DIY New Zealand Website Tagagawa

Sinimulan ni Geoff ang kanyang karera sa industriya ng pag-imprenta. Nakikita pa rin niya ang mga labi ng mga araw na iyon na makikilala sa makabagong digital na mundo ngayon. Gayunpaman, hindi tulad ng karamihan sa mga masigasig sa sining ng pag-imprenta, mas interesado si Geoff sa nilalaman ng mga artikulo, ilustrasyon, at kalaunan ang mga litrato na sumama sa mga ito.

With an additional passion for illustrations and artistic pursuits, Geoff established himself as the go-to guy for local illustration and graphic design work. From small drawings and conceptual sketches, through to comical and sometimes even portrait drawings. Geoff is a natural craftsman, and the word was spreading.

Although, like most in the print industry, Geoff was at first resistant to the digital tools of the modern age, it was an urging from his son that would lead him down the path of being a forward-thinking adopter of modern web technologies. Having now moved to New Zealand and attending a local intermediate school, his son was tasked with a homework assignment to make a website for educational purposes.

“We searched and found some businesses that we had heard of before, but we also had zero experience and didn’t realise that I would need existing graphics design and computer skills”. Because we knew businesses here in New Zealand had been having a hard time, we wanted to use a local website making tool because we didn’t have worldly aspirations and we knew if we got stuck that someone here in New Zealand would be on the other end of the phone, “Needless to say we were pretty competitive for a homework assignment” Geoff adds.

Ang unang software na sinubukan naming gamitin ay mula sa isang multi-national na kumpanya na nagpapanggap bilang isang negosyo na may tatak ng New Zealand. Nang makuha namin ang access sa tool, halata na hindi ito ginawa para sa mga taga-New Zealand at lumikha ito ng isang website na mukhang generic, puno ng halatang stock imagery, "mukha itong peke".

Then, towards the end of an evening, Geoff stumbled upon Dazzly website builder. “The process of getting started was very simple and I loved how it took the colours from my business logo to use on the website. From my printing days, I could imagine how their software was deciding what colours to use, it was genuinely innovative, it intrigued me”. Within two evenings, Geoff and Tidus would have their website up and running with Dazzly.

Having successfully presented the website design to his class and receiving a good score, Geoff put his short stint as a website maker behind him and continued his daily routine but deep down he knew that he should be considering changes if he wanted to keep ahead, but like most people's lives, Geoff got busy again.

Many months later Geoff was at a function at a local alehouse and an acquaintance of his was discussing the hassle and trouble that colleagues at his office had when their website was upgraded and re-developed by a small business website design outfit. He complained of them using a lot of modern lingo on top of all the technical lingo one would unfortunately expect to encounter. Clearly there were some staffing issues which was causing communication issues and stalling the project, they clearly weren’t having a good time by having to repeat themselves to new people at every meeting.

Pinutol siya ni Geoff at ipinaliwanag ang kuwento kung paano nila hinarap ang proyekto ng website ng takdang-aralin ng kanyang anak sa paaralan. Interesado ang kakilala, si Ben, dahil nasa "yugto ng disenyo" pa lang sila sa firmang ito ng website at alam nilang may pagkakataon silang umatras sa maliit na gastos, isang opsyon na matagal na nilang sineseryosong pinag-iisipan.

Ben preferred to use a tablet computer due to his eye-sight, so he pulled it out from his bag and loaded the Dazzly website. They found a copy of Ben’s accounting firm logo in his Inbox and uploaded that into Dazzly. Within 15 minutes and a glass of tap beer they had completed the draft website design and published a preview URL for them to privately review. “That is when I began to realise, I might be on to something here. I had just produced a real result, meeting a real small business need, with minimal time and effort, really only a small amount of content and a logo graphic. This was a real problem being faced by businesses here and probably across the country”.

After watching some motivational videos and building up a bit of courage. The next morning Geoff started cold-calling local businesses in his area, that were often without websites nor had the capability to build their own (as far as they knew). While the first warm-up calls weren’t perfect, within a small amount of time people were warming to the idea and by mid-day he had several productive conversations with local businesses. Within a week he had meetings lined-up with several businesses. His suspicions were seemingly being confirmed by their stories of dealing with other providers and platforms.

Sa taon na sumunod, nakapagtatag si Geoff ng maraming negosyo sa kanyang bayan gamit ang mga de-kalidad na disenyo ng website na siya mismo ang gumawa, kasama sila, sa kanilang mga lugar. Nagagawa ni Geoff na maningil ng patas na presyo para sa kanyang oras at gabay sa maliliit na negosyo sa kanyang lugar upang matulungan sila, personal o virtual sa pamamagitan ng Zoom (mula nang mag-lockdown), na bumuo ng website agad-agad gamit ang Dazzly.

Geoff ngayon ay tumutulong sa maraming negosyo, kabilang ang accounting firm ni Ben at kami sa Dazzly ay umaasa na makapagbigay sa kanila ng mas malawak na hanay ng de-kalidad na mga disenyo ng website.

Ito ang kwento kung paano nakilala si Geoff bilang lokal na “website maker” na tao, gamit ang Dazzly website building technology.

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What Chloe found was that, a team of New Zealand IT experts had created a disruptive tool that effectively removed the painful parts of the website making process and replaced it with a very simple, straight-forward tool that anyone can use and covers about 95% of New Zealand small business website needs.

Chloe ay itinuro sa Dazzly ng isang palakaibigang lokal na artist na nagmungkahi na, bagaman bago pa lamang ang kumpanya, ang mga tagapagtatag ay may matibay na background sa New Zealand at pangunahing layunin na tulungan ang mga maliliit na negosyo sa New Zealand sa paggawa ng kanilang mga website, sa halip na simpleng kumita ng kita.

