There are over 400 website designers in Berkshire, ranging from larger website design studios that work with global brands, through medium and smaller designers right down to freelancers who have just left school,
There are around 200 marketing companies in Berkshire that offer web design services, as part of a broader range of marketing skills, such as branding, digital marketing, advertising and SEO work, to businesses that are looking for a wider marketing support than just site design.
If you were interested in getting media attention, there are plenty of PR companies in Berkshire that could help.
There are so many website designers in Berkshire to choose from, selecting one can be a difficult and time consuming process.
There are lots of questions businesses might ask when choosing a web designer, where to start? For businesses in the south or west of Berkshire, there is the added issue of choosing a web designer in Hampshire , which has around 1000 web designers.
Selecting website designers in Berkshire is something that is personal to each business; as the points above show, each business has their own criteria.
For some price may be a factor, for others having one that knows their market may be important.
We do advise you using someone local, as having a face to face meeting can achieve a lot. It gives the chance to brainstorm ideas, have a look at competitors websites and looking at different pictures together.
Using a web designer that knows your industry is also helpful; if the designer has worked in your market, they they will know what designs work and hopefully what kind of website your customers will respond to. There are many web designers in Wokingham that can provide you with quotes.
Once your website is live, you need to consider your marketing, as you need to get more website visitors.
This can be done in the short term, and also in the long term.
Short term, advertising on search engines for your target keywords can be done within a day. This is called ‘pay per click advertising’ or PPC.
Most web designers in Berkshire can do this for you, however PPC can be expensive. Chatting to a few PPC companies locally is wise, unless the designer has a lot of experience.
Depending on you business, there may be a lot of work in setting up your PPC campaign on Google Adwords or Bing Ads. Your campaign will also need monitoring to ensure that you are getting a good ROI for your spend.
Long term you will need SEO (optimising it to appear on page 1 of the search engines. Very few website designers in Berkshire can do SEO, as it is very much an unknown. The search engines do not reveal how they list all the websites in Berkshire, so you may need to get a separate quote for digital marketing.
New websites do not appear in the organic listings, since they are competing with well established ones.
SEO does take time, sometimes a long time. So patience and investment is needed.
SEO is a very specialist area of marketing. Choosing a good SEO agency is important, one that knows how Googles search engine algorithm works, and monitoring changes it is due to make.
There are a number of SEO companies locally that can help, as they do not often offer this service.
Have you considered using a social media influencer to get thousands of website visitors? Many have started a career as a social media influencer full time.
Price is always a factor when it comes to getting a site designed, and website design prices do vary a lot. A site could cost £150 or over £150, 000 depending on the features it has, the number of pages it has, the level of design, and so forth.
Marketing agencies set their own fees, so there is no standard price for web design. Websites need to be considered as a your shop window, often the first thing that prospective customers will see.
In this technological age, most people will normally check out a website before anything else, so the website does need to project some of the qualities of the business.
Care does need to be given when using a cheap website designer as the site does need to reflect the companies values, without looking cheap. Sometimes it is worth paying a little more for a quality design, rather than trying to cut corners.
For free advice and quotes from several local web design companies in Berkshire, just complete the form opposite.
Berkshire is an ancient county in the south of England, situated to the west of London, and often referred to as ‘the Royal County of Berkshire’, owing to the presence of Windsor and the royal residences there.
The county’s first mention is in 860 AD, and takes it’s name from the large number of Box trees in the forest, thought to lead to the old Celtic name of ‘Bearroc‘, meaning ‘hilly’.
It seems a leafy and tranquil county these days, in the non built up areas. However, the county has seen many battles over the centuries, starting with Alfred The Great’s battle against the Danes.
The old county town was Abingdon, but in 1867 this was changed to Reading. The areas of Berkshire are divided into the following districts: