Professional website design
Your website is often the first contact a client has with your business, before they ever speak to you. FastSolve builds it to answer the questions that visitor is asking, in the order they ask them.
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The website you no longer dare show
Four situations come up before almost every rebuild.
- You give a prospect your web address while adding that they should look past the presentation.
- The site is four years old. It advertises services you no longer offer, and says nothing about the ones that pay the bills today.
- On a phone you have to zoom in to read it, and the contact form has been broken for months without anyone noticing.
- You have no site at all. A prospect searching your name finds a directory listing filled in by somebody else, with the wrong opening hours.
In all four cases the loss is invisible: nobody writes to tell you they gave up. That is what makes this easy to postpone, and expensive to postpone.
Four shapes a project can take
Most of the requests we handle take one of these shapes.
1. The showcase site that answers in the right order
A visitor asks three questions, always the same ones: do you do what I need, can I trust you, how do I reach you. A good site answers them in that order, without making anyone hunt.
Typical case. A tradesman had a home page about his career history. It now states what he does and for whom, and the enquiries that come in are markedly better qualified.
2. The page devoted to a single offer
For one specific offer, a launch or a campaign, a single page with one objective converts better than a whole site. Everything that does not serve it is removed, including the menu.
Typical case. A trainer sent prospects to his home page. A page devoted to the course, with the programme, the dates and one button, lifted sign-ups.
3. The rebuild that keeps what works
An old site almost always holds pages that have been drawing visitors for years. Deleting them carelessly loses that audience. A serious rebuild therefore starts by looking at what works before deciding what to discard.
Typical case. A shopkeeper wanted everything redone. Two old pages brought in most of his visitors: they were kept, with their addresses, and modernised rather than replaced.
4. The site that stays editable
A site you cannot edit ages at the speed of whoever looks after it. Deciding up front what you will want to change yourself avoids that dependency.
Typical case. A small firm waited days to change a photograph or a price. An admin area handed those edits back, and the site stayed current.
What a website will not do
It builds trust and it captures enquiries. It does not create them out of nothing.
- It does not fill the order book by itself. It converts the visitors you bring more effectively, it does not bring them for you.
- It does not climb the search results in a week. The technical groundwork is laid at delivery, ranking is built over months.
- It does not write your positioning. If you do not yet know what you sell and to whom, no layout will make up for it.
- It does not maintain itself. A site left five years without an update becomes the very problem it was meant to solve.
The gain is in credibility and in the quality of the enquiries you receive, not in their number, which depends on your visibility.
Frequently asked questions
Why not an online site builder?
For a three-page site with no particular constraint, an online tool does the job, and we say so when that is the case. The difference shows up on three points: loading speed, which affects ranking and how many visitors give up; what you can do once your need steps outside the template; and whether you can take your site elsewhere. A site built for you is not tied to any vendor's subscription.
How much does a website cost?
The amount depends on the number of pages, whether the text and images already exist, the number of languages and the functions expected, since a simple form is not an online booking system. A single page and a multilingual site with an admin area are in no way comparable. The price is set after scoping. As a guide, excluding VAT, most professional websites fall between 1,200 and 4,000 euros. A multilingual website with an admin area can reach 8,000 euros.
Do I have to supply the text?
It is faster and cheaper if you have it, even as rough notes. Otherwise, copywriting is included in the quote. What we cannot invent is what sets your business apart from the one next door: that comes from you, during scoping.
Will the site be visible on Google?
The technical conditions are met at delivery: heading structure, readable addresses, loading time, sitemap, behaviour on a phone. That makes the site indexable and well regarded. Ranking on a competitive search is a long-term effort, separate from building the site, and nobody serious guarantees it by contract.
Who owns the site?
You do. The domain name stays in your name, and you can take the source code to host it wherever you like. The monthly subscription is a hosting and maintenance convenience, not a condition of ownership.
Will I be able to edit it myself?
Yes, if it is planned during scoping. We decide together what has to be editable, text, prices, photographs or news, and that goes through an admin interface. Making everything editable costs more without achieving much.
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