Low-cost website design offers
The offers below are aimed at businesses of all types (not just holiday property rental businesses). They can be brochure websites that we update for you, or websites you can update yourself if they are built with a content management system (CMS).
Every Handcrafted Website design offer includes as standard:
- Slick slideshow for the homepage
- Stylish lightbox to display larger versions of photos
- Contact form with spam-prevention
- Encryption of your email address
- Social media/bookmarking widget (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn, etc)
- Other widgets installed (e.g. Tripadvisor)
- Installation of your Google map
- Excellent on-site search engine optimisation* of your key web pages
- Careful presentation of your text and photos
- Creation of text-based graphic for your business name
- Creation of downloadable terms and conditions PDF
- Unlimited alterations until the site goes live so that you are satisfied with the design
- Advice on how to configure your email software
- Nothing to pay until you are happy with the site.
*This does not cover keyword research or website promotion. See the full SEO and website promotion package below.
Template-based website
A brochure website of up to six main pages with a design from one of our existing range of templates, with minimal customisation.
Further details...
In addition to the standard features (see above) this offer includes:
- Up to six main web pages
- Up to 800 words per page
- Up to three layouts (e.g. home page, cottage page with gallery, plus a standard layout for remaining pages)
- Up to 16 photographs resized and carefully presented
Click to see one live template-based website, another live template-based website and another live template-based website.
Browse our range of website template designs.
from £339.00
Custom-built website
A bespoke design made to your specifications. Want something a bit different for your unique website? Tell us what you have in mind, what you want to promote, and we will give you a quote to build a site completely from scratch just for you. It will have our usual excellent SEO features built in.
Further details...
Prices will vary depending on the complexity of the site, but here is a sample price for a custom-built site with our standard features plus:
- Up to six main pages
- Up to 800 words per page
- Up to three layouts for the different web pages on the site
- Up to 20 photographs resized, enhanced and carefully presented
- Graphic design for your business name
- Patient modifications until you are completely satisfied
Click to see one of our live custom-built websites and another live custom-built website and another custom-built website.
Interested? Contact us first for a quote, and later we will be glad to put together a design suggestion based on your preferences, the nature of your business and the materials that will be used on the website.
from £496.00
Have your website built with a content management system (CMS) if you want to be able to update it yourself. An easy-to-learn system with which you can swap photos and alter the text on the key pages of your site. The cost will depend upon the complexity of the system needed for your particular site.
Further details...
Having a site built with a CMS is a good idea if...
- You need to make updates frequently or
- You need to be able to add new pages and extend your website yourself
- You are comfortable working with files and folders on your PC
- You are happy to learn a few new and simple techniques to work with text and images on your PC.
About the CMS we use: It is...
- Set up to work extremely well with search engines
- Set up to keep your data and your website secure
- Supplied with detailed instructions to help you take control of your site simply and safely
If something is unclear, we will provide you with all the support you need by email.
Click to see a more detailed explanation of the benefits of a CMS see our business website advice page.
from £78.00
Every website needs to be hosted on servers permanently connected to the internet. Handcrafted Websites will host your website on reliable servers in the UK (for clients doing business primarily in the UK). Prices will vary depending on the server resources required by the site, but here is the price for standard-size websites.
Further details...
Our all-inclusive hosting package for standard-size websites:
- Hosting on reliable UK servers
- Up to 400mb disc space and 4gb bandwidth per month
- Linux hosting with full support for scripts
- No extra charge for the databases required by, e.g., calendars, CMS, etc
- Business email address and mailbox (250mb)
- Email forwarding
- Auto-responders for email addresses
- Control panel to manage email accounts, etc.
- Your own FTP access, should you need it
- Free transfer for existing website
- Site maintenance by Handcrafted Websites
- Friendly and helpful email support
- Renewed annually
£86.00
A service for new websites to make sure your website gets off to the best possible start with Google and the other search engines so that potential clients can begin to find your website when searching for relevant products/services in your area. This is in addition to the careful optimisation of individual pages that is included as standard in all our website design packages.
Further details...
The full SEO and website promotion service includes the following. Before the site goes live:
- Basic keyword research with reference to Google's search statistics
- Basic online market research to assess the level of competition for given key phrases
- Providing advice about a shortlist of key phrases
- Assistance setting up an account with Google Analytics (via email)
- Installation of .htaccess and robots files to assist efficient crawling of the site by the search engines.
After the site goes live:
- Submission of the website to Google, Yahoo, Bing
- Registration with Google Webmaster Tools
- Registration with Yahoo Webmaster Tools
- Registration with Bing Webmaster Tools
- Creation and submission of Google sitemap
- Manual creation of a network of high quality incoming links
- Extensive use of our social media pages to promote your site
- Promotion of your website on our websites and blogs
- Advice about listing your website with business directories
- Further assistance (e.g. creating your social media pages).
Note: The aim of this service is to get your website off to the best possible start. Within three weeks of the site going live it should have achieved a reasonable listing for the chosen geographically specific search phrases. However, the listing will only improve further if there is an ongoing effort to further enrich the network of incoming links. We provide ample advice about SEO and website promotion telling you how you can do that yourself at little or no cost. It just requires persistence and patience.
The cost will depend upon the level of competition for the chosen key phrases.
from £198.00
Extra functionality for your website
Extras to add to your website:
- Availability calendar - an easy-to-update calendar to indicate the availability of a property. Includes a simple booking management system to keep a track of bookings. Single calendar: £59
- Blog - add a blog to your website
- Mailing list registration - open an account with Mail Chimp and we will integrate that into your site
- Shopping cart - we have experience of integrating Opencart, Google Checkout and PayPal
- Customised order/booking form - add your own fields to our standard contact form
- Updatable text box - a system (a mini CMS) to allow you to change the content on only one page
- Special effects - animate menus, scrolling, hover effects, pop ups
- Commercial photographs - if needed we will research and purchase commercial photos for your site
- Copywriting - the design packages above assume you will write the text for the site. If you need us to research and write new material, we will gladly undertake that for a reasonable extra charge
If you have other requirements for your website, drop us a line and we will give you a quote for incorporating the necessary components.
All prices are inclusive of any necessary UK VAT.
