Startup Package
price: £500
Our Startup Package is the perfect choice for those who are looking for their first website but don’t require too many features to begin with. Your website will adhere to web standards wherever possible, be completely customised to your business/personality/passion/ideas and optimised to be found in all major search engines.
So what does £500 get me?
In short, everything you need to get your website up and running with as little fuss as possible. This is what you will get for £500:
- Up to 5 pages of content
With this package you can have up to 5 pages of content, which we will put in for you.
So for instance you may wish to have:
- A Homepage (obviously)
- An About Us page
- A Services page
- A Client List page
- A Contact page
- CSS based design
You’re site will be built using CSS – the modern and powerful language used to style all modern websites. There are many benefits of using CSS over a table layout. For example, using CSS makes it much easier to make style changes to the website in future and is also better for search engine optimisation. It is faster loading and generally much more powerful.
- XHTML compliant
Having an XHTML compliant website is good for search engine optimisation and also decreases the chance of cross browser issues. It is essentially an indicator that a website has been made well and with the future in mind.
- 1 year free hosting
With our Startup Package we realise you don’t want any fuss. You want your website up and running, quickly and easily. We give you a free year’s hosting so you don’t have to worry about any of that. At the end of that year, we’ll contact you about renewing the hosting so you won’t even need to keep track of when it’s due.
- Domain name registration
Domain name registration is not something everybody is comfortable with. Let us know what you would like and we’ll arrange it for you at the same time as arranging your hosting package.
- 1 year support
You didn’t think we were just going to abandon you after we’d built your site and received payment did you? Of course not. We’ll be at the end of an email every day, all year round – just in case you have any questions or queries.
- Up to 5 email accounts
If you don’t already have them, we can set up up to 5 email addresses to go with your website.
Example:
- john@youdomain.co.uk
- jane@yourdomain.co.uk
- jim@yourdomain.co.uk
- info@yourdomain.co.uk
- hello@yourdomain.co.uk
If you need it, we can write a short doc on how to set them up at your end, but we charge a small fee (£25) if you need us to come out and set it up for you.
- Fully customised and unique website
At WHD, we pride ourselves on our design skills and creativity. We strive to give every website we build it’s own character and unique appearance.
- Cross-browser compatible website
Building a website that looks and functions identically across all major browsers is an extremely difficult thing to achieve. Every browser interprets CSS slightly differently, so as web designers, we often end up writing extra code just to correct issues in specific browsers. Just about every one of these designers will cite IE6 as being a major pain in the ass.
Fortunately, we’ve encountered a hell of a lot of these browser issues and are getting pretty good at correcting them.
- Search engine submission
Once we’ve finished building your site we’ll submit it to all of the major search engines so that it can be found by your customers and clients.
We’ve seen a lot of companies offer to submit clients’ websites to hundreds of search engines, but we suggest you take these promises with a pinch of salt. Although the figures are hard to define and are regularly changing, currently approximately 96% of the UK search engine market share is made up of just 5 search engines: Google (with a staggering 88%), Yahoo (with around 5%), Bing, Live and Ask. You dont’ need to submit your site to every single search engine out there. Once the big boys like Google and Yahoo pick up your site, it will be naturally indexed by the others. But this is not something you will need to worry about as we do it for you :)
- Search engine optimisation
Search engine optimisation is the art of using various means to push your website up the search engine results page so that you appear higher than other people’s websites. There are a million and one posts out there that offer different opinions on how best to do it, though there is no correct answer as there is no definite or tangible result that can come from it.
We take pride in our work so we follow as many best practice and industry standards as possible to ensure your website is well optimised and stands a good chance of ranking highly. We do not achieve any of our rankings by foul means such as paying for link exchanges, as it is highly unethical and can even end up counting against you.
If you don’t have one already, we can help you pick an appropriate domain name (eg www.yourdomainname.co.uk). We will then set up your hosting which we will give you free for your first year (worth £50). Then, once you’re happy with one of our designs, we’ll go away and build it, keeping you up to date with everything we do along the way.
Cool, what part do I need to play in this then?
We’ll take care of most of it. The only things you will need to do are choose your domain name, give us a good idea of what you want your site to look like and give us all of the content you want in your site such as text and pictures. We’ll offer you a couple of designs based on the info you give us for you to choose between. If you need help with sourcing pictures or images we can suggest some and purchase them on your behalf, or even create some completely bespoke ones – though, this will push the price of the project up.
We want to make the entire process quick, simple and stress-free. For both our sakes!
Contact us to get started. We look forward to hearing from you.
