Learn more about Mission Critical web design services

At Mission Critical, we understand that particularly for clients who are unfamiliar with setting up a website, it can be a daunting and worrying prospect. You may be worried about expensive costs or unsure of what technologies you need. As well as community and personal websites, Mission Critical aims to get sole traders and small businesses online, in particular those who haven't considered a website or are confused about what is required.

We offer a complete service from the design stage to getting your new website launched as soon as possible. We provide effective, stylish and affordable website design and development. Quality and value for money websites with the minimum of fuss, perfect if you are considering your first website.

 

Quality, value and a personal friendly service

Setting up a website for your company or business does not cost as much as you may expect. Our low web design prices are competitive and offer great value for money. Whether you are an individual, community group or small business requiring a basic website of a few pages, needing a custom designed e-commerce shop or content management solution, Mission Critical has the experience to deliver just what you want for your online presence, in a timely manner and on budget.

Please feel free to ask for a free web design estimate - I will be delighted to provide a breakdown of prices, show you examples from our portfolio and find an effective website design package that is ideal for you, with absolutely no obligation.

Based in Prestatyn, North Wales, I don't charge the kind of prices that 'big city' firms do for website design services and search engine ranking optimisation services. Mission Critical has thrived on 'word of mouth' and a friendly but professional attitude.

As you might expect, costs vary according to the size of the project and what is required, we can discuss your requirements.

 

As a guide, sites fall within these main categories:

• Brochure Page - A thoughtfully designed 1-3 page website, promoting your business for just £100. Or you can base the site on your existing brochure or publicity material.
• Standard websites up to 10 pages generally cost approximately £350-£400, including 12 months hosting and domain name registration.
• Advanced dynamic or database driven sites where you need to store a lot of information and provide search facilities to your users start from £400, including 12 months hosting and domain name registration.
• E-commerce websites where anyone can pay with a credit or debit card start from £750 due to the extra work involved in adding your products to an online store facility with shopping cart.

All of our websites include domain name registration, unlimited proper email POP3 or forwarding accounts with usernames and passwords, professional web hosting (to host your website's pages and files), unlimited mySQL databases and Perl/PHP plus many more features as standard. You can also have your own Control Panel with phpMyAdmin access to add features, view statistics, manage your e-mail accounts and much more.

 

Thinking about features such as a message board or Blog?

We can integrate a variety of extra features on your website such as to name but a few:

• Blogs - We can set up a powerful, feature-laden Blog for you, perfect for personal or corporate use.
• Community Blogs - Integrated with your forum message board so that you can provide your members with their own unique blogs!
• Forum Message Boards - You can build your own community with free versions such as phpBB or the better and free Simple Machines SMF Board but we recommend and much prefer professional retail products such as Invision Power Board and vBulletin for added security, improved features and better support.
• RSS news feeds - Syndicate your content for use on your own personal pages, other websites or applications.
• XML data streams - The best way to share and use data.
• Flash - We don't supply or recommend complete Flash websites as they are for the most part inaccessible to disabled users and prevent search engine spiders from fully searching your website properly, but we do offer Flash animations in moderation (such as rotating images) and thoroughly recommend the use of Flash Video to add fast loading quality video to your website should you need it.
• Galleries - Add an interactive photo or image gallery to your website or add an intergrated Gallery module to your forums so that registered members can rate and discuss your images.
• Support Ticket facilities - Need to add automated ticket support to your website? No problem.
• Guest Books - Spam Proof Guestbooks are a reality.
• Accessible forms - Make sure your website complies to DDA requirements.
• Message board theme/skinning services to match the look of your website. We can supply free and retail themes, or design a custom one for you to match your website.
• If you want a Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build your own websites and other powerful online applications, your hosting has all of the requirements. If you want to keep costs down, we would recommend Joomla which is an open source solution that is free to everybody.

 

What's involved..?

Firstly contact Mission Critical and tell us a little about your requirements. We'll get in touch with you to discuss your needs and give you an idea of pricing and we can talk about what is involved. You'll also have the opportunity at any stage to ask any questions.

We ask for a 25% deposit on all work undertaken, with the balance payable upon completion.

You can provide your own content, perhaps images/photos of your business, services and products together with 'copy' (text), such as details about your business and the services you offer and want to promote. You may have existing brochures or publicity material you'll want to incorporate. Or you can allow us to compose suitable copy and take photographs or acquire inexpensive royalty free images for your approval.

We'll also submit your website to Google, Yahoo and MSN Search plus the DMOZ, also known as The Open Directory Project (ODP), which is a large, categorised directory of websites and pages which many other search engines collect new sites from. We'll also speed up integration with Search Engines by submitting 'site maps' for you. We help your ranking by using a variety of techniques called Search Engine Optimisation which include optimised web-standards compatible code and keyword placement.

If you want us to update your site, small basic updates are free for the first month. More complex or involved work (including work after the first month) is charged at just £25 per hour covering similar additional pages or weekly/monthly/annual updates but we are flexible and commons sense prevails depending on the updates required.

Once your web site has been launched, you only pay for annual domain name costs and web hosting fees. We will provide all files and admin access upon request or we can look after and maintain your website for you.