In the current economic downturn, for very small business, we would always advise that they use a pre-built open website design, as it not only lowers initial design and development costs, but also gives the client the chance to see their new website (90% of it) before any work begins.

If you have worked with small business then you will no doubt recognise the fact that initial designs can be a complete nightmare that never seems to end. One part the website design gets changed or evolved, and then often a few days or weeks later the client will ask if ‘we can try this or that’. By using an open design you essentially can get your client to sign-off (on the design) upfront leaving them to concentrate on content rather than design.

In most of the cases that we have worked with the client has been more than happy to keep the designers link in place, thereby shaving days of initial design and development time - which can be quite a substantial saving - up to 80% of project costs in some cases.

For those that are adamant that they do not want the designers link, then in a lot of cases we have worked on, the designer is more than happy for them to remove the link for a small fee.

In order to present and highlight the professional designs currently being released as Open Designs, we have now created a new website called: Open Websites - built using exactly the same technique - e.g. the customisation of an existing open website design.

We hope to work with some of the providers of these designs in order to make the process of either employing the designer to customise the design further, or to remove the designer’s link, a much easier affair.

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