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Hiring a Traditional Website Designer vs. Hiring a CityMax Website Designer

You have two options when deciding on how to get a customized website design: a traditional website designer or a website builder's design services. There are 3 main factors to consider when making this decision:

• Initial Set-up
• Customization
• Editing

Initial Set-up

A traditional website designer builds your site from scratch. As a result, 80% of their time is spent doing the same things over and over again: adding the design template to each page in the website, creating the menu (links to pages in the site), and designing the layout.

When you hire a CityMax designer, these structural components are already created and available through the website builder. The CityMax designer only has to add your unique content, saving time and money.

Below is a comparison chart of the time and cost of the two types of designers to build a 5-page website.

Customization

With a traditional designer, you get the most control over what goes on your website. The more customization you want, however, the longer it will take to make and the more it’ll cost.

With a CityMax designer, you get the look and feel of your site designed for your business. It’s faster and more affordable, but less flexible.

Below is a comparison of the level of customization available between the two types of designers.

	Traditional Designer	CityMax Designer
Look and feel	Customized around your business’s identity.	Customized around your business’s identity.
Extra design options	Can get anything within the designer’s capabilities. (ex. animation, sound, splash pages, etc.)	Can incorporate extra design options with limitations. Can include some animation and sound (not recommended for business sites)
Shopping cart	Can be created with all the options and tools you need.	Comes with the same options and tools for every client.
Business Tools	Anything within the designer’s capabilities can be created to fit your needs (ex. Online forms, newsletters, etc.)	All the most popular ones are available, but have the same style and options for every client.

Editing

With a traditional designer, you’re at the mercy of their schedule. You can only get your editing done when your designer is available to do it. That means it will take a lot longer to do so and you’ll have to pay them extra for it.

With CityMax, you can do your own editing using the website builder anytime, from anywhere you can use the Internet. Its technology is designed to be easy to use, even for people with no programming skills.

Below is a comparison of the time and cost of doing editing through a traditional designer vs. using CityMax’s website builder.

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