Website Design, Frequently Asked Questions

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Below are some of the common questions we get asked by both current and potential clients

Why Do I Need A Website

In the simpliest terms, to be seen.

In todays world the first place people look for information, or to find services, is the internet. Everything at their fingertips and a touch of a button. If someone has to choose between you and a competitor, and they can read all about your competitor on the web, 9 times out of 10 you competitor will get the call.

A website is an invaluable tool, and at our prices it is more than affordable. The only decision regarding your website you need to make, is not whether to have one, but what you should have on it.

What Should My Site Contain

This will be different dependant on what you want from your site, and how much time you personally have to attribute to keeping it up to date and interactive.

For some companies a "shop window" style website is more than sufficient, giving potential customers a sneak look at the company, what kind of products or services are offered, and how to get in touch. For others a fully interactive, ever changing site is more intune.

At Bond Business Services we do not try and sell you what you do not need, in fact thus far we haven't truly sold a website at all, more discussed and planned the best type of site to suit each companies individual needs. It's okay selling a company an all singing all dancing website, puts money in our bank, but if they do not understand that they are committing time to it in order to keep information flowing you can end up with an expensive website full of empty space! Something you the client wouldn't want, and something we at Bond Business Services do not want to be known for. Our business is built on referrals and our clients come first at all times.

How Much Will It Cost

This is a complicated question to try and answer as we work to your budgets, not our bottom line.

Other than items like domain names, hosting services, which incur physical cost, we bill for design and coding time ONLY!. If we need to source imagery or generate texts, thats all part of the service.

The charge for Bond Business Services to design your website is dependant on the complexity of a site, each pages content, and the make up of the site as a whole, a 3 page site could cost more than a 20 page site for example, because we truly bill for work, quality work, not quantity of pages.

We always work to a budget, that being your budget not ours, and where possible provide you with the finished result, what you want, for less!

What Is It I Am Paying For

As briefly mentioned above, other than set costs like domain names and hosting, you only pay for design and coding, you don't pay for us looking for pictures, you don't pay for us sipping coffee, you don't pay for us doing anything other than what is needed to design the site.

It can be hard to explain if you do not have a basic understanding of how a website, or simple web page is designed, but if you think of a blank page that you will use to design a flyer. When you are designing it you don't write in all the text, put in the images etc straight away, you may draw out empty squares to represent where everything will go, indicate sizes etc. That is the element you are charged for by Bond Business Services.

If you would like further clarification of this, or do not completely understand, please get in touch, our approach is unique in the industry and to our knowledge the most cost effective for you the client so don't miss out.

What If I Need Something Changed

Bond Business Services offers a range of services to enable changes to be made quickly and easily. Please be aware, when Bond Business Services talks about required changes, we do not mean altering spelling mistakes, changing a phone number, these types of changes are completed for FREE. We mean content change.

We have basic maintenance packages for a 1 year period, priced according to the amount of potential changes/alerations that will be required. For example, a recrtuitment site could potentially need changes on a daily basis with job roles being filled and new once becoming available, where as a plumber may only want to make changes to announce special offers, change a price list or similar which may only occur a few times a year. And all changes are actioned within 24 hours, and completed within 48.

For sites that would require minimal content change, if any, we do a standard "Pay-As-You-Go" service to use as and when.