Affordable Web Design – Grow As You Go Plans

Grow As You Go^TM plans are well-suited for a large array of small- and medium-sized business or personal websites, start-ups, entrepreneurs, marketing websites, brochure-style sites, and blogging websites.

If you’re looking for a large corporate website, or a website with advanced functionality such as e-commerce or a subscription membership database, we can certainly help with those websites, too. But, given the complexity and variables for those types of sites, they’re not always the best fit for the Grow As You Go^TM plan structure.

So, if you’d like to talk through a more complex site like that, or, if you’re not sure which of the above plans might be the right fit for you, just get in touch and we’ll be happy to help!

Choosing the appropriate plan or website size can depend on a lot of factors. 

A very common approach nowadays is for newer businesses to start off with a one-page style website that includes, for example, a hero section (the top introduction or attention-grabber section, a.k.a. “above the fold”), an overview of the business, products or services, FAQs, and a contact form. This style of site is great particularly for mobile devices, as it allows a website visitor to quickly scroll through an overview of your business and conveniently get in touch.

By comparison, a 3- or 5-page site can be great if you need additional space to go into greater detail about services you offer, show off your team, provide greater context about your organization’s background or mission, or display a portfolio or image gallery.

If, after reviewing this information, you’re not quite sure what plan to go with, that’s no problem. Just get in touch, and we’ll be happy to help scope things out with you!

Not at all.

There’s no obligation to grow your site or add pages or features at any point. If creating a 1, 3, or 5 page website works for you now, and it stays that way forever, that’s absolutely perfect.

We call these plans “Grow As You Go” because we’ve found many clients initially just need a relatively small website to start, with the intention and understanding that with time, they’ll have more content they’ll want to add. Thus, these plans are structured so getting a great website now is easy and affordable, and so it’s also easy and affordable to evolve or expand the website over time, if or whenever needed.

If you’re ready to get started, we can get your site designed, built, and live quite quickly.

To start the process, after connecting with you and hearing what you have in mind for your new site, we’ll email you a more formal proposal, scope of work, and client agreement. This is important to make sure we’re all on the same page from the very start in regards to what your website will include, features, number of pages, and all the related details. As soon as we have that paperwork approved by you, we’ll schedule a kickoff call together and get rolling!

The biggest driver of timelines for building a new site, perhaps ironically, isn’t the actual time it takes to build your site. Rather, timelines often get extended because clients need extra time writing or fine-tuning text on their website, reviewing the site and getting input with other stakeholders, and factors like that. 

While we can potentially move faster than this, realistically speaking, we find that most websites that are part of these plans take two months from the kickoff call to fully develop, adjust, and finalize the website so it can be fully live. If we can go quicker with your help, we certainly will.

We’ll email an invoice to you monthly via Quickbooks, which can conveniently be paid online via credit card, or optionally set to autopay.

Once you’re ready to get started and we have your approval, we’ll initiate the monthly payments and get rolling on designing your new website with you.

Our goal is to develop your site efficiently, according to the schedule we’ve mutually agreed upon. Coincidentally, though — and perhaps counterintuitively — we’ve found that most delays during the designing and building phase tend to actually be client-driven, from clients simply requiring additional time to write or fine-tune text, review updates and provide feedback, and the like.

Thus, we find that together with our written agreement that outlines timelines, as well as initiating monthly payments upon project kickoff, our incentives and motivations are all synced and in-line to work together efficiently to get your website live.

Once you’ve approved the client proposal and paperwork we’ll put together for you, the first thing we’ll do together is schedule a kickoff call, where we’ll cover all the basics so we can get rolling on your website. We’ll need your guidance in regards to what domain name (.com address) you’ll want to use, as well as what pages, content, and general aesthetic style you’d like for your site. This will help us get started on the initial designs, and we can go from there.

For the website’s content, if there are specific images, graphics, and logos you’d like to include, we’ll look to you for those. Or, we have access to online image repositories, as well. Similarly, we’ll look to you to provide final text content for your website.

During the website building process, we’ll use an iterative approach where we’ll look for your feedback at four deliberate review points, where we’ll ask for your input and any changes or adjustments you’d like to see at that point. This includes, of course, your final sign-off before making the site live.

All in all, we have a very organized and efficient process to make everything easy for you, and so you’ll know what to expect each step of the way.