Orchid is committed to delivering excellent value for money to small businesses and indviduals. We strongly believe that a website needs regular monitoring and updates if it is to keep meeting its goals. In the earlier days of the Internet, it was common for a live website to receive little or no attention for months or even years!

If you are serious about using your website as one of the cornerstones for your business marketing, then you need to be prepared to invest some time on a regular basis and work in partnership with Orchid. We provide the services to enable your website to be maintained quickly and easily, saving you valuable time.

An Orchid managed website solution is suitable when:

• You don’t have the time to create or maintain your website
• You need on-going consultancy and management services to ensure your website meets its goals

What you get with the Orchid managed website service

• A "turn-key" solution that includes domain name registration through to page design and putting the completed website live on the Internet
• Advice on setting the goals for your website from a business are marketing perspective
• Compact web pages that download very quickly – visitors don’t like to be kept waiting
• Your regular content updates added to your web pages by Orchid editing staff
• Web pages created using a coding technology called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – this makes it easy for the search engines to access your pages and index your content
• Content writing service to quickly generate news updates, articles, features and blog posts
• On-going Internet Marketing consultancy, tailored to your busines goals

An overview of Orchid’s approach to website development

1. Contact Orchid for your free consultation
2. If you decide we are the right people to design your website, we formalise the design specification for your website and agree a timescale with you
3. You can supply your business logos and graphics or we can offer a graphic design package
4. We develop and write your website content for you
5. A page design is created for your approval and if necessary is modified based on your feedback
6. Work begins to optimise your your web pages for the search engines (SEO)
7. The web pages are created and linked and your content is inserted
8. Your site is thoroughly proof-read and tested
9. After you have given final approval, your website is put live on the Internet under your chosen domain
10. Your site is submitted to Google and selected search engines
11. Google Analytics (free service) is implemented if required to monitor visitor trends on your website
12. If required, one-to-one training is provided via broaband Internet connection so that you can monitor visitor activity on your website

How much does it cost?

As this is a bespoke website development and management service, please contact Orchid to discuss your requirements. A detailed quotation will then be prepared for you.

Read more on what makes Orchid different to other web designers.