A GoDaddy Website for Contractors

GoDad­dy is a full ser­vice web agency that mar­kets heav­i­ly to the Do It Your­self (DIY) small busi­ness­es. They have done an excel­lent job brand­ing them­selves as the afford­able solu­tion for sim­ple web­sites. They also pro­vide cheap host­ing options. What this means is you can devel­op a cus­tom web­site (sep­a­rate from GoDad­dy’s tools) and host the site using GoDad­dy. Host­ing is impor­tant, because this is where the data and your domain are stored. If your web­site is ​“down” one day, this means your ​“host­ing” or serv­er site is down. So a good host­ing com­pa­ny is very impor­tant. The down­side I see with using GoDad­dy is it is lim­it­ed when it comes to web design. To do an attrac­tive and effec­tive web­site today, you real­ly need to have an expe­ri­enced web design­er and pro­gram­mer. It is not just about the design any­more but the text used, the way it is word­ed, the lat­est web stan­dards and the back­end cod­ing. GoDad­dy and oth­er DIY web com­pa­nies have adver­tise that you can cre­ate and pub­lish your own web­sites, but is that real­ly what you want to do? Do you have the time? Do you keep up with search engine tech­niques and graph­ic design? Even though I like GoDad­dy and have expe­ri­ence using their prod­ucts, I’d rec­om­mend host­ing and build­ing your site with a pro­fes­sion­al web design­er, who has their own host. For exam­ple, I work with Pio­neer Design for all my web­sites now. Pio­neer is a small busi­ness that offers secure host­ing, design, copy writ­ing, SEO, set­ting up your email accounts, a Google Apps account and more. What I like about Pio­neer is that they are inno­v­a­tive when it comes to using tech­nol­o­gy. In oth­er words, tech­nol­o­gy does not scare them. They embrace it! They are always using the lat­est in web stan­dards, codes and design. Also, the host­ing serv­er they use is huge, so the uptime is very strong and sta­ble. Plus, if there is ever a prob­lem, Pio­neer can fix it right away, since they host the site. Oh, and they don’t own your site: the cus­tomer does. If you want to change design­ers or host­ing, they’ll give you the reigns. So, if you want a cook­ie-cut­ter web­site or want 100% con­trol of your con­tent, GoDad­dy will do the job. How­ev­er, if you real­ly want a good expe­ri­ence and don’t have the time or want to be a web design­er your­self, work with a pro­fes­sion­al web com­pa­ny. A good web design­er will pro­duce bet­ter results in the years to come.