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General Questions
You will have your own professional looking website designed to match the branding of your business full of expertly written content and features such as Fact Sheets, Calculators, Tax Calendars etc. The website is built on a WordPress platform which is a powerful Content Managed System (CMS) allowing for easy editing – however this will be limited to certain pages. We will offer monthly updates to make small changes to your personalised pages as well as keeping the feature pages current and informative.
In addition to above the website also includes:
- Domain Name (or you can use your existing domain)
- Hosting
- Email Addresses (reasonable use)
- On Page SEO (this is not the same as regular ongoing offsite SEO)
- Activity Reports via the Dashboard – Visits, Visitors, Page Views, Bounce Rate, Pages per Visit, Top Referrers, Top Search Terms etc (must setup your own google analytics account)
- Professional Video
- 7 personalised pages
- Home
- Services
- About Us
- Team Profiles
- Testimonials/Recommendations
- Contact Us
- Blog
- Other (if you want to swap out one of the above pages for something else)
- 10 feature pages
- Fact Sheets
- Calculators
- Tax Calendar
- Useful Links
- Tax Rates & Allowances
- Downloadable Forms
- Budget Report
- Autumn Report
- Relevant News and Articles
- Data Capture/News letter sign up
A website like this would cost anywhere from £150 per month or thousands of pounds to buy outright in addition to ongoing costs of:
- £120 per year for hosting
- £10-20 per year for domain renewal
- £50 per hour for updates
- £50 + per hour for a specialist to write the content
Anyone can build a website but with us you are not only having to front up a large amount of money to buy a website but you are also receiving ongoing maintenance and expert content. Most other developers will not provide the expert content.
Just offering links to third party websites doesn’t improve the optimisation of your website. You need to have quality content on your website for search engines such as Google to recognise your website.
Flexibility of the Website Design
The website will have a similar layout to website however it will look different to your competitors outside the CIMA group. Your website will also have your own branding, logos, images and personalised content. Column layout could be changed. i.e the side bar can be switched from left to right.
You can find websites you like and we will do our best to incorporate the features you like but it won’t deviate a lot from this current example.
If you are unhappy with the initial design before we go live we will give a full refund of the set up fee however if we have purchased domains or other external costs have been incurred these will be deducted from your refund and passed to you.
No you can’t. We need to be in control of the specialised content which we will be updating on a regular basis.
Yes you can. Small change could be made by your self or we can do it once a month. A small change would include swapping pictures or changing the wording of the content. Changes to the layout foundations would be unlikely.
The branding and personalised content will be different to each accountant. All the specialised content and features would be the same.
We are currently looking into integrating the website with Dropbox. Links to portals will be on a case by case basis which we are currently investigating.
Website Features
Everything currently displayed and mentioned in this website example is included as part of the price. No optional extras at this stage.
We will update the fact sheets when a change in tax or the law is announced within 7 working days this to give us time to consider the changes and tax issues.
We will add additional fact sheets on relevant topics.
We will provide a quarterly newsletter for your clients but there will be an additional charge for pictures normally supplied by fotolia.
The calculators will be updated for tax changes.
We will updated the autumn statement and budget report within 15 working days of the announcements.
There will be an RSS feed from www.cimaaccountant.com or a feed from your own blog.
The feeds will be prepared/managed by Bicknell Business Advisers Limited
Yes. You will have access to amend your own personalised pages.
Possibly. However this could disrupt the menus so it would be on a case by case basis.
The Design Process
The design layout is shown through out this website example, it won’t diversify much other than branding/colour scheme which will be supplied by you.
Working from great distances is not uncommon in web development. You will be able to monitor the progress online and suggest changes over email or phone.
Two to three weeks provided all the personalised content, images, logos and branding has been provided.
The website will be designed and displayed on our server for you to monitor it’s progress. When you are happy with the website we will then transfer it to your domain name.
Keeping the Website Looking Contemporary
We will always be looking to make ongoing improvements to make sure the website is kept current visually and professionally.
We aim to redesign after 2 years to keep it fresh.
If it does get a refresh and update what is the frequency and does it cost anything extra?Likely to be every two years at no cost.
Possibly, depends on the cost of the feature to us.
Search Engine Optimisation
Updates of the specialised content and updates of the personalised content when provided. But SEO will be predominately down to the individuals as we can’t predict how competitive the search terms will be for each accountant. However the website will be extremely SEO friendly meaning you will have a good chance of getting ahead of your competitors.
You will also be able to view activity reports via the dashboard, this would include: Visits, Visitors, Page Views, Bounce Rate, Pages per Visit, Top Referrers, Top Search Terms etc (must setup your own google analytics account)
Technical Aspects
It will be built on the WordPress Platform which is widely used and updated. WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013.
We do. Because we need to be in control of the specialised content and code of the website we have to host it.
Maintenance and Minor adjustment?
48 hours.
96 hours.
Domain
No.
We will release it for free but it is best you stay in control of the domain unless we purchase it, again we would release for free.
Continuity issues and hosting of the Website
Our servers are hosted with a large reputable company.
A back up will be held by PAYGO and Bicknell Business Advisers Ltd. This will be released to you if the service is terminated and we cease trading.
A back up will be held by PAYGO and Bicknell Business Advisers Ltd. This will be released to you if we are no longer able to provide a hosting service.
A back up will be held by PAYGO and Bicknell Business Advisers Ltd. This will be released to you if the service is terminated and we cease trading.
Yes but this isn’t currently automated, we are currently looking into this.
No. But we will do our best avoid and fix any problems before they occur.
No.
99.98% of the time.
None.
Migration/Exit
No exit fee.
No.
Belongs to us so if you wanted to move to another host/designer you can’t take the design and code with you. Only the content you provided.
The website will be suspended until payment is up-to-date.
No. this is only available on a subscription basis. The website is not all about the design but the content too which needs to be updated.
Email
No. You can keep control of mail servers.
Pricing
This option is not available. You must have the complete package.
Every two years at no cost. However we reserve the right to alter charges and prices to reflect our costs in providing the service.
Not at this stage but it is likely these would be covered by your monthly charge. However we reserve the right to alter charges and prices to reflect our costs in providing the service.
Payment
Yes it is.
We would look to offer a 10% discount for those who pay 12 months in advance.
