Importance of a website

The blog freelance switch has a great article on the importance of having a website and the five steps to go through. What it really made me do is think about how important having a website is regardless of your business.

Article here:

http://www.freelanceswitch.com/finding/how-to-make-the-web-work-for-your-business-in-5-steps/

Even if you do not sell a product online, like if you are a retail store or consultant, having a website gives you a legitimacy regardless of how big or small your business is. The best example I have is even restaurants, that do not sell online, have websites to look at their menus or what the inside looks like. How many times has a friend told you about a place, you go to look it up online, don't find a website and forget about it?

He created a website for his friend and while he tries to be modest, in reality he did a very good page for his friend. Looks like he used wordpress which is what I have started using as well on other sites. A simple non ecommerce website can be created quite easy. If you have all your logos, what you want to talk about it, I bet you could go to the local college and have them do it for you.

The only difficulty is, how do you find a good website designer for ecommerce sites?