Now you can DIY your company portal

WANT to embrace the Internet to expand your business, but worried about the cost?
Yes it may be expensive to have people managing your company's portal, but what if there is a way to do it yourself?

But... I'm not an expert
What if everything is template-based. You just have to fill in the blanks. Sure you can do it.
The DIY portal solution is here, and it's made-in-Malaysia.
Local e-business specialist Skali has come up with a DIY Web portal solution aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) andsmall office-home office (SOHO) outfits.
Called WebbingPortal, the solution offers businesses with little budgetto easily establish a Web presence, said Skali Managed E-business SdnBhd's chief executive officer Roslan Brahim.

It used to be difficult
"Traditionally, it has always been troublesome for the small players tohave a Web presence as it involves a lot of work and cost. Today, a professional Web portal can be created and run live in just two hours through WebbingPortal and at a fraction of the cost," said Roslan at Skali's head quarters in Kuala Lumpur.
The minimal amount involved to create a five-page business portal isusually about RM1,600;WebbingPortal is available from as low as RM288.
According to Roslan, although there are many companies with Web portals,the reality is that there are even more that do not.

Thousands of companies but little with Web presence
Believe it or not, about 80 per cent of the companies out there have no Web presence. Theyare basically SMBs and SOHO outfits, which have been known to want to tap the Internet but have limited budget and resources to do so.
Well, they can now do so with the template-based WebbingPortal. "Customers can also tweak the design of the Web site to their likingif they have better skin, background pictures, etc," Roslan said.

For the cottage industry
Besides SMBs, Skali is targeting the DIY Web solution at the local cottage and home industry such as songket weavers, kuih sellers, cakemakers and keropok producers.
"Most of these people use blogs to promote their products, but a blog'scapability as a business platform is limited. It also doesn't lookprofessional," Roslan said.

Affordable
Skali is offering four packages for WebbingPortal: WXP SOHO, WXP Biz,WXP Pro and WXP E-Commerce, priced at RM288, RM588, RM988 and RM3,888respectively.