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The cost for a basic static page website starts at £299. The cost of our ecommerce websites start from £499, and our content management system ( CMS ) for self administration starts at £399.
Extra features are negotiable, with the average website costing around £599.
The time taken to complete your website will be based on many factors.
Do you already have all the images and text available?
Do you know exactly what you want?
Do you have a company logo and domain name?
The creation of a "good website " is not necessarily a quick process, and is based on the type of site you have built.
The average time for a basic static website is about 2 weeks and an ecommerce site can take months!
As standard, you can expect to have the following included:
1. A new .co.uk domain name
2. 1 years website hosting
3. 2 pop email accounts and unlimited email addresses
4. Website statistics
5. An XML sitemap ( plus submission to Google )
6. Search Engine Optimization
7. Search engine submission
8. Web standards comliant code
YES you can use your existing domain name and transfer it to our hosting company.
YES you can have more than 1 domain name going to your website.
Our standards terms are 33% up front, 33% on completion of website design and upload and final payment once any last updates have been carried out and the site goes live ( or in the case of products needing to be uploaded to an ecommerce site, final payment on completion of updates ).
YES you will be able to update the website yourself if you opt for a CMS solution or an Ecommerce package; however you will not be able to update a static site yourself.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, or basically making your website search engine friendly. YES we do carry out SEO on all our websites.
YES we do work to current web standards ( W3C validation ) and you will find Validation buttons at the bottom of most web pages to confirm this!
There are however some occasions where it is not possible for a particular page to meet the required standards due to client code requests.
It can on occasion take up to 6 months to appear on the search engines with certain types of websites, but on average it takes 1 - 3 weeks to appear; however appearing on the first page can take a lot longer!.
If you are someone that requires a couple of simple text changes in a year, I will happily carry them out for free. If however, you are someone that will require a number of text image and even layout changes, they are charged by the hour at the current hourly rate.
Hosting of your website is charged on a yearly basis ( and includes the domain name renewal costs ).