website production & design

Our simple pricing structure makes it possible for you to work to your budget, whatever it is. Our base fee covers:

• co.uk domain registration and hosting for the first 2 years

• setting of page design

• keyword imbedding

Other domain extensions may incur an additional fee (see below for .com surcharge - others - price on application)

base fee

page fee

.com surcharge

graphic, photo & design work

add'tnl online return form

copy-writing

e-commerce facilities

content management

e-com

base fee

e-com

item fee

cms

base fee

cms

content area fee

Page fee is literally the price per page and assumes an average page length of reasonable content, (for those who require a definition no more than 2 screen lengths equivalent in 10pt text at 1024 x 768 resolution) copy to be supplied, and 1 large, 2 or 3 mid-sized, or 4-5 thumbnail prints maximum per page.

It does not include copywriting, logo design, e-commerce facilities, content management, online return form facilities or optimisation all of which are available by request.

An Example of typical first-time buyers website might feature the following pages:

home  |  about us  |  services  |  contact us

If the contact us page included an online return form the total cost would therefore be £225. A Single page web presence without online return form would therefore be only £125 (each example assuming conditions).

Terms & Exclusions We consider that a good working relationship is very important, and should be based on an atmosphere of trust.  We offer the facility to budget by payment per page rather than payment by the hour, because we are aware many prospective clients might be wary of an open ended charging structure with no ceiling.  However, these set fees, can only be applied where reasonable practice has been exercised by a client.  It is not possible, for example for us to honour an estimate based on these set fees, where a client has repeatedly supplied copy changes prior to site proofing or completion, or changes to the number of pages and the structure of the site.  If pages are worked on they are included in the final charge, even if they are later discarded by the client, and any copy substitutions will necessarily incur an additional charge based on our standard hourly rate of £25 ph.  Other wise taken to its logical conclusion we might work on 100 pages, which are later reduced to just 1, and not get paid for 99.

Graphic, Photo and Design Work is pretty much what it sounds like, if we need to source, colour enhance, crop, colourscale or otherwise manipulate photographs for you there will be a charge for our time.  The same is true for any design work over and above creating the basic page design, including of course logo design.  A typical logo will cost about £50-£75, but this depends on how clear your brief is.

Online return forms are forms that customers visiting or 'browsing' your site can complete and post to you electronically.  This will arrive with you in the form of an email and avoids having to disclose your email address, or publish it in cyberspace, leaving you at the mercy of all those evil spammers!! (people who send junk email).

Copy-writing is a very specific skill and has to be charged for.  If you don't present us with copy for your website - someone has to write it!! Even if you ask us to extract it from different sources, and put it together, it still all takes time.

E-Commerce is the general term for online shopping facilities.  We use paypal for this which means that your customers can buy from you in the confidence they are protected and secure, and you don't have to worry about providing or being responsible for this security.

The base fee is for setting up your shopping basket and checkout facilities but does not cover setting up your actual account with Paypal, which requires your input since you will need to give authorisations and bank details (for your sales revenue to be transferred to) etc. If however you are a complete technophobe, or just hate forms etc. we can help you with this for an additional fee.

The item fee is for adding an item both visually as copy to your website and invisibly to the list of items recognised by your Paypal checkout.  It does not include adding photographs which are subject to the usual charges.

Content Management is the general term for being able to update your own copy.  Whilst more complicated changes must be effected by us as your web designers, we can arrange for some pre-determined areas to be editable to you.  This is useful if you wish to change some information quickly or regularly, and can be available to anyone with online access and the password we have allocated. It has limitations and will not always be suitable for all types of updates.

The base fee is for setting up the facility and the content area fee is charged per specific area of editable text set up (up to 8 areas per site).