Creating a small business website

carly burn
carly burn Posts: 20,111
in Not Sports Related

….For a small beauty treatment business, one woman band.

Any heads up on setting up a website much appreciated

Cheers people

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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 13,917
    Chat GPT it.

    Hate to say but I have spent thousands on a design agency and recently upgraded the UX to our platform.... It is only as strong as the prompts you give it but it did the following for me in minutes.

    You can then always get somebody to implement your designs which takes much less time and is far cheaper.


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 53,449
    I've sent you a DM Carly.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 9,590
    Squarespace is the bollocks. I've built 3 sites using them now and I'm terrible at IT.
  • ciro9991
    ciro9991 Posts: 31
    Lovable is what I use personally - costs £20 a month for your own domain.com, can get a good site up and running within 30 minutes. 
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,093
    edited November 1
    I use Tide for my small business banking and they offer a perfectly adequate web building tool for a modest fee
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 20,111
    Cheers gents 
  • cafc-4-life
    cafc-4-life Posts: 1,407
    edited November 1
    carly burn said:

    ….For a small beauty treatment business, one woman band.

    Any heads up on setting up a website much appreciated

    Cheers people

    Hey Carly,

    I actually run an affordable web design company for small to medium businesses in the area and I use to consult for Treatwell and Fresha so I know the industry well.

    I'll drop you a message!
  • cafc-4-life
    cafc-4-life Posts: 1,407
    ciro9991 said:
    Lovable is what I use personally - costs £20 a month for your own domain.com, can get a good site up and running within 30 minutes. 
    Mad to think this is what I charge to run and maintain the websites including changes personally! Always here if you want to also give a shout!
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,252
    edited November 1
    I built a friends rockabilly clothing website on squarespace, found it relatively simple and not the minefield I thought it would be 
  • LarrysMobileBar
    LarrysMobileBar Posts: 166
    Speak to Sean at Digisize, he’s a Charlton fan and created our websites 

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  • Siv_in_Shenzhen
    Siv_in_Shenzhen Posts: 4,295
    I use UENI and pay £15.59/month including a booking system (you need to factor that in, too) 

    It’s the cheapest solution I found but has limitations (like not being able to run Google Analytics).

    Am going to tap you up @cafc-4-life
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 30,225
    Think about your website from the perspective of the user.  What sort of questions will they want answered? How easy will it be for them to navigate? What jargon does your business use that could be off-putting? How easy is it for people to move from a position of mild interest to a position of satisfied customer? 

    Avoid designs that are too complex. Don't make the user click around more than they need. Don't make them wait for little graphic gizmos. Keep pages and menus standard.

    There are some truly awful websites out there despite people putting lots of effort into them. All because they've thought about what they want and not how it'll be for the user.

    Good luck.

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