Why Have A Business Website
Many small Australian businesses are yet to get online and have a their own effective internet presence.
Below are some or our good quailty reasons why your business should get their own effecient, accessible, effective Australian website.
Reasons for an Australian website
There are many reasons for Aussie companies and groups to have a website. Here are a few of ours that may help you decide whether or not you or your business needs their own website for Australia. 
- Good Advertising
- The first and main reason to have a website is advertising. They say that any publicity is good publicity -- meaning you are at the least, getting exposure.
- Cheap & affordable
- A website is a relatively cheap option of advertsing considering all the things it can do for you. The initial setup can be from $300 and annually may only cost you $100.
- Always working for you
- Websites are continually operating 24/7 -- long after you have gone home to relax, they will (if built correctly) still be hard at work.
- Even if it is just an advertising campaign or summary contact page -- they are always working.
- Maximum exposure
- All over the world more people are getting access to the internet. Australian households and businesses have or are getting internet connections at an extremely fast rate. Do you want people to become your new customers?
- Promotes growth
- To grow a business one needs new customers. Having a website demonstrates that you are up to speed with current trends. The internet isn't going away in a hurry, so now is as good a time as any to "get on online".
- Easy to do
- A website, once correctly built and with the right people to assist, can for anyone, be easy to maintain. We offer all of our clients various options so that they have the control of the content, while we take care of the technical side.
- Expert web site designers
- With our proven results you can be confident that having us look after your web site will guarantee success. We will ensure that your website looks great and is easily findable.
There are numerous other reasons why people should have website, but we have mainly only mentioned ones relating to businesses.
How much should a website cost?
Owning your own suitable domain name is one key to a good successful website. Internet domain names with a country code (like .au) are better for a business / company that is only serving a local area, but such domains often cost twice as much to purchase than a domain without the .au ending/country indentifier.
Register a .com, .net, .org, .info domain name from about $15 per year.
Register a .com.au, .net.au, .org.au domain name from about $25 per year.
Any website needs to be hosted on a computer that is connected (preferably via a fast internet conection) permanently to the internet . Such computers are called webservers and a company that does this is called a web hosting company.
To have a website hosted in Australia using your own domain name starts at about $120/year but often less if the computer is not located in Australia.
The website initial design and build will generally cost anywhere from a couple of hundred ($222+) and up. An additional $99 may need to be added if the client wants to be able to adjust and maintain the content using a built in optional Content Management System (CMS).
Summary of Australian website costs
For the cheapest possible professionally built website you can expect to pay:
- domain name - $15 per year per domain per year (extra $15 for .au domains)
- website hosting from $24 per year (or $120 if hosted in Australia)
- editable 1 page simple elegant design (user friendly & search engine optimized) $275
- ability to create more pages and content - once only fee of $99
- develop links & content to your website $55
- (optional) online advertising $50 per month (try it for the first month)
For about $415 you can have us build an effective Australian website that you can maintain the content of.
Website Building Tip
You can save money in the initial website build by having all of the content ready for the website designer to insert and work with. They will optimize the text to be the most search engine friendly, but having the initial content saves design time and money.
The more you do, the less you have to pay someone else to do. Research keywords and find websites you like, then tell us when you sign up for our Aussie built websites.
Is a website right for you?
If you feel the answer is YES, I do need a website then please contact us today for a free website design quote or phone Mike Allbutt on 1300 85 31 85.
Please also read up our SEO information and what makes a good or bad web design.
