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The reasons behind the decision to create a website can be many and varied: to present your company; to have a tool through which to sell your products to a potentially unlimited market; to transmit to others your enthusiasms and passions, share photographs and thoughts with friends and relations who might live far away; etc…
Whatever your motive, for work or hobby, it is always necessary to choose the most suitable tool for the creation of a website and, currently, the solutions available are also many and varied, each with its own particular advantages and disadvantages.
For example, you can choose to:
- Personally create your own website using an HTML editor;
- Entrust the work to a consultant;
- Make use of one of the many services that allow you to work online on the basis of predefined templates;
- Use WebSite X5 Evolution.
Personally creating your own website using an HTML editor
Before deciding to create your own website using an HTML editor, you need to consider that, while having complete freedom of movement, you must have a good knowledge of HTML and connected languages, as well as a solid graphics and use of correlated programmes base.
In this case, the knowledge required is considerable, the production time may be quite long and it will be difficult to obtain truly professional results.
| + | Economic, as long as the time required for creating the site is not taken into consideration. |
| - | Considerable knowledge of HTML required. |
| - | Considerable knowledge of graphics required. |
Entrust the work to a consultant
For sites that are not hobby based, the most apparently ‘natural’ solution is that of entrusting its creation to professionals. In these cases, you need to consider that, despite handing over the work to others, you will still need to be involved in setting up the site. As the commissioner of the work, you will need to provide precise instructions as well as the material required. The quality of the site will depend strongly on the relationship established with the consultant and on their professionalism. The need to keep the site updated will, furthermore, mean you are tied, to a greater or smaller degree, to the same consultant.
| + | You can achieve highly personalised solutions, in accordance with the budget you are prepared to invest and the professionalism of the consultant used. |
| - | You will not have complete control of the site and you will be tied in varying degrees to the consultant for any updates. |
| - | It can be a costly solution and require a greater length of time for construction than anticipated. |
| - | The website created may not be exactly correspondent with your initial requests. |
Make use of one of the many services that allow you to work online on the basis of predefined templates
A large number of companies make online applications available which, beginning with predefined templates, allow you to create a website in just a few steps. These are frequently companies who offer hosting services and the tools available can be used free of charge or through a monthly subscription charge which is normally quite modest. The main limits of these tools are connected to the lack of opportunity to personalise them and to the slowness deriving from working directly online.
| + | Economic – no particular knowledge is required. |
| - | Options limited by the predefined templates available. Little or no possibility of creating or using your own personal layout. |
| - | It can be extremely boring working with tools that operate directly online, given the slowness with which they can complete tasks. |
| - | Little or no flexibility or freedom of movement. |
WebSite X5 Evolution
WebSite X5 Evolution distinguishes itself from the other solutions available on the market by the originality of the working method offered and for the professionalism of the sites created that is equalled by the simplicity of its working. WebSite X5 Evolution, in fact, is presented with a guided pathway and is the ideal software for those who want to create a professional website independently, with a modest expenditure and speedily without the need for advanced knowledge of HTML and graphics.
Some of the main advantages guaranteed when using WebSite X5 Evolution:
- Ease of use
- A rich gallery of predefined graphics models
- Considerable flexibility and opportunities for personalised graphics
- A dynamic creation and updating of navigation menus
- Creation of pages by means of a simple Drag&Drop operation of the objects available: texts, images, tables, Flash animations, videos and audio, Slide Shows, Browser images, HTML codes, forms for email.
- Advanced functions for the creation and management of e-commerce shopping baskets already prepapred for credit card payments, secure areas with multiple user profiles, intro pages with links for the choice of languages, Feed RSS for the distribution of news
- Internal FTP engine for online publication and the possibility of exporting only updated files
- No limits to the dimensions or the number of sites that can be created, including for commercial purposes
- Conformity to international standards (XHTML 1.0 Strict + CSS)
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