F.A.Q

Every project is different and so its is difficult to determine a completion date as changes and development delays can alter deadlines. We do however try to aim to have most brochure websites completed in 3-5 weeks and more complicated sites like online shopscompleted in 4-8 weeks. These time periods are only for the purpose of a guideline however we will try to give you a more accuratedeadline once we know the details of your website.

We try to involve you in the development as much as possible so that the final product is exactly what you want. The largest involvement you will have is in the content where you will be required to write the text that will be required onmost pages. If you require images of products on your site then we will ask you to source these from your supplier althoughmany of these may be freely available on the web in which case we may source these images for you. You other involvementsis the easy and fun part as we will regually ask you throughout the development for your thoughts and opinions on the site so that we can tweak anything you might not be too keen on.

When a client asks this we always say "yes we can, but it will greatly confine how much content can have". The point at which a webiste disapears off the bottom of a screen is generallyreffered to as the fold (like a newspaper). To have a site without a fold requires us to design the site to work like this on the smallest common screen size which affter taking a coupleof other factors into account currently works out around 1000x600 pixels. The blue banner at the top of this page is a little over 200 pixels in height so you can guess 600 pixles is not a lot of space to work with. If you are happy to not have a lot of content on each page then foldless pages can look really good but make sure you have thought it through before opting for this style of site.

CMS stands for Content Management System but is usually referred to as a CMS or Content Manager. A CMS mainly allows you toedit text, images, videos and other content on website without any knowledge of coding. Depending on what is included in your site they can also do more complicated tasks such as editing and organising product lists, delivery charges, contact information etc...

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation and it is one of the most marketed areas of web design. Unfourtunately this also meansthe what SEO is and does is often clouded by sales and marketing people talking nonsense. The 5 main parts of SEO are valid code, meta data,content, links and traffic.

Validated and standardised code is a must for websites, not only because it makes sure your site will work how it should but alsobecuase you need to allow search bots to read your website easily and relay this back to their search engines.

Meta data includes a meta titel and meta description which is the text shown in search results and so very important but it also includes meta keywords which are still included but are pretty much redundant these days.

The text content you put on your site will be scuritinsed by search bots as they look for common words that describe your site so it is a good idea to take time whenpreparing text for a website as you should be trying to make sure your keywords appear regularly throughout your text.

Links coming into your site can be extreemlyhelpful to SEO but just a difficult to obtain. Links that have little credability will do very little for your site however credible links should be highly sought after from sites with the same subject matter as yours and sites that recieve a lot of traffic.

Getting traffic to improve you SEO is not easy to achive as the point in SEO is to improve your traffic which seems a little confusing but this simply means that search engines take note of home many people are visting your site to which you will be given a higher rating than someone if they had an identicle site with less traffic.

You will own everything we design, develop and purchase for you. We have heard many horror storries from our clients of designcompanies withholding the rights from them to a range of things. We believe this sort of behaviour is completely unnaceptable andwe so at the end of a development we give you an entire copy of your web site to you with which you can do as you please. Fordomain names we must purchase them from our supplier which are registered in the name of Animite Media to make thingseasier for hosting, however should you want to move your hosting away from us we will happily change the registration detailsto your name without any hassle.

Until we know what you want in your site, how big it will be, if you need hosting and a bunch of other details we cant give you an accurateprice of your site. We have provided our average price brackets on our services page however all our work is completely bespoke and so depending on what you want the site could cost more or less than we have stated.

We require a deopsit of 25% of the development costs to be paid at the beginning of the project and then the remaining balance to be paid when the site is completed andready to be uploaded to the web.

Other than the initial development charges we dont charge any subscription fees however the payment gateways which are an essential part of an online shop do. SagePay andPaypal charge roughly £240 a year as well as a small percentage of the total monthly transactions, it is worth while researching this as you will want to work this into your price stucturing. If you are just a very simple shop Paypal do also have a gateway service that is free however it does still carries the transaction fees and does not provide the same level of customisation as the others.