What happens next?
What will we (that includes you!) need to do to create and maintain your website?
Creating your new site
This section will help you to understand how we will work together to produce the site your business needs.
- First we will get to understand your business and what you want to achieve from having a website. Any style preferences you may have will be noted.
- Some ideas for names will be discussed, any unsuitable names will be highlighted.
- We will check the availability of your preferred names and contact you to agree the one (or ones) you want us to purchase for your site.
- We will purchase and register the name(s) as agreed and set up the diversion of email to your existing account(s). e.g. mail sent to you@yourcompany.co.uk will be set to forward automatically to your existing account you@hotmail.com.
- A sample page will be created, using your existing company colours and logo if required. This will be discussed and any style changes agreed.
- Further sample pages will be produced and discussed until the final design is agreed.
- You will supply the text, and possibly images, required for each page and this will be used to create the site. If necessary we will suggest changes to the wording to improve the effectiveness of your website.
- The quality of your site will be checked to ensure it conforms to World Wide Web Consortium standards and it will also be checked to ensure it does not present difficulties to those with disabilities.
- Once you are happy with the site it will be transfered to our server so that it will be visible to the world via the internet.
- Once your site is 'live' we will register it with some leading search sites to start the process of increasing the visitors to your site.
- If you are uncomfortable using computers we can also provide one-to-one or larger training courses tailored to your needs. Sometimes all it needs is a few half-day sessions at your desk to help you gain confidence.
Your live site
Getting your site live is only the beginning, from then on things will still be going on including:
- Trying to ensure your site's importance to search sites is improved.
- Advising you of any changes that we feel would benefit your site and improve it's number of visitors.
- Applying any amendments you require as your business needs change. Please note minor changes are included in our annual charge but if you need larger changes we will discuss them and give you a fixed price for the work.
- If required we will design and implement a 'Google AdWords' campaign to improve your site's chances of being found by your target audience. This service is chargeable but the amount you spend is entirely up to you and can be changed in line with your advertising budget and the campaign's level of success.
- There will be lots of other more technical things going on behind the scenes but we will take care of it all while you run your business.