Most entrepreneurs, businesses, agencies, and other organizations design a website in one of four ways: by running a design contest, hiring a design agency, working directly with a freelance website designer, or making their own website designs with an online website builder.
Each of these options has advantages and disadvantages.
Online website builders give you generic, template-based designs that looks like thousands of other designs. Agencies and freelancers can be very expensive (agencies typically charge $25,000+ for a completed website) and you get little choice.
Design contest are, for most, the best option for a custom website design because you set your own price and pick your favorite custom website design from among dozens of unique, custom website designs submitted by designers from all over the world. Web design contests provide a lot of flexibility and creativity.