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We often get asked how to transfer the website from the previous website design company, a typical question may be

[Website Client] Do you not need the EPP code / IPS tag key/code to operate/take over my web site? and once you have the okay from me what is the first step? Obviously I will need full access to my website email. Additionally, do i need to inform my existing provider/server?? that I am employing you to alter my web design or just leave it until we are ready to take it over.

We like to transfer immediately and develop directly on your website in a ‘test’ directory so you can see what we are doing but this isnt always necessary, so a typical reply may be

[Delicious Webdesign] Yes we will need to gain access of the domain from your previous provider or web registration company. This could be the final stage of the project, as until you are 100% happy with the design and build, we will not put the project on your domain name. Instead, we will build the project on a test server, so that nothing is launched until it is perfect.

Gaining control over your domain needs to be done lastly, so that you suffer minimal down-time on the website. Otherwise users will land on a “under construction” page, which will do you much more harm that keeping your old site live.

Your email will work until the last moment when we switch the site over to the new site, and then we will provide you with new email login details, so that you can manage your emails once we host your website.

Regarding informing your old website design company in Southend, you can simply leave it for a few weeks – and once the new site is nearing completion we can then make the switch. Otherwise we run the risk of them shutting the site down prematurely.

Once you are happy to proceed, I need to take some information from you, which I have listed below. Then I will book the project into our project management suite, which will generate an automatic email to you

Lots of websites being built recently, this is due to the quality and cheap cost that we can provide websites to the businesses of Essex, here is what I have been sending out to new clients recently

[Delicious Webdesign] It was good speaking with you earlier, and I am happy to confirm that we are able to offer you a great solution to your problem.

I recommend that we proceed forward based on a new website, as this will give you what you need to begin earning search engine position.
The new site should follow the proposed structure that we outlined in our meeting.

The break-down of services will enable us to target each individual keyword within Google, which will in-turn open your site up to traffic.
The cost for rebuild / graphic design of the website would be as detailed and agreed previously.
We would not build anything until you were 100% satisfied with our proposed designs, and we offer a long-term commitment to all of our clients.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to send them through to me.

[New Website Client] Hi Delicious Webdesign Team, I am very happy to go ahead with your suggestions and attempt to better my website to obtains more visits to it. i am not worried about getting to number one on Google immediately, all I want to achieve at the moment is a level where i can see visits to my site being made. Once i get to this point i can then think about maybe taking it further.

Here is some history for you of how I ended up with you. The company who originally set up my site did me no favours by contacting me to inform me that i should being doing things to my website to obtain more visitors as they said Google’s way of deciding who ranks higher had changed and my site hadn’t been updated recently so i decided to leave them and go elsewhere. I took the advice of a colleague and went to see a leading Essex Website Design company in Southend-on-sea, where the site is hosted at the moment. After a week I still do not know what they intend to do and all the answers I get from them are very technical and confusing so this is the reason why I decided to look up a web design company myself on Google and thats how I found Delicious Webdesign, and I am very glad I did find you.

You have clearly outlined what you will do and what I need to do and this is all I wanted. I have previously mentioned the Internet and computers are not my thing so I will need some guidance along the way. Looking forward to getting my site redesigned.

We are a website design company that loves working with Thurrock’s small to medium sized businesses within Essex. But we really love working with business startups. Our prices are among the best and our service has consistentaly been praised by our clients. We love working with Thurrock Businesses based in the following areas

• Orsett
• South Ockendon
• Purfleet
• Stanford-le-Hope
• Grays
• Tilbury
• Corringham
• East Tilbury
• Chafford Hundred
• Aveley
• Chadwell st Mary
• Horndon on the Hill
• Bulphan
• Little Thurrock
• Belhus

Here are some typical Answers to Website design briefing questions we get from Thurrock based Essex businesses.

What are you trying to achieve by building this Web site?
Expand my advertising in the Thurrock, Essex area mainly. But will venture into other counties.  Try to contact members of the public to use my services

Website theme Ideas
Existing web site is informative and I have had feedback from people saying it is very good as it gives info and the info can be found easily.  I will be guided by you how to impr0ve this website during its redesign.

