Building a Small Business Website
by Gerald Trites, FCA

It has long been a problem for small business. Website construction often has required technical expertise that many small business entrepreneurs don't have. Its just that their skills lie in other areas and they don't have the time to deal with the complexities and technicalities involved.

There are tools out there that can make it easier, and a number of Content Management Tools in particular, but even these tend to be expensive and require specialized expertise to implement.

There are, however, some newer tool suites available that are specifically designed to address this issue. They still require some time to work with, but they can work with less effort than most other previous stategies.

A notable one is an offering by Microsoft, called Office Live for Small Business. This site offers website design, custom domain names, email and document storage, mostly for free. Charges for the services that are not free are minimal.

Another site called Yola, (formerly Synthasite) offers up tools for free website design and some related services.

Other useful services for small business involve document management and lead generation software and those are coming available in forms that are increasingly easy to use and inexpensive. There is more in this article from E-Commerce News.