Web design & Copywriting
How do I know whether my business needs a website?

Get the answers you need to the five main concerns about website design  

1. Do I really need a website design for my customers to trust my business?
   A study conducted in the UK revealed that only 18% of consumers trust businesses that don’t have a website. [+]
    
   
2. How can I tell if my business needs a website or a social media profile?
   Social media platforms might seem useful when you start your business, but over time, they become an unsustainable burden. [+]
    
   
3. Should I use artificial intelligence to build a website?
   Using AI tools to build websites is a booming practice. However, it’s not the best option to develop business websites. [+]
    
   
4. What are the website design costs?
   While other agencies require you to pay thousands of pounds at once, we work with an approach that allows you to pay in lower instalments. [+]
    
   
5. What do I need to have a website on the internet?
   From domain name registration to website hosting, we provide you with all that you need to have your website online. [+]

Do customers trust businesses without a website? A study revealed that customers don’t trust businesses without a website

In 2020, an Irish organisation conducted research^🛈 asking 1,000 consumers what makes them trust businesses when shopping online. This study concluded that 84% of consumers trust businesses that have their own website.

The same study was repeated in 2022 and showed that just 24% of consumers trust businesses that are only on social media, while only 18% trust businesses that don’t have a website.

These facts make us think about the importance of having a website for generating trust and credibility with consumers. Let’s talk about the benefits of having a professional website and how it can increase your credibility even more with your customers.

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How can I tell if my business needs a website or a social media profile? Get to know whether a professional website design fits your business expectations

Social media is a widely recognised way of gaining customers and building a brand. If you are currently relying on social media, you may have already experienced the social media bounce effect. If not, this can shed some light on what it implies to maintain a social media business profile.

Social media platforms might seem useful when you start your business, but over time, they become an unsustainable burden if you want to work as a sole trader or freelancer, with a selected team, or just run a small business.

That’s why relying entirely on social platforms is exhausting—algorithms change, posts disappear within minutes, and your expertise is buried in a long feed no one reads. This is when the competition for reaching a lead feels unhealthy, while the effort put into it isn’t worth the results.

If you’re ready to save effort and time, take the leap into professional web design.

Should I use artificial intelligence to build a website or hire a professional web design agency? The pros and cons of using artificial intelligence (AI) for building business websites.

During the last years, AI technology has advanced significantly, and this advance has carried new options for business owners, such as using artificial intelligence to build a business website.

Nowadays, using AI tools to build entire websites is a booming practice. Indeed, an AI product such as ChatGPT can design a website in just a few minutes, even faster than an average web designer. However, professional business web design is not only about layouts.

Professional website building is an art and an interdisciplinary field, involving things that AI isn’t yet truly ready to understand.

When we are asked whether we use AI for building a website, the short answer is ‘no’.

We don’t use AI for building professional websites. We bring together our knowledge, our critical thinking, and our expertise, with over 25 years of experience working in the industry. And this is not because ‘we reject new technologies’. In fact, we use AI as an assistive tool to:

• Solve linguistic precision dilemmas (and proofread long texts)
• Research technical information quickly
• Refine and organise conceptual ideas
• Develop AI agents through their APIs (and occasionally...)
• Shape complex solutions consistent with our own values and business philosophy.

But we do it by always relying on our own judgement and appealing to our critical thinking to make final decisions.

If you are ready to start crafting a professional website for your business, using AI just as an assistive tool when needed, we are here to help you.

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How much do I pay for a professional web design service?

Web design agencies in the UK usually manage a range of fees between £1,000 and £5,000 (and more) for building a website for a small or personal business, but the final cost depends on the complexity of the website.

Most web design and development agencies in the UK work with a cost scheme that consists of an upfront fee and another final payment. With this scheme, you get the website once it is finished.

We don’t work like most UK web design agencies. We use a working model based on a hybrid agile development approach that merges two methodologies: Scrum and eXtreme Programming.

This hybrid approach proposes to work by fixed and cyclical periods of time—called sprints—each lasting between two and four weeks.

So, the complexity of your website doesn’t influence our fees. We have a fixed-fee scheme, starting at £750 and going up to £1,500 per sprint—depending on the sprint duration.

This way of working has two big advantages:

1. You get a working website from the first sprint, and incrementally, you’ll get additional sections for your website in the subsequent sprints. So you see results from the beginning. Additionally, you will be able to request changes while you are seeing every advance. This allows us to apply your change requests in the following sprint.
2. You pay by sprint, which is like paying in instalments at the end of every sprint (only the first sprint is paid at the beginning). This is a great advantage because you don’t need to have the whole budget at once.

We know the challenges that freelancers and small businesses have to face. Let’s explore a workaround.

What more do I need to get a business website, apart from a professional web design service? These are all the services you’ll need to have your business website online

In addition to the web design service, you will need a comprehensive pack of services for your website to be accessible online, encompassing:

• Domain name registration: from £8 per year.
• Website hosting: from £96 annually.
• SSL certificate: at no cost via Let’s Encrypt.
• Copywriting and content writing: from £0.10 per word.
• There is no monthly maintenance fee. You will just pay when you request a change to your website. Tiny changes start at just £50 per working hour.

There are many services around website design. However, you don’t need to worry about them. We provide you with all the services you need, so you can just sit back to see the results. Let’s work together on your new business journey.

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