Once you have selected a package that suits your requirements you can hit the “Get Started” button and fill out the form to make an enquiry. When your enquiry has been received, I’ll contact you by phone to discuss the next steps and provide information about how to prepare your website content.

The payment schedule is as follows:
50% of the total project fee is due upon commencement of your project
30% due when the design and development has been approved
20% balance due upon project completion

Yes! Once your website is live you’ll have full control of the site. You’ll be able to add as many additional pages as you like.

WordPress is open source content management software and currently powers around 35% of all websites on the Internet. WordPress is contributed to by tens of thousands of developers all over the world and is growing from strength to strength. WordPress allows us to develop flexible and customisable websites to modern standards and observes web development best practices. Furthermore the community of web developers that use WordPress reaches far and wide and allows us to tap in to this collective intelligence and bring that wealth of experience to your project.

Your website will need to be hosted by a hosting company that specialises in WordPress hosting. Hosting plans for our preferred hosting partner are available from $160/year. Ask me how you can get a 50% discount on your hosting 😉

Once your website is launched, Scoop Design will provide support & maintenance for up to 12 months (see pricing table above) to make sure any bugs have been ironed out and that you are confident using your new website. After the initial support period expires you are encouraged to subscribe to an ongoing website care plan to ensure your website is well looked after and maintained. These website care plans include updating your software, regular backups, security checks and making sure your website is online and open for business 24/7/365. More information on these plans is available upon request.

Although these plans are highly recommended to ensure that your website is always running smoothly and regularly backed up, these maintenance plans are an optional extra. I will always endeavour the help you in a timely manner, however being a small business with limited resources, I can only guarantee prompt support to customers that are signed up to an ongoing plan.

Scoop will be your first point of call should something go wrong with your website. Scoop will also provide training and video tutorials to assist you in using your website once it is launched. Should you have any problems with your website after the initial 12 month period, I will always endeavour the help you in a timely manner, however being a small business with limited resources, I can only guarantee priority support to customers that are signed up to an ongoing plan.

The time it takes for your website to appear in Google depends on a number of factors. It depends on the search phrase people are using to find your website and the number of other websites that are also available for those search phrases. Nobody can truly say how long it will take for your website to appear at the top of search engine results pages (including people who actually work for Google), however there are a number of factors that can improve your chances. Building your website on WordPress is a good start as WordPress has some great Search Engine Optimisation fundamentals built-in. Creating unique and interesting content on a regular basis for your website is also critical to increase your visibility amongst search engines. Launching your website and then forgetting about it is a surefire way to get lost amongst the noise. I’m happy to talk to more about your SEO strategy if we haven’t already.

I will install Google analytics software on your new website and show you how to log into your Google analytics account where you can see a wide range of statistics about your website including number of visits, page views than the amount of time people are spending on your website.