How to Build Your Company Website in 5 Hours
Here's how I made my company website in 5 hours
I recently launched my consulting business, Orem Data, LLC. In this blog post, I’ll share the steps and tools I used to build my company website.
Steps to build your company website
I see mainly these 5 steps for creating a company website:
Choose your company name
Buy a website domain
Choose a platform or DIY
Create digital assets for your business (e.g. logos and icons for the website)
Build your website
(Optional) Register your business on your state website
Here are tools I used to build my company website:
1. Choose your company name
I mean this is obvious, but you have to name your company. If you’re also registering an LLC, then go to your state website and check the availability. You don’t want to overthink it, you can rename it or build a different company if you want later.
2. Buy a website domain
I’ve only bought domains on namecheap and it’s been working great for me. There are many types of domains like .com, .me, .co, .dev, etc. I went with .com and if you can you should go with it too. It’s the most used domain and it’s clear that you’re a business.
3. Choose a platform or DIY
If you want to go hard then feel free to build your website on your own, but that’ll probably take 100x more times than using existing platforms.
For my company website, I used Carrd, which lets you build one-page sites with a drag-and-drop interface. I have the mid-tier plan that costs like $19/yr and I’m more than satisfied with what I get. Carrd gives you many templates and you can customize it the way you want.
4. Create digital assets for your business (e.g. logos and icons for the website)
Canva is a great tool for this. I chose a template icon and modified so that it suits what I need for my website. You can even use a free trial and then just cancel once you’re done building your icons and images for your website.
The below image is a screenshot on Canva:
5. Build your website
As I mentioned above, I used Carrd to build my one-page site. It took me a good few hours for this, from choosing a template to start with and to fully customize it with the images and icons I built in Canva.
I added the calendly integration, which lets website visitors to book an appointment with me right in my company website. I also added a few testimonials that I collected from my previous clients using a service called Testimonial.
6. (Optional) Register your business on your state website
This step took me a lot longer than I expected. I could have used some service like legalzoom, but I just wanted to do it quick, and I knew you could just do it on your own in the state website. So that’s what I did.
One challenge I had is that I had no idea how to answer some of the questionaries about my business. I struggled for maybe an hour or two to finish the whole process of registering my LLC. Later I found that if I read the description carefully, the answers to my questions were all there! It’s just that the UX or design of the government website is so poor that it didn’t occur to me to read those portions in detail…
Conclusion
Sooner or later, you’ll need to create your company website. To have a professional presence of your business makes a difference. And it doesn’t have to be super polished or look perfect. Spending too much time on making your website look perfect is a wate of time. You just need to have something that your potential clients can look at and learn about your services.