Small Business Web Design Workshop for Small Budgets

A Michigan-based Internet marketing firm called Margo International has designed an interesting "website workshop" designed to help businesses who don’t have the budget to hire an agency to create their site, but professional-quality sites.

"In our conversations with businesses, we found large numbers who lacked the budget to have an agency create their website and were also operating within a very tight time frame," says the firm’s president, Leonard Margo. "The Website Workshop addresses these concerns and provides a lower price-point and faster turn-around time that they will find attractive."

The one-day workshop is said to provide:

- Professional website with an unlimited number of pages, live upon completion of the workshop.

– Custom Designed Graphics that incorporate the business’s logo and color scheme.

– Content Management System allowing full control and freedom to access the site anytime from anywhere to make changes.

– Creation of dynamic forms to make the website interactive for things such as ‘Contact Us’, ‘Quote Requests’ and others forms specific to each business.

– Capability to accept online payments through PayPal.

– Frequently Asked Questions module to make the website more interactive.

– Training on how to manage the website.

– Domain Name Registration

– Hosting for the first year

– Videos of the entire workshop

– Personalized follow-up support

– A 2-hour private Q&A session with your instructor.

I cannot personally vouch for the workshop itself, but I will say that having a professionally-designed site can have a tremendous impact on your success online. I’m not advertising the workshop, just simply informing you of its existence. It does cost $1,295. Those interested can register here.

There are several dates to chose from: Friday, January 22, 2010 or Friday, February 19, 2010 or Friday, March 19, 2010. The Workshop runs from 8AM to 5PM at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, MI.