We aim to build a long term and profitable business relationship with all our clients. Our prices are very competitive and we guarantee our work is one of the fastest around without sacrificing quality.We here at Delicious Webdesign work on the main principle that there is no budget too big or too small and all our work is undertaken with the same calibre of expertise. All our designers and web developers are hand picked and we know that every single one is unique in their area of expertise. You’ll have intelligent and elegant solutions to your projects that you simply won’t find with other companies.

We have a portfolio available upon request of our current and past work.We can take on any web development work you may have; whether it be graphic design or raw coding we can do it, which will leave you to focus on the main purpose of your company. We enjoy working with our clients and we will gladly put you in touch with any of our existing clients for testimonials or references.

We really believe we can reduce your costs and increase your profit margins by working with us. We’ve already got over two hundred companies making significant savings already, and getting their work completed faster and to a higher quality than they would have been able to produce without us! We look forward to hearing back from you and hopefully potentially establishing a great long term working relationship.

We love doing ecommerce websites and here is an example conversation to demonstrate what you may be thinking and our responses to your queries to get your ecommerce website online and earning you money.

[Giftware Company] We run a  giftware company. Trading for 1 years so we  are a new start up company based in Billericay in Essex. Can someone please contact me to discuss our requirements on a new website our product range is cufflinks and wedding accessories. We are looking at Up to 2000 products, so no restriction on pages. Will require full payment facilities. Please advise styles and costings. Examples would be good

[Delicious Webdesign] Thanks for the email and your questions. It sounds like you need a full ecommerce website, giving you full control over stock, orders, customers, prices, shipping and inventory. The ecommerce solutions we can offer you have virtually unlimited categories and products and gives you a variety of payment options, we use industry leading solutions ensuring you get a ‘search engine friendly’ ecommerce site that is easy to use and administrate.

Here is some more info on the website you require http://www.delicious-webdesign.com/ecommerce-solutions.html and http://www.delicious-webdesign.com/website-packages.html#ecommerce

Depending on other requirements your costings for this will be between £1500 – £2000.  Hope that sounds simple and easy to understand and look forward to answering any questions you may have

[Giftware Company] I’m looking at a max of £1750. I’m looking for eccomerce site for selling my giftware stuff (cufflinks, wedding stuff, etc) looking at eventually listing 2000 products, so obviously no restrictions on how many pages. would need full payment facilities using paypal  & bank cards etc..Would list all products and other information details, so that may help  reduce the workload and price. let me know what you think.

[Delicious Webdesign] As we have some spare development time coming up in a few weeks and want to allocate this time in advance, We have decided to give you a ecommerce site for £1750 but you would have to add the categories / products yourself and have to  accept less customisation and supply us with clear instructions on your specific website requirements (if you have any) including initial categories and you should agree to having paypal as your payment method and supply us with the relevant details (details of how to do this will be sent after project commences). Please complete the attached document (two formats supplied) and then pay the deposit for your ecommerce solution (deposit is normally 50% or minimum of £750 so in your case its the full payment).  Please ensure you give us your full registration address and website name you require and we can start planning your project within days. Any text (webcopy) you want to give us (about us page?) you need to supply that before the project commences.

[Giftware Company]  I’m currently looking at a few Essex website designers. I’m interested but unfortunately your price is above the budget i have set aside for a start up.  I have couple of other website quotes coming back. Would you have any sample / demos of previous sites you have done, paypal ecommerce business websites would be good?

[Delicious Webdesign] Ok hope you look at quality and SEO for the site long term instead of just cost as it may end up being a mistake, we have taken over lots of sites where the ‘cheap’ and quick builds have ended up not earning the client any money / sales for years. If it comes down purely to cost we may be able to drop if you can commit quickly to fill up our development time.

Here you go, some ecommerce websites:

www.cranberries-gifts.co.uk

www.vintagengland.co.uk

www.dollyrockerkids.co.uk

www.jaykay-blinds.co.uk

www.jk-wedding-rings.co.uk

www.kokyoto.com

These were all started within the last year, a couple are not finished just yet but hope this gives you some idea that we can produce an ecommerce gift shop for you, regadless of what you decide we would be really interested to see how you get on and if you need any advice please ask now or in the future. If we dont hear from you we wont ‘chase’ you for a decision but we simply want to keep in touch and plan our workload for the coming months and won’t be offended if you are not in a position to start the website design project just yet, but if you are, feel free to email or phone us to discuss further.

You must comply with the law when you have a website and one of the easiest things to fall fowl to is missing off your address, to illustrate this here is the reply you get when attempting to submit a site to our business directory if you don’t put an address on your website.

Thanks for suggesting that we list your website within our directory. We list such websites where they are based, irrespective of area covered, but we can’t find this information on your website. If you ever add it, preferably by adding an address to a Contact Us page, please resubmit your website to the corresponding category. You might not be familiar with current UK legislation on this matter. We are courteously explaining  why we won’t list it in it’s current form and what you need to do to make it acceptable to us and in UK law. There’s a good summary here:

1, Include the name the company / individual that you are acting as need to be stated on the website. Its possible that this is not your trading name so you need to state that your website name is the trading name of your Limited company name.

