Some Tips On Cheap Website Design

Cheap Website Design For Real Estate Websites

Let me start buy saying that when I say ‘cheap’ website design I don’t mean shabby, shoddy, or anything along those lines.

By cheap website design I mean inexpensive, cost effective, affordable.

The inexpensive website design service I wanted to share with you today is called Weebly.

I’ve been using this for quite some time on many of my websites.

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How To Use Cheap Website Design From Weebly

There are three things that I personally use cheap website design from Weebly for.

Short-Term Listing

Often times you’ll have a single property or listing that becomes available every now and then.

It may not be worth the time and effort to purchase a specific domain name, hosting service, and design a destination website for that listing.

Examples of this are be single-family homes, apartments that are rarely vacant, or single-tenant properties that are only vacant every now and then.

You can design a cheap website using Weebly without having to purchase a domain name or a dedicated website hosting service.

Weebly allows for cheap website design by letting you create a subdomain within your Weebly account.

An example of a subdomain is ‘HouseForRent.Weebly.com.

Concept Or Product Testing

Maybe you’ve got a new property that you want to try some test marketing on or a new marketing idea that you want to try out, but you’re not ready to spend the time and effort designing a full-blow WordPress website until you know the idea is going to work.


Weebly makes this type of cheap website design very easy.

You can use a domain name that you’ve purchased, or use the subdomain technique.

Weebly has A LOT of pre-made website templates to choose from, all with drag-and-drop design, targeted toward specific businesses and industries plus many for generic use as well.

You can design several cheap websites, each with a variation of your idea, do some market testing, and decide whether or not it’s worth the effort to go full scale.

Landing Or Sales Page

You may have an ebook that you’re selling, or want a landing page for your visitors to register for a program, sign up for a seminar, and more.

Cheap website design from Weebly is great here as well.

Within a few minutes you can have your landing page up and running, customized to your product plan, and simply direct visitors to this site from your online or off line advertising or your main website.

What Cheap Website Design From Weebly Offers

Weely is a great cheap website design resource for a lot of different uses.

Here are some of the things that you can do with Weebly:

• Free website hosting
• Drag-and-drop website design
• Use your own photos or graphics
• Import your own HTML
• Incorporate AWeber email marketing
• Integrate Google Analytics
• Have multiple pages and drop-down menus
• Utilize a contact form
• Embed videos
• Create a blog
• Free and paid versions

I’m probably leaving a few things out, but you get the gist of what Weebly offers from this list.

By the way, don’t let the ‘paid version’ of Weebly scare you off.

I personally use this version and it’s still way less expensive than hosting your own website, especially for the uses we covered.

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Drawbacks To Using Cheap Website Design From Weebly

Using Weebly for cheap website design is great for product testing, simple one-page sites and landing pages, and for the occasional listing.

Weebly does not offer the diverse array of plugins that WordPress does or allow as much customization of the theme.

It’s also more difficult to optimize your SEO using a cheap website design with Weebly.

Search engine optimization with WordPress is much easier, provided you do several things right.

The takeaway is – unless all you have are one-time listings - once you’ve done your product testing or need a full-blow website for your real estate business that you can fully optimize, WordPress is going to be the better option.

As with all of my other articles, I hope you've found this post on cheap website design useful for your business!

Jeffrey Roark
Basic Property Management Blog