[Neil Jones]

I'm going to completely overhaul my website, its long overdue and I want a new one. There are a few companies/people who I am trying to decide between but wanted to ask what you think a reasonable price to pay is? It seems you can get a website built from £100 to £10,000, so apart from size and features what justifies the large price gap!

It will be a multi service website, 10 pages or around that mark, with a blog and all social media integrated etc, I will also need one off SEO or ongoing, still undecided.

I've had a few quotes, one for £2000.

I'd be interested to know what you think.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I'm in the midst of doing mine, what I have found is that over the years competitors come and go but new ones can literally jump over your site as it has new up to date content more google friendly also they invest with an expert so in my case it's going to be an on going Seo campaign, my website amounts to a big % of new customer enquiries although I tend to look after my regular customers which usually fills most of my week in, I'm not too reliant on the web I don't think it's what it's cracked up to be but I do want an on line presence a bit chicken and the egg but if I stop new customers the old ones eventually die so I have to keep replacing them with new blood (so to speak) Alex at alloy is doing mine.

Shaun

[Neil Jones]

I'm exactly the same at the moment although I want to target commercial in some services we offer. Alex @ Alloy is on my list of four, he's manchester based which is what I want.

[Jamie Pearson]

Whoever you go with make sure they build it in wordpress.

[Radek Jablonski]

Jamie, why wordpress? Better for seo?

[steve prince]

Sorry Jamie
I totally disagree, Wordpress is not the answer! it's laid out so any one can do it ,
That's what I want some say ???If your doing it yourself then yes but those web designers in the know would not use word press

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I'd have thought web designers can be like carpet cleaners when someone says word press they all follow or any other format perhaps even it's all about opinion you just can't work out google.

Shaun

[Carpet Dawg]

Sorry Jamie
I totally disagree, Wordpress is not the answer! it's laid out so any one can do it ,
That's what I want some say ???If your doing it yourself then yes but those web designers in the know would not use word press

eh? loads of web designers use wordpress.

Wordpress is easy to use and more important easy to maintain. You can get a theme or plugin for pretty much everything. Most themes are responsive. The whole wordpress structure i.e. code, urls etc make it all very seo friendly.

[garry22]

but those web designers in the know would not use word press

Pretty much every decent online marketer / designer I know uses Wordpress.

One of the main reasons is versatility. The amount of plug ins (add in functions) puts it way above anything else. Many large "static" looking sites are actually built on the Wordpress platform.

[Radek Jablonski]

I'm exactly the same at the moment although I want to target commercial in some services we offer. Alex @ Alloy is on my list of four, he's manchester based which is what I want.

who is this guy, what is his www name?
thanks

[Jamie Pearson]

I mean using a custom theme built using wordpress.

Not an off the shelfer unless it suits your requirements.

[garry22]

Not an off the shelfer unless it suits your requirements.

What's the thinking behind that Jamie?

[stuart_clark]

Shaun you used to have two half pages in the yp are you not in there anymore ?