Website development is a crucial aspect of establishing your online presence, helping businesses connect with their audience, showcase their offerings, and drive conversions. Whether you’re building a new website or redesigning an existing one, here are some frequently asked questions about website development.

Our website packages start at approximately AED 5,000; however they vary depending on your needs. We recently published a guide on how much it costs for a website that provides an overview of the different options available.

The process of creating a website for your business takes time and careful planning. Unlike other agencies, we don’t use templates. We build your website from scratch, which means you get a unique design tailored around your business. A website created by us should not be seen as just another expense; it’s an investment in your business that should earn you money.

It takes an average of 6-10 weeks to build a website from start to finish, provided we have all the information we need from you. Here is our full web design process. Generally speaking, the process will only take a long time if you’re still waiting for text and images from yourself.

When we begin working together, we will usually have an initial telephone conversation to discuss the project. After that, most of the communication will take place by email.
To make the process easier, we’ll save all of your information, and we will contact you when the project is complete. We will also schedule a one-hour session to go over our findings, which will be included in your package.

Depending on the type of website you want, we will be able to discuss this on our discovery call before we start working together. Depending on which package we agree on, there may be some additional elements we will need to include in order to make your vision a reality.

Images of you and your team
Images of your workplace
Content for the website e.g. text, PDFs etc
Staff Profiles
Any Videos you would like adding to the website
Login details to your existing website

Some of this might already be on the existing website, in which case it can be transferred over to the new site.

We offer a risk-free guarantee. Before we build your new website, we’ll create a mockup of your homepage. We’ll design a layout in Photoshop first so that you can see our initial designs within approximately ten days. This is the opportunity to give us feedback and if you really don’t like it, you don’t have to move forward. Best part is, this won’t cost you anything.

Yes, we require 50% payment in advance of beginning work. The first 50% is due when you sign the contract and the second 50% is due when we send you a mockup of your homepage.

We find that it can take longer than expected to complete projects. We might be waiting for information from you, which can delay the process. This is why we always invoice 30 days after the original payment. At this point, you’ll be able to see the progress we’ve made on your new website.

We will generally host your website for you, so you don’t need to worry about it. We use the same hosting company for our own website and for all our clients. Each website is individually managed to avoid any security issues. Every website we build has unlimited bandwidth, 20GB of disk space, 2GB of RAM, and 99.9% uptime. We’ve used our current provider for five years, and we don’t plan on changing this anytime soon.

We can arrange a maintenance package to suit your needs, ranging from one hour per month to ten hours per month. We will work with you to determine the most appropriate plan for your business.

Yes, we like to give our clients the ability to make website changes. We provide training and tools so they can update their content. We use a popular platform called WordPress, which allows clients to add, edit, and delete content without paying us to do it for them.

We’ll build your website with features you choose, including an email sign-up form. We’ll design your site from scratch to fit in with your style and branding.

You will need an email marketing platform, such as Aweber, Mailchimp or Convert Kit. These services provide a secure and reliable means of collecting customer data without sacrificing your customers’ privacy. We can set up these services on your behalf; however, they do come at an additional cost.

Yes, you can! We develop our websites using WordPress, so you can make changes to your site yourself without needing to know how to code. Our helpful videos will also teach you how to use it.

You can have as many pages on your website as you want. We will design you three page layouts: a homepage, a blog page and an inner page, such as your about page. Once we’ve created these layouts for you, you can use whichever one you like for each new page you want to add.

Depending on the package you choose, we can provide content for your website. We have a copywriter in-house who will create the content for your site.

Before we begin, we will ask you a series of questions so that we can better understand your business and its needs. We will then research your market and suggest a series of pages that will best showcase your products and services. We will learn as much as we need to know about your company in order to create compelling words that inspire people to get in touch.

We design your website from scratch using a number of tools. We begin by using Adobe Photoshop to create a wireframe, and then we move this onto the Web using a platform known as WordPress.

We only use WordPress to build websites. We have used other platforms in the past, but not anymore. WordPress is a platform that’s easily accessible for our clients to update themselves; it’s search engine friendly and easy to integrate with third party companies. If you’re interested in learning more about why we only use WordPress to build websites, click here .

If you already have a website, we can build a new website while your other site is still live. Then we can swap the old site with the new one, taking as little as 10 minutes for your new site to be visible. This means you will barely even notice any dip in traffic numbers.

Yes. Your website will be fully responsive and look great on all devices. This is included in our standard service.

There is no definitive answer to this question, as search engine requirements change regularly. However, we have seen our clients achieve a first-page ranking for their main keywords within two days of launching their website, and we have also seen it take two to three months for a client’s site to appear on the first page of results in Google.

However, there is no guarantee that your website will ever be ranked on the first page of Google for your primary keywords, as some of your competitors may have greater marketing budgets and more historical data from which to optimize.

If you already have too many customers to handle and do not wish to attract more, you may not need a website. However, if you wish to expand your business or become the go-to person in your field, a website is an excellent way to do so.

Standard websites require less work to get them launched than do websites such as Facebook, Amazon and Twitter. This is because standard websites require fewer hours of work just to get the website launched. Also, it is easier to keep a standard website running smoothly than it is to keep one of these other types of sites running smoothly.

Yes. We will buy the images for your website. We use stock image websites such as Depositphotos, Shutterstock and 123rf to purchase professional images for use on websites.

Hosting is like renting space on the internet. If you don’t have a hosting plan, no one will be able to access your website.

Hosting usually costs less than AED1,000 per year. The cost can vary greatly depending on your requirements. The more site traffic you have, the more expensive hosting will be.

We will host your website for the first year for free. After that, we will send you an invoice for hosting fees once a year after the initial year. You can choose to manage the website yourself or host it elsewhere, at your discretion.

Of course. You’re buying a website from us. We want to make your transition as smooth as possible, so we’ll buy the domain for you and host the first year for free. After that, we’ll send you an annual invoice for renewal and hosting fees.

As we mentioned previously, the cost of a domain name is usually AED 250. If you would like to purchase your domain name from us, we can discuss further details with you.

You will control the domain. We will register the domain in your name and address, and you will be able to modify its settings or transfer ownership if you choose.

Depending on the package you choose, our work can be ongoing or start-up. We offer packages that will get your website off to a great start.
The Digital Elite website plan includes on-page SEO for ten pages. We will perform keyword research and optimise it for search engines.

We offer monthly SEO plans that begin at AED 2,500+VAT per month. This is generally a starter plan for a local business with moderate competition. Our other clients pay over AED 3,000+VAT per month for our services, depending on how much work will be required and how much competition they face in their industry.

We monitor rankings using our proprietary software. Our reports will indicate what’s working and what’s not, enabling you to make adjustments as needed. We’ll send a monthly report so you can see your traffic numbers and rankings. Here are some of the recent rankings from our previous clients: