Frequently Asked Design and Development Questions

We would love to send you a quote when we know more of the specifics. A ballpark figure would be to start at about £750 and work your way upwards, price can be negotiable depending on what you want. Every website is unique, and the time involved in developing such websites can vary from project to project.

We doubt it. Design isn’t a commodity. Clients choose designers as much as a designer can choose who they work for. A client should respect and value a designer`s skills and experience and expect a price level to match. Quality has many levels, the better the designer, the more they may charge. It can all be about Return On Investment and the better the website, the better that return will be.

We will take the time to understand the client`s business and will recommend and amend any content supplied e.g. spelling mistake, search engine friendly suggestions. We can however offer a content writing service, more on this can be read here.

The simple answer is yes, for the first year we can host the site for you, though we have no problem if you already have a hosting provider. We provide full hosting facilities that can be accessed from your own control panel and we are on hand to give advice if you have any questions. Our servers are UK based and are situated in Award Winning High Security Data Centres. For more information.

We can do this as part of the hosting package and advise you on which domain name would be best suited for your business and situation. The choosing of the correct domain name is sometimes overlooked, it should be well thought out and carefully considered.

The answer is yes, emails are important for a business and that too can be set up with the hosting account. POP3 and IMAP email and webmail accounts can be activated, as many as you require, with a large storage capacity, that can be expanded on for a small annual fee.

Sometimes when you are starting up you don`t have the budget to purchase an all singing and dancing website. The site that I will design and develop will be easily expandable, ready for when the time is right and the money available. With regards to google it is always prudent to have something, no matter how small online first and then expand.

With most projects we ask for a deposit of 50% before any work is done and then the remaining 50% is paid on completion and before files are released, submitted and uploaded. For very small projects or amendments we may ask for full payment up front in advance. Payments can be made in the form a bank transfer, cheque, PayPal or of course cash.

There is a lot of fancy software and hosting providers e.g. 1and1, who state you can do it yourself. Though would you defend yourself in court, there must be books out there that can help you. We would advise against it. The same is true for a website, the DIY versions we have seen, have been poorly designed and executed and are usually not google friendly and that is not mentioning the time involved to develop the site. You want your site to be noticed by google and the customer and this is where we come in and the Return on Investment (ROI) is greater. The old adage "You get what you pay for" comes to mind.