How is website design marketplace in Malaysia?
March 28th, 2007 — ¥ong¥s
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Internet revolution has been started since early 90’s. Nowadays, I believe even a 15 years old school boy may able to build their own website using HTML language. We can always see some advertisement showing “Web design package – RM 300 for unlimited pages!” in Malaysia. I am a bit curious, how can people build a website with unlimited pages and only cost you RM300? Yes, I know HTML language is easy. However, will there really able to deliver a professional web design look? Is the website search engine friendly? Will they put a great deal of effort into the design? Do they have sufficient skills and experience to deliver what you want? Personally, I don’t think that they can deliver a good looking, professional website with only RM 300. If you know somewhere can get this kind of web design package please do let me know.
I had experience in web development for more than 4 years in Malaysia. I can tell you that the website design marketplace in Malaysia is very bad nowadays. A lot of companies do not want to spend more then RM 1000 for their website. We often heard from our clients that “XXX offer RM 300 for unlimited web pages. Why your packages so expensive?” At the end, we need to give more discounts in order to get the sales. This is the fact for all web design companies in Malaysia. However, I think everybody should know that there is no free lunch in this world. A good quality and successful web site be sure will cost you more compare to a budget website. In return, you will get better image for your company, generate more traffic to your website and increase your revenues. Besides, it can be an extremely effective method of communicating between you and your customer. If you planning go for budget web design package (RM 300), I will suggest you better do not waste this kind of money. Spend it for your staff lunch and hope your staff will work harder and get more sales for you rather than create a lousy, low quality and useless website.
Here are some of my previous projects done when I was a freelancer 2 years ago. http://www.quantum-profile.com. I am no longer work as freelancer now. As you can see, the “RM 300 for unlimited web pages”! It is hard to survive in this marketplace. I am currently working in an MNC software house in KLCC. However, sometime I still helping some friends or relative when they need me in website development…