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How to create your own holiday home website

It is evident that there are many benefits for having your own stand-alone website for your holiday home in addition to having your property listed on holiday rental marketplaces. However, the question is how to actually create you your own holiday home website? What are the options and what is the best way?

This article describes three possible ways to create your own holiday home website. It provides pros and cons for each method and gives indications about the costs involved. Finally it gives a recommendation on how you should go ahead and create your own holiday home website.

1. Do-it-yourself
The most basic way to create your holiday home website is to program it yourself.

Costs:
• Website development: FREE
• Website hosting: starting from GBP 60 - 150 per year

Pros:
• The costs are virtually zero, since you build it yourself
• You can personalise your website to the greatest extent as possible
• You can edit and modify your website 24/7

Cons:
• You need to know HTML and should have advanced computer skills
• It’s very time consuming
• Unless you are an expert designer and programmer, the design and functionality of your website is of amateur quality, which could damage your holiday home reputation
• You need to find a website hosting service (which costs) and manage everything yourself

2. Professional Web design studio
Costs:
• Set up cost: from GBP 3,000 – no upper limits
• On-going costs: GBP 700 – 1,500 per year

Pros:
• Highest possible personalisation
• Most professional website design and functionality
• You do no need to know any HTML

Cons:
• It is very expensive
• You cannot edit your website 24/7 but always need to contact your website designer in case you want to make changes
• It is very difficult and time-consuming to actually find a good quality web design studio

3. Specialized Content-Management-System
Costs
• Website development & hosting: from GBP 40 to 300 per year

Pros:
• It’s very quick to set up your own website (approx. 20 mins)
• Web design and functionality is at a professional level
• It’s cheap
• You can edit and modify your website 24/7
• No HTML knowledge is required
• Website design and hosting is provided together

Cons:
• Personalisation is limited

In conclusion, each method has advantages and disadvantages. The best way to create your own holiday home website depends on what kind of type of owner you are:

We recommend…
1) Do-it-yourself, for the owner with expert design and programming skills
2) Web design studio, for the owner who makes his living from renting out his holiday home
3) Specialized Content Management System, for the majority of holiday home owners, i.e. owners who do not make their living from renting out their holiday home, but who would like to make some extra money from it.

Domegos

You can create your own personal holiday home website via the Specialized Content Management System method at: www.domegos.co.uk

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