by Your business must have a solid presence by having a quality crafted website. Much like a sign board, where your information is displayed to your potential customers, the web host or space is the wooden or metal board – your digital land and the information is your website.
Where can you find one?
Without a website, you will fall behind, while your competitors stay ahead of the curve. Moreover, having a website is a prerequisite for all your other marketing efforts. A website a collection of related content and information about your business. It is served from a web space (also called web server or host); from where your customers can access your web information with their computers or mobile devices. So in order to run a website project you need arquire the digital land or web space.
Getting and maintaining your own web space requires heavy investment in equipment and internet bandwidth that can be overly costly for a small business. New entrepreneurs with begin with a leased web space provider like Facebook to extablish an online presence. Also, there are website builders such as Wix which offers beautiful templates, to choose from in building and hosting a website
Another popular web space and design platform is WordPress. It has a designing component that open source – which means no one owns the software. It has a many design themes to choose from and large plugin (functionality) ecosystem.
As your business grows and gains tractions or if your customers have more sophisticated needs you may want buy a shared host space with a provider like Bluehost.
Powering more than two million websites Bluehost does a great job at simplifying and demystifying the process of setting up a website for beginners. All plans include a free domain for the first year, great uptime (based on real-life data), a free CDN, a drag-and-drop website builder, and a free SSL certificate
Having a website is important for business success. As an entrepreneur, your presence online is an important one. You want to have a website that showcases who you are and explains what’s your company can provide for its customers or clients.
How can AAE help on my website project?
AAE can provide shared access to our web hosting space to members at a cost of USD 15/year (FTP access) and own TLD domain name at USD 15 per year.
As a member you have access to one volunteer to support your activities on pro bono basis. We can engage a volunteer web designer or volunteer logo designer for your website at no extra cost aside the AAE annual membership fee. Alternatively, the member may contract an independent expert for complex web development projects.
