I can design, setup and maintain your website at a very affordable price.
Even the simplest site can look good and perform well, and remember, it can easily be expanded and spiced-up later on.
Website design
Redesign & facelifts of existing sites
Arranging domain names and hosting
Search engine optimisation and reporting
Ongoing maintenance of your site
Animated graphics
Streaming audio/video
eCommerce – catalogues, shopping carts, internet merchant services
Taking the first step is daunting, and there’s lots to learn, even if you buy decent software. So I can cut through the techie stuff and translate your conventional materials (like your printed brochure) and turn it into an attractive and interesting website.
Your audience may be fairly local, so promotion to the entire world may be a bit over-the-top, but offering your customers an insight into your business (and a way to contact you) 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, is a simple but radical way to improve your service and image.
Your competition probably already has a website, so you ought to stay with them, but many first attempts are actually pretty grubby and do not much improve their image. You could have better, and stay ahead.
A website enables you to present content in new ways to an online audience. Graphics, animation, audio, video are available to you (but not always appropriate or cost-effective!).
You will have a complete, professional, and attractive website the way you want it, with pretty much unlimited content. If you have a style or clear ideas about design, your site will be structured accordingly; otherwise I will suggest a structure based on your existing style.
I will recommend and setup for you (unless you prefer to do this, because fees have to be paid to third parties) a domain name, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host your site, and an appropriate amount of storage space.
Domain name – e.g. www.yoursite.co.uk
Email addresses at your domain – e.g. fred@yoursite.co.uk
Webspace – typically 100mb hosted at BTInternet, including their telephone support which is excellent
Guide price for above - £300 p.a.
Online visitor statistics – using (simple) thecounter.com @ £25 p.a. or (comprehensive) WebTrends.
Search engine submissions – paid submissions via Google or Yahoo may or may not be justified for your site: this can be expensive but if yours is a business site it is really necessary.
I will need all the access passwords to do the job, but these and all the code and data produced will belong to you and will be kept in a form which could be easily delivered to you if and when you wish to move on.
Why indeed such a silly name? Well, it’s more characterful than most.
Why use Grublogger? Because you will get an outstanding personal service, from a guy who is versatile, has years of marketing experience, and has invested in all the best tools – Adobe CS4 - Dreamweaver, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, and other multi-media software.
I really will deliver a good result for you, but will also go on looking after it on whatever basis you need, at a price you can afford; and will develop it for you in the future, as much or as little as you need.
Difficult to pin down but, since I work at home and sell my soul cheaply, you can be sure that I can propose an affordable solution. Even though every site is unique, I am happy to work on a fixed-price basis once the design brief is agreed.
To give a benchmark, the Llais-yr-Awel website which is a 10-page site, took me 4 days, start-to-finish. I would have charged £600 for that. To put that in context, I have just paid nearly that sum for an MOT and service on our family car.
I will always need to charge 20% of the estimate up-front, just to ensure that we are all serious about the commitment, but for a small site I am open to negotiating an easy-payment schedule over, say, 12 months.
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Here is a list of the various websites I have created (oldest last) and now maintain –