Design Choice... How will your site look?
IFA-Netsite provides unlimited design choice. It offers both free and bespoke designs! The result…choice and flexibility with a look that suits your budget.
IFA-Netsite uses Sammedia’s purpose-built IFA-Netsite Content management System (CMS) for content and plugin management. A site's design sits on top of its content, like a skin, controlling what the site looks like without affecting what it contains.
Separating the content from the site’s design means IFA-Netsite is able to provide four different ways to get the right look-and-feel for your site. All benefit from the same underlying CMS and you can upgrade from one method to another, cost effectively, at anytime.
|
1. Pre-designed templates - Free
- Pros: Free & instant
- Cons: Generic, will not reflect your brand/speciality.
|
|
2. Customised templates ( integrate logo, change colours etc) - Typically £200
- Pros: Low cost, provides some branding
- Cons: Still has the feel of a template site.
|
|
3. Existing artwork Typically £500
- Pros: Use artwork from your own designer, cheaper than a totally bespoke design.
- Cons: Lacks some of the impact of a fully bespoke design.
|
|
4. Fully Bespoke – Typically £1,000
- Pros: Exact look and feel you want, high impact, high brand promotion.
- Cons: At the higher end of the budget.
|
Our recommendation, budget allowing, will always be to have a fully bespoke design tailored to your exact online needs. A bespoke design will not only deliver an accurate reflection of your brand, it'll also maximise the potential of the type of online service you are providing. A site that wants to focus on online quotes will look very different to one whose primary focus is wealth planning. It's not just the graphics that would differ, but the entire way the site is laid out.
That said, we also appreciate that a fully bespoke design is not appropriate for all businesses. Templates allow smaller firms to get a very decent looking web presence online quickly and at a very low cost, whilst still benefitting from all of the high-end site managemnet features we make available to our fully bespoke sites.
Furthermore, any IFA-Netsite template site can be upgraded at any time to a fully bespoke design. It's a very cost effective method of significantly upgrading a site because, unlike traditional web-design, it does not entail having to pay a designer to re-create all of the pages of your site in the new design. The IFA-Netsite engine does that automatically, hence our bespoke design costs are typically around £1,000, as opposed to the £2,000 - £5,000 you might pay another web site company.