How to Make a Basic Website for a Small Business [Video]

Learn how to make a basic website for your small business using Mighty Sites. This website builder makes it easy to create a basic small business website. Watch the video tutorial below and start your free trial.

Video Transcript

Great news. This basic website builder is only $9 a month. There's a seven-day free trial. Give it a try, and see if it's right for you. Let me show you how this works. But you can create a basic website for your small business for only $9 a month. It's the least expensive, best website builder platform available Today. I'm going to show you how to create a simple website for a small business using Mighty Sites. So Mighty Sites is a really simple, easy-use platform. There are pre-built themes for almost every type of local business. So if you want to make a basic website for a small business, this is the place to start. So go to Mighty Sites. You can create a free trial, and you start by just picking your business type, answering a few questions, and then you're able to launch a site.

Enter Business Information and Select A Small Business Theme

So let me show you precisely what I mean. Let's pretend that you own a tree service business. So you, you're a local Tree service company, you'd find your theme right here. You put in your name. So let's call this tree service business. And then let's say I work in a Denver, Colorado, type of business. You can pick your business type. So this is a service business. I'm going to click continue. And just like that, mighty Sites will generate a basic website template for you with pictures and text buttons, all developed for you. And then it's really easy to use an editor that you can use after that. So you can go right in here and click on the update section and point and click on what you want to add. So let's say I want to add my email to the website.

Add Your Business Details To Your Basic Website

So I typed in my email address and then put show email on the site. There we go. Let's say I want to add my phone number, add my phone number, and save that close. If I change a picture, I can go over here to update the logo. Let me browse and upload. Let me find a logo on my site. I'll use the Mighty Sites website logo. Let me find it here. So here's Mighty Site's logo. I'll upload that. And now it's going to save and load right in here as soon as I click save the logo. So now the logo's there. I can make it bigger by clicking this "Make it a bigger" button. Make it smaller. I can click on this little pencil, and it opens up all sorts of image editing tools so I can crop it, change colors, resize the image, and fine-tune it.

Upload and Edit Your Business Logo

Anything I want to do, that's all built-in. So that makes it easy to use too. But if my logo looks good there, I can click save, update my location information, or do any of that. So you can see this is all pre-written for me, but if I want to edit any of this, let's say I want this to link to my lead form. I can change this button. So that's all I did. Button text, get a free quote, and then let's link that too. I can link it to call me automatically, or I can link it to, let's say, the lead form section on my website. So I'll confirm and save it. And then you can see if I click on this now, it brings me to this lead form I have for my business.

Easily Edit Text On Your Website

And if I want to edit any text, it's really easy too. And go in here. I can change this. Say, this is how you make a basic website for a small business. So I type that in close, and then I can go over here and change the paint can too. So I can change this to whatever colors I want and change it through any of the available color themes. Pick the one that I like best. My site is only $9 a month, so that's right. So to get started, it's only $9 a month. And that includes everything that I'm showing you here. So all the templates, everything. And if this lead form, it's a nice way to generate leads for your business too. So if I type in, you know, my name and email address, and I'll put in my phone number, I need a tree cut down in my yard.

Generate Leads Through Your Contact Form

So let's say I'm a lead for this business. I submit it, and now I go, you know, the customer will get this nice message. As the website owner, if I click on stop editing, see what it looks like without those update buttons, and go to the site dashboard, I will get an email that tells me I have a new lead for my business. I go in here, I get all their contact information, and I can call them to close the deal for my business too. So simple and easy to use. Website builder. It's, again, just a basic website builder. Let's say I want to build a website for another type of business. So I'll show you. Let's say that your local business is a local plumber. So I can go in here. I'll type in plumber this time.

Another Basic Website Example

And I can go here, click on the plumber template again, plumber business. This time I'll say in Raleigh, North Carolina. And then again, this is a service business, so I'll click continue. And just like that, a simple professional website is generated for me as a plumber, and all the same, easy-to-use editing tools exist. If I go back to my site dashboard and my sites, let's say that I want to build a website for a different type of business, like a restaurant, I just go in here, and I can select my restaurant type. So I'll click on the basic restaurant type, and then I type in here, you know, restaurant business. And then let's say that this is located in, let's just say, San for Cisco or let's just say,

Example of Building A Basic Restaurant Website

There we go. And then this is a restaurant. So I'll click continue a few more questions for a restaurant, then for the other template. But I'll click on that. Then obviously, it needs to know the address and let me put it in the postal code. Click continue hours. Let's say it's 10:00 AM until 8:00 PM. We'll say that it's every day of the week for simplicity. Click continue. If all of this looks good, click on next. And now, a website template has been generated for my restaurant. Again, I can upload the menu, link out to order online, and do whatever I want to do here. It's really easy to use. And then I'll show you, lastly, a retail business. So if I go back to all sites and add a new website for a retail store, let's find one. So let's say you own whichever store we want here. Let's say you own a comic bookstore. It's going to be fun. So we'll call this Keegan's Comics and then say, Denver, Colorado, a type of business retail. Click continue. Again, I'll add a few more questions for retail and restaurants because we need the hours and addresses. So I'm just going to type that in.

Building A Basic Retail Store Website

Click continue. And then again, let's say my retail store is open from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM And then, for simplicity, we'll just say those days. And then I'll click, we're closed. Sundays look good. Now all of a sudden, it will generate a simple professional website for my comic bookstore. So you can see it gets generated. All the same, tools are here. I can click on I can click on the colors to change the color palette. I can click on any of these themes to pick the one that works best for me, just depending on what the theme is for my store. And once it looks good, I have all the same editing tools. You can see there simple and easy to create a nice simple website for your business. So no matter what website or type of company you have, mighty Sites makes it easy to create a basic website for your small business. So if you want a basic website, $9 a month through Mighty Sites, there's a free trial. So you can get a simple professional website up and running quickly and easily. So if you have any questions, leave them in the comments. Thanks so much.