Many of the potential clients that we have talked with are small businesses or non-profit entities. We have found that they mostly want the same thing: affordable web design.
If you are a small business owner, you may have approached several different web design companies for price quotes and come away rather overwhelmed by the numbers being thrown around. At the Seven1Group, we think we have found a great solution for business owners and non-profits who want impressive web functionality but don’t want to break the bank on a web presence. The answer, for us, is Wordpress.
Wordpress is an open source blogging software. Open source means it is FREE. We can download it free over the internet and build websites by converting it into a content management system (CMS). A CMS lets you type your site content in convenient “admin” screens. It is easy, and most importantly, you don’t have to rely on your web designer to make updates to your site. You can do it yourself just as easily as typing it into a Word document.
The site you are looking at right now is built with Wordpress. We decided that we wanted to have our flagship site at Seven1Group.com to be reflection of the work we provide our clients.
So let me share with you how a Wordpress site can save you money:
1. Many website companies may sell you on their own custom CMS software. You will pay license fees, or additional monthly fees to use it. Why pay it? Wordpress is free!
2. Free site features. Do you want video? A photo gallery? Blogging? Chances are that Wordpress can provide free, downloadable site features. Again, why pay a company to develop cool interactive features, when hundreds are free options through Wordpress?
3. Design flexibility. Wordpress sites have “skins”, meaning that the look and feel – the graphic design – can be changed easily. Some skins are even FREE.
So here is the bottom line – by choosing Seven1Group to build your site, you get a free CMS and free features. How great is that? All you pay for is having us set it up and configure it for you and the extent of the graphic design work you want done. You may want a free template. Or maybe you want us to adapt a free template at an affordable cost. Or maybe you want a professional graphic designer to create an original, attractive skin for you.
As always, there are plenty of options for any budget.
