A web presence for your business
No web Site?
In 2007 BMRB carried out a survey and found out
that 80% of people would contact a company
that has a website first, over and above one that didn’t.
Dear prospective client,
Let me introduce myself: my name is Roberto Ciccolella, I am a freelance web designer based in Swansea offering web site design services for Wales, UK and Italy.
Whether you have a web site that is in need of an update (†) or you are planning to have a web presence for your business you can use my services.
You will get your own professional web site ready to support your business. It will be built following the standard recommendations from W3C to make it accessible to many devices like screen readers and palmtop to increase your web site audience. Websites that aren’t built following the W3C standards are losers, they get only a fraction of the traffic that an accessible site can get, I can give you more details on this important topic.
So let’s see what you get.
- A home page where you can introduce your business.
- A services page to show all your products and services and/or samples of work.
- A contact page with an enquiry form where people can contact you.
- A location page with a Google map to show your locateion to prospective customers.
- A Testimonial page (recommended) where you can show how good you are with your customers/clients. As example see mine here.
- WordPress! A very easy to use content management system to allow you to login to your dashboard and easily update your content with no need to pay me to do that.
- A blog powered by WordPress integrated in your web site that permit you to keep your web site constantly updated and where to post all news or any new products or services. This is a huge added value since search engines love blogs and especially WordPress that is the CMS(1) that I decided to adopt since it is very user friendly and used from many millions of people and companies worldwide. As an example just see my blog page here, you can do exactly the same with “your” dynamic web site designed by CiaoWeb.
- A basic search engines optimization service, to reach a good ranking on major search engines on local searches (see more details below).
- Last but not least important you will get my support for any help you may need and my expertise to develop new pages or add new functionalities to your business web site.
- Obviously if you are planning a re-design for an old web site with more than five pages I will consider to build more pages accordingly with the original number at no cost for you.
The total cost for building the site is £295.00 (one time payment).
The recurring cost will be £10.00 per month to cover hosting, domain(2) and maintenance cost. The recurring fee can be paid on an annual or monthly basis(3)
Please see some example of web sites I have made for some of my clients:
Chic & Elegant, Bridal Wear & Accessories In Swansea
F.C. Bookbinder, University Thesis Printing & Binding All In One
S.E.A.S., Accountant in Neath Valley
Mollys, Ladies Fashion Shop In Swansea
Vale Memorials LTD, Specialist Memorials Mason
Eet Buffets, Fresh Buffets Delivery In The Swansea Area
Save Your Memories, VHS to DVD Conversion Service In Swansea
Designawalls, Freelance Artist In The Swansea Area
H.M.O. Support, Houses In Multiple Occupation Information Website
Gardiner Travel – Flight Connection From Swansea To All UK Airports
Harrison’s of Swansea, Art Materials & Stationery
You can start your web site with few pages and add more pages later on. The beauty of Wordpress is that it is extremely easy to use, so you can add new pages and post new content any time you are are thinking to introduce new products or services for your business or you are partecipatating at a special event. If you are able to use Facebook, Google Mail or Hotmail or using a word processor you can use WordPress. In the CiaoWeb -only member- support forum you can find very easy to follow video tutorials on WordPress. If you are located in the Swansea area you will get directly from me the basic training, in say half hour you will be already adding content to your web site by yourself.
Your business displayed 24 hours a day / 7 days a week…
Think about it, a web site is a very detailed electronic brochure of your business displayed 24 hours a day and 7 days a week for everybody to see. It can be enhanced with photos, location maps and enquiry form where people can contact you back, it will never take a day off and it will “work” for you even while you are sleeping.
I will optimize your web site to reach a good ranking on Google, Yahoo and Bing…
The dream of any web site owner: To reach a good search engines ranking. I will optimize your web site in a way it can be ranked from the three most important search engines that alone share over than 95% percent of the searches market: Google, Yahoo and Bing. Do you want a proof that a web site built professionally and with the right optimization can reach a very good result on search engine ranking? Just see how my web site CiaoWeb is ranked from Google and Yahoo querying “freelance web designer in Swansea” that is the most obvious query if someone is not interested on hiring web design agencies, see for yourself please click on the links below:
>>>>See how CiaoWeb is ranked from Google<<<<
>>>>See how CiaoWeb is ranked from Yahoo<<<<
So what do you think? Did I do a good job on optimizing my web site? See also that CiaoWeb is among the first ten “natural results” that is absolutely fantastic while the top results in the yellow area (light blue in Yahoo results) at the top and the ones on the right hand side are sponsored link so the web site owners have to pay to Google and Yahoo a fee each time someone click on their links. CiaoWeb instead doesn’t pay anything since the web site owner (so me…:-) has been so good on building the site putting also the right content that Google and Yahoo reward the website with a good ranking. If you hire me I’ll try my best to reach the same result for your site.
