Web design

Category Archives: Web Design

February 24 2010

MB Web Design Launching New Service For Spring 2010

MB Web Design will shortly be launching MyDesignerWebsite, a new service that will allow small businesses to design and launch their website within only a few days for a small annual fee.

The website will launch with 5 templates to choose from, with more added each month. At the time of ordering you will be able to customise the template to suit their needs – text font typefaces, header font typefaces, all text colours and background colours can be chosen from a set palette, or you can choose your own!

Once you’ve chosen your website package – which start from as little as £6.25 per month – we will contact you to establish the content you require on the website, and you can email us photos to use. In as little as 7 days your website will be put online for all to see.

Standard websites

Micro
Simple
Extra
Premium
Pro
Deluxe
One low cost annual payment of
£74.99
£99.99
£149.99
£199.99
£274.99
£374.99
The basics
Number of pages
1
1
3
5
10
20
Website setup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Inclusion of your company logo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Website hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Domain name registration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Upgrades, backups
Complimentary annual website upgrade    
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quarterly website backups    
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Support
Support – access to FAQ
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Support – email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Support – phone
Yes
Yes
Yes
Email
Unlimited email forwarders
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
POP3 email accounts
1
3
5
10
20
Style
Choose your template
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Customise the design
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Number of template changes permitted per year
1
2
SEO & Web Traffic
Submission of your completed website to Google and Yahoo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analytics – study your website traffic
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Addition of your business to Google Maps
Yes
Yes
Website content
Supply your own information
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Add icons (professional memberships, trade associations, etc)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Add photos – 1 per page
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Option to change your featured image to a mini slideshow of up to 5 images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Flexibility
Changes permitted per year (e.g. changing page text such as your address, editing your opening hours, etc)
2
3
4
6
8
Facility for you to edit your existing pages
Yes
Yes
Complete content management – add / edit / remove an unlimited number of pages
Yes
Micro
Simple
Extra
Premium
Pro
Deluxe
One low cost annual payment of
£74.99
£99.99
£149.99
£174.99
£249.99
£374.99

Extras

Ongoing support, changes & maintenance Any and all support issues, changes or maintenance that needs to be carried out, which is not covered in your chosen package, will be charged by the hour £20 per hour
Additional pages £19.99 each
Additional POP3 email addresses £2.49 each
Contact form £29.99
Slideshow (up to 20 images) £24.99 each
Slideshow (up to 50 images) £39.99 each
Mini slideshow Change your feature image to a slideshow of up to 5 images (included in the Premium, Pro and Deluxe packages) £7.49 each
Blog £39.99
Google Map A customised Google Map for your website, featuring a pointer on your business location £7.49
Removal of website credit £9.99

E-Commerce Websites

Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
One low cost annual payment of
£295.00
£495.00
£750.00
£995.00
About your e-commerce store
Number of products 20 50 100 Unlimited
Number of user accounts (for you and staff to manage your store) 1 5 10 Unlimited
Downloadable instruction manual
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Product tagging
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Option to sell digital downloads
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Option to submit your products to Google Base and other product search engines
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Secure SSL option      
Yes
Payment methods
Paypal
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Google Checkout
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Chronopay    
Yes
Yes
Bluepay      
Yes
Protx      
Yes
The basics
Number of informational pages
5
5
10
20
Website setup
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Inclusion of your company logo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Website hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Domain name registration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Upgrades, backups
Complimentary annual website upgrade
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quarterly website backups
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Monthly website backups      
Yes
Support
Support – access to FAQ
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Support – email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Support – phone
Yes
Yes
Yes
Email
Unlimited email forwarders
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
POP3 email accounts 1
5
10
20
Style
Choose your template
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Customise the design
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Number of template changes permitted per year  
1
SEO & Web Traffic
Submission of your completed website to Google and Yahoo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analytics – study your website traffic  
Yes
Yes
Yes
Addition of your business to Google Maps
Yes
Yes
Website content
Supply your own information
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Add icons (professional memberships, trade associations, etc)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Add photos – 1 per page
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Option to change your featured image to a mini slideshow of up to 5 images  
Yes
Yes
Flexibility
Changes permitted per year (e.g. changing page text such as your address, editing your opening hours, etc)
3
4
6
8
Facility for you to edit your existing pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Complete content management – add / edit / remove an unlimited number of pages
Yes
Yes
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
One low cost annual payment of
£295.00
£495.00
£750.00
£995.00

 

What Is Not (Yet) Included?

  • Bespoke / one-off designs
  • Online booking of events

These features are only available in bespoke, tailored website quotations. To enquire about such a website, please contact Mathew at MB Web Design.

January 11 2009

What Does Web Design Cost?

A common question, also known as ‘how long is a piece of string?’ Several times every week I receive enquiries from prospective customers simply asking what my prices are. No specification, feature requests or style influences from their side, just one simple question for me to go on. This article should shed some light on the factors that influence the all-important quotation. Continue reading this article »

December 31 2008

New Year, New Website?

As we celebrate the dawn of a new year, you might be consumed with the January rush with little time to spare let alone consider how to move forward with your online business. Now is in fact an ideal time to launch (or relaunch) your business website – here are some reasons why you might want to give your website a makeover. Continue reading this article »

September 22 2008

The Ultimate List of CSS Galleries

CSS galleries showcase the best designed websites the web has to offer, built using CSS (cascading style sheets). They are a great resource for design inspiration, and also to promote your existing website – so long as it’s designed well enough! Continue reading this article »

May 4 2008

A Note About Speculative Design Work

One of the most common questions I receive as part of a website design quotation request is to provide a speculative design before commencing work. Such requests frequently go something like:

  • “Can you show me what the finished website will look like?”
  • “Can you show me a preview?”
  • “Can you submit one page for approval and we’ll take it from there”
  • “Can you design me a website and I’ll pay you £XYZ if I like it”

What is speculative design work?

Speculative design work – the industry term is “Spec” – is design work for which a fair and reasonable fee should apply, but which has not been agreed upon. It requires a designer to invest time and effort into work without any promises or guarantees of getting paid.

You can read more at http://www.no-spec.com/articles/what-is-spec/

Why I don’t offer speculative design work

As with many professional designers, I won’t undertake speculative work because they take away time and effort away from bona fide projects with guaranteed revenue.

Since speculative work is done without a contract or financial obligation to the client, there is no clear representation of “rights” to the work between the client and the designer. Resultantly, clients may feel they can pick and choose from the ideas the designer has presented and either do the project themselves, or take the ideas to another, cheaper designer.

You can read more at: http://www.no-spec.com/articles/ten-reasons/

Some analogies

The No!Spec website offers an interesting paragraph on the matter that I’ll paraphrase below.

You wouldn’t go to a restaurant, eat the food, and expect to pay only if you’re happy. And you’d never go to a mechanic, have them work on your car, letting them know you’ll only pay them if you think they did good work. So why should the web design industry be any different?

You can read more at http://www.no-spec.com/articles/just-say-no/ and http://www.no-spec.com/articles/an-analogy/

In A Nutshell

Putting together a good website design concept takes time and effort. It simply isn’t reasonable to put such time and effort into a piece of work when there’s no guarantee that it will be paid for. It’s an even less attractive proposition when there’s nothing preventing the client from taking my design to another designer to undercut me on production costs. I pride myself on being a trustworthy and committed designer and expect the same traits from my clients – and such clients know that good design is worth paying the premium for.