WEB DESIGN PACKAGES DESIGNED WITH SMALL BUSINESSES IN MIND

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With over two decades of experience in the web design industry and a parallel career as a jewellery designer, I understand the website needs of small craft and retail businesses from both sides.

My website packages keep things as simple as possible for you and take the stress out of setting up and running a website, so that you can concentrate on what you do best.

WEB DESIGN SERVICES DESIGNED WITH SMALL BUSINESSES IN MIND

Complete Website Packages

Setting up a new website can be daunting and time-consuming, especially if you’re new to it or not very technologically minded. You need to sort out web hosting, register a domain name, set up email accounts and databases and more, and that’s before creating the website itself.

Let me do it all for you. Using my decades of web design experience and my own experience as a jewellery designer, I have created two comprehensive website packages to meet the needs of most small craft and retail businesses. Choose between a brochure website package or, if you want to sell from your website, an ecommerce website package.

In addition to creating a bespoke website that meets your current needs perfectly and gives you room to grow in the future, I provide professional, high quality and most importantly reliable UK-based website and email hosting, as well as registering and managing your domain for you, all as part of your website package.

I have a tried and trusted set of open-source and premium licensed WordPress plugins that I’ll install as standard, along with any third-party plugins to provide any extra functionality you’ve requested*

After a chat about aesthetics and what you’d like your website to do for you now and in the future, you simply need to provide me with your branding materials and initial content and I’ll take care of it all for you. We’ll stay in regular contact at every stage of the design process to make sure everything is on the right track. Once you’ve approved the finished website, it will go live.

I’ll keep the backend of the website (that’s the WordPress software and plugins) secure and up to date for as long as you’re hosted with us. I’ll also teach you how to update your content yourself, and will be on hand to provide support when you have questions about that. If you don’t have the time or inclination to manage your content yourself, I can take care of that for you too, with a monthly website maintenance plan.

If you have any questions or would like to chat about which package would be best for your needs, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Brochure Website Package

£400

Ideal for service businesses or those who don’t wish to sell online but still want to showcase their products or work.

  • Bespoke designed, WordPress driven multi-page brochure website
  • Standard pages usually include a home page, contact form, product/service information page(s), testimonials page, and/or an ‘about’ page
  • You can also add as many additional pages as you desire after the site has launched (page template provided)
  • Optional features including photo galleries, blog pages and mailing list integration included as standard
  • 1 year of website hosting
  • 1 year of email hosting with multiple mailboxes and unlimited forwarders and aliases – use professional email addresses yourname@yourdomain.name
  • 1 year of registration of a .co.uk/.uk/.com/.net domain name (other extensions by arrangement)
  • SSL certificate to secure your customer information (https:// padlock)
  • Weekly offsite backups
  • Comprehensive personalised walkthrough user guide
  • Support by email, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger
  • Upgrade to an ecommerce site at any time – discounted upgrade fee within the first year
  • After the first year, simply pay for the renewal of your website and email hosting and domain name at the discounted rate of £100 per year or £10 per month and we’ll continue to take care of the backend security and software updates. The cost of your domain and hosting renewal can also be included in a monthly website maintenance plan.
  • Alternatively, you may choose to move your hosting and/or domain away and manage them yourselves – I highly recommend Guru Cloud Hosting if you choose to do so, they’re the best I’ve found in 20+ years of using web hosting. Please note that if you do this, I will have no further responsibility for the security and software updates for your website.

Ecommerce Website Package

£750

Designed with those who want to sell products or services online in mind.

Includes everything that is listed in the Brochure Website Package, plus:

  • Full-featured online shop (WooCommerce) featuring multi-level categories, individual product pages, customer account management and much more
  • Stripe, Square, BACS and/or PayPal payment methods as standard, others by request
  • Shipping options, including optional Royal Mail Click & Drop integration
  • Customer reviews
  • Wish list
  • SSL certificate to secure your customer information (https:// padlock)
  • After the first year, simply pay for the renewal of your website and email hosting and domain name at the discounted rate of £150 per year or £15 per month and we’ll continue to take care of the backend security and software updates. The cost of your domain and hosting renewal can also be included in a monthly website maintenance plan.
  • Alternatively, you may choose to move your hosting and/or domain away and manage them yourselves – I highly recommend Guru Cloud Hosting if you choose to do so, they’re the best I’ve found in 20+ years of using web hosting. Please note that if you do this, I will have no further responsibility for the security and software updates for your website.

Maintenance Plans

From £15 / month

Monthly maintenance plans are tailored to your exact requirements so the cost will vary depending on what you would like to be covered. Some of the things that can be included are:

  • Weekly or monthly content updates
  • Management of your shop products and categories
  • Database optimisation
  • Basic SEO
  • Weekly offsite backups
  • After the first year, your annual web hosting and domain fees can be included in your monthly plan

* If premium licence third-party plugins are required to provide requested special functions, the licence cost will be added to your package cost and annual renewal cost, if applicable. Any such additional charges will be discussed and agreed in advance of any payment being made or work being started.