We are offered £50 off any website that is ordered during January 2019 – just choose whether you want the Basic or the Standard site on our Prices page and add it to your cart.

Once you have chosen your package, add the hosting fee to the cart, and use the coupon code JAN2019 at checkout to receive a £50 discount from your order.

Of course if you have any questions, please just contact us today for a chat.

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Let me try and explain the differences for you, and I’m not trying to sell you my services, just giving some free advice, as reading this will cost you nothing at all, but it may help your business in the long run. Here’s five top reasons not to use a free website builder.

1. Free websites are slow websites. Most of the free options out there put hundreds of sites on the same server, this means slow speeds. If a visitor to your site experiences slowness, it automatically puts people off and thinks your business may also be slow and ineffective.

2. Free web addresses look awful and unprofessional. Saying to a client, my web address is mylittlecompany.freewebsiteonline.com sounds bad and people would struggle to take it seriously, let alone remember the name.

3. Irrelevant advertising on your business site is a real turn off. The companies offering free websites have to make some money, they do that by slapping ads on your site and charging other companies advertising fees. They may even be advertising your competition.

4. Limited bandwith will become an issue if you’re promoting your domain to many people. This means if you get lots of visitors, the free website will be offline as soon as you hit your bandwidth limit. Then you have to pay.

5. Most free websites only offer low disk storage space, so if you want lots of pages and photos you’ll find yourself limited. When you enquire about more disk space, then you’ll be presented with their fees.

These are just five of the most important reasons not to use a free website for your business. There are plenty of other things to consider such as, you won’t get branded email accounts, they probably won’t look good on mobile devices, they may even end up being removed without notice.

I think most importantly, if you value your time, instead of spending hours trying to create something yourself, for free, at least have a conversation with a professional website developer first. By spending some money to get a professional to do it, this frees your time up to concentrate on your core business.

My best tip is to find a website you really like the look of, even if it has nothing to do with the industry your business is in, contact a website designer and ask them if they can replicate something similar. have the conversation, take a look at their portfolio, contact some of their past clients and ask for their opinions.

All of our websites are managed by us. This means you pay a small monthly fee, for that we maintain all of the original pages, pay your domain name fees, maintain security so that you don’t get hacked and respond to you whenever you have a question or need some help. There is no free website that will do all of that for you. Sometimes free is good, but perhaps not when it comes to the online marketing of your business.

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WordPress is a free to use download, it’s a series of files that need to be installed on a webserver. As of January 2018, it’s a fact that WordPress was used by more than 29% of the top 10 million websites in the world. That means it’s a very useful tool, and is easy to use.

Once the WordPress files are downloaded, and then uploaded onto a webserver with a registered domain, you can install it to run using PHP and MySQL, which is simply a database. The database holds the WordPress information, and the webserver holds the images and files in place.
The beauty of wordpress is the easy to use dashboard. I provide all of my clients with a “how to” document if they want to add news and information to their website themselves, it’s very simple to blog using a wordpress website, and you can even publish from an app on your smartphone or tablet.
When everything comes together you get a website like this one, or any variety you like. WordPress has many themes which are easy to use, and you can create literally any type of website you desire.

So if you contact me and I say, we’ll be using a wordpress website, just think that you’ll be joining millions of other users in having a quality website running on a great CMS.
As a designer I will tweak your website to match whatever you like, and my monthly management fee includes all your hosting, security and updates, leaving you to run your business, and of course blog from the comfort of your sofa, if you so desire.

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