So you thought you could build your own website!

Author:Vaughan Reed

Website design and functional specification is key to getting a successful online presence for your business. Making money online and integrating the customer’s online and offline touchpoints seamlessly are a vital part of strategic planning for your business. Contegro values the expertise that professional website designers bring to a new site build. WE are firmly on the side of the professionals. Remember our advice from our blog What is the value of working with a professional website designer?

“The best short-cut to a successful online business website is to hire the best, most experienced website design professional that you can afford. “

So if you are going to build your own website, these are the steps that a professional will work through with you as you specify and build your new business website.

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All a designer needs to ask about Contegro

Author:Vaughan Reed

When we answer the phone, our new prospective Partners often ask similar questions about the Contegro market position and point of difference. The Contegro brand positioning and marketing message is about two things: Complete large scale website projects with ease. Increase your profits and business capabilities

Business websites are rarely simple. Good design looks like a swan – gliding effortlessly across the surface but with hard paddling below the waterline. You know good design when you see it. You know, Apple versus Yahoo websites – it’s very clear when you get it.

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What's the value of working with a professional website designer?

Author:Vaughan Reed

Website design has come a long way in the past two years – it is cheaper, easier to manage and vastly more complex than it has ever been before. There are more features, more social media integrations and more plug-ins than ever. And it’s not going to get simpler.

What you’ll hear and what’s the truth. In my opinion, the perception about websites being a cheap and easy-to-set-up commodity has grown over the last couple of years. This has come about as a result of a large number of open-source, free, template design solutions being launched onto the market.

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