2 You need to include your main email address. If you have a  ‘contact us’ form you need to include the email address also.

3 Your registered business address

4 If you are a limited company, the registration number needs to be given, you can check yours online at companies house website.

5 Membership details of trade or professional associations

6 Give your VAT number, if you have one

7 Prices (if given) should be stated clearly, additionally prices need to be indicated if they include or not include tax and delivery. Basically don’t hide any costs.

8 Place of registration should be stated (e.g. “Delicious Webdesign Limited is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 5858585″).

Always looking for website designers with talent that want to take on demanding projects, please send us a CV with links to your previous website work and an introduction similar to this guide one:

I have been looking at your website and was wondering if you had any web designer positions (junior/ trainee) available, as i am looking into changing my career and get more into designing websites full time rather than part time which is what i do at the moment. I am currently looking to further my career in Web Designing as at the moment I am working for a company called Google, my role within this company is a production assistant but for 2 days a week I work within the sales department keeping the current website updated, i have also started designing a new website from scratch as I feel the website is quite dated.

I am very interested in Web Designing, I have passed courses in Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Photoshop and I have a good knowledge of the Adobe package. I am currently learning Visual Web Developer through tutorials. Doing these courses made me want to design my own websites, which are indicated in my CV, whilst working on client sites i have gained useful knowledge. I managed to produce my websites in my spare time outside of work and now I really want to get into this full time. I am very hard worker, very punctual and an excellent communicator. I can work well within a team but can also work well individually. I like to get tasks finished in a scheduled time scale and feel i would benefit working for your company if given the opportunity

Your CV should include information like this guide CV:

Employment History

May 2005 to date – Fords: My position within the company is Production Administrator. My job involves ensuring the shop floor has all the parts and sub-assemblies necessary within the Works Orders to build equipment to the machine output schedule, as determined by customer priorities. I also deal with suppliers to progress overdue parts or call in parts which are needed urgently.
When needed I will cover goods in, to book in parts delivered, this can sometimes involve contacting supplier with queries to delivery notes, producing reject notes and dealing with Credit control. I am also working in our IT department on a part time basis to give me a little more experience, updating our current website, which is eventually going to be re-designed and I will be maintaining this.

August 2004- September 2004 – Employment agency: During this time I was attached to the employment agency, they placed me in a couple of administrative posts.
While in the placements I performed all aspects of an administration assistant to a very high standard which included producing spreadsheets, using their computer system, filing and answering telephone calls.

July 2002- May 2005 – Tesco: Whilst at this company I was a temporary employee working as a checkout assistant, which enabled me to complete my ICT college course.This job involved handling money, dealing with the public and giving support and advice.

Work Experience
Three weeks work experience in January 2002 under taken by the Trident Scheme. I worked in an Accountants, jobs I undertook included setting up spreadsheets and photocopying.

Education
Secondary:        Moulsham High School, Chelmsford
College:        Chelmsford College, Moulsham Street, Chelmsford
Further Education:    The Friary, Maldon, Essex
South East Essex College, Southend, Essex

Qualifications

GCSE’s
Mathematics    A
Geography    B
English    A
Information Tech    A
English Literature    D
Resistant Materials    B
Double Science    CC
Food Technology    C
Religious Studies    C
German    B

Further Qualifications
AVCE ICT    B/C
AS Computing    C
Dreamweaver CS5    PASSED
Macromedia Flash    PASSED
Basic Photoshop    PASSED

AVCE ICT involved designing websites, programming (Visual Basic), networking and using all the programs which come with Microsoft office. The qualification I have gained from this is equivalent to two A levels.

I have completed the Adobe Dreamweaver course at Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced levels.  This involved using CSS, importing images, creating hyperlinks to other pages, Layers, Containers, creating forms and drop-down menus etc. I also know how to use most of the Adobe suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator which I use in my current job when producing posters, brochures and any other marketing material.
I am also familiar with Macromedia Flash as I attending a course at a local college which involved creating banners, drawing vector images, importing art creating animations and the construction of a flash enabled website. Advanced animation and video, the use of action script to control interactive elements, movies. Also at this college I attended a Basic Photoshop course. I have implemented a Web shop for ‘Exquisite Beauty and Tanning’ Website I have designed using E-Commerce.
I am currently working on a Content Management site in Joomla, I have been learning how to use this myself using tutorials and forums

Its possible that once we have built your website it may win an award. Your web site project plan will include Website design and development information and ideas how to make your website more beautiful. All websites built are not automatically accepted for an award. The company we submit the completed websites to, do not under any circumstances explain individual web site decisions relating to awards.  They say they will review your submitted website as quickly as possible, however it may take several days before you recieve a decision from the Judges.  Points are awarded for overall website design, navigation, ease of usage and speed of page loading. If your website receives enough points together from each stage of the award process you will be notified accordingly.

If your website is successful you will receive a dynamic link you may place on your website pages to display your award.

