Learn to design websites for your businesses if you want to manage web development effectively! Marketing a business online involves a lot of daily tasks. Though it is easy to start a WordPress site, it takes resources and skill to develop it to a level where you can benefit from it. But if you learn to do certain things by yourself, it becomes easier to grow your business online. It is why I always encourage people to learn to design websites.
Read this post if you like to create a beneficial online presence for your traditional business. It gives you good ideas on the importance of learning web designing. Although you can effortlessly start your online business with a CMS (Content Management System) blog like WordPress, you will best operate your internet business if you have some web designing basics. Do you see why you need to think about learning to design websites? Not yet? Ok, look at the statistics!
Learn to Design Websites? Let Us First Get the Statistics on Internet Usage.
Country Internet Users 2016
The total Internet user population in the whole world grew from 414 million in 2000 to more than 2 billion by 2010. In January 2017, estimates of internet users stood at over 3.5 billion. Growth rates for most countries worldwide remain high, while penetration rates are still low. You stand many chances of making money from the increasing number of users when you begin an internet business. But how will you if you do not know how to design websites?
Region Internet Users 2013
Secondly, the mobile phone has recently led to an increased number of internet users. One can now access the internet on smartphones. Everyone now is keen on having a smartphone. The figures for mobile phone users are shooting up consistently. By the end of 2017, the total estimated number was 4.77 billion. This trend will push the number of internet users worldwide tremendously higher.
On the other hand, according to a Web Server Survey conducted in March 2016 by Netcraft.com, there are over 1 billion websites. And the number of web-facing computers was over 5.7 million. However, the number of functional websites stood at 171 million. It means that about 1 in 6 sites are active.
Why Are the Five Websites Not Active?
As a confident webmaster, I have discovered that despite the increasing number of websites cropping up daily, most of them do not get maintained regularly. Developing a website necessitates web designing, web development and online marketing skills. It is the reason why most sites are inactive. And to run a profitable business online, you have to be active so that you become visible in the search engines.
It is worth noting that most successful internet marketers have learned with time how to create their websites for their businesses. It is one reason why they can make a lot of money. You, too, can successfully teach yourself to design websites by buying web designing e-books and reading them slowly until you perfect your web designing skill.
What Are the Benefits of Learning to Design Websites for Your Businesses?
Web Design Benefits
Ability to Start and Run an Online Business
If you learn to design websites, you will be able to run an online business profitably. The number of internet users is increasing. And if you start an internet business selling affiliate products, you will position yourself well to benefit from it because you know what to do. You can start it and market some of the best selling products like software, information, private sites and internet services to earn a commission.
Create an Income Stream Through Web Design
Secondly, you can design websites for others to create another income stream. I learnt web designing not to create websites for others but myself. Over time, web designing has become one of my income streams though it’s not my main business.
Ability to Create an Online Presence for Your Conventional Business
If you have a traditional business, like our laser engraving business, you will find it more profitable to sell your products online alongside affiliate products. And you can do it yourself from your home or office with just your computer and an internet connection.
Save Resources
When you learn to design websites, you save your resources. Although the initial cost of buying web designing e-books and software is relatively high, long term benefits outweigh the expenditure on acquiring knowledge and skills. When I thought about designing my website, I first thought of hiring someone else to do it for me. He asked me to pay him USD 1300/- to develop my website. Instead, I opted to teach myself and finally spent less on learning and hosting my website. I remained with my e-books and software, which I use to design websites for others. Besides, I can develop my site and market my products without spending money.
Satisfy Your Personal Needs
You can design websites that meet your individual needs and satisfaction in design and content. There are many people out there who create websites. However, there is a lot of concealed information they never reveal to you. At first, they can make you feel that it is easy. But remember that not whoever claims to be a web designer has professional skills. Some of them know the basics and move on to design websites for others to make money.
Maintain or Develop Your Website
By learning to design websites for your businesses, you will be able to keep your websites growing. You can post new content in any way you want. Remember that the internet is about information. If you cannot add further information, your website becomes inactive. Therefore, search engines cannot find you to rank your web pages. You can quickly achieve this if you have learnt how to design websites and market online. People who have websites created by others cannot have this critical advantage. Consequently, their websites become static. Those who can afford to add or change information spend a lot of money on contracting web designers to do it for them regularly.
Get Internet-Related Knowledge and Skills
You will get a lot of helpful knowledge about the internet. For instance, you will learn internet marketing. Internet marketing is a broad subject changing from time to time. The success of your business online depends mainly on your ability to market it using proven internet marketing techniques.
Is It Possible to Teach Yourself Web Designing?
Yes, it is so possible because human nature can adapt to anything. Do not think that web designing is only for programmers or IT experts. And do not believe that you only have to go to school to learn it. I am a living example of a person who has never got taught by anyone else. I discovered it through reading, practising and networking with professional web designers and marketers.
As I conclude, one thing you should learn from today is that formal education can give you a living, but informal learning will give you a fortune. Learn to teach yourself skills that will eventually make you financially secure throughout your life. Web designing is a great way to start an internet business and drive your existing business online. It is, therefore, my strong recommendation to you – to learn to design websites.
Hey.. How and where can I learn web designing?
Good question. When I thought of having a website for our future business, Goleza Designers and that was way back in 2008, I came across a Ugandan web designer who asked me 3.5 million to design it. I got shocked because I found it to be too high at that time.
This forced me to find out what it takes to learn web designing. I searched the internet and landed on an e-book “Web Design Mastery” written by an American called Sherry Lowry. I bought that e-book at 65 dollars at that time. I started reading the book while practising what I was learning every day for a long period of time. I used to do it in the evening after work. It was hectic and I believe it will be if you are new to the web designing languages, the way I was.
If you are determined to spend sleepless nights teaching yourself, I have the resources provided you can get some little money just to do the photocopying. It’s really good to learn web designing because you manage everything related to developing your website by yourself other than spending too much money paying people to do it for you.