Manchester Business Resources

Next Steps

Now you understand the differences between the two main groups of web sites ( static and dynamic ), you have decided on what the purpose of your site is and what it will possibly look like.

You have given some thought to a domain name, decided on who in your organisation will be responsible for this and given some thought to how much you will want to spend. You may well have used our simple planning page here to pull your thoughts in order.

Its time to get the name registered , the site designed and set up hosting and email services. You may well be tempted to do some of this yourself, you may even be able to save £40 or £50 a year in hosting and domain name charges over the charges we make. But we are sure that your time would be better spent making money in your own profession rather than making all the mistakes we made 6 or 7 years ago when we started out. We guarantee it will cost you far more than you save in time spent getting the name registered and hosting sorted out.

As regards the design of the site, you could again embark on this yourself ( or allow anothers directors nephew to take it on because he is doing ICT at college !) Again we would not recommend this approach, you would not take this approach in many other parts of your business - why do it with web design?

Many sites can look the same but how will you know what works and what does not, how will you know what aspects of a site the search engines look for etc

Stages in web Design Project 

Stage 1 Technical Specification and Formal Quote
A detailed specification is provided explaining how the site will work. Once the specification has been confirmed a formal quote is presented. 
 
Stage 2 Design and Content
When the quote has been accepted your personal project manager and the developers are assigned to your project. They work with you to develop your ideas through to the completion of the site. It is preferable to have most of the website text and photos ready right at the start.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) and how the site is to be marketed must also be considered before development begins.

Stage 3 Prototype Design
The homepage design is created and forwarded by email to you for approval. Normally 1-3 days 
 
Stage 4
If the website is static site the next stage is to publish the site from it's graphic state into HTML depending on how many pages are on the site this can take several days, then the content can be added.

If the site is ecommerce or updateable or both the development time increases according to the functionality required on the site. 
 
Stage 5 Going live and marketing the website
No matter how functional or funky your website is without optimising or marketing, it will be lost in cyberspace. Our in-house specialist can advise and implement the most effective strategy for your website to be found by the major search engines.

Why not call us at this point on 0161 237 1234 or fill in our contact form here and we will call you to go through your ideas and give you a firmer costing.

Alternatively , if you now still feel that you want a simple web presence of a business card like page and email services , then go to our special offer page here.