So you have had your website designed and built…..now what?

Your website will need a few bits to be shown to the world and keep it safe. The most basic list is hosting and domain. But what does this mean?

Hosting is a space to store files so they can be accessed on the internet and a domain is another name for a website address for example www.graphicicing.co.uk

At Graphic icing we also encourage our clients to consider backups and updates as part of the essential list to keep their website safe and secure. Therefore we take daily backups and perform monthly updates in all our website maintenance packages. This allows us to be your website’s safety net.

Emails

With each package you can have an email and mailbox, the packages vary on how many 1, 5, or 10. This means you can finally stop sending emails from unprofessional email accounts such as hotmail and start sending from your business address. So for example Graphic icing’s website is www.graphicicing.co.uk and therefore our emails are @graphicicing.co.uk. You can also use email aliases which are a email address that masks or sends to another, for example if I send an email to [email protected]  but the email mailbox that recieves it is [email protected] instead of it own mailbox.

The number of emails you require will depend on you business and the impression you wish to give. You may want an email for each employee or section of you business. Here is a selection of emails you may with to use name@, info@, accounts@, support@, sales@, enquires@, just to name a few.

Content updates

This is where you get some of our time to work on your website, this could be making the changes found by the google analytic anaylsis or regular updates such as adding or removing event details, adding photos to a gallery or even posting your blog article. The packages give you 1 hour a month or 2 hours but what can be done in that time?

Here are some examples of the 1 hour;

Example 1 – for a cookery teacher

• Add 2 events with links to buy tickets
• Remove 2 events day after event
• Add 2 new recipes as blog posts

Example 2 – for an artist

• Update news page with 2 pieces of information sent
• Add 4 new images
• Set up a new project page on the website for this months charity event.

Here are some examples of the 3 hour;

Example 1 – for a card shop

• Set up 10 new products
• Post 4 blog posts – 1 per week
• Change main banner to latest sale
• Set up new discount code

Example 2 – for a hotel

• Set up 1 new website page
• 1 hour of general SEO and design changes
• Add featured press articles
• upload blog post
• Change 4 images

We have included this as a lot of our customers told us they find it hard to stay on top of updating thier website. Either they were so busy running thier business or they lacked the skills to make changes needed taking them twice as long to learn them. They knew they could get someone to make these changes on a one off basis but found the costs quickly mountaining up. That is why we believe having us at your side can help you keep your website up to date and achieving its goal without unexpected costs or time consuming learning, save you the time and money.