Ready for a Website? What Should You Consider Before You Buy or Make Your Website?

Hello, I'm going to give you something to think about and try to help you make good choices before you put up a website.

This isn't meant to be a "catch-all" for new webmasters and explain everything. This is however my personal experience from both sides of the fence, both website purchaser and website developer.

Buying a website

Building a website is an ongoing process that takes dedication, focus, understanding of not only one programming language but multiple languages. So before you go about buying a website for your business understand, a good website isn't built over-night and a good webmaster doesn't make successful websites, they just make websites.

Don't expect your webmaster or the site they've created for you to solve all your financial problems. Even a stylish and fancy website will fail if it is not maintained and updated frequently. You should never submit to buying a website without any plan or direction also don't buy a website in the middle of a big advertisement campaign, wait until the time is right and you have time to focus on helping your webmaster understand your needs.

Webmasters know a lot about websites and can be very helpful and even wise, but no matter how smart a webmaster is we can't read minds! The communication between you and your webmaster should be constant, positive and full of detail. Telling your webmaster that "Your site is broken and they need to fix it" is suitable I suppose. But giving your webmaster informed details about any errors or what you were doing which may have caused the error will greatly reduce the time a webmaster takes to solve any issues or errors.

Good webmasters care about their work and can spend a long time going over a website to mak