Online Website builders are around for many years and they try to improve their facilities and performance on a daily basis. This guideline helps you understand when would be the right time to use an online website builder tool to design your business website.

Online Page Builder is a web based application which allows users without coding or HTML knowledge to design a website for themselves. Such web applications normally follow drag & drop concept to place visual object on a web page and publish the result to production.

Integrated to website hosing and domain name service providers (DNS) an online page builder can do more than web page design, it can publish the design to a hosting service and connect it to a domain specified by the user.

• • Online website builder applications are available on almost every website hosting service. In some cases an online website builder website provides domain registration and hosting service as well.
  • Online website builder applications are easy to use and almost everyone with basic computer and internet knowledge can use them to design a business website. Their content modifications or formatting are easy and there are lots of pre-defined formats, images and graphic designs which a user can apply to a design.
  • They have built-in web form templates for standard or advanced users to configure them easily and place them on the pages they have already designed. This can make the lead generation or client communication easier.
  • Most of these tools are able to apply basic or advanced search engine optimization settings to the design. This can be used by an advanced user to improve the ranking of a website designed by online tools.
  • They are free or their price included in the hosting service package. Some other service providers may charge based on monthly or annual plans.
  • They can publish the website immediately. In emergency cases or when you do not have enough time to look for a website designer company, they can be employed to design and publish a website.

A professional website design needs time and preparation. This means that to prepare a website for an exhibition or event, the Website Design Company needs 3-5 working days to have something to present.

• • • • Attending a last minute meeting? If you have to attend an event and have less time than 3-5 days, it’s better to go ahead with an Online Page builder.
      • Do you need a place to collect contact or registration information?  Such forms are easy to build and work on Online Page Builders, but of course with limited reporting and tracking power.
      • Don’t have any plan for local search engine optimization or lead generation? Online Page Builders can help you to design a website and keep it live until the moment that you want to move forward with a professional website design.
      • No time for content generation? To design a professional website, quality content and information are required. If you do not have enough time for content generation, simple go ahead with Online Page Builders and use their available templates to fill in and make your website live. Whenever your content is ready you can step forward with professional website design.

From a credit card perspective, using Online Page Builders is cost effective and reduces 40-70% of your website design cost. Simply because the money you pay to the service provider is less than the amount you have to pay to a website design company.

From a business perspective, it’s not always cost effective. losing professional search engine optimization opportunities, limited UI and UX design facilities, Mobile device incompatibilities and finally being chained to a specific service provider are major losses that not every business can afford.

HTML and HTML5 are the core of almost every business web design and website development project. As a web design company in Toronto, at Zarban we also employ these languages to design part of our static, dynamic or custom website projects.

While HTML and HTML5 are essential programming parts of every web design project, it’s not practical and possible to finalize such project by using only these two languages. (In such case, the website called static website)

On one hand, clients expect to be able to update the website content by themselves or via hiring an experienced employee and on the other hand there are security and functional concerns that must be addressed by more advanced programming languages and toolkits.

To address these requirements and look out of the scope of a static or basic html web design, we use the power of content management systems (same as WordPress and Joomla and their templates) and the concept of server side and client side programming languages same as JAVA, React, ASP.Net and JQuery as well.

SQL Server and MY SQL database management systems are also part of our development kit.

HTML5 & HTML Website Pages are visually strong and in most cases device friendly. This means an individual Page is flexible enough to show it’s content on almost every digital device including Desktop, Laptop, Table and Smart Phone.

Websites designed using HTML & HTML5 technologies are suitable for official or personal purposes specially if it comes to last minute meetings, exhibitions or presentations.

Almost every desktop publishing software can understand and support editing / modification of HTML & HTML5 web pages. This provide an in house possibility for computer users with Basic knowledge to design or re-design their websites directly.

On the other hand, HTML and HTML5 stand alone web pages are not strong enough to provide professional and safe functionalities for such websites including connecting to Databases, Web Services or Content Management Systems (CMS). This can limit the abilities of such websites to simple presentation and data gathering purposes.

To resolve, we use the power of well-know content management systems including WordPress and Joomla to design the core of a business or personal website and employ HTML & HTML5 markup languages to improve the user experience and user interface separately.

That depends on case, your expectations from a business website and your website development plans for future. If you just need a simple web page to show business address or contact information or just few images to present sample of your work, it makes sense to use a static web page design.

If you need any kind of data gathering, blog, modern visual elements or website integration with third party service providers, static web design cannot be completely employed. There are templates, sample Java Script or VB Script codes on Internet to provide data gathering or visual effects for this kind of websites, but they may cause serious security, spamming and data hijacking problems for your business website.

