The BEST person to create your website
The best person to create your site is YOU ARE
Beware of designers
A common mistake I've recently witnessed with clients and others is that of giving their marketing problem to a designer to solve. It's almost always a recipe for disaster.
Please believe me: designers don't do marketing! There are always exceptions to the rule, but very few designers have marketing skills and your chances of finding one who does are the proverbial two--slim and none.
For the full article please see How a Good Designer Can Kill You
All you need to do is describe your business and enter the text and photographs using an online control panel (no software to install). Everything else is done automatically and your website is instantly available for everyone to read. And you can change your site contents whenever you want. Plus you get all our other great features - everything on this site you are reading now is available to you.
The alternative
You have to remember that most people who go by the designation of Website Designer are some combination of designers (read: artists) or programmers (read: techies). Marketing know-how, business awareness and copywriting are usually nowhere to be found in that set of skills, and those should be the first areas you delve into.
Once you have your strategy, developed your content, thought about how visitors will be browsing your site THEN you will be ready for the designers and programmers. Right now, their contribution is likely to be purely cosmetic (read: useless). Since it is YOU that will be doing all the groundwork why not take it one stage further and produce your own website.
Letting someone else create your website could also ensure that it reads just like most of the other ones they do. You will be allowing someone who knows nothing about your business and possibly couldn't care less about it, and probably doesn't know much about advertising, design your most expensive and perhaps most important piece of advertising material. This is not a wise choice.
Another good reason for doing it yourself
The immediate benefits are that you get a website that you can update as often as you want without spending much money, but that's not all. In order to make a great website you need to concentrate on getting your sales pitch correct. You need to turn yourself into a salesman/saleswoman and start thinking more deeply about the techniques of selling. Once you become sales orientated (and you will) then you will start applying similar techniques to all aspects of your business. The aim of the game is selling and you WILL get better at it (which equals more profit). There are plenty of tips in the help guide available from within the control panel (once you sign up).