Two years ago we got badgered by a marketing company that basically wanted resell our services, we didnt see the value in it for us as our prices are so competitive there is no room for commission. I recently re-found the notes I made from conversations and insisted that it wasn’t worthwhile having a meeting to discuss what we could do as we had nothing to proove being a successful Essex website design company, I said I personally dont see that we would achieve much with a visit as much  more would be sorted out / discovered actually doing work for your clients, we can be sent a brief spec / detailed spec or liaise with
clients directly to give them exactly what they want / need.

They told us about their Marketing Company:

We offer tailor made marketing packages to suit client needs, targeting small, local businesses that often are looking for a modern yet cost effective method of bringing their business to market.We are looking for local Web Designers who would be interested in handling the Web design part of the marketing packages that we offer. We would generate the business and provide you with a specification based on our client requirements. Our hope is that by using local Web designers we are able to operate a much more face-to-face and collaborative way of doing business.

We are looking to offer a range of packages to our clients which would include a basic, intermediate and advanced wesbite (depending on content etc). It is possible to obtain some example costings for such sites? After looking at your packages and thinking about the costings, would you be able to offer any sort of discount to us if we provided you with work on an ongoing basis? We are looking to work closely with a web designer over the next 12-18 months who would be able to handle some if not all of our work web deisgn in the near future. Is this something you would be interested in?

The visit was just to discuss in a bit more detail what we are about and what we are trying to achieve, but I guess high level you already know the sort of products/services we offer our clients.  As more work becomes available we will certainly be in touch.

After one hour they send a specification for a website similar to this:

• Aim to deliver an online platform to market apprenticeships.
• Create portal that employers, learners and providers can use to share profile information.
• Communications channels including forums/message boards for posting updates and sharing best practice.
• Document repository for providing support documents for learners/employers and providers.
• Ensure appropriate security/access restrictions in place due to Pii.
• Front facing website for marketing apprenticeships through video/written case studies of best practice.
• Going forward is fully sustainable and operable by designated members of HPN via content management system.

We replied with:  Its impossible to get a meaningful appraisal of your notes about this project.What you have sent is a very high level list of ‘things’ that someone wants. We need a detailed project specification if we are to spent time and money investigating and quoting on your requirements

After getting no reply I left it in my archive folder.

The result 12 months later the company doesn’t exist and the website is down! will leave you to consider where they went wrong.

We are an Essex based busy web-solutions company, when you look out for experts in technologies like HTML, CSS, ASP.net, PHP, ActionScript, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and a host of E-Commerce Carts to work with you on your projects in hand, we are gladly at your service. If you look through the portfolio on our website you will see that  our assignments require high-end technology and skilled designers and developers. We are constantly looking to meet our client’s deadlines with economic and skilled workers.

We could be the best among your list of options. Please contact us for any no obligation quotes. We are web-solutions providers based in the Thames Gateway in Essex with lots of skilled  developers who work for our clients and we look forward to doing business with new small businesses. Over the last 5 years, we have delivered hundreds of quality projects to one hundred percent satisfaction of our clients and we aim at increasing our client base with important and challenging work in the future.

Our services include Web Designing and Web Development, Web marketing with SEO and SEM/PPC, E-Commerce solutions, CMS solutions, Mobile Applications Development.

Please take a look at some of our completed work for your assessment of our competence and skill.

A question posed to me by a client recently, sometimes its a tricky one but in general we like to redesign instead of ‘patch up’

Here is some dialogue that demonstrates what we can do:

Regarding the site look we think the site needs a full redesign making everything look and feel fresh and ensuring that you have a blog you can use to update yourself as well as showing your videos and music off in a much better format that doesn’t involved the client downloading your track before they play it. Your galleries should be organised / configured to make them all consistent and easy to navigate.

We have different flavours of what we can do for you depending on your budget. If you want some more detailed options I can provide them.

We could do specific tasks (website updates) on an hourly basis on conduct a complete redesign of the site to make it ‘industry standard’ and include a blog / multiple galleries / video galleries / audio player that plays each track on each recording (5 recordings of approx 15 songs)

Our standard website design package for the above would be £1299 and include everything on the premium plus package As a bonus I will include all 13 photo galleries in this price. If this sounds a lot you need to remember that every page is redesigned to industry standards will work on every browser and be optimised for the search engines making your website improve its search position and visitor numbers, we also work 1 month on the site after its built to ‘polish’ it ensuring it ranks as highly as possible after the redesign.

The music recordings may add to the cost above depending on our investigations on how to best put them on your site. We have embedded audio within websites before but need to check its viable to such a lot of recordings and how it will look / operate.

It currently has website traffic to it.
Website, Blog and Email setup and all access details given immediately on purchase.
Time can be spent on getting more website visitors as the website is already built and optimised.
Domain may have a Google pagerank.
Branding / Logos already created.
The website has ‘age’ which is a factor in Google’s ranking factors.
Full of relevant / unique content.
Existing Links to it (hyperlinks).
Generally there is more chance of the website being a success than starting a brand new website.
The website is operational and ‘up and running’ already.
Has an existing client base.
The previous website owners will lend support.