Designing a solicitor’s website is no different than creating a brochure for any other type of business. Therefore, web designers often ask the same questions that they would ask if they were designing a website for a hairdressing saloon: how many pages are required, who’s writing the text, and have you got photos ready for adding to your website?
Prices typically vary, with our web design agency charging anywhere between £ 950.00 and £5k, depending on how much functionality is needed, how many pages, whether we are writing the text, and how many service pages need to be added. Therefore, often a meeting is needed to gain a very clear understanding of what the customer would like.
The price to design a solicitor website, therefore, is often calculated on the following basis:
How many pages are needed
What functionality is needed, i.e. does a mobile version of the website need to be designed?
Who’s going to be writing the text? The client or the web design company?
Does the client need help improving the business’s search engine optimisation (SEO)?
How many pages are required?
You can actually have some solicitors’ websites that just have one page; these are often much quicker to design. On the other hand, you can have large law firms that offer multiple different services, and these all need their own page and text written for every page that is designed. Therefore, the cost to design a new solicitor’s website is often based on how many pages the customer requires.
Functionality
Some law firms may require just a brochure website to be designed; however, other businesses may want web chat, a mobile version of the website, and CTAs, such as the ability to enter a mobile/phone number on each page.
Content marketing
Ever since the Google E-EAT update and the Google Helpful Content update, it’s more important than ever that the content marketing is really well written. For large solicitor websites, often a lot needs to be written. This could potentially take hundreds of hours to write and proofread, so therefore, the cost to design, say, the new WordPress website for the solicitors will be dependent on who’s writing the text.
How intricate is the design going to be
Just as you can buy an essential car, on the other end of the spectrum, you can buy a hypercar, which is possibly a thousand times the price; this is also the same for website design. You could have a simple 7-page website, or you may want a mammoth website built that’s very intricate, where web developers, SEO consultants, U.X designers, WordPress designers, management, copywriters, and social media managers may spend hundreds of hours to help design a website.
Therefore, a meeting between the web design agency and the solicitors is often needed to understand the amount of work required. Usually, an excellent place to start is to create a site map; determining how many pages are necessary is a beautiful way to determine the amount of work your web designers need.
Does your business need help to improve its search engine optimisation?
It is worth knowing that sometimes, a web design company can design a brand new website for your business in less than one month. However, businesses based in Wales and worldwide often need an SEO company to get the website to the first page of Google. This requires ongoing work to build links, write content marketing, improve the on-page SEO, and improve the technical SEO.
So, if your business requires help improving search engine optimisation, we recommend hiring a web designer or a web design agency that offers this service. Some freelance web designers may not provide SEO services because they require much time. So you may find it better to hire a business that offers both services. Usually, these are your larger agencies, perhaps with 10+ staff, because with SEO, you need link builders, copywriters, and technical SEO experts, so often you need multiple staff to improve a business’s organic search engine optimisation. Therefore, larger agencies commonly have a large team of SEO staff.
What are some of the ongoing costs that our business needs to be aware of?
Hosting:
Website hosting can vary massively in cost; there’s the cheap hosting, and then there’s the super-sonic hosting that large companies offer. We recommend paying for top-quality hosting because Google will rank websites higher in Google’s SERPs, which is faster. The company website needs to be fast on mobile and desktop, so talk to your web developers about their website hosting options. Plus, chat with your marketing agency to see if they can design an AMP version of the website.
Who’s going to be making backups?
It’s essential to make regular backups of your company website because it could get hacked, a plugin could cause a glitch, or simply a change to a part of it could cause it to no longer work. This could cause the shopper to see a 404 page not found error, which could impact your company’s sales.
Plus, if your website has too many 404-page errors, this could damage your company’s organic search engine optimisation.
So, often, you need to hire web designers to help with regular back-ups of the website and offer ongoing support. You may, therefore, want to hire web developers/web designers who provide a monthly package that includes ongoing support, help if needed, and regular back-ups, say once a month. This is because if the website does develop a glitch, you can restore that backup.
Does your business need a new website?
We have worked with countless businesses to design amazing websites, starting at just £950.00. Many businesses hire us simply because we can handle the whole web design process from start to finish. This means we can write the text, offer photography for your company website, and offer SEO services. Prices for our brochure websites vary between £950.00 a month and £ 3k.
We can design websites for any type of business and can also design a brand new website quickly. So, for example, let’s say you are starting a brand new business and need your website live as soon as possible. Often, our web designers and web developers are able to design a new brochure website in less than four weeks. Other websites, such as e-commerce websites, can often take longer for us to design.
Why should we choose your company to design our brochure website?
We have been designing quality, well-built CMS PHP WordPress websites for over ten years. We are simply the bee’s knees when it comes to obtaining a quality website here in Cardiff. Plus, because we have also offered search engine optimisation services for the same length of time, we have vast experience getting companies onto page one of Google.
So, if you want to hire a local business that offers web design and search engine optimisation services as well, why not give us a ring today?
How much does your website hosting cost?
Most web designers we know charge between £ 40 and £ 70 per month for quality website hosting. We offer some of the best prices in Cardiff. For the first year, we often offer our web hosting for free. Then, after that, we offer a fixed yearly price of £140.00.
How much does it cost to get a WordPress website designed by your website designers?
We can offer to design a WordPress website for £950.00, which is for seven pages. We can also design larger brochure websites and e-commerce websites.
Can you write the text for our new website?
Yes, whether you run a solicitor’s practice or any other type of business, we can design a quality website for your company. We can also write the text for your business, helping you to save a lot of time. Even a simple brochure website, with seven pages, can sometimes take a long time to write all of the text. So we can do this work for you. This is another reason why so many businesses hire W&P to design their quality websites.
Why should we hire your digital marketing agency to help improve our local/organic SEO?
We have some of the best SEO minds working for us in Wales. That’s because we have been improving our clients’ organic and local search engine optimisation for over ten years. This monthly service has a minimum pricing of £500 PCM. All businesses considering investing in this process need to know it’s a long-term process that requires the business to be aware that it can take several months to get onto page one of Google.
Do you have experience working with lawyers?
We have worked with law practices to improve their websites for over eight years, so we have experience working with solicitors’ practices based in Wales.