But don’t take my word for it please read what some of my clients have said… more…
Your web site is a serious thing,
is there to help your business, leave it to the professionals…
I am still seeing around many amateurish web site to promote even such important businesses like solicitors firms, accountants and so on. Please note: search engines simply ignore web site built from the infamous web site builders software around or even with Microsoft Word and similar. Do you know why search engines don’t rank web site built in that way? Simply because they are enough clever to read the code behind the web site so can immediately realize if the web site has been built from a professional by hand or from a software. A website built by a software will never ever match one built by hand, since they put strange code on the site background that make the site difficult to be accessed by search engines that as a result ignore it, so no chance to get it ranked.
Your own web site is by far the best way to promote your business…
In 2007 BMRB carried out a survey and found that 80% of people would contact a company that has a website first, over and above one that didn’t.
Think also about your competitors, if they have a web site and you don’t they take the advantage. Want to beat your competitors? As an example you can have a web page that display photos or even videos of some of your best jobs or go in details on showing your services with some comments to describe what you did to reach that particular result. In this way you will get an effective help from your web site and if you are competing with others to get that very important job from a very demanding customer/client your web site will be your best supporter since will show your prospective customer/client how good you can be on doing that job in the right way.
Since you want to offer a proof of your professionalism you can add real testimonials who can be crucial to gain you trust that can convince your prospective customer/client on choosing you and not your competitors.
An amazing range of features to boost your business or for personal use…
But this incredible offer doesn’t finish here, there is much more, the hosting account included in the offer will allow you to use many facilities and add many more features to your web site. See for yourself below just some of the many features:
- Top Class Control Panel (click here to see it) user: demo – password:demo
- A support Forum where you can post any time you feel you need some help see it here: http://www.ciaoweb.co.uk/forum/
- A ranking report on a quarter basis so you have the chance to find out how your website is performing on major search engines. I can give you more details on this service.
- A Google Analytics report page where you can get in great details reports on your website traffic, more info here: http://www.google.com/analytics
- An Auto responder to inform your clients that you are away (click here to test)
- 500 MB of web space enough for hundreds of pages
- 5GB of bandwidth (A lot of traffic for your web site)
- unlimited email addresses
- and many other facilities
How to transfer my domain?…
That’s right! You already have a web site and wondering on how to transfer your domain(1) to CiaoWeb Hosting to get this fantastic offer. My answer: No problem! I will take care of everything.
Is there any contract?…
There is no contract! If you don’t need the web site anymore because you are closing or selling your business no problem. You can stop the monthly payment, just let me know.
So to recap…
If you hire me to build up a web presence for your business you will get as follow:
- A professional five/six pages web site. The web site will be dynamic since there will be a content management system to manage the content update. This type of web sites are charged a fortune from web design agencies. Running my business as freelancer allow me to keep my overheads low so I can benefit my clients with reasonable charges.
- A basic search engine optimization to allow your web site to reach a good ranking position especially on Google, Yahoo and Bing.
- The training to learn how to update content and add pictures, you will be up and running in no time (very easy).
- A blog integrated in your web site (WordPress) that you can you use to keep your customers/clients constantly updated about any new products/services or about any special promotion to boost you business. So while you will enjoy the fact to be in control of your site writing fresh content your ranking position will get better day by day, as I said above search engines love content, the more you will update your website the better will get your ranking so more people will find your company on the internet and so…new business for you!
- A domain name with a co.uk or org.uk extension for free so I will pay it at renewal time.
- A hosting account with 500 MB of space and 5GB of bandwidth more than enough for hundreds of pages and a lot of monthly traffic with your site always on.
- The big advantage of my support for any need you may have or to add new functionalities to your web site.
- A web site expandable, thinking to add a shopping cart? No problem just speak with me and I ‘ll find the best solution for you.
Ok Roberto, I’ll go for it,what do you need from me?…
The only requirement from you is to provide the content that will go to all relevant pages. The content should be inside a text file or a Microsoft Word file or sent by email in the body, please no content from pictures. Also if you have any digital photos and graphic logo give them to me. In case of web site re-design I will download from your server all content and graphics you would like to retain.
A support you can rely on…
I can assist you at any time, if you plan more update to your site. I can be of help on installing any new feature you would like to add at very affordable price.
Want to see where is my office?…
I am based in a very elegant premises in Swansea, you can visit me there, there is also a coffee shop facility where you can enjoy the Italy’s favorite coffee Lavazza made with a proper coffee machine. Well, being Italian I have to be fussy on coffee…:-) Please click here for more details on my location (scroll page for Google map).
I look forward to hear from you soon, you can contact me here.
Roberto Ciccolella
(†)Old web sites with more than three pages are welcome
(1) CMS means Content Management System, in simple terms is a control panel that allow not technical people to update web site content without help of web designers.
(2) If you transfer a “co.uk” or a “org.uk” domain you won’t have to pay it anymore since will be included in the monthly/annual fee.
(3) Monthly payments are allowed only by bank standing orders.
