Web design building blocks for entrepreneurs

Getting online with your business has never been easier. With that said, it’s also very easy to do it the wrong way because of all of the options available. Here are three things you should know before designing your website.

You’re a small-business owner and you probably need a digital presence. Typically that means you need a website, though increasingly, some businesses can function digitally with just a Facebook page.

The biggest problem you’re going to face is that the terminology used is essentially a foreign language. To make matters worse, there are some digital strategists and web developers out there — the bad ones, whom you want to stay away from — who assume you’re a luddite when you look bewildered by things like responsive design, media queries, CMS or HTML5.