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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:43 am
by Asbury
Can anyone give me a bit of advice.
I have just bought another website addy and a company called Upmystreet who are really just BT have told me they will design my website at a cost of £535 plus vat, but if I don't pay soon it will go up to £630 plus, yeah right I better act quick. :p :p
Is that a good price or not, my last website was hosted by these people for the last year (£23 per month) and I never got one phone call, but I know my website was naff, as I designed it with their free software.
I have got loads of idea's on my new site, but all this talk and promises of the designer is sending me to drink a lot and I am beating my wife more. 
I know he said I will have 20 keywords blah blah blah
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:15 pm
by msh paving
You need to contact the gaffer,he is a website master just look at this site.......contact him at this address
http://www.cormaic.com/
MSH 
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:30 pm
by lutonlagerlout
my mate did my webby for roughly 130 quid ,this includes a gallery with thumbnails ,guest book,about us and links,to host it and buy the domain for 2 years was about 50 quid
if you contact me via pm i will send you his details
my old fella constantly gets these ppl ringing up about extortionate fees for websites,no need at all
cheers LLL
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:42 pm
by Dave_L
That's far too expensive at £500+. Shop around as there are lots of website designers/programmers out there who are short of work.
Tell them to stick their offer....the "It goes up if you don't cough now" smacks of bad practice.
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Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:03 pm
by Stuarty
I used to throw up websites for £100, inlcluded 2yr domain name, photo galleries, contact forms, multiple pages, xhtml and css valid and I also show the customer progress and can rectify/modify anything at anytime. I also recommended hosts i found good in the past through experience also. 500 odd quid is just a rip off tbh
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:41 pm
by Asbury
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:49 pm
by msh paving
As long as the web designer puts in the correct and enough meta-tags you will be well up on google,my old web site was number 2 on google cost me £120 but my webmaster has packed up 
MSH
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:51 pm
by Asbury
msh paving wrote:As long as the web designer puts in the correct and enough meta-tags you will be well up on google,my old web site was number 2 on google cost me £120 but my webmaster has packed up MSH
Bloody ell, boy am i glad I put a thread on here.
I thought I left the days when I was getting screwed once a week in business well behind.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:03 pm
by dig dug dan
Stuarty, they said for that price people will easily find me on a google search
Type in crusher hire in google, my site is first.
I did my own website (and i am not an expert either)
costs £10 per year to host
Up my street is not a recognized search medium, so get rid!
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:56 pm
by Stuarty
There is no "set rules" to getting the highest search engine results. Search engines dont just only read meta tags, but the actual site content aswell. Google PageRank system is able to "understand" to an extent what the context of your site is all about. The best way to get good results are informative meta tags, well organised pages with good data. The only way to "guarantee" that your ad gets good google results is to have a sponsored ad. There are firms who earn tons from offering Search Engine Optimization (SEO for short) services, its a science in itself since none of the search engine firms release details of how their crawlers work, or more importantly, how they define what goes where in the results.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:45 pm
by Suggers
Stuarty speaks good - my good friend spent a fortune on getting to the top of the google search in his field - after one year he still has no work come thru from it - he's doing okay with the good old fashioned recommended from very happy customers route....
ps - mind you, he's one of those blokes that turned up in the mid 70's with a mobile phone the size and the weight of a housebrick... cost him about £2,500 as I remember.
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:52 pm
by Suggers
ps - Hiya Dan - just heard down the pub that RRhino really have gone down the tube this time? - might just be pub talk. Not sure if this is old news - I'm a bit out of the loop.
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:28 pm
by danensis
I've just started using Joomla - it makes web site design an absolute doddle.
http://cdbka.org.uk is my first attempt, and is hosted on 5quidhost, which offers a free hosting service, which is brilliant for a group like this.