Website Design

How much for a website?

A website means different things to different people. To us it means the following features as standard. Every project is unique, so fill out our enquiry form » on how your project differs and we’ll quote.

• Our websites are built using WordPress. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call home. WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System for changing website text, adding new pages, blogging and tweaking content. It allows people like you to easily make big changes to your website without the need to learn programming. It is widely supported and offers many advanced features out of the box. Best of all it’s open source so it’s free to use. Allowing you to make changes if you want to or you may prefer to get us to quote on an item by item basis.
• A New Design not an off-the-shelf one. Design is not the icing on the cake where you just choose a colour and a font. In fact it has careful consideration of form and composition that aims to evoke the right psychological and emotional response ».
• The project time scales are less than 3 weeks for our involvement. As we don’t know how busy you are please add reasonable time for your involvement such as supplying content, reviews and any changes you add to the project.
• No Monthly Hosting Fees From Us. We recommend budget or feature rich hosting with dedicated hosting giants giving you large support teams keeping it reliably running 24/7 on fast secure powerful servers. Combined with our dedicated designers giving you the personal local service whose focus in on making your site look and function great. Expect to pay them (e.g. GoDaddy, 123-Reg, FastHosts etc) about £5 per month for reasonable hosting. Minimum hosting requirements for a WordPress site are Linux (with mod_rewrite and GD turned on), PHP 4.3+ and MySQL 4.1.2+.
• Website submitted to the main search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask. Note the rest often buy their databases from these.
• Includes Search Engine Optimisation. For the best chance of being indexed highly by the search engines.
• Built with Google Analytics. You can track it’s success.
• Testing in multiple browsers: Firefox, IE, Chrome, Opera and Safari. For the most consistent user experience in the most error free way possible.
• We proof check your text for typos, grammar and to implement sales techniques. Other designers will use your text as supplied.
• Compliance with W3C Accessibility Standards. To reach the widest possible audience.
• Conformance to W3C XHTML Validation. To follow industry best practices.
• Includes minor amendments and we’ll quote for excessive ones. Note some companies charge for all changes.

The interface will contain the following items:

• Your company logo.
• A short caption stating exactly what you do in the most simplest words possible.
• A prominent ‘call to action’ such as your phone number.
• Main navigation to Home, About, Services, Images, Blog and Contact. Footer links to Sitemap and Legal.
• Side Bar
  • A search form that searches your website.
  • Links to your post categories.
  • Posts Calendar that links to posts by day.
  • Tag Cloud that links to posts tagged by keywords.

The website will contain the following pages:

• Home page containing the following elements:
  • A paragraph on why people want to use you.
  • A paragraph on how you are going to help them.
  • A paragraph on what you offer to achieve this.
  • 3 promotional banners to key pages in the website.
• Blog page contains a list of the latest posts which link through to the full Article Pages. You post the articles with the WordPress Content Management System. The latest post page is also used for viewing search results, viewing post categories, viewing tagged posts, viewing posts by year|month|day and viewing posts by author.
• About page with a few paragraphs on how you are better at helping them and who you are.
• Services page with a few paragraphs expanding on what specifically you are offering.
• Images page with an image viewer. Images can be clicked on to see larger versions.
• Contact page containing your contact details, an embedded interactive Google Map pointing to where your location is and an email form (capturing name, email and message).
• Sitemap page listing all pages on the site.
• Legal page containing standard website legal information such as privacy statement, copyright statement and website terms & conditions.

You provide us:

• Text content.
• Any source visual assets for the design such as your logo, accreditation logos, photography, illustrations etc. There maybe an additional charge and time scales if we have to create or find these.