Frequently asked questions

The cost of a website varies depending on many factors such as size, complexity, functionality, etc.  It’s a lot like asking ‘how much is a house? Or a car?’ Our website projects generally start in the $5,000 range for small business marketing sites and range upward depending on your unique needs.

Depending on the scope of the project and the availability and quality of your content, a typical website project takes 6-10 weeks from start to finish.

Yes. we provide our clients with admin training for managing your website content. For those clients on a support plan, we also provide video tutorials installed in your website admin area.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of ensuring a website can be found in search engines such as Google for relevant words and phrases. The higher you rank, the more traffic (and customers) you’re likely to get.

In search results, Google™ displays links to pages it considers relevant and authoritative. Relevant relates mostly to the content on your site. Authority is mostly measured by the number and quality of links from other web pages to your site.

Create a great site full of content your prospects need and make it easy for them to share it. Do this and you’ll start to see your website traffic increase.

Yes, we certainly can. You, as the client, are the content “expert” and an integral part of this process. We will help you gather any existing content and work with you to edit and often write content for you. We have several copywriter’s on our team who are experienced in writing for the web.

Once you’ve made your full and final payment, we transfer the design and copyrights to you. We retain authorship rights, which simply means we can say we created it but, we create your design from the ground up just for you so it’s only right that it becomes all yours.

Information architecture is the relationship of how all the different pages of a website are related to each other. This is communicated visually through a sitemap.

WordPress is open source content management software and currently powers around 33.6%* of all websites on the Internet. The project is contributed to by tens of thousands of developers all over the world and is growing from strength to strength. WordPress allows us to develop flexible and customizable websites to modern standards and observes web development best practices. Furthermore the community of web developers that use WordPress reaches far and wide and allows us to tap in to this collective intelligence and bring that wealth of experience to your project.

Source: WordPress Market Share Statistics (2011-2019) - Kinsta

Your website needs to be hosted by a hosting company that specializes in WordPress hosting. There are many companies that do this. WP Engine, Siteground, Pagely and Pantheon are just a few who specialize in this area. We are more than happy to make a personal recommendation should you require one.

Provided you subscribe to one of our ongoing website care plans, we will be your first point of call should something go wrong with your website. We will determine whether it is something the hosting company needs to fix something that is covered by your website care plan. We will provide training and video tutorials to assist you in using your website once it is launched.

Once your website is launched, we will provide 30 days of support to make sure any bugs have been ironed out and that you are confident using your new website. After this you will need to subscribe to one of our ongoing website care plans to make sure your website is looked after and maintained. These website care plans include updating your software, regular backups, security checks and making sure your website is online and open for business 24/7/365. More information on our website care plans is available upon request.

The time it takes for your website to appear on page 1 of Google depends on a number of factors. It depends on the search phrase people are using to find your website and the number of other websites that are also available for those search phrases. Nobody can truly say how long it will take for your website to appear at the top of search engine results pages (including people who actually work for Google), however there are a number of factors that can improve your chances. Building your website on WordPress is a good start as WordPress has some great Search Engine Optimization fundamentals built-in. Creating unique and interesting content on a regular basis for your website is also critical to increase your visibility amongst search engines. Launching your website and then forgetting about it is a surefire way to get lost amongst the noise.

We will install Google analytics software on your new website and show you how to log into your Google analytics account where you can see a wide range of statistics about your website including number of visits, page views than the amount of time people are spending on your website.

Once you subscribe to one of our website care plans you will also receive more detailed analysis about your website performance and recommendations on how to improve.

While we like to be flexible and responsive to your needs, we also like to deliver what we promise within the time frames and budgets we have allowed. If you ask us to add new features to your website while we are building it, will most likely ask why? If we all agree that your new request will help us achieve our objectives then we will be more than happy to oblige. If your new feature is something you would like to add to your website but is not directly tied to your original objectives then we will suggest to schedule it for a second iteration of the website once it has been launched. This will require a new proposal.