Description
- Get a brand new WordPress website built by experts at eCOM Web Designer
- We will build it to run fast, be secure, fully backed up to remote storage and SEO friendly
- Choose any theme or go custom
- Use your hosting, or use our shared hosting on Digital Ocean
- Support options available
We offer 3 levels of WordPress websites at fixed prices.
Standard WordPress Site
Perfect to get you started with WordPress, e.g. for your own blog or as a lead generator for your services. All that remains is for you to and articles. (we provide you videos explaining how to do this)
- Fast and secure WordPress website built and configured for you on your own server
- Installed onto the domain name of your choice
- You purchase the theme of your choice Click to visit Theme Forest
- Your home page will be the list of your latest articles – you can change this to a static page or one of professional layouts on Theme Forest
- We will create an about page for you (you provide the text)
- We will create a contact page form for you which will email you new contact requests and save them to your online database
- We will set up remote backups to your Dropbox, Google Drive or similar cloud storage
- Comes with a server admin panel which lets you add more websites to your server (unlimited websites)
The following plugins will be installed and configured as part of the Standard WordPress site builds:
- WooCommerce shop/e-commerce
- Updraft Plus backups
- Google Analytics by Yoast to track traffic acquisition
- SEO by Yoast to boost your traffic
- W3 Total Cache configured and integrated with our Mercury stack to make your site lightning fast
- Contact Form 7 & Contact Form DB to alert and retain enquiries
- Wordfence to keep your site secure
E-commerce WordPress Site
Perfect for companies looking to start their online shop/service promotion. Everything you get in a Standard WordPress site from us, plus the following:
- We will import your products to your site for you and set up recurring imports. You need to provide a CSV file containing product details and hyperlinks to product images
- Custom designed layout – header, footer, home page etc (maximum 16 hours development time)
- WooCommerce custom tabs (e.g. to explain returns and delivery details)
- WooCommerce set up and configured and integrated with PayPal and/or Stripe and/or bank transfer, cash, cheque
- Newsletter set up and configured and optimized to maximize subscribers
The following additional plugins will be installed and configured as part of the E-commerce Wordpress Site build:
- WooCommerce shop/eCommerce – includes stock control, payment gateway integration – the *best* eCommerce solution for WordPress
- WooCommerce Questions and Answers – allows your guests to ask questions about each product
- WooCommerce Product Gallery Slider to liven up your product pages
- Woocommerce Poor Guys Swiss Knife
- WPAllImport to import and manage importing of products to your store
- wpMandrill – improves the deliverability of your emails to your users, an absolute must for an e-commerce website
- MailPoet to handle your newsletters
Ultimate Wordpress Site
For companies looking for a total solution, we will handle everything for you and get your site up and running and making money. This includes identifying opportunities in your niche, building your site, perfecting it for SEO and building your first AdWords campaign.
You get everything from the E-Commerce WordPress site, plus the following:
- Market research to identify opportunities in your niche
- AdWords campaign set up to attract *profitable* traffic
- Affiliate program will be set up for you so you can have your own commission-only sales force promoting your products on your behalf
- Custom styling (max 20 hours development time)
Additional Plugins
- WP Affiliate plugin used to set up affiliate program
- Google Analytics Pro by Yoast – to track your site activity – tracking traffic all the way through from acquisition to sales
How to get started
We outline a timeline below of what you can expect from this service, but here’s your checklist of items to work through:
- Choose and buy a domain name.
- Find, choose (and optionally buy) a theme you would like us to set up for you. Click to visit Theme Forest
- Set up your hosting with Hostgator. Get 25% off with coupon code: EcomHostGator25
- Collect all the images you want to use in your new website and upload them to cloud storage somewhere we can access them. These will be used for your first sample posts or for any custom styling you’re looking for.
- If you’re going for custom styling, choose a theme close to what you need and figure out any alterations as best you can. Include colours, fonts, images, spacing, menus, sidebar, footer, page width and mobile responsiveness in your thinking.
- Get yourself a logo.
What you can expect from us
- If you’re going for hosting with us, we’ll set up your new WordPress site for you.
- If you’re hosting elsewhere, please set up a WordPress website and get us an admin account. We can, on request (and additional cost), set up and configure Nginx from scratch on your own host if you wish.
- We’ll install and configure your theme, using your latest articles as the home page
- We’ll set up backups and off-line storage to your preferred cloud storage provider
- We’ll configure SEO plugins and permalinks to give you the best possible start
- We’ll secure your site using plugins, access control and best practices
- We’ll create your about page using your content and images
- We’ll create your contact us page using the Contact Form 7 plugin and Contact Form DB – this gets you emails of contact requests as well as online storage (exportable to Excel)
- We’ll set up and configure W3 Total Cache so your site loads blazingly fast
- (optionally) We’ll customise your theme to your hearts desire – anything is possible – the easiest approach to describe what you need is to find another website or two you’d like yours to look like
- (optionally) We’ll install and configure WooCommerce including your payment gateways
- (optionally) We’ll install and configure Datafeedr, including setting up your first few affiliate networks and merchants and loading some products into your first couple of categories
- (optionally) Start our SEO analysis of your market to help you bring in big traffic if you’ve gone for premium support