web design and IT support in Bordon
Half an hour down the A325, for a town rebuilding itself around new businesses.
About half an hour down the A325.
Bordon has spent the last decade turning an old garrison town into something else, and the businesses arriving with it are mostly young: makers, food and drink, trades and small studios. That is a different brief from a hundred-year-old practice. There is no twenty-year-old website to unpick, and the question is usually how little needs building to start, and what it has to be able to become.
Hogmoor Distillery are a client, and that kind of business is a good example of the shape: the site has to carry the product and the story, be straightforward to keep current, and be ready to sell online if and when that becomes the plan, without paying for a shop that is not needed yet.
Start small, build it properly, and leave room. That is cheaper than building for a business you have not become yet.
what Bordon businesses ask for
WordPress Design
Most WordPress sites are a bought theme with somebody else's logo swapped out. Yours gets designed around what you actually need to say, and built so that changing it afterwards does not mean ringing me.
more about thisWeb & Email Hosting
UK hosting for websites and mailboxes, with a person on the end of it. When email stops on a Friday afternoon you are speaking to whoever set it up, not filing a ticket and waiting.
more about thisDomain Names
Domains in one place, renewed before they lapse rather than after. SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up properly, which is the difference between your email arriving and your email landing in spam.
more about thisMaintenance & Support
The work nobody notices until it has not been done. Updates tested before they go live, monitoring that tells me before it tells you, and a monthly note saying what actually happened.
more about thisquestions people ask
We are just starting. What do we actually need on day one?
A domain in your own name, email that works, and a site that says what you do, where you are and how to reach you. Everything else can wait until there is something to say.
Can we sell online later?
Yes, and it is worth building so that is an addition rather than a rebuild. WooCommerce on top of an existing WordPress site is a fortnight, not a fresh start.
Who looks after it once it is live?
I do, if you want that: updates on a schedule, daily backups kept off site, and a monthly note saying what actually happened. Or it is handed over documented and you look after it yourself.
nearby
no obligation, and no sales call
start with the problem
Tell me what you are trying to fix and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. No obligation, and no sales call.
The fact find takes about five minutes and means I can quote properly.
