Website optimisation

If you're seeking to get the most from your website, this service is for you. We'll analyse your site, using more than 60 criteria, and determine the ways it could be improved. We'll send you a report, and an estimate of our fee. When you give the OK, we'll go ahead and fix your site.

Our criteria cover the following areas:

• ease-of-use - does your site make it quick and easy for visitors to find what they need?
• search engine optimisation - see our search engine optimisation whitepaper
• accessibility guidelines - see Wikipedia's article on web accessibility
• technology tweaks - are technical glitches causing your site to turn away traffic?
• cross-browser compatibility - does your site marginalise certain users, based on their technology choices?
• performance monitoring - we'll show you how to measure your site's performance (and our performance too)

We guarantee your site will be more useful, attractive, and intuitive after we've finished with it. We can't make guarantees as to your traffic levels, as that is ultimately up to you. What we can do is give you an itemised report which details the ways in which your site has been changed, so that its chances of attracting and retaining traffic are maximised. Please note our careful wording. We cannot guarantee that you'll get more visitors, or that you'll get a certain ranking in the search results, or that you'll get more sales. What we can guarantee is that the changes we make are very comprehensive, and that they will improve your site.

Contact us to discuss your needs further.

* Our free site analysis will pick up almost everything, however one or two items will need to wait until we have access to your site's sourcecode. These items will be included in your report with a status of "unknown".

Rates, fees and charges

For larger projects, we usually create a design specification, and then cost each item. This provides us with a solid development plan, and you with a fixed price. Modifications to the specification, once agreed, are charged at the hourly rate (see below).

For small projects and ad-hoc work, we charge an hourly rate, as follows:

• Our rate is £60/hour.
• Our minimum charge is 1 hour.
• We bill in half-hour intervals - this means, for example, that you won't need to pay for a full hour if you only use 15 minutes.
• If you request work that is to be completed within three (3) working days, an Emergency Coding Fee of £40 may be charged.

Discounts may be available for larger projects.