“Honestly cant remember who recommended them. Mightve been my hairdresser? Anyway back was killing me that week so I did the whole thing over email lying down. They didnt mind. Site went live and my sister said it looks "proper posh" which is funny cos im not posh at all. Just wanted somewhere to put the price list so I stop getting asked at school gates.”
“Was bricking it about the price cos id been quoted 2 grand elsewhere. these lot said just under 500 and i kept waiting for the "oh but actually" moment. never came. paid it. job done.”
“Needed it done before my cousins wedding which was stressful cos im doing the food for that too and his wife is VERY particular about gluten. They got it done with a week to spare. Site looks lovely. Care Plan is handy cos i change my menu depending what the fish man brings.”
“Ofsted inspector said my website looked professional. That was nice. Had it three months now. Care Plan means I send photos from my phone and they resize them properly cos I always make them too big.”
“I'm a graphic designer so I'm picky. The HTML is clean, no bloat. Scores 92 on PageSpeed. They handed over the files and I own it outright. Can edit myself if I want but I pay for the Care Plan cos I'm lazy.”
“Old site took 8 seconds to load. This one loads before you blink. Don't know what the score is but Google likes it cos I'm on page one now. Five hundred quid one-off.”
“My nephew said he'd do it free. Six months later still "nearly done" and looked like a school project. Paid these guys and had it in a week. Looks professional. £499. Happy.”
“Was paying £80 a month to rent my own website. Didn't know that's what I was doing until I tried to leave. These lads built me a new one and it's mine. Proper mine. Care Plan is just for updates.”
“I clean windows. I did not need a website with a video on the front of it, and I'm pleased to report that I haven't got one. What I've got is a tidy site with my round areas, my prices and my phone number, paid for once and owned outright, with nothing going out monthly. My mate pays thirty five a month for his and can't so much as change a phone number without asking permission first.”
“I'd been dreading getting a website done for years. Every other company I spoke to managed to make me feel thick for not understanding what they were on about, and then quoted a monthly figure I couldn't get out of. This lot explained it once, in English, built the site for 499 and left me owning it outright. I even asked about the care plan and got told straight that I probably wouldn't use it enough to justify it, which is not what I'm used to hearing from anyone selling anything.”
“Ours is only a little website and it doesn't need to be anything clever. Opening hours, where to find us, and what's come in this week. It's that last bit that changes constantly, which is the whole reason I pay for the care plan. I send a list over on a Monday morning and it's on the site by lunchtime. My daughter offered to do it for me and I said no thank you, I'd rather it was done properly.”
“We tender for a fair bit of work and the same comment kept coming back at us, that people couldn't tell from our old website whether we were three blokes and a van or a proper firm. We're somewhere in between, and we needed the site to say so honestly rather than pretend to be either. That's a harder brief than it sounds and they understood it. The new website has a page on our insurance and accreditations, a page on the kit we own outright, and case studies with real job sizes on them. Two clients have brought up the case studies without being asked. One said it was the only contractor website he'd looked at that told him roughly what a job costs.”
“Emergency work. Everything hangs on somebody finding my number at eleven at night on a phone with one bar of signal. The website is built round exactly that. Big number, one tap, no menus to wade through. I've changed my callout areas twice on the care plan as I've taken on more ground, and both were done on the site inside a day.”
“I am not a man who is easily impressed by these things. They built the website when they said they would, for the price they quoted at the outset, and there was no sting in the tail at the end of it. That is rarer than it ought to be. The site is plain, it is tidy, and it works.”
“Best example I can give you. My insurance certificate renewed in June and I'd forgotten all about it until a customer asked to see it on the website. Emailed the new one over at about half four expecting to hear nothing till the following week. It was on the site before six. That's what the care plan buys you, and the website hosting sits inside it too, so there's nobody sending me renewal emails I don't understand.”
“The website is good, and the writing on it is considerably better than anything I would have produced myself. Online booking feeds into my diary, which has removed a great deal of back and forth. I'm giving four rather than five for a reason that is largely my own fault. They advised me to have proper photography done, I ignored it and used pictures off my phone, and the site looked flat for three months until I paid a photographer and had them swapped over. Take the photography advice.”
“Three reasons the care plan earns its keep. One, the website hosting is inside it, so that's one bill instead of three. Two, changes to the site get done the same day rather than the same fortnight. Three, when our accreditation came through they had the logo on the website by the afternoon I sent it. No ticket number, no queue, no extra invoice.”
“Our previous website made parents hunt for the four things they actually want before booking a visit: where we are, what it costs, what the rooms look like, and whether we have space. The new site puts all four on the first screen. Enquiries rose noticeably in the first term after it went live, and our settings manager reports shorter phone calls because callers already have the basics. The board was hesitant about the cost beforehand. The board is no longer hesitant.”