It’s also should be mentioned that while the design and maintenance cost of a static web site is less than a dynamic website design project, their vulnerability against internet attacks and low search engine optimization results are considerable and risky for almost any kind of business.

• Easy to design & modify.
• Basic HTML or HTML5 knowledge is enough.
• Basic, low cost or even free hosting services can be employed.
• Fast to design and implement, normally no testing, QA or release procedure required.

• Hard to develop or extend.
• Data gathering or professional visual designs cannot be provided for such websites.
• Vulnerable against internet attacks or website hack activities.
• Modern search engine optimization techniques cannot be used on static websites.
• Special design considerations required to make a static website mobile friendly.

In conclusion, as there are modern, up to date and affordable website design techniques with better rate of return of investment, we do not suggest static website design to our clients.

While there are tons of free & beautiful static website templates on Internet and everyone can download, modify and upload them to a website hosting space, we strongly recommend our clients to prevent both Static Website Design and using free online website templates.

It looks pocket friendly and affordable but may cause serious security, spamming and data hijacking problems for any kind of website no matter how strong or safe the hosting service is.

In general there is also no technical support, user guide or document for such templates. There are modern, high quality and licensed website templates which a web design company can use to design an eye catching and professional website for your business.

It costs more than a free template but it’s safer and highly recommended by all professional website design companies around the world.

WordPress is one the mostly used content management systems (CMS) not only in Toronto but also everywhere. Based on online reporting tools, right now more than 455,000,000 websites are designed or developed using different versions of WordPress.

As a Website Design and Web Development Company in Toronto, At Zarban we provide website design and development using WordPress. Our WordPress web design services including but not limited to Website Integration, Website Design, Website Maintenance, Website Optimization and Website redesign.

Easy to Install & maintain, supported by almost every hosting service provider, great technical resources and regular security and performance updates make WordPress one the best available options for designing personal and business websites across the world.

From technical point of view, by granting an administrator user name and password, website designers (corporations, freelancers and software companies) can take over the responsibility of supporting and modifying of WordPress websites without any redesign or code analysis procedure. This makes WordPress super excellent.

It’s very easy for people with basic knowledge of computer to learn how to use WordPress, how to modify their website and how to install new facilities (generally known as plugin) to increase the functionalities of WordPress based websites.

There are also WordPress training and educational materials on YouTube or Websites which can be employed by users in order to understand and learn how to work with WordPress.

Yes, we do. We provide Joomla Web Design, Joomla Integration and Joomla search engine optimization (SEO) for business and industrial application across Toronto and York Region.

If your website is already designed by Joomla, our Joomla website maintenance service will be helpful for you.

Joomla is well-known PHP based content management systems (CMS) and more than 2.5 million websites use Joomla as the core of their content management system.

Joomla is supported on almost every Windows and Linux based hosting service and it’s easy to setup, maintain and upgrade. Security and version upgrades publish almost every month and online technical documents and support systems are widely available.

Layered access level and flexible user permissions make it easy for website owners to define a suitable user name and password and share it with third party web design companies to provide website maintenance or website optimization for Joomla based websites.

These flexibilities make Joomla a great choice to design a CMS based personal or business website.

People with basic knowledge of computer can easily learn how to use Joomla and modify or maintain a website designed by this CMS. There are lots of user friendly page builders that can help Joomla users to modify or change the appearance of a Joomla based website without any knowledge of HTML or HTML5.

When you order a website, there are two well-known cost types that you have to consider and prepare your budget for them.

Including Graphic design, content writing, template installation and setup and data entry fees. You just need to pay once for these kind of services and until you pay for your domain and hosting renewal the website we designed for you, stays live.

We do not charge you again, unless you ask us to provide a major modification or website upgrade.

The website domain address must be renewed in a yearly basis. Based on the type of the domain, the renewal fee will be between CAD 14-24. You can renew your domain for longer periods such as two or three years basis.

The hosting renewal fees are also part of the website design cost which must be considered by the website owner. The cost of renewal depends on the company and hosting package facilities.

Third party plugin, template, CRM, Online Chat and other products may have their own membership and licensing cost that you also must consider.

Website maintenance cost depends on case and the type of modification you expect. We do not charge our clients for small or minor website support or modifications.

This includes but not limited to: minor content modifications, technical support, device compatibility problems, fixing minor SEO or search engine ranking problems and so on. In case of time consuming support or major modifications, we will provide you a website maintenance time and cost estimation and confirm all technical and financial details with you before we start our job.

In emergency cases like Website Hack, Malware detection, Spamming or third party Internet attacks, we do not waste time and won’t wait for financial discussion. All required and possible supports will provide ASAP.

Normally No. Website monitoring and maintenance requires technical knowledge that only professional website design teams have access to. You can spend time and energy to gain such knowledge but it certainly cost more than what you are trying to save.