Calling all webdesigners and business men...we need you

[B7B7B7]

Ladies and Gents, Me and 'Hobsons4' are pondering with the idea of setting up a business 'website based' for online car tuning ( dont wanna say 2 much as it would spoil our ideas. lol)

Wanted to no:

* How much time and effort would have to be put in to create a webite
* What kind of marketing tips and tricks would we need to encourage people to view (and spend money of course) on our pages + to get people advertising on it.
* Will we need any insurance of any description
* what other fees and cost would we encounter if we set up the site as a business rather than a hobby??/
* How easy is webspace to get hold of (and a webaddress)

Prob missed loads of stuff off but If you have any thing to add, anything would be greatly appriciated.

Cheers all,
Scott

[rikrose]

There's many possible issues with the cost - it depends what you want your website to do. If it's only holding static data to serve, then you're looking at web design cost only. If you're looking at having it interact with the customer, then it'll get more expensive to host it. Likewise bandwidth will cost, and more complex server setups will also set you back more, up to the cost of putting machines in data centres.

The time and effort for creating a website depends on how complex you want it, but if you can draw a template on paper, and then have a page or a "how to build a page" set of thoughts, then you're thinking like a web designer and you can drastically drop the effort required.

I'm available by PM if you want to talk further about what you want the site to do.

[B7B7B7]

Thanx for that 'rikrose'. gunna have a chat tonight with mr hobson and kinda throw some ideas about. I dont no how serious we are at the mo, just trying to do a bit of ground work with as much help as we can get. lol. Ill be in touch if we need any further help on your comments. much appriciated. thanx again.......

[s4woody]

have a chat with nigeRS4..he designed a website for a company selling intercoolers i believe..a very nice site

[Nige_RS4]

have a chat with nigeRS4..he designed a website for a company selling intercoolers i believe..a very nice site

Thanks Simon
I can also do full e-commerce sites .... http://www.leconcepts.com

p.s. it's a hobby!