points. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Originally Posted by Khalid Adam

a pop up optin box for those who don't buy.

Hate these things, but there is some evidence they work with certain niches. Not all though, so you need to be careful not to annoy your users.

Originally Posted by Khalid Adam

there are too many broke webdesigners

True, almost as many as broke Internet marketeers.

[QUOTE=Khalid Adam;113637]hire an internet marketer to tell you how to create a webpage that creates sales and then get the web designer to create one for you.

Originally Posted by Khalid Adam

We combine the two. I don't do the actual designing of the site, I do the planning and strategy, then direct my designer to create what I have planned.

I started my career creating landing pages for hardcore Internet marketeers, the type that make serious cash promoting a huge array of products.

Originally Posted by Khalid Adam

if a web designer claims to know internet marketing, ask them to show you stats on visitors, length of stay on their site, sign up rates, the automated marketing to those sign ups and most importantly, conversions to sales from visitors to their sites.

Interesting points. As before though, every niche is different and require different techniques. An automated marketing system works ok for some niches, other require something a little more, um, human.

Originally Posted by Khalid Adam

ask them what their Profit per click is. if they dont' know what you mean, just use them for the web design but not web marketing.

What the profit per click of one business will be will be entirely different for another business. It also depends on how you are driving traffic to your site, and a stack more variables.

Profit per click is really only suitable to use as a metric when you have a benchmark to set it against. For example, if you are running a Adwords A/B split test campaign, working out your profit per click is important so you can understand which landing page, keyowrds, copy layout, etc is working. It's very hard to work out profit per click combining ALL your traffic, because the different traffic types of so varied. Lumping you PPC, SERP traffic, forum traffic, social media, paid social media, blogging, and all the others types does not work.

Ultimately it is profit that the the only real metric the client wants to know about or also ROI to a lesser extent.

[Khalid Adam]

Matt,

I don't meant any disrespect but there are far too many web designers pretending to be internet marketers. That hurts the customers pockets and gives the industry a bad name.


1. IF an internet marketer is broker, that person is not a marketer or a copywriter.

2. people are people. trust needs to be established before a sale can occur (or re occur). Yes, some niches vary but we should not behind them.

An optin box works more often than not and when a a web designer's site that claims to do internet marketing doesn't even offer something of value to capture visitor's contact details, it's obvious they don't understand the basics.

An automated follow can be as simple as a paragraph every few days via an auto responder (above the fold). It can also be a full blown color newsletter every fortnight that is customer centric. Point is to build a relationship even if you are corner grocery store.

3. profit per click will be entirely different but how many web designers talk about this? how many even know what it is?

Now you don't want to combine all your traffic. You want to understand the different traffic streams and calculate the profit per click separately. why? To focus on the 20% that create 80% of the traffic.

4. you know what you are talking about but how many web designers can do what you do? I have seen far too many websites of web designers who claim they know internet marketing but clearly don't have a clue.

All these small companies pretending to be corporate. What they forget is they don't have branding budget of a corporation and corporations themselves are mostly ego centric than customer centric.

I'm wondering why web designers just don't invest more time to learn internet marketing and copywriting. It really isnt' that hard and they are in the perfect position to do so.

Maybe they are too creative and effective copy writing / internet marketing is more systematic and formulaic.

Maybe i'm too harsh but people should not be deluded into thinking that online marketing is just seo, article writing and a "professional" looking page.

Originally Posted by MatthewKeath

Hi Khalid! Nice of you to come out. You know you can make you points a lot more effectively by not resorting to attacking an entire industry, but by simply making your points. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.Hate these things, but there is some evidence they work with certain niches. Not all though, so you need to be careful not to annoy your users.

True, almost as many as broke Internet marketeers.