Best web design service?

[Gabe]

Wanting to build a website for my Dads business, we already own the domain name. It is a car rental service so a Paypal/pay service friendly site would be useful.

I need a software or service and obviously a hosting service (preferably the same service), any suggestions welcome!

 

 

Cheers!

[Wauthar]

Squarespace anyone?

EDIT: Use the offer code to get a 10% discount http://www.squarespace.com/?channel=youtube&subchannel=linus&source=linus

Edited July 31, 2015 by Wauthar

[Hazy125]

+1 Squarespace if you don't want to code anything, no other build-your-own website website holds a candle to squarespace 

[Gabe]

+1 Squarespace if you don't want to code anything, no other build-your-own website website holds a candle to squarespace 

I am not really bothered about coding, i know the ins and outs of html. But not coding would be faster...

[Alpha17x]

I would suggest Squarespace unless you have a need to find and hire a local dude. And that feels strange to say because I used to do web design and would have tried to pimp my portfolio to you.

 

You can also get a 10% discount due to them being an LTT sponsor:  http://www.squarespace.com/linus

 

There are preconfigured page layouts and standard design components that make it really easy. You and your dad could probably have something good looking whipped up in about a day.

 

Check out some youtube videos;  Just do a search for "Squarespace Tutorials" And you can see how easy they've made it.

 

You can integrate any custom systems you might have as well unless they require some over the top private web server.    Check it out, it'll probably do the job.

[Zefues]

squarespace is good

[leodaniel]

I think it really depends on how much money you want to spend and your needs. If you want to have something special, that doesn't look like all these other "Squarespace sites" you will need to pay a WebDesigner. This is of course not so cheap, but your site will certainly look different than the standart pages.

 

But if you like the SquareSpace design (and lots do), so there isn't really the need to pay a lot of money for a Designer. I personally would suggest you to try out SquareSpace (I think they have a free trial?!) and decide then.

[cristiand]

If you want to built it yourself go with a CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal. They have strong built-in features, documentation, and are FREE out of the box.

 

If you want something like a shopping cart there's Opencart, PrestaShop, Magento. There are free also, but you pay for extensions or support.

 

The CMS's also have shopping cart extensions, and expect them to be paid and with support included if paid. 

 

 

Do note that you get what you pay for, so even if something is free, it's because you mostly have to figure it out yourself or have to pay for more functionality later on.

 

I work as an extension developer for Joomla, and will say that there's a learning curve to each of what I listed, but none require any actual programming for their default features. You just need to be able to follow documentation and not be an idiot.

 

 

If you want custom features, expect to pay good money for a programmer. And again, you get what you pay for. If you're cheap, you will get shit services.

These are all built with PHP, but there can be other which use .NET, Java, Python. PHP is just used more on the web and you will find programmers easier/cheaper.

 

 

Hosting is up to you, but any serious host will handle these.

Let me know if you need more info.