Is your website performance too slow? Is this causing you a loss of leads? Does this lead to your website ranking slowly sinking in Google? Have you had complaints from customers of an ineffective and unenjoyable user experience?

If you answer yes to even one of these questions, then it may be time to be thinking about redesigning your website.

Our web design process includes 5 main steps.

1. Learn about your business
   We must first learn more about you, such as your target audience, the services or products you are marketing as well as your competitors. Once we have this information, we can create a personalized plan.
2. Full audit of your old website
   We will do a full run-through of your old website, including making an in-depth analysis of the features of the website that are working, and what may not be doing so well. We will keep you updated with this process and continue growing on what works and altering what does not.
3. Content research and writing
   For those customers who ordered the copywriting addon, our expert copywriters will research the basics of your business, and additional background info about the product. From here, we will compose custom pieces of writing that lure more audiences to read and engage with your website.
4. Design and development a staging site
   To ensure a smooth transition and prevent the loss of any potential clients, your old website will continue to run up until the very second that your new and revamped website replaces it. This thus takes out the stress of having inconvenient website crashes or lags which are things that should be avoided at all costs.
5. Review and publishment
   After everything has been officially approved by you, a time will be scheduled to publish your new website in its original domain. This is always a rewarding process, both for us and for you – and we take great pride in doing so, and even so more when you give us your full satisfaction with our creation.

An SEO-friendly website means that the website is search engine friendly so that Google and other types of search engines can interpret and place the website on a higher ranking. Essentially, the more SEO-friendly your website is, the bigger the chance that it appears on a higher-order on search result page, increasing your audience and more potential clients.

User experience is vital because it attempts to fulfill all the needs of the user as they browse through your website. It holds the aim of providing the most positive experience possible to keep the customer on the website and loyal to that business.

To create a high-converting website, you must ensure that you begin the process of designing these pages with a great foundation and plan of your aims and how you plan to achieve them. Read more here.

Here at eSharp, we work with 3rd party reputable website hosting providers, such as Bluehost, Go daddy, Site Ground, etc. You have the option of nominating your preferred providers too, as well as paying the hosting fee directly to these 3rd parties to avoid any unnecessary handling fees from eSharp. Some benefits of using independent website hosting services are that they are super affordable, and extremely user-friendly, especially for beginners.

Here we outline the major costs associated with running a website.

1. Domain Name RegistrationIt’s around $10 ~ $20 per year depending on what domain name you choose and where you purchase from.
2. Website HostingThe major ongoing monthly costs would be the website hosting fee which you could pay to the hosting provider directly. Depending on which plan you choose, the costs are slightly different. But generally, it is less than $20/month.
   You also have the option to host the website with eSharp. If you decide to host the website with us, the hosting fee is $15/month. But we require all the websites hosted by eSharp opt into a monthly maintenance service to ensure the website security. The monthly maintenance service includes health check, theme and plugins updates, etc. It costs $50 ~ $200/month depending on the website complexity.
3. eCommerce / Payment Gateway Charges (if applicable)
   It applies to eCommerce functionality / online payments offered on your website. Set up costs and fees will depend on the payment gateway supplier you chose.
4. Website Maintenance ( as needed)If website maintenance is required, it will be charged at an hourly rate. For a small website, you could consider doing the maintenance quarterly, which will cost you around $100 if there are no major issues. However, monthly or weekly maintenance is recommended for a busy website.