Single Page Website Design

One off £45 Website Design with £12 pa Web Hosting

For a single page website, one off website design charges are due only when you accept the design, not in advance. Web hosting charges are due when you want to register your single page website (domain) name. That's it, no other costs, just an annual web hosting cost (even a discount for two years web hosting) and a one off design charge to get online.

Web hosting for £12 pa includes:- rental of a full domain www.yoursitename.co.uk or org.uk type name, upto 3 email addresses, server space of 200 Mb and 1 Gb of bandwidth (usage by visitors to your site) per month. On this single page website for example, that would allow over 5,000 page views per month and this is a large page with many images.

Relevant Targeted Traffic

When both the material on your web page and the web site name are on the same topic. You can get highly targeted visitors from the search engines. For this website selling single page websites, you can see how relevant the search engine phrases are. Below from a statistics report taken on the 6th January 2012. The top ten of 24 search terms, the large majority of search terms are relevant & on topic for this website:

Website Design for Mobile Phones

New in 2012: Add a mobile phone subdomain - m.yourwebsite.co.uk - as an extra option to your main single page website package. The main website caters best for the wider screen or hi resoution devices such as: laptops, netbooks, tablets & PC's. Mobile phones visitors with smaller screens get a partial view at best for this type of website.

If you wish to also supply a page designed for the more recent iphones & smartphones visitors. For an extra £25 of one off design costs & an extra £4 pa for web hosting to get an extra page on the '.m' subdomain of your single page website.

Designs are simplified versions of your main single page website but based on 480 pixel (dot) screen widths, with smaller and often fewer graphics and less text. This is to cater for the lower resolution (small) display screens and the slower bandwidth (connection speed) on mobile devices.

Website Promotion

Website promotion is included in this package. Links are the preferred way to get your website into the search engine indexes, the search engines are very good at finding websites that have links to them.

It would be great to say that's it on promotion for your website! I do however encourage my clients to promote their own websites. If you have time for this, just ask after your website goes online and I will give the basic details on how to do further promotion. I spend a limited time on my one off task of promoting your website, any time you can give to promotion can enhance your websites position in the search engines.

Note that: Websites with an address and phone number are much easier to promote. Perhaps even more important for commercial web sites - contact information of this sort is reassuring to your websites visitors. I strongly suggest that you consider putting this level of detail on a commercial website.

Quickly Online

How do you get your material online? You supply by email the text and photos that you want online. If you want audio and/or video I can add Youtube frames into the page.

I produce a sample design for you to view based on your material. Optionally specify text fonts, colours ... as much (or as little) layout detail as you wish. If my design is not what you want, I am happy to have repeated tries, so long as you give guidance on the effect(s) you want to achieve.

The single page website design package includes simple graphic design. Your images can be re-sized, trimmed, colour adjusted, converted to different formats and rotated. The package also includes creating simple graphics like: pointer arrows, wallpaper background tiles, favourite bar icons and so on.

Do note that if you ask me to supply or create complex graphics, there will be an extra charge: Typically £1 to £15 for a stock photo or £10 to £20 to create a simple logo. For stock photos, see Dreamstime.com, where I have an account (or you can buy direct). I charge £1 per credit for Dreamstime photos.

What to put on your Website

For anyone not sure what to put on your one page website its difficult for me to be specific without more information on your website, but for general information read on ...

Search engines work on text so do not stint on it, I recommend at least 200 words. More is better but it is a case of limited returns after a while, remember to keep 'on the topic of your website', a single page website works best that way. If you go to far off topic it dilutes your material.

Consider these suggestions as to what to put on the page -

• Contact information
  • Address: An address is important on a commercial website, a small business perhaps working from home may wish to give an address only to the post code area and then ask for appointments to be arranged in advance.
  • Phone number: for many websites a land lines is better than a mobile phone number as it implies a physical address.
  • One or more email address(es)
  • Optional if applicable to the site: location map, directions, parking information, opening hours, region covered, contact form (see a form at the end of page), fax no. ...
• FAQ's: A good way of answering frequent questions saving your time, getting more information across and key words onto the page.
•   Logo photo or graphic - helps the site look more professional. I can for example, create text based logos, for example the Ashton PC logo here circled and with a shadow effect.
• Product/Service: Details of products or services supplied, give any selling points why your products/services are cheaper,better,more reliable ...
• Photo's of products, services, shop front, shop display's, previous work done, your photo (if you want to personalise the website) ...
• About you/your company: years of experience/trading, qualifications, trade bodies, trade logo's, experience with other companies in the same line. Selling points – discounts for OAP's, special offers, large car park, large warehouse with many items held in stock, ... and so on
• Testimonials: If they are good, its not to everyone's taste as its so easy to fake them. If you use them have 3 or more I suggest otherwise it can be rather faint praise.
• Terms and Conditions: If needed, usually at the end of page in smaller text. Its rarely a selling point but may be needed.
• Links: If needed.

