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Having a website is a must even for the smallest businesses. A website provides a useful tool for your potential clients to visit to find out more information about your company, your services, and what type of quality you can offer them. More and more customers are shopping online and more large companies are looking for specialized companies and freelancers online to handle many aspects of their business, such as copy writing, programming, and advertisement. It is more crucial these days for those who sell merchandise and services to have an Internet presence for these potential customers and clients to find them.

One discount web design option is to do it yourself by purchasing software, such as Microsoft Front Page, that will help you put together a professional website. This will require that you have some skills in building a website using HTML or some other programming language. If you have limited knowledge in this area, then it may take you some time to learn enough of what is needed to put together a good interactive site that will attract customers to what you have to offer. Even still, the quality may not be as good as what you can get from hiring a real web design professional to do the job.

Many of these programs, including MS Front Page, also have a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) site builder so that users do not have to have any knowledge of HTML or other programming languages. However, the most professional looking and easy to navigate sites are those that were put together using a programming language, rather than a WYSIWYG site builder, because such programs are limited in what they can or cannot do. A poorly put together site can turn customers away before they even have a chance to learn about what you have to offer, because they want to feel as if they are buying from professionals so that they are comfortable handing over their money. On top of everything else, you will also need to make sure that, if you build a site, you know how to make your site search engine friendly and easy to navigate

There are many options available for one to hire a professional web design company. Such a company will most likely deliver a product that is of a high standard and is also comparable to the quality that appears on the websites of large businesses. However, hiring such a company can be very costly. The more references and experience a company has with large-scale businesses, the more they will hike up their prices. This most likely may not be an available option for those who are running a start-up company out of their own pocket. It might be feasible once you have some good profit rolling in but, until then, you may need to choose a different avenue.

Another discount web design option is hiring a freelancer. Although American, British, and Canadian freelancers may only offer you a slight discount when compared to web design companies, especially if they have skills that are just as advanced and refined as the designers who work for big companies, you can also find many freelancers in countries such as India, China, and Pakistan who will do your job at an extremely discounted rate due to the lower cost of living in their part of the world. However, the downside to these designers is that it is often hard to determine if they will deliver the product on time or if there will be any communication problems between you and the designer due to language barriers. This can make getting your site finished a long and frustrating experience.

Basically, a good quality 4-6 page site should only cost you a few hundred pounds or so. Anything more and you are paying for the kind of references and experience the company has, rather than purely the quality of their work. Web designers that have not worked with big name businesses and have not been in the game for 10 years can have the same skills and produce the same quality as someone who has. After all, when you think about it, those large web design companies are probably hiring designers with the same amount of skill and experience as many other individual designers who are charging much less, since they are out on their own and do not have the name of a big company to back them up.

Adrian Lawrence is the webmaster of Discount Domains a leading UK budget web design provider. Please feel free to republish this article provided a working hyperlink remains to our site.


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Firing a function from your browser

The concept is as simple as firing a function from your browser, and it leans on PHP's call_user_func_array.

I'm going to outline the concept as I have implemented it. This exact implementation may not work in your case, but perhaps you can adapt it to do so.

if(isset($_GET['f']) && function_exists($_GET['f'])) {
$func = $_GET['f']; // Get function name.
unset($_GET['f']); // Drop function from from get.
// Fire and print function, passing 
// remaining GETs as function parameters.	
print_r(call_user_func_array($func, $_GET)); 
exit;
}

In our CMS/Framework, we set up a controller with the code from above to respond at a given URL, for example http://www.example.com/__FOO. By passing a function name as a GET variable, in this case 'f', and the parameters necessary for that function to work as subsequent GET parameters, the result of that function will be printed to the screen.

So, http://www.example.com/__FOO?f=hello_foo&a=world would fire the function hello_foo('world'), perhaps printing Hello World! to the screen.

This allows for a quick and dirty test of a given function, and can be done remotely on a live site, if necessary, without touching any files or whatnot.

We hide this behind an authorization wall and also clean our parameters before they get to this level, so if you try this, keep these points in mind.

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