How can I maximise my SEO hyperlink impact
Remember every time your website is mentioned on a website the anchor text, which is the text you click on to get to your site and the text around the link is important so ensure the text is relevant to your business and not ‘click here’

All our sites have:

- A unique and bespoke design (we don’t use templates)
- Are built to w3c CSS and XHTML guidelines
- Free web and email hosting, and technical support
- Ongoing technical support

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

Delicious Webdesign – the Essex Webdesign Company was established in 2007 and is a team of web, SEO and graphic design professionals. We specialise in creating high quality 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 70% of our sales are gained through repeat business or referrals from previous clients.

More information about Delicious Webdesign

We can offer any web design, website promotion (SEO), ecommerce website or website development project on a pay monthly basis so if you have a special project please do get in touch and I’ll provide you with a quotation.

Really happy to say that we are among the highest rated website design company in the UK according to Freeindex, take a look at the Client Testimonials we have received on this site and on our own site.

Often get asked about what happens once we begin a website redesign project when the website needs to be transferred from a previous website design company / hosting company, the following demonstrates what is typical information we give out

A very big part of the website design project manager’s responsibility is ensuring that website transfers are done quickly and efficiently, unfortunately it can be viewed as quite complicated by other website design companies and website owners. We often speak with other website design companies that clearly do not understand the principles of website ownership, transfers and hosting and find ourselves educating them to ensure the transfer goes smoothly for our clients, the following exchange demonstrates that we go the extra mile to help website owners.

website owner Can you please explain to me what this hosting information is for as you are no longer hosting our website, actually what is hosting, as we are not sure?

delicious Your domain is very much registered and hosted with us, there is three parts to it:
Name Server, A Records and MX Records, you have chosen to change your A Records (IP Address) to another Essex Website Design company but you have our Name Server and MX Records so hosting fees are applicable I am afraid. We were last contacted by another website design company, on your behalf, to change your A records and done that instantly for you.

Happy for you to transfer away or stay with us, if you transfer away there is a small transfer charge to pay (see our website additional charges ) and if you stay with us then we are also happy to oblige.

We look at sites as if they were our own and can say that your site has been neglected in terms of SEO and can see some very amateurish SEO mistakes on it, which if you want to take our SEO program we will be glad to fix. Additionally we have now got more SEO successful projects that we can report on to give you confidence that we can deliver SEO success in terms of visitor numbers and search engine rankings. The first part of our SEO project involved benchmarking and reporting on the current status so we can use that as a reference for you and to show the improvements made over the coming weeks and months.

If you want to talk about your options in terms of hosting and SEO, happy to chat about this if you have any questions or doubts about our company’s abilities and how that they can improve your business.

website owner I wish to transfer away, i need a guarantee that you are able to transfer all the history away to another address

delicious We can transfer the domain to another host but as you have a .co.uk domain will need their IPS tag and the fee to complete this. In terms of history you mean your existing emails? If so if you use an email client for your email then your emails will be stored for you locally and you will retain your emails.

website owner ok great thanks for this info, you have restored my confidence in Essex Website Designers, please renew my hosting for two years and send me the invoice via email.

We often get to redesign / promote a website that has been active for many years without bringing in any business / inquiries / work for the website owner / business. This is normally due to the quick way the website has been put together without any ‘thought’ or any real knowledge of website design and the search engines.

We believe in ‘holistic’ website design, meaning we want all areas covered ensuring you get a great looking website that looks and works perfectly on all browsers and will be easy for the website visitor to understand and navigate to make an inquiry, order or to contact you. This website must be search engine friendly to rank appropriately in the various Search Engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo). So its always worth doing a website well and not having it done ‘on the cheap’ or for ‘free’ or for a favour as long term it will cost you business and money.

Here is a recent conversation I had that demonstrates this point:

[client / friend] need to save up to pay you although one of my friends has done a site for me and doesn’t want paying, i’m sure yours would look jazzier though.
[delicious website designer] its not just about looking jazzier, sites from DIY site makers / free sites from ‘mates’ / sites that are done quickly will almost definitely end up costing you money as they wont be ‘user friendly’ they wont be build to the ‘w3c standards’ and will not be ‘search engine friendly’.

