Q: Do I get a template to use for my website?
A: A WordPress theme will be installed on your website to be used no matter which website package you choose.
Plus and Premium package customers will be offered links to 3 or 4 business themes that are relevant to your business from which to choose.
The cost of the theme will be included in the price for either package for one full year.
Also, Plus or Premium package customers won’t need to be doing anything with the website itself.
All you will need to do is email me with instructions on what you want on which web page, and I will be the one doing the work on your website for you.
Q: Do pictures come with the template that I can use?
A: No, pictures in the themes that you will be sent links to in order to choose one will NOT come with the theme that you choose. Those pictures are merely placeholders to demonstrate to you what your website could look like. You will need to supply all of the necessary images for your website.
Before you get started searching for images, I truly insist that you read how using images incorrectly could cost you a lawsuit. In this way, you will be able to circumvent any chance of such a nightmare happening to you.
Dreamstime.com (NOT an affiliate link!) is a great website to purchase your images from … and, is the ONLY stock photo website that I trust.
Q: Where do I get my information to use on my website; does it come with the template?
No, there is NO text included with your theme.
You should NEVER EVER use what anyone else has written in the way of website content. Google tends to rank duplicated content much lower than unique content.
And, you will need to supply all images and text needed in the creation of your website … unless you would like me to outsource that for you. However, this would be an extra cost over and above the price of my Plus or Premium packages. This sort of cost would depend on the amount of content (text) you would need.
If you want your website content to support trust, visibility, and action, professional guidance can help shape the message so it works for your business instead of sounding like generic AI-generated content.
Q: Can I just use AI to write my website content myself?
A: Yes, AI can be helpful for getting started. It can help you brainstorm ideas, organize your thoughts, summarize information, create outlines, and produce first drafts.
But a first draft is not the same as finished website content.
AI does not automatically understand your business, your customers, your local market, your positioning, your trust signals, or what your website needs to accomplish.
Your website still needs to answer the questions real visitors are asking, such as:
Why should I trust this business?
What makes this service different?
Is this the right fit for me?
What should I do next?
That requires more than output. It requires judgment, structure, refinement, and strategy.
AI can help with the starting point.
Strategy turns that starting point into something useful.
If you want your website content to support trust, visibility, and action, professional guidance can help shape the message so it works for your business instead of sounding like generic AI-generated content.
Q: What pages do I need?
A: The pages I recommend you start with are your landing or homepage, an about page, services or product page (depending on whether you are selling services or products, of course), a contact page, a testimonials page, a sitemap, a privacy policy page… and if necessary, a blog.
Q: Do I really need a blog?
A: If your business is highly competitive (in other words, there are lots of local competitors) then, yes I would recommend you create a blog relevant to your business. You would only need to publish one post, let us say, every month, ONLY IF your competition is NOT blogging at all… but more often if they are.
Providing you offer unique, quality content on your blog, you could gain an SEO advantage over your competition.
Q: Once my website is all set up, do you “hand over” the keys (access)?
A: Plus or Premium website packages include one full year of website management. As that year approaches expiry, I will issue an invoice for another full year of management, which you may accept or decline.
One full year of website management means that I update: WordPress, your theme, and plugins, fix broken links and problems caused by software updates.
Client-requested changes or additions must be requested by email and are charged separately at my hourly rate.
However, if as a Plus or Premium customer, you prefer that I set up your website and then hand over full access to you for someone else to continue to manage, I have no problem with that either as I am here to serve your needs.
The Plus or Premium package inclusions are listed on the Services page.
Q: Do you offer website hosting?
A: No, I no longer offer website hosting services simply because it is highly recommended that any and all website owners (especially business owners) own their own hosting account. PLUS most hosting service providers now include one domain registration as part of their package, making hosting inexpensive.
I recommend this to all business owners, as it provides you with a means of protecting yourself from having your website ever held captive by any unruly website developer/designer.
PLUS, I also recommend that any and all local business owners host their sites on a LOCAL (to your business) hosting provider’s server as there really is a benefit to hosting your website locally.
Q: Do I really need an SSL certificate for my website?
A: Yes, you sure do, and here’s why your website needs HTTPS as opposed to HTTP.
If you have a question that has not been answered here, please email your question to me.