17 Mar
Affordable Web Sites
Posted by Martin Hill in Company, Web Design
Well – it’s a bit of a silly title really – affordable means different things to different people. £1m for a web site would be affordable for Microsoft, £3k might be unaffordable for a start-tup business.
And – it’s perfectly possible to set up a web site for next to nothing these days – and that’s affordable for my dog, who doesn’t even get any pocket money (he kept blowing it on bones – no sense of responsibility).
But seriously – if you are a start-up business, it’s pretty likely that you realise that a really decent web site is going to be crucial for the success of your business. And if I were a start-up, I would be quite overwhelmed by the possible routes you could take to a web site – and very nervous about making the wrong choice and ending up with a lemon.
We’re proud of the reputation we’ve built with our clients and the people they’ve referred to us as a trustworthy choice, but the reality is that our bespoke ‘artisan’ approach to website development has put the cost beyond some start ups – even if they recognise the benifits of a ‘proper’ web site. If it’s out of budget, it’s out of budget….
It’s sounds cheesy, but we genuinely felt bad seeing businesses having to settle for something inferior, so about a year ago we came up with a plan. How do we get Binamic quality into an ‘affordable’ (not allowed to use the word ‘cheap’, obviously) product that would suit most start-ups?
We came up with ‘Binamic Express’ – we condensed our knowledge into a Content Management System package with a fixed set of features which would effectively allow us to put together the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the sight really quickly. But this is no ‘off-the shelf’ solution – we still apply our knowledge and experience to the strategy, design and goals of the site, it just means for certain sites we can build a lot faster, lowering the entry point cost-wise.
So basically you can get an extremely high quality, valuable web site with an impressive set of features (easy to use admin, fully editable content, blog, news, auto-image uploader, form builder, document uploads, SEO optimisation tools etc) for a fraction of the bespoke build cost!
We ’soft’ launched it a few months ago and have built a dozen or so sites, and the feedback has been amazing – especially about the ease of use of content updating. From the outset, we were also committed to offering proper support too – ie you can ring us up and talk to a real person any time you get stuck.
But we reckon you wont need to - it’s that easy!
Find out more about high quality affordable web sites on our dedicated Binamic Express site.
Tags: design, development, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design
Comments
Paul Fagan
July 14, 2010
9:40 am
Binamic Express really works for a fast, effective website that won’t cost the earth…! Well done guys.
Ling Valentine
July 14, 2010
11:13 am
Ha! Now I know who made that car leasing made simple (TM) website!
Me, I have 3 superb computer graduates who do everything in-house 100% of the time.
I would argue that it is worth while to learn some web skills and have a go yourself – but agree this is not the best for companies who don’t have those resources to hand.
Good luck!
Ling
Ling Valentine
July 14, 2010
11:15 am
Wow! You guys need to work on the captcha page and the confirmation page when you submit comments here: NOT NICE!
A classic example of someone not using their own process I think. It’s horrible (in Firefox).
Ling
Martin Hill
July 14, 2010
11:18 am
Hmmmm – let’s have a look….
Martin Hill
July 14, 2010
11:27 am
Seems fine in Firefox on a Mac – I will try whilst not logged in though…