Buy Now Ecommerce

  Ecommerce with no monthly payment charges!? I charge a one-off £5 to add a single buy now button or £10 to add 3 buy now buttons to your website. Pay Pal is a simple and low cost way to collect online payments by credit or debit card. Make a payment by selecting an item to buy and then just click the 'Buy Now' button to make the payment on the secure Paypal website. Visit the Paypal website for information on how to set-up this then email me the button details.

Sales charges, are based on individual transactions so there are no monthly charges, indeed no charges without sales when I write this. Note that:

    You can have multiple payment options on one 'buy now' button.
    See the Zodiac Glyphs website link for an example of a buy now button.

Social Networking

Built in links for visitors to the social networking sites can also be included in the single page website package. Requires Javascript to be active, see the one click, facebook & twitter icon links near the top of page

For other sharing options move the mouse over the share link for a large number of link icons to the smaller and more specialist social networking sites. Also included: email a link to your friends & add a link to your personal favourites bar. Note that if Javascript is not active on your computer, no links will be displayed.

Multi Browser Tested & W3C Compliant

Firefox, Safari (Apple) & Google's Chrome now have a large share of the web browser market. The single page web site package includes testing with Microsoft's Internet Explorer as well as Firefox, Safari (Apple) & Google Chrome browsers. Your single page website will be verified as W3C compliant. Unless some 3rd party add-ons like embedded Youtube videos, forms or some map links are used.

Top Browsers:  

Visitors - Percent - Browser

  6,924  - 19.57% - Internet Explorer 8
  6,598  - 18.65% - Safari
  4,803  - 13.57% - Firefox
  3,867  - 10.93% - Google Chrome
  3,163  -   8.94% - Internet Explorer 7
  2,731  -   7.72% - Internet Explorer 9
  2,559  -   7.23% - Internet Explorer 6

Email Included

The single page website package includes the set-up of up to 3 email addresses, in the form of aname@yoursite.co.uk (or .org.uk). Outlook Express on Windows XP, Windows Vista Mail or Windows 7 Live Mail are currently supported.

If you prefer to keep to an existing email address, these can be put on the website. Or the email address(es) supplied can be re-directed to other email address(es). Note: I don't recommended re-directing email's as it may confuse your visitors, it can reduce spam though.

A contact form: For all websites for a £4 per year extra charge. The form helps hotmail, gmail, yahoo mail and other web mail users get in contact very easily. See the form at the end of this page for an example.

Output from a form can be directed to an existing email address or to one,two or all three of the addresses supplied with the single page website package.

Expandable Website

Websites are expandable: add extra sections to your one page site, additional pages, additional graphics, motion effects, extra bandwidth and extra email addresses. These can all be added to an existing website. Design costs for this will vary depending on what you want, with fixed price quotes given. Note that simple text changes are only charged after repeated changes.

Hosting costs for multiple page web sites is £16 pa for 1Gb or £20 pa for 2Gb of bandwidth (usage). If you need unlimited bandwidth use. Sorry but I don't supply this on a shared server - very high use for one client, cripples the response times for both your website and any other clients who are on that server.

Should you need very high band width usage contact me for more information, as there are options to do this.

Free Transfer & Free Statistics Review

I am confident my charges are very competitive but if you decide you can do better. There is no charge from me to transfer your single page website to another hosting supplier during the yearly hosting period. There is likely to be a charge from your new hosting supplier.

A free statistics review is supplied by email every year with your hosting renewal reminder. Reviews show - search engine referrers, search terms used and a graphic of daily visitor numbers.

Contact Single Page Website Design

I hope this has answered most of your questions about getting your one page website online and on the other issues like web hosting, email, traffic analysis, ecommerce and website promotion too.

If you have more questions - you can contact me, Peter Frost by