Sometimes the most satisfying part of building a website is not completing the design, not carrying out the implementation nor finding some particularly groovy way of doing something. It’s the bit when you let go, you’ve trained the client on how to update it and the next day… things have changed.
The client now really owns their site, it’s their content and they are in charge.
Natasha and Wendy, who provide a bridal and special occasion makeup service across Kent, already had a website. They already had a blog too, but the two were very separate.
Their main website design was mostly as they wanted, although the colours weren’t quite right and they weren’t able to carry out their own updates. They had set up their own blog and got the colours right, but weren’t happy that it was bolted together properly or that it was going to generate them traffic to their main site. Which meant is wasn’t going to generate them any business.
In our guise of fairly marvellous (providers of Kent website design) We proposed a migration of their main site onto a WordPress platform, so that they could carry out their own updates easily and integrate their blog completely. As they were happy with their existing design, with a few tweaks, the process was quick, painless and, importantly, cheap.
We carried out some refresher training as they had already used WordPress a little, and made sure their new site was optimised to generate them more business.
A week after our initial proposal, Natasha and Wendy had a website that looked like they wanted, was easy to maintain, could generate them more business and provided them with the statistics to prove that.
And the day after we trained them how to update the site there were new pages, updates and blog posts that were not there the day before. The site really is live.
You can visit Made Up For You and fairly marvellous to read more.
A Microsoft Certified Professional with many years of large corporate experience and training, he now focuses on helping small businesses make the most of their IT.
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