Designing Your Website
Things Every Business Owner Needs to Know

First impressions are important–so make your business website as professional and inviting as possible. If you need to create a website for your small business or want to improve your existing site, take this workshop to learn how to work with a graphic designer or web developer, what you should expect to pay, and what you can do yourself. You’ll take away the knowledge that you need for this essential business tool.

This workshop is geared toward business owners who are either getting started with their first website or have an existing website that they would like to improve. During this workshop, we will walk participants through the standard graphic design process for a website and show them how to make design decisions themselves or find and work with a graphic design professional to take their website to the next level of quality and customer satisfaction.

Web designer and small business owner Becky Davis will demystify the process of getting your Web site online. During this seminar, you will learn:

• Why online branding is important to your business
• What you want in a Web site vs. what you really need
• What you can do yourself and when you should hire a professional
• How to talk to a Web designer and developer and how to shop for each
• How to identify features of any Web site and what those features cost
• How to reach your audience and increase your visibility through Search Engine Optimization and other online marketing techniques
• Different ways you can keep the cost in your control
• How to get a leg up on your competition!

Schedule

NEW!

For the City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs

Wright College – Business Works

Thursday, June 17, 2010, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Free!

At SCORE Chicago
500 W. Madison, Suite 1250

Thursday, August 26, 2010 – 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 11, 2010 – 8:30am- 12:30 p.m.

$60 Register

Becky Davis, is the owner of Becky Davis Design. Becky specializes in web design for small businesses. In addition to web design and maintenance, she also offers customized software training and tech support services. She was a design major and spent many years running a help desk and training new employees. That teaching experience along with working with many business owners who didn’t know what to expect in the web design process, inspired her to develop this presentation.