Great Sites, Low Prices
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Our website packages always depend on the specification, but all the sites we create represent great value for money. From just £495, our standard website has the following features:
- Home page with adaptable menu that you can control with ease
- Contact page, blog, news section if required and product pages
- Custom footer allowing company information and selected links
- Social media plugins meaning you can add Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and other accounts to pages
- RSS Feed for customers to subscribe to your new products and posts
- XML Sitemap for the search engines
- SEO Friendly CSS Layout
- All meta titles, descriptions and keywords optimised
- Fantastic control panel to manage products, images and multi media
- Email accounts set-up, with control panel to add and remove users
- Integration with Google Maps and Google Local Business Centre
These are just the main features of our great website packages, there are so many more! Call today and we can quote for a new website or an upgrade for an outdated website. We can also send more information about the multiple features you get, and some examples for design and layout. All this is offered without having to commit to anything!
More about website pricing:
The price of a new website varies greatly, and like most things, it’s all down to the specification. There are a quite a few initial considerations which will pave the way for the estimate and final quote- the underpinnings of the website are the key.
A couple of good example would be the capability and requirements of the website. When it’s a contact page that needs designing, with a portfolio section and a contact page, then the bulk of the work will just be in the design and layout. After the design is done, most of the details for the portfolio section of the web pages will be populated by the owner. So the technology in this kind of new web design is minimal and the site will generally be around the £495- £750 mark, depending on the level of design work.
A website that is the same format as the one mentioned previously, but with flash elements to the main pages, will require quite a few more man hours. Again, dependinng on the amount of different designs to work on for the flash, this would be about another £250 for the flash elements.
If a site is quite a basic design and structure, and the majority of the content is added (or provided) by the business owner, then the costs come right down. A single or maybe 2 or 3 page design can be provided with an easy content management system. This way, our clients can take the products and information they have and amend in when they want and how they want. The beauty of this is that there is no limit to the possibilities with regards to how much content can be added, which is a cheap way of getting a big website. The search engines also like this kind of website design.
The times we see a website rising in cost always comes down to the amount of man hours put in, and designing bespoke aspects to a website bumps up the price. However, this is usally relative to the size of the project and would have been factored in. When there is a need for one system to talk to another sytem, either on or off site, this means hand coding is normally required.
Our coders are quick and efficient, but it takes time and expertise to get it right. And that is the important bit- your business may rely 100% on these systems working 24 hours a day, in which case they need to be designed and maintained by a professional web design firm like SimpleHQ.com. For more details on pricing please use the contact form or call the free phone number.
Learn how to implement Code in to your webpage
This article will explain how to implement basic code in to your site and allow you to have some dynamic features.
Learning about CSS
CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets” and are used when developing webpages and websites.
The cascading style sheets are used by html pages to define how the layout and the style of each item on the page will be displayed. The CSS file has the power to change the layout of a page and also the style of the text and where the text is positioned on the pages.
CSS is a relatively new standard or method for creating the design and layout of pages on websites.
CSS gives the designer the ability to make mass changes to a site from one file. It allows the styles / layouts / format of the site to alter with one alterations to one file. All files that are linked to this Cascading Style Sheet will be updated with the change.
Below are the main parts of a style sheet.
CSS is made up of three components and these are :
- A sector
- A Property
- A value
an example of CSS is this :- h1 {color:blue} the example shows that all H1 tags, normally seen in code as <h1> will be displayed in blue </h1>
All the H1 tags that are referenced by the attached Style sheet will have automatically been updated and now use the new blue H1 tag.
There are two main types of Items for Style sheets and these are Id’s and Classes.
A Id is used when its only going to be used the once and is seen in a style sheet by the use of a # e.g #paragraph1 this will be referenced in the html code and when called allow what ever change to paragraph1 to be implemented.
The other is a Class. This is normally defined by a . at the start of the name. This is used in situations when the request for a style is used over and over again and can be used to define a group of things to be altered. This would be ideally suited for making all cells in a table grey. A more eneric name would be given.
I.E .titles If the style was set to .titles like this <div class=”titles”>
Ways to use a css file
There are 3 ways that a css can be use in development and these are as follows
- External style sheet
- Internal style sheet
- Inline style
External style sheets are normally a seperate file that is included at the top of the page and it contains all the styles / classes / that are required for the pages that its included in.
A Internal Style Sheet contains all the information thats on a external sheet but it is included at the top of the page in the header of the html. When the page loads it includes all this information and uses it to style the page
Inline Styles are styles that are included in the html code at the point where they are needed to be used. a example of this would be <span colour=blue>Set colour to blue</span>
Learning about HTML
This article will explain the basic ins and outs of HTML and how it works.
More people working from home
With the recent problems we have experienced due to the economy, recent news has shown that more business and sole traders are now working from home. An easy option to reduce overheads and cut the threat of cash flow affecting your business, many companies are now based on the internet alone.
Having a website as the ’shop front’ for your products or services means customers can still interact with you without needing physical premises. Rent, rates, electricity and telephone bills are all something that we pay at home, so many people are deciding not to double up on these expenses by paying the same to a landlord.
Of course not all businesses are in this position, some having many members of staff and needing a tangible office for meetings. But being a one man band and being able to have a professional website as a presence, now means entry to new markets is easier than ever. Competition is rising in many market sectors like I.T. and recruitment because of these changes.
Online advertising surpasses T.V.
Recent industry figures has revealed that marketing revenues generated from online advertising now surpass that of the Television sector.
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Our web design packages start at just £500 plus VAT. We specialise in creating websites that are easy for our customers to manage and update.
Contact us today for a quote. We offer affordable web design packages for any business.
