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Website Design

The design process

The best way to determine your ideal website is by understanding your requirements. Hence, the initial step is to get together and discuss what you want from your site. Some of the options are covered in the sections below. The resulting website is thus custom built to fit your individual needs.

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Domain Names, Emails & Hosting

Costs and options

We provide domain name registration, email accounts and website hosting options. The typical price for hosting a site with one .co.uk domain name is currently £40 per year.

Our standard hosting package provides 5 GB of webspace and 30 GB bandwidth per month. It includes up to 1000 email addresses, webmail for accessing your emails from any computer, statistics showing how many visitors you've had, where they came to your site from, etc. and much more.

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Content Management Systems

Update your own site

Content Management Systems (CMS) allow users to edit and update their own site, without having to pay a web designer. Fancy keeping your own blog, or need to have a news page that is constantly changing, then a CMS is what you need. You can log in and administer your site using your internet browser of choice on your own PC after entering your username and password. You don't have to be a computer expert either.

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E-commerce

Have your own online store

E-commerce gives you the opportunity to sell products, whatever they may be, to people all round the world. For most small businesses the cheapest solution to taking payments securely online is to use PayPal. Customers can pay you instantly and securely by debit and credit card, their bank account or by PayPal account balance.

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Picture Galleries

Put your photos on the web

An easy way to keep track of all those digital photographs and to share those holiday snaps with your friends and family, an online picture gallery is great. These are designed to be very easy to use; no need to resize your images as thumbnails are generated automatically. You can group your pictures into different photo albums for easy reference.

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Accessibility

Building accessible websites

We aim to build websites that are accessible to as many people as possible, including those with disabilities.

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Standard Compliancy

Ensuring cross-browser compatibility

Our sites are designed to comply with the latest W3C standards for websites. The importance of building a standard compliant website is that it is the best guarantee of getting a site that it viewable across all platforms and all browsers. All the sites that I build use xhtml and CSS.

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Search Engine Optimization

How will people find my site?

As part of the process of building your website, it will be registered with the main search engines, such as Google. In addition, we can discuss ways to ensure that people visit your site, for instance by improving incoming links and up-to-date content.

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Pricing

How much will it cost?

The cost of producing a website will vary depending upon your individual requirements. However, to get a rough idea, a simple site of up to 5 pages would cost around £125 (including a .co.uk domain and hosting). To add a photo gallery would cost around £50 and for a content management system, add around £75. To add e-commerce capability, with payment via PayPal, add around £150.

Ongoing updates and changes to your site would be charged at an hourly rate of £12.