Phew!

Worry-free websites for businesses on a budget

What you get

Here's what you get with the Phew! website package.

• A totally non-scary experience

  • You can see what you're buying before you buy it – no biting your nails wondering what the designer's going to come up with. View the demo site
  • I set up everything for you, including hosting and domain, and your email account. I'll even enter your starting content (as long as you can get it to me within two weeks), to get you up and running as quickly and easily as possible.
  • Fast set-up! Most website take weeks to create. This one could take just a few days. How long will it take?

• Self-sufficiency

  • The WordPress content management system allows you to add, edit and delete content as you like – so you'll be able to manage your own site. What's WordPress?
  • You get access to my members-only site containing detailed, step-by-step video tutorials which show you how to edit your site with WordPress. More about the tutorials

• A clean, attractive, user-friendly design

  • Which I'll customise for you with a completely custom colour scheme and matching header image, and your logo inserted. (If you don't have a logo, I'll create a simple text-based one for you.)
  • With features created especially to suit small businesses:
    • Home page has three boxes for calls to action, and a testimonial box.
    • Sidebar space for testimonials – one quote displays at random whenever someone visits a page.
    • Sidebar box for short call to action messages.
    • Sidebar 'Connection' links – eye-catching links to RSS, email subscription, and your Twitter, Facebook and Linked In pages.
    • Sidebar space for a welcome portrait – a place for a photo of yourself and a welcome message, to help add the personal touch to your site.

• Tons of features specially chosen for their usefulness to small businesses:

  • Contact form. The messages are sent to you via email.
  • Blog. Blogging is one of the best resources out there for small businesses. (It's entirely optional, of course – if you don't want a blog, we'll just turn that page off – you can always turn it on again later.)
  • Customisable sidebar
  • Or if you prefer you can have pages without a sidebar
  • The option to have submenus – add as many subpages as you like
  • Easily add audio and video to your site
  • Include testimonials in the sidebar
  • Display a button which makes it easy for your visitors to share your blog posts with their friends.
  • Encourage people to leave comments on your blog by giving a link back to their most recent blog post.
  • Search engine optimisation – both active (the ability to edit meta title and description) and passive (Google sitemap creation).

• Useful WordPress plugins added.

  I install a selection of useful WordPress plugins. Some of these power the features I've just listed, but there are others, too – for example, a couple of very handy plugins that make it easy to back up your site regularly, a plugin that looks out for viruses and warns you if your site is attacked, and a plugin that prevents people leaving spam comments on your blog.

• Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools

  I'll create a Google account for you and set you up with Analytics and Webmaster Tools. These will allow you to see how many people are visiting your site, how they found it, and what they do when they get there.