Web Design

This is the design of your website, created from scratch by one of our designers. It is the first stage and only 25% of the overall cost is due in this phase.At the end of phase 1, we will deliver: design of the site and all subsequent pages in PDF format to be signed off for development phase.

This is the stage in which the site is developed and coded into a fully functioning website on our staging server behind a password. During this stage only dummy content or limited content is used to demonstrate design, operation, and functionality. A second 25% is due in this stage.

This is the stage in which we populate the site with the agreed content (within the scope of the requirements given in this proposal).For Ecommerce projects, we will also populate products, shipping set up, and payment functionality within this phase.In the case of a website re-design, where applicable, we can source content from the previous site.

In this stage, we perform website interoperability and mobile testing (and in the cases where SEO optimisation is required, SEO optimisation will be performed alongside testing).

The final 50% is due at the end of phase 4 and the project is signed off to go live.

If our 4 phase payment plan still looks a little daunting, we do also offer monthly payment solutions. Please get in touch to discuss more.

Domain registration is a very simple process, I can organize this for you and instigate name servers to point to your appropriate hosting.

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I used to tell small business owners that it didn’t matter if they had a website if most of their business was local. But now almost everyone uses the internet to get information – even local information. Potential customers are using their Smartphones and tablets to decide where to go and what to buy.

So your small business has to come up in local search or beware; people who are searching will find other local businesses rather than yours.

People expect businesses to have their own websites, just as they used to expect businesses to have a real physical business address.

Not having a business website raises questions in customers eyes. Are you a technological luddite? Just still haven’t gotten around to it? Or such a shoestring startup that you can’t even afford to do this? All things you don’t want people thinking about your business!

Having a business website gives you an automatic internet presence. Think of it as an online billboard. Instantly you have another chance to introduce people to your products and services and another way for people to find you. (Of course, how many eyes your billboard attracts will depend on your conscious marketing efforts to get people’s attention, such as Search Engine Optimization, blogging, using social media, and online advertising.)

For instance, getting people to write their email addresses on pieces of paper and handing them in at a physical storefront is hard.

But getting people to type their email address into a box on a website is much, much easier – especially if they perceive that they’re getting something for it, such as a newsletter, a special report or an ebook. And once you have the email address, you have another way to reach your potential customer.

In the U.S., ecommerce spending was $341.7 billion in 2015 and Forrester Research Inc. predicts that online shoppers will spend $385 billion in 2017. Retail ecommerce sales are forecast to grow at a fast pace in the coming years, going from 396.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to just over 684 billion US dollars in 2020. In Canada, ecommerce spending was $27 billion in 2015 and sales are expected to total nearly $40 billion by 2018. Canadians shop more abroad than they do domestically, with 67% of purchases going to other countries (PFS).

To learn more about ecommerce: return to my website soon as that will be my next article.