Pet Website Design Services

You know you need a website.  It's how you let potential customers know what you do - and why you're better at it than your competitor.  It's how you educate your prospects.  It's how you give prospects and customers the pragmatic details about your hours of operation, contact methods, and product guarantees.  It's how you influence wary potential buyers to give you a chance.  And it's often an order-taking, money-making adjunct to your business, in and of itself.

Yet just about anyone can slap together some HTML and call it a website.

What you need is someone who can build an attractive site that's functional, user-friendly, and expressly designed to promote your product or service.  One that makes you look professional and customer-oriented - someone that can be trusted not only with precious dollars, but perhaps a precious pet!

And in my opinion, a pet-related website requires a uniquely engaging, emotional, friendly touch, as well.  Most of you - and nearly all of your customers!) - have a special emotional bond with their pet.  Your dog, cat or other critter is a source of joy, fun and companship - a generic-looking, bland website will just NOT engage those emotions and make pet owners want to deal with you!

These days, your website is that so-important "first impression" for many potential customers.  And an unorganized or unprofessional site is actually worse than not having one at all!  (Don't believe me?  A recent survey conducted by Keynote systems states "When consumers become frustrated with a website, they are much more inclined to jump to a competitor's site -- and lower their overall perceptions of the retailer they had visited first…")

Why You Should SHOULD NOT Hire Pet Business Central to Build Your Pet Website

Up until recently, I had a nice long section here about why I, as an experirenced web designer who's built quite a few successful web sites, should be hired to design yours.

I've changed my mind.  We're BOTH better served if I focus my energies on what I do best - idea generation and marketing - and leave web design to the people who do THAT best.

But I'm not going to leave you wandering aimless around the 'Net, searching for a web designer!  I'll give you TWO great choices.

If you want to build and maintain your website yourself:

SiteBuildIt:
SiteBuildIt is an all-in-one website building and hosting package that's more expensive (several hundred dollars) BUT includes every useful tool you're likely to want as you develop a website.  It's also got a wonderful support forum AND an affiliate program.  I wouldn't buy this if you only need a tiny one-page site, but if you want to build a serious website WITHOUT a huge learning curve, this is your best choice.  It's PROVEN by thousands of entrepreneurs.

If you want someone else to build your site for you:

Furry Friends Web Design:
These folks FOCUS on pet sites and more important, they know what they're doing, website-wise.  Remember, it's vitally important to the growth and profitability of your business to build an EFFECTIVE site (one that's easy to navigate, fast-loading, and customer-focused).  So don't hire your nephew to build your site, or the cheap "designer" who responded to your Elance.com request - until and unless they have the experience to make you look good on the 'Net.  The folks at Furry Friends specialize in graphic design, website re-design, print and decal design, and search engine optimization/site promotion services.