When we get website redesign requests we normally see substantial opportunities to help the website get your message to your potential clients. Particular areas where we could help you would include:

More modern design – Your site must look appealing to your target market so we’ll start by discussing with you whom the site needs to appeal to and then I’ll get the creative guys (graphic designers) to create a fantastic looking new web design for you.

Initial webcopy population of the site – When you are happy with the design we’ll build it and help you to populate it with sufficient content ready for launch so that the new site can go online as soon as possible and start working for you. No long delays waiting for the launch!

Content Management System – Your website could include a Content Management System (CMS) enabling you to update the content on the site whenever you wish at no extra cost. The CMS is intuitive (we’ll train you how to use it) and is simple to use for anyone who can, for instance, set up, layout and amend styles in a “Word” document. We can give you a demonstration before you part with any money to ensure you are happy that you will be able to operate it. On the other hand, if you want to leave all of the site management to us we can do that too.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) – Basic SEO comes as standard with the site i.e. as part of the CMS you can enter appropriate descriptions, titles etc for EACH page. It is important too to ensure that “key” words, the words your target market would type into a search query, are included in the text on each page. This is simple to do via the CMS and we’ll give you some advice on how best to do this as part of the training.

Unlimited pages – You can have as many pages as you wish and with access to the CMS you can keep your target market engaged at all times. And you can add as many images as you like, for instance include a “gallery”. Showing your clients on your website is a fantastic way to keep them coming back.

Newsletters – With a newsletter linked to your website you could contact your customer base and keep them up to date with special offers, promotions, news and views. It’s a really good way to keep in touch.

Your new site will look great, get built and be online with the minimum of fuss and we’ll continue to work with you whenever you wish to help you to get the most out of your site. A professional site will help you to stand out from the competition

Here are my standard Updates for the client during the website design pre-build stages, obviously all the best laid plans are subject to change and as a website client you can ensure the website build process is as efficient as possible by telling us in as much detail as possible what you want to achieve from your website, then leave all the hard work to us, your favorite Essex Website Designers

Payment made
Thank you for making payment of your website deposit. We require no further payment until the project is finished and you are happy with your web site. We will now begin work on a concept design for your web site. To aid us with this, could you please fill in the questionnaire form we have attached to this email as best you can, and we will use the information to ensure our design and web site build meets your requirements exactly.

Questionnaire
This form allows us to collate all the information that we require to create an effective web site that is tailored to your exact needs. We request that you complete the attached form as best you can, and return it to us via email. We cannot continue with your website design until this form is adequately completed.

This will result in less time being wasted making revisions to web sites due to constant sending and revising of web site designs.
If you have any trouble with any area of the form, please do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to help.

Design of the Website
We will now begin work on a concept design for your site, and we will get this across to you for review.

Pre-Reveal
The concept design should be finalised and sent to you within the next few days, at which point we will ask for your opinion and feedback. This feedback will be taken on board, and any necessary changes to the design will be carried out.

Reveal of the website
Please have a look over the design, and let me know your thoughts and if there is anything that needs to be addressed before progressing to the full build stage. Alternatively, if everything seems to be ok, let me know and I will instruct the team to continue with the full web site build.

Progress
It usually takes around 2-3 weeks for the build stage to be completed from the date the concept design was confirmed; I would say the web site should be ready for review within the 3 weeks. We will let you know if this changes, but this is unlikely.

Business Websites have became a key tool for sales in todays world. Weather you looking for a New Website or Enhancing your existing Website, we can help you. We cover the Thurrock, Basildon, Brentwood and Grays areas.

Note: We do not compromise on quality just because our prices are the best in the trade. We always give you the best prices because we work on word- of-mouth publicity, rather than splashing full page advertisements in
local dailies.

We firmly believe that good and competitive work is the key to success. We can proudly say that we have been able to deliver what we show ourselves to be.

At our end the buzzword is “No project is too small or very big…….it is just a matter of perception “.We are just a phone call away or for the net savvy, a mouse click away.

If you have any further queries then please feel free to contact us either by telephone or email.