Finally, you decided to take your business online. Right? You took a perfect decision.
But what next? Where you should start, what to do next, and how you can attract customers. Well, fret not. WHMCS Global Services (WGS) has brought a one-stop solution for all your needs.
This platform will help you decide on the right web hosting plan for your business and increase your sales. WHMCS development, automation, web hosting template, and hosting plans are some of the services they provide to scale your businesses.
Steps For Building Your Business Website
The very first step to take your local business to the online world is deciding the medium through which you want to showcase your products/services. You can build an app, social media profiles, or a website.
Selecting the suitable medium depends on the preferences of your audience (customers) and business needs. Based on your business, decide whether your target audience primarily uses mobile/web apps or websites. In this write-up, we will focus on businesses that prefer websites to showcase their product/services from websites.
The next step in building your business website is deciding on the best template, hosting plan, and theme. Let’s begin one by one.
1. Get A Good Domain Name
The main door to your website is your domain name (website address). It must leave a positive & effective impression for both search engine optimization (SEO) and usability purposes. Here are some of the suggestions to help you decide on the best domain name:
Prevent abbreviations, acronyms, and numerals to avoid confusing customers. Also, choose your TLD (top-level domain). This is the domain suffix, like .com, .net, or .biz. Nontraditional TLD names have grown. TLDs can be location-based, like .nyc, or business-type-based, like .marketing, .agency, or .law. While descriptive, .com remains the go-to. Select the best option as per your budget.
2. Get Scalable, Secure Web Hosting
Every website requires a host, a server where all its data is stored for public access. Because hosting your website is likely too expensive for your small business, you’ll need to choose an external host.
Web hosting is available at competitive prices in WHMCS Development and hosting packages. You have two options depending on your financial situation. The less expensive option is shared web hosting, which entails sharing a server with other business websites. Dedicated hosting is a bit expensive, but it offers a private server and eliminates the need to share resources with other sites that could slow down your speed.
3. Select The Ideal Theme
It’s time to choose a theme. You can prefer selecting one from various free and paid website hosting themes with WHMCS Global Services. You can also sort the templates by how popular they are, by category, by features, and by layout. You can change or improve your web hosting theme at any time.
4. Set Up Payment Method
Companies that wish to provide clients with the option to pay online will need to connect electronic payment systems with their websites. The most efficient method is using e-commerce software or small business credit card processing solutions.
Many web providers include an in-house shopping cart or e-commerce program connection. Conduct some research to ensure that your chosen solution is user-friendly and adaptable enough to meet your current and future needs.
5. Test & Publish Your Website
Before announcing its launch, ensure that your website is compatible with all leading browsers, including Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Check each page and feature on each browser to check that the images displayed, links work, and the layout is uniform. This may take some time, but your work now will prevent future complaints from visitors who cannot access particular functions.
In addition, ensure that your website shows appropriately on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. This stage should not be neglected, as Google and other search engines have transitioned to mobile-first indexing, which gives priority to the performance of your website’s mobile version in terms of search engine rankings.
