Web Design and Development

In short – yes! The majority of customers (including you) will research a product or service online before making any purchase or commitment. A website is seen as the modern day ‘shop window’. If you’re not there to be found, then you are potentially missing out on lots of custom.

It is is always a good idea to ask yourself some questions about what you’d like to achieve with a new website. Think of some key features you’d like to see – for example, if you’d like to be able to sell your products in an online shop, or if you’d like your customers to be able to book an online appointment. It’s also really important for us to understand what your business does and who your customers are. After all – nobody knows your business better than you do!

If you already have a domain name, we will happily transfer this across with your new website.  You can either continue to manage this yourself, or we will look after it for you as part of your aftercare package. If you don’t have one yet, we’ll work with you to decide on the best domain name for your business and purchase it on your behalf.  This will be discussed before providing you with a quotation for your project and will be included in your price.

Having an e-mail address to match your new website gives a much more professional impression to your customers. As part of our service, we will set you up with a new e-mail address using a mainstream supplier like Google or Microsoft, for which there will be an additional monthly fee of £8.47 per month per email address.  We will discuss this with you before starting your project.

Before we start on your website, you will need to provide us with the content that you’d like to be included. This includes the words and any photos/videos that you want featured. We will then evaluate this content and make the necessary improvements for SEO purposes, which will, over time, improve your search engine ranking. Don’t worry – if required, we will work with you to create a site map and provide a template for you to complete for this content.

You will have 28 days following the launch of your website to make last minute simple changes to any of the text at no additional charge. For any further changes, you can either take care of this yourself using the content management system supplied with your site (all our sites come with content management system documentation) or we can take care of it for you for £35 per hour. In addition if you would like further training we can provide this for you at your premises. More information can be found on our course pages.

You can either host the website using your own provider or we can host the website for you.

Our hosting packages start from £49.99 per month. This cost varies depending on the type and size of your website as well as the traffic that your site receives.

All of our hosting options come with daily backups to a remote server, 24 hour uptime monitoring and security updates to the software running your site.

This depends on a number of factors, including how big your website is along with your readiness to send us your website content.  Most projects are delivered within 4-8 weeks, but we will be able to more accurately estimate this for you after our initial discussions.