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OUR WEBSITE SERVICES
The digital world is fraught with technobabble, you may be fluent in this language, but it might be mystifying. The easiest way to comprehend the services you need to get your digital presence up and running is to use an analogy … we like to use a ‘car service model’. Like a car your website is yours and we will hand it over to you if you would like to look after it yourself.
GETTING STARTED
design & build
We work with you to design a new website and then we build it using various digital components – so we are customising your new car according to your specification.
This table is a ‘rough reckoner’ for costs. We will give you a more accurate quote once we understand your needs … please note that we are generally reluctant to create one page websites as inevitably the requirements are more complicated than you think. However, if you have limited funds, get in touch and we will see if there is a good solution that matches your budget.
| Description | Cost |
|---|---|
| A Single Page Website | from £600 |
| 4 Page Website | from £1500 |
| 8 Page Website, eCommerce enabled | from £3,000 |
| Complex Website with e-Commerce, Dynamic Movement, Video Enabled | from £6,000 |
We require 50% payment on commencement of the project and 50% on completion.
ONGOING ACTIVITIES
hosting explained
We provide a place in the ‘cloud’ (we know, the technobabble crept in) for your website and your email to reside in, your provision will give you up to 10 email addresses, if you need more or increased storage we can quote for this separately – we choose an appropriately sized garage for your car to be kept in and roads for it to drive on.
If you have a website that is already hosted elsewhere, we charge a flat fee of £150 to migrate your emails and transfer your hosting into our space. We then offer a ‘hosting & maintenance’ package where your website is hosted by epDHosting @ Guru. We have chosen Guru as they are a UK-based provider known for fast, secure, renewable-energy-powered servers.
We host the websites we design and build, however there are some cases when a transfer is difficult because of affiliated services associated with existing hosting packages, and if that is the case we will find the most practical solution for you and agree a ‘maintenance only’ package.
| Description | Cost |
|---|---|
| Hosting & Maintenance – Low Traffic Simple Site | £18.50 pm |
| Hosting & Maintenance – Medium Traffic Multi-page Site | £23.50 pm |
| Hosting & Maintenance – Medium Traffic Multi-page Site with eCommerce | £38.50 pm |
| Hosting & Maintenance – High Traffic and/or Highly Responsive, eCommerce, Video Hosting | £60+ pm |
Monthly hosting payments begin as soon as your domain is moved into the epDHosting space.
the maintenance element
We keep your website security up to date and help with small problems that occur in the shifting world of the internet. Back to our analogy: we perform routine inspections and oil changes for your car.
This is essential to the health of your website and includes:
- Continuous monitoring of website performance and uptime
- Regular updates of WordPress core, themes and plugins
- Troubleshooting and technical support for WordPress, Elementor and epDHosting
- SSL certification and security monitoring
- Google Analytics (we can give you access to your analytics if required)
- Regular backups of your website
This provides peace of mind and ensures your website remains secure, stable and up-to-date at all times.
curation
Curation of your website may or may not be necessary depending upon your digital needs and what the purpose of your website is. If it is simply serving as a digital business card, you may not want to update it regularly (although we do recommend keeping sites fresh for the purposes of SEO).
If you will be regularly making changes or additions, adding new products, services or timetables, we offer tutorial packages and guides so that you can do this yourself or you can engage us to look after the site for you. In general, basic updates (new images and text changes) are quick, we charge an hourly rate of £60 per hour (in increments of 15 minutes). More complex design updates, monthly or weekly product curation, blog/news uploads and content creation are quoted on a case by case basis.
Regardless of how the curation of your website is organised, you will have the ‘keys to the kingdom’: holding all passwords, rights, ownership and access to your website. Please note: your website will use epD’s Elementor Pro Licence, for which we do not charge, if you decide to terminate your contract, we will help you procure your own licence so that the site’s design is not compromised.
PAYMENT FOR SERVICES
Our preference is for bank transfers (direct debits or standing orders for monthly payments); however we are flexible and can discuss alternatives.