By skipping all the time-consuming meetings, expensive up-front deposits (or in some cases the entire website project cost up-front), Chloe, like many other local artists and entrepreneurs, has been able to design, develop and publish their own website to represent their business plan.

“Ang paggawa ng website gamit ang Dazzly ay napakadali at sa aming mga propesyonal na email address, mas mukhang matatag at seryoso kami kapag unang nakikipag-ugnayan sa mga lokal na pamahalaan para sa pondo at input”. “Hindi namin kailangan ang lahat ng mga karagdagang tampok. Ang pagbabayad ng medyo maliit na buwanang bayad ay mas may katuturan para sa amin kaysa sa libu-libong dolyar na paunang bayad at tinawagan namin ang support team sa panahon ng trial – nandito sila – talagang magiliw sila at hindi nila ako pinaparamdam na walang alam sa lahat ng sagot”.

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New Zealand business owners often ask us, “is it possible for a DIY website making tool to put together a decent website design?”. This is a good question. Historically, the online software offerings by business in this market lacked design flair, were often very restrictive and came out looking like most websites produced in their time – already dated. On the other side of the equation, you had office-style applications guiding you to publish your own website with page builders, these were workable for those with a bit more IT skill, but again using a piece of software with a poor visual design was never inspiring and the websites that were produced reflected this.

Kaya't nabuo ang isang reputasyon o maling akala sa panahong ito na nananatili sa mga talakayan ngayon - ang alamat na ang isang DIY na tool sa website ay hindi makakagawa ng isang visually stunning, kaakit-akit, at modernong disenyo ng website.

This myth was further advanced by the second generation of companies that offered more online website creation tools, often resorting to static underlying website layouts but with the ability to drag-and-drop content overtop – with little restriction. In the case of users that had existing graphic design and artistic abilities, they were able to put together websites that were on-par or exceeding those made by professional website designers at the time. So, for a time that myth was fading, but due to the ever-advancing speed of technologies, particularly website development languages, that once again these businesses once again found themselves behind the web design trend that perpetually marched forward.

Then things began to stagnate. The myth perpetuated and no businesses entered the market, no development was spurred, and although there were some quality ecommerce making software being developed at this time, no-one was advancing the front-end or professional website design templates. There had been a strong shift of interest from online DIY web systems towards offline content management system (CMS) based systems. These required a small amount of skill in a few areas of IT (all of which could be acquired from a few days researching and purchasing time with a low-budget website hosting provider) and these were, sufficient, for the time-being it seemed.

Not much innovation was made in this space, users as well as aspiring and budding website designers, artists and entrepreneurs all flocked to using such content management systems despite their requirement for some IT skill and training. The website designs were very rigid and putting in addons or further requirements was often time-consuming, painful and expensive. Content management systems were very limiting and although these aspirational web businesses thought they were delivering top-notch work it was more a case of ‘good enough’ and in some cases ‘infuriating’ to the business owners who did not like these solutions. They did not like the difficulty of updating their website and did not like the constant failings of their website going offline or error messages encountered by their customers when completing common tasks (such as submitting a website enquiry) – all in all, they weren’t happy and the new web businesses didn’t see a problem with it. So nothing changed. What do you expect when you try to build something fancy with extra features on a poor foundation – just like a house – it won’t be a great finish.

Habang nangyayari ito, isang maliit na koponan ng mga bihasang taga-disenyo ng website mula sa Auckland, mga software developer, at mga eksperto sa IT infrastructure ang nakakita ng ibang pananaw, kinuha nila ang kanilang mga kasanayan, inilipat ang kanilang mga pagsisikap mula sa mga kasalukuyang nasisiyahang kliyente at nakatuon ang lahat ng kanilang libreng oras at pagsisikap sa pagbuo ng isang rebolusyon sa paggawa ng website at mga teknolohiya sa disenyo ng web. Pagkatapos ng maraming taon ng pag-develop ng software, inilabas nila ang Dazzly website builder – ibinabalik ang online na pamamaraan na gustung-gusto ng lahat – na may simpleng ngunit magandang anyo. Suportado ng walang kapantay na mga bagong teknolohiya sa ilalim ng hood – mula sa pinakamataas na antas, mga propesyonal na taga-disenyo ng website at developer na magagamit hanggang sa mga pang-araw-araw na may-ari ng negosyo sa New Zealand na kailangang magpagawa ng website. Hindi na limitado ang mga teknolohiyang ito sa mga negosyo na may pinakamataas na badyet, ngunit sa pamamagitan ng henyo sa software at infrastructure ng Dazzly website builder maaari na itong ibahagi sa lahat ng gumagamit sa buong bansa!

Ngayon ay napakalinaw na sa paggamit ng Dazzly, maaari kang lumikha ng isang napakataas na de-kalidad na disenyo ng website, nang walang anumang naunang kasanayan sa disenyo o sining at tiyak na walang anumang advanced na kasanayan sa IT. Ang magiliw na development team sa Dazzly ay nagawa na ang mahirap na trabaho para sa iyo. Hindi lamang maaari ka na ngayong makakuha ng mahusay na disenyo mula sa isang DIY na tool sa website ngunit lahat ito ay saklaw para sa isang mababang buwanang bayad. Ang alamat ay napatunayang mali, ang sumpa ay tinanggal, ang Dazzly ay nagliliwanag ng katotohanan ng kung anong antas ng website ang maaari mong makamit kapag itinayo mo ang iyong website sa isang napakalakas na pundasyon. Ang aming koponan ay inialay ang aming mga buhay sa pag-unawa sa bawat aspeto ng mga computer at ang software na ito ay ang aming regalo sa mga negosyo sa New Zealand, isang tunay na generational leap sa magandang lumang istilong number 8 wire DIY na teknolohiya sa pagbuo ng disenyo ng website.

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