UK WordPress Website Design & Development

The cost of a website varies depending on several factors, but a primary one is the time it’ll take to complete. If your site is very large or complex, or if you have many images that need optimising and arranging, or you need a lot of text content writing, it will be more expensive than a simpler site or one where you already have all the content ‘ready to go’.

Ball-park figures are: Single page ‘Landing Pages’ start around £500. Bespoke designs start at £1500, dynamic data sites with many unique custom post types will be over £5k going up to around £7 or 8k for large, complex e-commerce sites with many products to add and configure.

We will provide you with a written, costed quote describing the scope of work agreed. If the scope of work changes significantly, then additional costs may be incurred, but these will be agreed in writing before the work is undertaken.

The timescale depends on many factors, such as our current workload, the need to review and alter page designs, and other unforeseen factors.

As a rule, if you have a clear idea of what you want and can provide all the relevant text page ready and images optimised, we can normally have your website published within 2 weeks.

Even complex sites can be completed within 4 weeks – if you have all the relevant information ready. The biggest delay in all our sites is always getting the last images or content from the Client…

Simple one-page designs can normally be completed in 1 week from receipt of all your information.

Timescales will be discussed when we discuss your design.

Currently, we use anything but Gutenberg or blocks. Our go-to is Elementor, although Bricks Builder is set to surpass it soon. Historically, we’ve used YooTheme, which is pretty good if Client’s want to update their own pages as it’s no-where near as complex as Elementor to get results. Gutenberg is the work of the Devil.

The cost for licensing the software, whether it’s Bricks, Elementor, Yootheme, or another platform, is included in your site’s build price. This covers access to updates for 12 months following the completion of your site.

After this period, you have the option to renew the licence for an additional 12 months at the developer’s cost plus a 10% handling fee. It’s important to note that while your site will continue to function without renewal, you will not be able to update it. The developer will block the licence, potentially leaving your site vulnerable to security risks.

For clients enrolled in our maintenance packages, we include the licence cost for as long as we continue to use that software. Should we decide to cancel our Agency Licence, you will have the option to licence the software yourself, or we will propose an alternative solution to ensure your site remains updated and secure.

Absolutely! Everyone has to start somewhere, and we’re here to guide you through the process without using jargon.

If there’s anything you don’t understand, please feel free to ask. Remember, there are no ‘stupid questions’ – only ‘questions’.

Almost certainly. WordPress can be extended to accomplish most tasks without reinventing the wheel. It’s highly unlikely that an off-the-shelf plugin will accomplish everything you require, but we can usually adapt and tweak them to meet most needs with a bit of give and take each way.

Unless you’re prepared to pay for a developer to build a system exactly for your needs, and then return to them for each necessary tweak, using and adapting existing plugins is the best route to take.

The cost of any specialist plugins requested as part of your site build will be included in the initial quote as separate line items. We charge the developer’s cost plus a 10% handling fee. These licenses are normally valid for 12 months, after which you will have the opportunity to renew the license directly with the developer, ensuring your site remains updated and secure.

For clients enrolled in our maintenance programs, we will notify you when the license is due for renewal and invoice you the developer’s renewal price plus a 10% handling fee in advance. This arrangement allows you the opportunity to cover the cost of the license renewal, after which we will purchase the plugin on your behalf and ensure it is kept up to date.

An added benefit of our long-term maintenance contracts includes access to certain plugins for which we hold Lifetime Licences; for these, you will incur no charge. Similarly, for plugins covered under our agency license, there will be no charge as long as we continue to support that particular plugin.

It’s worth noting that sometimes plugin developers may discontinue their services. If we need to source an alternative plugin to maintain the functionality you rely on, there may be an additional cost involved.

Unless the plugin we’ve sourced for you is extremely specialised, there is usually another one that can fulfil the same function. Whether it will cost the same, work in exactly the same way, or have the same appearance is uncertain, but that’s a bridge we can cross if we come to it.

The advantage of working within the WordPress ecosystem is the vast array of resources available to meet your needs.

Yes, you’ll have one point of contact throughout the entire process – from design to publication and beyond. As a small family business, we don’t have a large team, so you’ll always be sure to get the ‘organ grinder’.

We believe strongly in building relationships with our clients, many of whom are small businesses like ourselves. So, you can expect replies to your phone calls or emails from the person you always deal with, often ‘out of hours’, because we know that’s when many of you have time to contact us. Building your business is not usually a 9 to 5 endeavour!

No, although having a clear idea is super beneficial!

We can get started by using placeholder content – known as ‘Lorem Ipsum’ or fake Latin – while you finish your content. This gives you guidance on the layout of text and content that would look best on your website.

If you don’t have content – perhaps you are a new business – we can source stock content for you. These are usually not free as you’ll need to license them, but they are not too expensive, and we’ll agree on which ones to buy on your behalf before we do.

Yes. All our websites are created with search engines in mind, and the website design is compliant with SEO best practice techniques.

Full SEO for every page is time-consuming and ongoing. If you want in-depth Search Engine Optimisation, we offer several packages to ensure your website is found by all the search engines.