Maintenance and Support

Your web site is live. What next?

Once your web site is up and running, you’ll almost certainly want to keep it fresh with regular updates. So you’ll want a web designer who provides cost-effective ongoing support and maintenance.

Unfortunately it’s all too common for web designers to simply abandon a client and move on to the next client once a site is launched and the fee is collected. Or worse – to charge extortionate fees for even the slightest update like a small text change.

Low Cost Website Maintenance

You may be suprised to learn that the cost of keeping you site up to date can be minimal. Many updates take just a few minutes and unlike most agencies, I don’t round my charges up to the nearest hour for each update. That means you can potentially have lots of updates to your web site in a given month and only pay a very small charge.

Example:

Here’s an example of some amendments that might be carried out to a web site over the course of a month. All timings are approximate and will obviously vary for each project.

  • Add additonal paragraph to to home page: 5 minutes
  • Change of phone number on Contact page: 2 minutes
  • Replace photograph: 10 minutes.
  • Add new page: 30 minutes

Total: 47 minutes @ £39.00 per hour = £30.55.

As you can see, having a web site and keeping it up to date won’t bankrupt you.