Individually Designed Websites:
For companies or individuals that need a website built to meet their individual requirements. The design of the website will be completely unique.
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These websites can have a number of advanced features including an Online Change System allowing owners to quickly update pages on their website using easy-to-use screens.
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For owners of holiday homes, villas, apartments, guest houses, B&Bs, caravans, or anyone needing to display the up-to-date availability of their service, a unique Booking Calendar system is available.
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Also available are websites designed for companies or individuals that require a modest presence on the Internet to help promote their business or to keep up with the competition.
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Individually Designed Websites
This is a complete service from the initial designing and building of your website to the continued hosting of your website on the Internet. This service includes the registration of a website name (also known as a domain name) for your site, if you do not already have one.
Designing and building
The website will be individually designed to your requirements. You will be able to view progress right through the design and build stage and change anything that you do not like. The use of a security login will ensure that the website remains hidden to all others until you have approved it for release onto the Internet.
Search engine optimisation methods will be used to help your site to be found by customers searching for you or your services. Your site details will be submitted to the main UK Internet search providers, Google, Yahoo, AOL, AltaVista etc., requesting them to include your site in their listings.
Included in the cost of your new website is the option of an online form individually designed for your particular needs. This can be an enquiry form, an order form or a contact form. Users then simply fill in the required boxes and press a button to send the form. When the button is pressed, the contents of the form are sent to an email address of your choice. The sender need not know the destination of the form. These are often of more use than relying on an email because you can specify boxes to hold the exact information that you require. Also, if the destination email address is not shown, it cannot be seen by spammers.
Also included in the cost is the conversion of your photographs, drawings, graphics etc. into internet quality images for inclusion on the site. If you do not have suitable images I can supply these for you. Go to the images page to find out more.
Hosting
All websites are hosted on servers in a secure purpose built data centre. The servers are duplicated for security and are protected against interruption of service. Hosting charges include maintenance of the website and any work necessary to keep the website running at optimum performance.
Making changes
From time to time you may want to make small changes to the content of your website such as adding or changing some text or an image. Such changes are included in the annual running costs of your Individually Designed website.
Online Change System
If you need to make regular or frequent changes to the content of part of your site, such as a sales display page, a price list, a gallery, a notice board, a forthcoming events section, a news page, a menu, a diary or something similar, I can provide you with a unique security protected Online Change System that allows you to do this quickly and easily from your computer, as often as you like, for a single annual fee.
The system will allow you to make changes to wording in the content area of a page simply by editing a box containing a copy of the existing wording. Then by pressing a button, the live page will be changed. Text can also be pasted directly into the box, allowing you to prepare your changes in advance. The system can also allow you to upload new images to a page and change or remove images.
Website names
All websites need a website name (also know as a domain name). If you do not already have one, the name you choose will be registered to you through the official registrars. It will then become your property. A reoccurring fee is then payable to the registrars. You will be sent a reminder when this fee is due, which is normally at the same time as your annual hosting fee.
If you are a UK based company or organisation you should consider having a UK website name although there is nothing to stop you choosing to have an international one, although these are more expensive.
UK names:
.co.uk - for use by UK businesses
.org.uk - for use by UK charities or non profit making organisations
.me.uk - for use by UK private individuals.
International names:
.com - for use by businesses
.biz - for use by businesses
.org - for use by charities or non profit making organisations
.net - for use by internet services providers
.info - for use by information services providers
If you have already registered a name elsewhere, you can use that instead. Your existing name can simply be 'diverted' to your new website. This will make no difference at all to the operation of the website. I can do this for you or tell you how to do it. In this case you would continue to pay the annual fee to the registration company as before.
Emails
Email addresses are based on your website name.
For example mail@yoursitesname.co.uk or yourname@yoursitesname.co.uk.
All new email addresses can be accessed as WebMail for reading and writing your emails on-line and or by using Outlook Express or Windows Mail or other email program for downloading your emails to your computer so that you can read and write them on-line or off-line.
Or for simplicity you may prefer to keep using your existing email address and access it as you do now.
Whatever option you choose, links or buttons can be provided for your customers to email you direct from the website. Examples:
Email us at:
mail@yoursitesname.co.uk
Prices - Individually Designed websites
Design and build:
4 page website - £139.
6 page website - £189.
8 page website - £239.
10 page website - £279.
12 page website - £319.
Further reductions for larger sites.
Hosting:
£49 per year for up to 6 pages.
£5 per year per extra page up to 12 pages.
Further reductions for larger sites.
Online Change System: To allow on-line unlimited changes. With security protected update pages.
From £35 per year.
Website names:
First registration or subsequent renewal fees.
UK name - £9.98 per 2 years*.
International name - £14.98 per year.
Emails:
Standard email service - Up to 5 email addresses - Included in the hosting fee.
Premium email service - Up to 30 email addresses with Spam filter - £29 per year.
Statistics:
Detailed usage statistics - sent monthly - £12 per year.
Price examples: - not including website name registration fees.
(UK website name registration fees are payable every 2 years)
4 page website - £188 for the first year and then £49 per year after that.
8 page website - £298 for the first year and then £69 per year after that.
Booking calendars
For owners of holiday homes, villas, apartments, guest houses, B&Bs, caravans, or anyone needing to display the up-to-date availability of their service, I can supply a unique Booking Calendar system that will display the daily availability of your property or service for the current year and the next year together with pricing tables. The calendar can be easily updated from your computer as soon as a booking is made. Prices can also be changed quickly.
Visitors to your website are much more likely to contact you if they can see that the dates they want are still available.
See an example of a Booking Calendar here.
Cost - Booking calendar - £30 per year.