Management Plans
Making websites child's play
Background
Traditionally, a website would be designed for a large lump sum. Once ready, it would be uploaded to a server (website hosting) and linked to a web address (domain name), and you would be expected to renew the domain name each year, and pay either monthly or annual website hosting.
As far as you were concerned, that was it. Your website was live and that's all there was to it. Each month/year, you would be asked to renew your services, sometimes these may occur on separate dates, and you might question if you had already paid that bill earlier on. This is where the headaches begin!
Over time, parts or all of your website would stop working or display unexpectedly. This may be because when your website was originally built, it may have linked to a third-party services, such as Google Maps or to a social media account. These links were probably in the form of an API (Application Programming Interface). Without your knowledge, the company providing that API may have changed or completely redesigned the way that it works, leaving your website confused. The map to your location is not longer displaying, the contact form is no longer sending you emails, the area reserved to display your social media posts is now blank. Once you have calmed down and informed your website designer, the changes were fixed and you were presented with another bill.
Does this sound familiar?
The internet is a truly wonderful thing, when it works. As it has grown in popularity, it has also evolved. A consensus was formed to make the internet better in various ways. Increased security from potential hackers, responsive websites which automatically adjust the layout to suit the device you are using so as to make them easier to read and navigate, and RIP Flash. Your website needs to evolve with the times. It also ideally needs to contain fresh content, so that it is more appealing to potential visitors to your site.
A holistic approach
Having been in your situation, we know first hand how frustrating it can be setting up and maintaining your own website, and keeping on top of the periodical bills, and that's not to mention the large upfront fee.
Instead, after discussing your long-term needs, we provide our website services for a small monthly fee.
All of our Management Plans include the following:
• The initial website design and maintenance, to keep it working
• Domain name registration and the annual renewals
• Website hosting on our shared platform and the annual renewals
• SSL certificate to encrypt your data, and its annual renewals
• Matching professional email address(es) so you don't have to use your @gmail or @yahoo email address
• A brand new website design after 5 years (if you wish)
• Wordpress-free zone – we build our websites from scratch
• And most important of all, NO LARGE UPFRONT FEE
Options
We currently provide two Management Plans:
Lite
This plan comes with 2 Email Credits and is aimed at simpler, static websites. We can incorporate our CMS-Lite package, which will allow you to make changes to text and images yourself, by logging in to an Admin area. If that's not your scene, we will also make minor monthly changes to the website on your behalf.
Pro
This plan comes with 4 Email Credits and is for more pro-active websites. We can incorporate our CMS-Pro package, which allows you to make many changes to the website for yourself, not simply text and images, but galleries, file downloads, video, password protection, news feeds and blogs, which allow you to create additional pages of content when you choose. If you'd rather we did all the work, we allow you two hours of monthly updates to the website.
Additional services
• Social media management
• Search engine optimisation (SEO)
• Content management system (CMS) to edit and add extra pages to your website when you need them
• Premium mailboxes up to 100GB storage
• Additional email credits
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