New business website

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I feek totally clueless. Been running kids drama class for a few years locally butnnow qualified as speech and drama teacher and can put kids through grades so want to start new business new name and start a website (never had 1 before) can anyone point me in right direction where to start with a website. How to do it and do i need to pay. I wont need the websitr to tske payments its more for information and contact etc. And to look professional 😅

I have built quite a few; I love wix. It’s drag and drop with lots of flexibility, easy to mobile optimise and update. There will be charges for the domain and the hosting. Do you want to do it yourself or outsource?

Ideally do it myself.

Indeed, the easiest is to use a standard e-commerce platform because they have lots of templates, apps/plugins and hosting is included: Shopify, Wix, SquareSpace are the main players and priced more or less similar.

You can also go for a free Wordpress, the software is free but you will need to sort your own hosting and set it up.

I would take advantage of the free trial they offer and check which one you like best for ease of use/result.

I have also found Pixpa, built especially to be used as an artist's portfolio, they have a cheap version without payment solution

https://www.pixpa.com/

Create the website, buy a domain name (I would avoid GoDaddy because it is very difficult to get out of their renewal system), connect, and you're good to go.

Never tried SquareSpace, done lots with WordPress, but Shopify is probably the easiest to get a professional-looking result quickly and lots of documentation/help online, Wix is imho the best for design.

Please check out my friend's new website. She haven't officially launched yet and the website isn't finished but this is exactly what she does. As well as website design, hosting etc she can advise on all business issues www.launchingpad.co.uk

I've used Bizzly for my own cleaning business. Their website lists tutoring as "coming soon". It provides a business in a box - website with full drag and drop editor, payments, booking system, CRM and AI customer agent. It literally takes 20 minutes to be up and running. I'm not very technical so found it much easier than trying to do it myself using tools like Wix and Squarespace.