This particular client had already started working on setting up a website using Microsoft Office Live before she called us, and she needed help to design a professional looking website, but had limited budget. Typically InSite Creations only works on custom design and development, but we took on this project to help out this individual. Congratulations, Lucy on launching your home staging business – check out www.homestagingconsultants.ca

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Microsoft Office Live offers free website builder and hosting. You just need to build or have someone such as us to help you put your site together.  Key considerations you need to know about this type of web building though, such as:

• this is templated format – meaning less flexibility when it comes to design, only have certain layouts that they offer, and unless you are familiar with CSS style sheets you are stuck with their colouring and formatting
• As it is a template, the back-end coding is full of lots of unnecessary code which could hampen the optimizaton for your site for search engines.
• It does give you ability to enter your own meta keywords, descriptions and title – make sure to utilize this as it will help with your SEO
• It doesn’t give HTML editing, thus if you are familiar with HTML, you lack this flexibility.

Would I recommend this format?  Well I believe if you are just starting out, have a limited budget, but want to have some presence online, it doesn’t hurt, and you could probably get away with using a site like this for the first year of your business. But as your business grows, and your needs grow, I would seriously consider rethinking about getting a professional custom design done by professionals such as us, who can accommodate your features and functionalities, design needs and get a website that is a great marketing tool for you to grow your business.