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Update Your Website - Budget Friendly Ways To Refresh Your Site

Update Your Website - Budget Friendly Ways To Refresh Your Site

Update Your Website - Budget Friendly Ways To Refresh Your Site

Not everybody who approaches a website redesign project has a lot of money to spend on it. Fortunately, there are ways that you can update your website and make it a lot more modern and attractive without spending a great deal of money. Here are some strategies to help you do that.

Get a Consultation

The first thing you want to do when you update your website is get a web designer to consult with you about what really needs to be done with your website. They'll be able to identify things such as technical shortcomings, elements of the website that might be out of compliance with World Wide Web Consortium standards, navigation menus that are broken and so forth. It might not cost that much for you to get all of these items fixed. If you want to proceed with a more extensive redesign when you update your website, you will at least be starting from a good point.

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Replace Your Graphics

If you have old and outdated graphics on your website, you generally don't need to get the entire site updated to have those graphics updated. Talk to a web design firm and ask if they can update your graphics for you without updating the entire site. This is a small but meaningful improvement that might go a long way toward making your site look great without you having to spend a lot of money to do it.

Change the Layout

Changing the layout of a website is also inexpensive, in many cases. Talk to a web designer about whether or not they could port your content to a new layout without it costing you a great deal of money when you update your website. They may have a template set up already that could be used to give you better looking content pages and so forth.

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Have a Long Term Plan

Instead of thinking of a site redesign as a one-time project, think of it as something that you'll do over the long-term. This way, you can divide up the costs of the site and determine what needs to be done first, what needs to be done second and so forth. This makes the price a lot less intimidating when you update your website, even if you need a complete overhaul.You might be surprised at how much a web designer can do without having to redesign your site from the ground up. In fact, if you have a good site to start with, a web designer might be able to give it a few improvements here and there that go a long way without costing a lot of money.