Welcome to Thoughtcat. My name is Richard and I specialise in good value content-managed websites, generally with the emphasis on "content". I can also help you with social media, advise on how to manage your content and supply full training and written instructions in how to maintain and update your site going forward.
When thinking about your website please consider the following. If you wish to contact me to enquire about creating a website, answers to these questions in the first instance are very much appreciated!
a) What is the main purpose of the website? Would it be a "brochure" site simply giving static information on your business which you would update rarely, or will you be adding content all the time? If so, what kind of content? Are you selling products by e-commerce? Do you need a blog? A forum?
b) If your site is for e-commerce please supply a couple of examples of typical products and say what payment method you wish to use for the shopping cart.
c) Please provide links to any other websites you may have seen that you'd like the site to look and/or function like - this is very important, as if you want something very complex and sophisticated, say with Flash animation or custom coding, then straightaway I'd probably refer you to someone else as these are not my personal strengths.
d) Is there anything else you *really* want - a completely random example is a newsletter, say. All additional requirements add time and complexity, so it is far better (and cheaper) to establish everything you want at the outset than add it on later as an afterthought.
e) Do you want the website to be hosted as well as built by me, or are you sorting the hosting out yourself?
f) Please give me an idea of your budget - I can then say whether what you want is doable within that, and if the budget is agreed at the start then I can commit to keeping within that as far as possible and warn you well ahead of time if there's a danger of going beyond it.
