Answers to your most frequently asked questions.

We like to keeps things simple when it comes to websites so all our brochure website packages come with the same great design, features and functionality. The only difference is the number of pages included.

Why would I need more pages?

If your business offers multiple services, it's beneficial to have a dedicated page for each one on your website. This not only enables you to provide more detailed information about each service, but it also enhances your website's visibility in search engines. By creating individual pages for each service, you increase the chances of attracting potential customers who are specifically searching for those services, ultimately driving more traffic to your site.

A custom-built website is designed specifically to meet the unique needs of a business, offering a tailored layout, functionality, and user experience.

Unlike template-based sites, custom websites are developed from scratch with a focus on scalability, performance, and security. They allow for more flexibility in features, design, and SEO optimisation.

While they require more time, resources, and maintenance, custom-built websites offer greater control, ensuring the site perfectly aligns with the business’s goals and growth.

You, as the client, would own the website after it's built, provided you've paid for its development and registered the domain. This means you own the design, content, and any custom-built features once everything is completed and paid for.

A domain is the unique address people use to find your website online (like www.simplywebsites.uk).

You need a domain for your website to be accessible to visitors. When you choose one, (or we can help you choose one), it's yours as long as you renew it annually. We offer a free .co.uk domain with all new websites, but it will require yearly renewal to keep it active.

We'll take care of any small changes or updates to the website free of charge however updates that require more work such as adding pages, projects or functionality will be charged at £50p/h or quoted individually.

The monthly fee is for hosting and maintenance and covers several essential services to keep your website running smoothly. It includes updates for your theme, plugins, and WordPress itself, as well as daily backups, security software, and hosting space.

Think of it like renting a shop – just as you'd rent physical space for your store, you need to rent space on the internet to store or "host" your website. This fee ensures everything stays up-to-date, secure, and accessible online.

Our standard website packages take on average 14 - 21 days to design, build and go live. Ecommerce and custom websites are more complex and require additional time to build. On average these websites take between 4 - 8 weeks to complete.

We only need a few bits of information to get started on building your new website.

• logo and colours
• services on offer (this is used to build individual service pages)
• years trading, accreditations, awards, USP's (this is for the content)
• areas you wish to target / cover
• photographs of work / shop / van / team members
• any testimonials - if not already on Google

Thats all we need and we can take care of the rest.

When we build a new website we do it in stages. If we haven't agreed on a template or layout we'll first build the home page and send you a link to preview. This is to make sure you're happy with the style we've built and how it looks. Once you're happy we'll move onto building the rest of the website.

Once the final preview is ready we'll let you know. At this stage take a good look over the website including the content and make sure you're happy with everything. If you give us the thumbs up we'll prepare to set your new website live.

What if I'm not happy with it?

Tell us what you don't like about it and we'll work to get things changed. Whether this is redesigning a specific section or the wording isn't quite right, tell us and we'll work on it until you're happy.

This is the question on most businesses minds and one without straight forward answer. When your new website is set live it can be viewed online by searching for your business name or entering your domain name into Google.

Now to appear in the search results when someone searches for your service, i.e. builders in Manchester, it can take a few months before Google start to index and show your website in the search results. This is normal while Google assess your website.

I want to rank on page 1 - how do I get there?

To rank your website on page 1 of Google, focus on creating quality content, optimising for SEO, improving site speed, gaining backlinks, and ensuring a great user experience while staying consistent with updates.

You can boost your websites ranking on Google with one of our SEO packages

For all new websites we build, we take a 50% deposit prior to starting and then the remaining 50% once you've approved everything and it's ready to go live.

We take payments via bank transfer, debit or credit card and Paypal.

Payment for monthly hosting and maintenance is paid on direct debit only via GoCardless.

The monthly hosting and maintenance payments for your website will be set up on direct debit via GoCardless. Invoice are sent on either the 10th of 27th of each month with payments automatically taken 3 -5 days later.

Payments for physical design work such as logos or branding packs are taken prior to the work commencing.

Payments for monthly SEO packages are taken in advance on direct debit.

Any additional work is charged at our standard hourly rate of £50p/h.

Domain names are renewed yearly at £20

Any additional software or licenses purchased on your behalf are invoiced and taken by direct debit 1 month prior to renewal anniversary date.