Do you want to make a website for your business in Dubai or anywhere in the UAE? You may be wondering about the steps to follow for making a website. Don’t worry. In this blog post, we have shared a few simple steps to build a professional website.
Let’s start!
#1 Get a license
The first step to creating a professional website for your business is to get a trade license. You can get a license from any of the Emirates of UAE such as Dubai, Ajman, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, etc. Getting a trade license will help you run your online business and website smoothly & hassle-free. According to the nature of your business, you can get an appropriate business license in the UAE. Get in touch with a competent consultant to get your trade license.
#2 Register a domain name
After getting a trade license, the next step then is to think about a domain name and register it. Domain name is the virtual address of your website. For example, our company website’s domain name is innomedia.ae.
Below are some of the tips for choosing a domain name.
A domain name should be short and easy to remember.
If possible, your domain name should contain your business name or service name.
Avoid domain names with hyphens.
Avoid domain names with extensions such as.net, .xyz, etc. Go for a .com or .ae domain.
If you are unsure about going through the process of registering a domain name for your website, you can also request your web developer to do it all for you.
#3 Hire a web developer or agency
The next step is to hire a reliable, experienced, yet affordable website developer in the UAE. A web developer or a web agency plays an important role in building a successful online business. You can find many options in the UAE to hire a website maker. Below are some of the important checkpoints that you must go through before hiring a developer.
Check out the portfolio/past works of your shortlisted web developer.
Don’t go by just the pricing but keep the website costs as one of the important factors.
Make sure that your shortlisted developer understands your requirements fully.
Ask your website developer about their post-launch support & service warranty.
Ask your web developer if they will build a mobile-friendly(responsive) & SEO-friendly website.
#4 Work with your developer
Once you hire a web developer or a company, you need to work closely with them. Request them to update you regularly and you must send them feedback frequently. To make sure that you don’t get any surprises at the end of the project, work with your web development team as closely as possible.
At Innomedia, we always update our clients with their website’s progress and seek their feedback so that we can make the changes accordingly and launch their website before the deadline.
Before you give a green signal to your web developer, test the website fully. There are many parameters to check a website on before making it live, but below are some of those important checkpoints:
Check out the responsiveness of the website
Check out the loading speed of the website.
Make sure that the website looks good on all the different devices and browsers.
All the forms on your website must work properly.
All the pages of the website should have updated information.
There should be no broken links (non-working links) on the website.
Now it’s time to launch your website so that everybody can see your website online. It would be good if you check your website again after the launch to make sure that all the features are working as they should. After making your website live, you can focus on your marketing & advertising campaigns to ensure the inflow of quality traffic to your website. It will help you grow your online business.
#7 Monitor & Enhance
Website development is not a one-time event. You can’t build it and forget it. To get the most out of your website, you must monitor its performance regularly and enhance it when necessary. There are several online tools to integrate your website with for tracking its performance. One such efficient tool is Google Analytics. You can make use of this free analytic tool and monitor the performance of your website. When needed, you can hire a web developer to enhance and improve your website for better results.
