A starter site can be upgraded to a Business Site at any time. So you can start off with a small investment and upgrade later.

The Business Site will be built round one or other of the popular Content Management Systems, dependent on the add-ons you’ve chosen. They are all remarkably similar and easy to use; log into the site, edit pages, add links between pages, and add important pages to menus. You’ll receive training on this. Dependent on the package used, you may be able to expand further with timed/dated posts, galleries, etc quite easily. It depends on your level of technical skill. We either offer monthly updates free to your site (add/edit pages, menus, links) or allow you to perform the work yourself and train you to do so.  Once you take over the site and start managing it yourself, we obviously can’t be held responsible for errors made.  It really comes down to whether you anticipate monthly (or longer) changes, or far more regular changes. As far as adding modules/functions later goes, its completely possible to add anything to a site at a later date. However decisions made at the beginning of the build, may impact later. For example, if you want a very fluid, photography-based site with animations, parallax and fade-ins, and then later on you decide you want it to display a detailed calendar of events, this may not be possible within the first style, so you’d need to create a seperate system rather than building it into the first. This is why its always better to try and anticipate your next 3 steps before building a site.

We use whatever is appropriate for the site. Personal/Starter sites are coded from our pre-made templates.

For most medium size businesses who want basic editing, and good search engine rankings, we use WordPress; its blank canvas and our large range of custom and corporate plugins, high level of knowledge in terms of integrating e-commerce and event management, together with its user-friendly back end makes it the perfect platform for a constantly-evolving business.

For more technical applications we may use Joomla or CakePHP. Dependent on your merchant provider and desired store style, we might use Magento, WooCommerce, WPCommerce (formerly GetShopped) or a custom checkout/store system. We will mix and match technologies for the best results.

Obviously all our html coding is managed to the very highest standards.

Not for the first year. Your site includes your hosting, domain name, setup, training and monthly edits. Thereafter your hosting will rebill at £60 annually, your domain dependent on the type, additional training and support can be provided as part of your hosting or by-the-minute, and further edits are charged by-the-minute. Its completely possible to manage your site yourself dependent on what add-ons you have, but you must host with us as a lot of the features we provide are embedded securely in our hosting system and not transferable.