4. Aesthetically-Pleasing Design and Well-Managed Development

Outsourced or Open-Source?

How you intend to manage your website is an important decision – will you update your own content, using a Content Management System? Or will all changes be managed by your design and development team? Will that team work for you in-house or will you outsource development of your website to a web design company? Alternatively, as is increasingly the case these days, will you use an off-the-shelf content management solution (perhaps open-source) to build and manage your site?

‘With Tepilo we used an agency to build the website we designed and developed’, explains Sarah Beeny. ‘They still have some equity in the company so we worked very closely with them. ...

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