Has anyone hired someone to make them a website off of Fiverr? Ive done plenty of ads/logo hiring from there and have had good success just wondering if this is a path I should venture down.
In most cases it will cost more than $5 and you get what you pay for.
Your better off learning WordPress, setting up a very basic site, doing the seo, and then have someone use a theme from themeforest.net and make it look nice.
If you are looking for cheap work, you get what you pay for.
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You could however get a theme from themeforest.net for cheap and have someone replace pictures and text for cheap. That might be a good option.
The cheapest sites they have on there is about $300 for a two pager but you can grow the page as you wnat to pay. Ive played around with wordpress before… Just knowing I wont have the time to stay on it so rather have a contract with someone to update everything for me when needed.
Well 300 is not bad, you will get what you pay for. Make sure everything is mobile responsive and you should be okay. It’s good to have a site.
The reviews are everything. And check out their portfolios. I’m going through Fiverr later this week to redo the website through squarespace or Wix. Wix has online booking and both you can get an “ecommerce” store and sell gift cards or even your services right through the web site. I’m gonna hire an SEO guy through Fiverr too.
I couldn’t find anyone who would do a website for under $3000 and they weren’t offering much different than what the Fiverr folks do. If you’re looking for something higher than $300, but less than $3000. Upwork is worth checking out too.
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Get WordPress have it installed on hostgator.com and only pay about 150ish for 3 years for the hosting. The developer on fiverr should be able to do that for you.
What’s the point? Wix does the hosting.
Cheaper, ability to customize, switch hosting if needed. When you use wix you are locked into their crap software that is very limited. If you want something down the road and they don’t offer it you will have to have a whole new website built. You are at the whim of wix.
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I use Hostgator and couldn’t tell you what WordPress is. That is how much I know about making a website and I did it all myself. I am on the first page, depending on what town you search, in my market. There are a lot of tips and tricks (not the right wording) I learned a lot from reading countless websites and watching YouTube videos. If you do the research and put the work in, building your own site can save you a lot of money. My competitors have professional websites that look generic and have no appeal. I have a gallery page of before and after from jobs I did, not random picture of houses on the internet. I add pictures when i want and keep it updated with houses I cleaned from neighbors my customers live in.
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Not sure what software you used with hostgator, but the hosting has been great in my experience. Their servers seem fast and there is minimal delay from the server.
WordPress let’s you easily add 3rd party plugins which is cool.
Just because a site is genaric does not mean it does not convert. Generic sites are trustworthy. Throw in to many curveballs and customers get confused.
I may not have been clear. I like Hostgator. I think some professionally done sites look generic. I’m sure there is more I could do to improve my site through Hostgator, I just don’t know enough.
You need to talk to some more people. You can get a hell of a website built for $1000. As much as you like to read and study, do it yourself. I use to build 15-20 sites/year just messing around on the side for some of my SEO clients. Often times their sites where in such bad shape it was easier to build them one from scratch than to try to fix problems they had.
Go to Freelancer. Can get anything done there and quality better. Beware getting seo work done on Fiverr. They’re just going to use software to create a bunch of junk backlinks to your site.
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For website- Divi or Studio Press. Theme Forest ok, but often not much support and some of their themes don’t work all that well.
For hosting I use Bluehost. Both it and Hostgator owned by same company. Blue host has MUCH better customer support than Hostgator. In fact I moved all my sites to Bluehost that I had on Hostgator several years ago.
Recent article - https://bhusers.com/bluehost-vs-hostgator/
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I used bluehost for years and their support and server speed decreased over the years.
You are right about finding quality work for 1k. There are some skilled developers out there that can put you something together.
I have used theme forest to make WordPress websites with their themes and you are spot on. The code quality is often horrible and many things are very amateurish. Jupiter theme is pretty good though. If you are a complete novice you can easily learn the visual composer interface and design the pages to your liking. Within the limits of the software that is.
Wow thanks for the replies everyone. Lots of great information on this post!
One thing im concerned about is if I pay ABC on Fiver or Freelancer to build a website for me. When completed do I get the code or do they hold on that and im linked to them for anything in the future?
My biggest worry is if i have to update something can I simply access my code and update or do I have to pay them to do it for me since I dont have the host.
You set up the hosting, just give them rights under their own password. When they’re done you deactivate. You’re always better owning your own hosting.
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Thanks Racer that makes alot of sense!
I’m cleaning up my sketches for what I want out of a website and taking some notes from what I’ve read here, but this guy has great reviews and English is his native language.
I’ll start the process with him tomorrow if I can get the site hosted elsewhere, but if not at $180 it’s not a dealbreaker. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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