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There’s only a couple of days left to qualify for the early bird discount on the next course that we’re running.

The course is all about how to improve your website so as it brings you more enquiries, more sales, and more profits.

Delivered by David Miles from Divadani and Anuschka Fritz from Moustique Design, this one day course will teach you:

• How to decide what approach to take with the website
• How to attract your target audience
• The seven things you must consider when designing a website
• How to write killer copy that will increase enquiries from your website
• How to put together an effective brief for a web designer
• What to consider when selecting a web designer and how to avoid getting ripped off
• What functionality you will need to enhance your business website
• Ten ways to market the website once it is complete.

This is an interactive course, and if you already have a website you’ll get the chance to have it assessed and critiqued. You’ll leave with a clear action plan of simple steps you can take to ensure your new or existing website gets results.

The course is taking place on 21 June in Central London and costs only £79.99 + VAT – and that includes lunch and other refreshments throughout the day.

Find out more about the course and book online today for your early bird discount.

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When you decide to have a website built, it’s important to make sure you choose your designer carefully. By choosing the first designer you meet, or, even worse, because they’re cheap, you could be putting your future website at risk. So, here are a few recommended questions to ask potential web designers to make sure you choose the right one for you.

1. ‘Can I see examples of your work?’ This is possibly the most important step to take, as straight away seeing examples of previous work can help establish their overall style and quality of finish. Be sure to contact a few of these people to ensure that the designer really DID design the sites in question!

2. ‘Which sectors have you designed for?’ This question helps to establish whether or not their experience will match your company’s industry. Whilst not crucial for the designer to have created an exact website before, it helps if they have some experience of your company’s industry.

3. ‘What are pricing structures/ how much will it cost’? It is important to ask what they charge for typical website packages (e.g. 5 page website costs £x, with extra pages costing £x each). Find out exactly what is included in price, and whether they charge more for text, graphics, shopping carts etc. Better to know up front than to be surprised with a bill for ‘extras’ at the end.

4. ‘Will my website be maintained?’ Find out whether or not the website designer can maintain your website after completion, make changes, and what their fee would be. If you know it is likely that your website will need regular maintenance and changes, establish how much they charge for this as regular updates may dramatically affect your overall budget.

5. ‘What do you need from us?’ Some designers may prefer having a lot of design input to help build the website, some may prefer none at all, so if you have a specific design idea, it’s important to establish whether the designer would be willing to work with your ideas. They may also ask you to provide text, images, and examples of websites you like as a starting point for your own website.

Asking relevant questions such as these can help to ensure that, whichever web designer you choose, you know that what they offer, what they charge, and overall, whether they are the right designer for you.

What other questions did you ask your web designer?

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