Archive for July, 2010

Once the website has been built its inevitable that changes will need to happen, maybe phone numbers and addresses need updating, products need adding, changing or removing, services need to be added or a whole range of other reason that your website will need to be updated. Its recommended that sites are updated and improved over time to keep them fresh and interested and we can help achive this. We can provide a wide range of services including web design & development, graphic and logo design, multimedia and flash animation all done with discount pricing to our clients.

Regarding your Website Maintenance its normal that your site will be facing challenges like:

Keeping the Site Fresh
Adding content
Adding extensions to the site like a WordPress blog
Browser Compatibility (to keep your site looking good and working well with all the new browsers)
Graphics Optimization

We can help you face the above challenges with our comprehensive Web Maintenance Services.

Our services Includes:

Modification / Addition / Removal of Website Content
Image Manipulation and Addition of images to the site and galleries
Shopping cart Product updates
Contact or Booking form updates
Bug fixing on existing code
PDF creation and uploading
Complete backup of your website

Completing regular updates and maintenance on your site is a great way to add value to your business and Increase your ROI from your website design / development and hosting costs.

Contact us to discuss anything regarding your website maintenance requirements.

This is a pretty rare occurrence as if a website designer / hosting company stops trading they should have sold their company including their clients to another company that agrees to continue the hosting arrangement with existing clients. If you have a .co.uk domain you will be glad to know there is a simple solution out of your predicament. Here are the standard details we sent to new clients if they contact us after their website designer has disappeared or gone out of business.

To begin the transfer process, you will need to do two things:

1, phone / email Nominet to explain that your website designer has gone out of business and you want to transfer to us (they charge £10 for this service)
You will need to tell them to update your IPS tag to ENOM
This will enable us to transfer your site / email

to contact Nominet by their website >> http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/contactme
or via Telephone: +44(0)1865 332244 (Lines open 8am – 6pm)
or Email: nominet@nominet.org.uk

2, pay the yearly hosting fee, if you want us to make changes on the website you can give us a full list and we will confirm the changes are viable and will give you a quote, we sometimes suggest other changes / improvements that you may not have spotted.

Website updates are performed on a hourly support cost basis and you will be glad to know we are quick and efficient at these. We have already got the source code of your website to enable us to start any work immediately.

Things to bear in mind
You will need to re-setup your email (if you use an email client like outlook / windows live mail / mail) full instructions will be given, normally this takes only a few minutes. If you access your mail via the web (webmail) you will be given a website address where you can access your email with your username (email address) and password which we supply.

The transfer may take a day or two to begin and your site maybe down for a few minutes during the swap over.

Once you have contacted Nominet and they have confirmed the transfer phone or email us to tell us this so we can continue the transfer process.

We have just upgraded and renewed our reseller hosting plan and having been very fortunate to have experienced near perfect service / uptime and fault-finding from one of our hosting companies we decided to renew with them and upgrade to give us more flexibility for our clients.

Hosting is often not the first thing our clients ask about but I make a point to tell them that their site will be on a server within its target market’s country, which is usually the UK for most of our clients, this helps website speed and SEO as well the knowledge that they have UK based staff and a guaranteed 99.9% uptime for their website from an Award winning company.

Additionally the hosting that they will be put on is flexible enough to offer Linux or Windows hosting and to offer databases for website options like a WordPress Blog or a Joomla CMS system or possibly they may want to upgrade their website to be a full ecommerce website at a later date. If that is the case the hosting has the flexibility to offer everything that is needed for the future.

The budget hosting options that are available are simply not good enough for our needs and as such all new clients of Delicious Webdesign will be given, as standard, powerful, local and flexible hosting from an award winning company.

I predict this update must come soon, been just over 3 months since the last one and they have been coming quarterly for some time now, we will be reporting our page rank increases and decreases just like we did back in April 2010

Commonly for business brochure websites, that are brand new websites as opposed to redesigns, we get asked what to expect in terms of performance / business inquiries, here is a recent reply I gave to a client who asked me how his website is doing compared with other new launched websites.

I would say the site is doing better than expected seeing its brand new, the search engines know you are new and don’t take much notice of you to start with normally. Your rankings are not ‘firm’ to begin with normally and you can be bounced all over the place in the first months.

Needless to say you are doing the right thing by using PPC advertising and that is bringing you quite a number of valuable visitors in the last 30 days. New sites simply take time to get ‘noticed’ and ranked accordingly but rest assured cream always rises to the top.

Check this recent post I made to show how our websites move up the search engines
http://www.delicious-webdesign.com/blog/search-engine-optimisation/161

just noticed that you are number 11 for a competitive term already, after the website was launched only 3 months ago, this is a national / UK wide search term and a good sign of things to come.

The website is going to be around for a long time and earn you lots of business but you are up against loads of established websites / companies so its going to be slow to start with, here are some tips you can follow to improve your site and its search engine ranking:

1, keep posting on your blog.
2, ask friends / contact that have websites to get a link to your site.
3, post on more forums and have your website as your ‘signature’ and try to mention your site if possible.
4, get testimonials from clients and give them to us to regularly update your site.
5, Send us new photos for your photo galleries

Had some interesting ecommerce sites go live recently,

1, Contemporary Modern Art Website http://www.duckmania.co.uk/
2, Oriental Umbrellas offering a fabulous range of umbrellas http://www.oriental-umbrellas.com/
3, Kokyoto Textures, giving people that play in online worlds an opportunity to buy graphical textures http://www.kokyoto.com/ (will be completed shortly)
4, Designer Children’s Clothes Website http://www.dollyrockerkids.co.uk/ (will be completed shortly)

If you want an e-commerce website then we can allow you to sell your goods to the world and make money on the web.

This is a Delicious Webdesign new product launch.

PAY MONTHLY WEB DESIGN FOR £19.95

We’ll design a new website for you, bespoke to your requirements, and rather than paying the usual upfront price, you can pay a small amount each month. When you don’t want the website anymore, you can stop paying, it’s as simple as that. Paying for your website each month rather than in one large sum has many benefits:

- Helps with cash flow
- You’re guaranteed to get excellent ongoing support (if we didn’t provide good support you’d leave!)
- Web hosting, emails and technical support is all included in the price

All our sites have:

- A unique and bespoke design
- Are built to w3c CSS and XHTML standards
- web and email hosting, and technical support

Our websites are affordable and professionally designed (our online portfolio speaks for itself so take a look)

Delicious Webdesign was established in 2006 and comprises a team of 6 web and graphic design professionals – we create business websites at an affordable price and work with you throughout the whole design process to ensure that you are completely happy with the finished product. A good indicator of how well we perform is that a high percentage of our clients are gained through repeat business or referrals from previous clients.