If you don’t have any Web design skills (or the funds to hire a designer) but want a professional Website for your business, the new out-of-the-box Website package, SmartyDesign, by SmartyHost is certainly a smart option.
SmartyDesign is essentially a DIY Web design and hosting package that requires no previous knowledge of HTML coding, or any other Web design skills. The SmartyDesign ‘Sitebuilder’ features an intuitive design wizard to allow users to choose a Website layout and design in a five-step process.
SmartyDesign offers 500 design templates which can be combined with flash intro options, fonts, colour schemes, headlines, layouts and buttons to ensure that your Website won’t look like everybody else’s. As you select a colour scheme, banner, flash intro etc, the design wizard shows you exactly how the page will look once it’s up and running.
“SmartyHost aims to function as a one-stop-shop, a single point where SMBs can satisfy all their online needs. SmartyDesign ‘in-sources’ your Web design, so if you can’t fork out thousands of dollars on employing a web-design agency, this is your best alternative,” said SmartyHost’s Anoosh Manzoori.
“The SmartyDesign Sitebuilder literally makes anyone, regardless of previous web experience, into a web-designer. The included search engine optimisation tool ensures that once you click ‘publish’ your business web-site can be found by the millions of Australians that search the Internet every day,’ he added.
The SmartyDesign package is available in two versions: the ‘Easy’ package which costs $250/year and includes a domain name, 250 MB hosting space and the SmartyDesign Sitebuilder. There is also the ‘Complete’ package, which costs $999/year and includes a domain name, 500 MB hosting space, the SmartyDesign Sitebuilder and add-ons such as such as unlimited email accounts, visitor counter, online visitor forms, online voting tools, photo album, guest book, and customer feedback tool.
See: http://smartyhost.com.au/smartydesign.htm or to trial the Sitebuilder see: http://smartybuilder.com.au/wizard/index.php
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| Step 1: Choose a design |
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| Step 2: Choose a structure |
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| Step 3: Edit content |
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| Step 4: Add extras |
Step 5: Publish