I have a rough idea for a web business that I would like to start. I've been holding off on it for the past two years but would really like to start it up now that I have some time and the competitive landscape has not evolved.
Could anyone with past experience provide some guidance into how I can find the right people to create a website and the possible costs into this venture.
I would, at first, be looking to start on a small flash site, with the compatibility to submit a simple form and possibly expand from there.
Any help would be much appreciated!
It depends on a lot of factors and just telling us that you want to start a web site doesn't give us nearly enough information to try and help ya
But, best advice with what I have to work with: learn how to build a web site.
It's really not that hard. Hell, you can even buy a decent template and just learn how to work with it until you find someone who actually knows what they're doing. It's hard to get start-up cash, best bet would be personal connections (friends, family, acquaintances, homeless guy with an extra $1)
If the only functionality you want is the ability to submit a form, learn how to program that yourself. Also not sure why you'd want to put that in Flash, as it will mean anyone using iOS can't access it.
Just start a word press type theme until you get some cash going your way. Or you could throw money at the wall and give it to someone who made sites before.
Do as much as possible without involving someone else as a designer. My friend owns a business that basically has two arms, each with its own site. He used godaddy to design one on his own, and although it's not quite as flashy as the one he had professionally designed, he said it is much easier to operate and change. He only paid a few thousand for the original design, but every time he wants anything changed they argue with him about why he shouldn't do it and then charge him $600-$800 to implement the change. Unless this is something that is going to produce revenue at a relatively quick rate, I would use a wordpress template or godaddy site.
Nick makes some very good points. However, if you can find a good tech guy who is willing to do it for a percentage of ownership, that could be a much better deal. However (take 2), you probably won't find one that is willing to, and if you do, he probably won't be great at what he does and he will probably demand a high percentage of the company.
Agree with above, what sort of functionality are you looking for? You could prob build a site on a CMS (look into Joomla!, Drupal, Wordpress or Magento for ecommerce; these are built in PHP but you don't really need to know how to write code at all). If you need more functionality look into a Ruby on Rails or Django framework, although this means you will have to learn to code Ruby or Python, respectively. Learning HTML/CSS isn't difficult (although figuring out which parts of HTML5/CSS3 work in which browsers can be a bitch). JavaScript is also a good language to learn, as its seen as "the next big language", since its used by all browsers and is compatible with event driven websites.
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