Believe it or not, many businesses do not need a fully blown website with multiple pages, even though they are often ‘persuaded’ to do just this. With many companies charging around £500 for a 5 page website, this can prove very expensive and unless each page is optimised for a particular region, service or product, there is, in all honesty, very little point. The Website Designers encourage good use of precious budget resources by advising customers to purchase only what they need, not what the website designers want to sell.

By the same token, most people, especially if the ‘web’ is a little foreign to them, believe that they must have their own domains. There are three potential issues here: 1, trying to find a suitable domain now that so many have been taken, 2, the hosting of the domain and 3, the annual cost of each domain. There is an alternative and that is to use a sub-domain, that is an extension of an existing domain. The advantages of this are that it is easier to have your preferred choice of name, there are no annual costs and the domain is already hosted. For example, www.jda-builders.co.uk, would simply become www.jda-builders.done4.co.uk.

A single page website would include all company critical information on the index page, using a professional design, this can look classy and be very effective in terms of getting the site indexed and seen for certain keyword. Natural keyword density is essential in any website design. With the inclusion of a ‘contact form’, any potential customer can choose to contact the company via the form or telephone, providing maximum choice. By using a single page website, there is no need to address the usual problem of deciding how to fill the site and losing the opportunity to add key services and products to the front (index) page. In addition, it is arguably the best way to dip your toe in the water.

The Website Designers offer a single page website, with contact form, personalised mail boxes and hosted on their domain for just £35, plus an annual charge of £50. Some people prefer to have, for example, three single page websites, with different domain extensions, rather than attempting to optimise a multiple page website. For example, a company operating in three UK counties, may wish to target each area separately. To do this their domain extension might be; avon-plumbers.done4.co.uk., somerset-plumbers.done4.co.uk and devon-plumbers.done4.co.uk. This can be far more effective.

If customers wish, they can also have a single page website, with their existing or new personal domain. This can be hosted by The Website Designers at the same annual charge, but there will be a one-off set up cost of around £15, because of the additional work involved. The customer would be the ‘owner’ of the domain and therefore responsible for the renewal costs etc.