Website Essentials
Having a good website is a lot more than just designing something pretty and sticking it up there.
There's a whole host (pardon the pun) of things that need to be considered and taken care of. But we'll take care of them for you.
Every website package we offer includes all of these:
No deposits, no hidden charges, no commitment
There's no big deposit or hefty set-up costs. Your monthly payment includes everything.
Unless your site has a very specific need that is not shared by any of our other clients, the monthly fee is all you will pay. Wherever possible we will share our developer benefits with our clients so they can enjoy the use of premium plugins at our cost.
Bored of your business? Won the lottery? Shut down your website with no payment commitments.
Bespoke, Mobile-Friendly Design
All of our websites, even the smallest one page sites, start from a blank canvas. We don't use off-the-shelf templates, so you know your site will be unique.
We build your site on a WordPress back-end (see our article What should I build my website with?) ensuring the best support and functionality is available.
WordPress sites are built using a combination of a "theme" and various "plugins" - with years of experience we have selected what we consider to be the best and all the time we manage the site you benefit from our developer licenses - our "WordPress Essentials".
All of our sites are built ready optimised for mobile use - no extra mobile versions, no extra charges. This is vital both for your customer's experience and to make sure Google love you.
Top Quality Hosting
We don't scrimp on important things, we pick the best providers to set you up with a back-end worth at least £12 per month, including:
- Domain name registration & hosting
- Quality website hosting (see our article Can your web hosting cope?)
- Backups & monitoring
- GDPR friendly cookie-free Analytics
WordPress & Plugins support
As well as our time and expertise in supporting WordPress, we provide the use of and support for a number of premium theme and plugin options, saving you at least £20 per month.
- Keeping the WordPress core up-to-date
- Keeping any plugins up-to-date
- Beaver or Astra Pro Theme - our frameworks of choice
- Beaver Builder & Themer - making it easier for all of us to design and update your site
- WP Rocket - a fast loading website keeps your visitors and Google smiling
- and more!
Email Set-up
We don't believe in keeping all our eggs in one basket, so we don't use cheap hosting with emails on the same server as the website.
We recommend the paid options from Googe Workspace (the new name for Google Apps) or, if you have Microsoft Office licensing requirements (or just love Outlook), Microsoft 365.
But we do believe it's so important you have proper "[email protected]" addresses that, if you don't want to pay extra for your email, we will set up accounts on our servers for you.
Ongoing support & updates
While all of our clients can have access to edit their content, most prefer to leave the geeky stuff to us.
Along with all the boring back-end maintenance, all our packages include us updating your content and providing you with help and advice on growing your site.
