Custom eCommerce Website
Setting up an online shop can feel overwhelming but I’ll take that stress off your hands and we’ll build a beautiful online home for your products.
“Kirsty is a superb communicator, no question l had was any trouble, and I quickly removed my “this question is going to sound dumb” filter and just got on with it. She fully understood my intentions and brought them to life. A true people person in a techy world, we need more of this. ”
I have two main goals when working on your new site…
That you walk away with a smart, strategic website that reflects your business, connects with your ideal customer and, ultimately, helps to grow your business.
That you have the confidence and tools to maintain and update your website going forward, which in turn grows engagement with your community.
Your Squarespace Website Project
What’s included?
Content planning guide that will walk you through gathering the content you need for your site
Shop inventory planning guide - a spreadsheet and notes to help you organise your products before we upload them
Up to 5 designed and fully designed pages - eg. home, about, contact, blog, services (with option to add more)
Online shop designed and set up with up to 10 products added (with option to add more)
Custom coding, icons, headers & buttons to make your website look cohesive and really stand out
Personalised tutorial videos allowing you to maintain and update your own website
Integration to your existing social media accounts
Integration with existing email marketing platforms
Mobile compatible design
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Before we start your project I will ask you to complete some homework. This will consist of gathering together:
branding information for your business
images
text
product details.
Don’t panic about this task! I have a welcome pack and copywriting guide that will walk you through the next steps and writing the text for your site.
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Project Cost: from £3500 - 20% is due to confirm your project when the contract is signed, the following 40% is due at the start of the project with the final 40% at project completion.
Additional Costs: Squarespace account pricing can be found here.
Timescale: Projects typically take around 6 weeks from the start date to going live.
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If you need anything extra included with your website package, let me know in our discovery call and we can chat about it.
I offer the following add-ons for an additional fee:
Style Guide: £250
Member Area: £300
Squarespace Campaigns set-up: £200
Extra pages £80
How it works
why squarespace?
I use Squarespace for all of my website design projects
Squarespace is my favourite platform for small business websites. It’s a user-friendly all-in-one platform that will be super simple for you to manage and maintain yourself once our project is complete (especially with the custom tutorial library you will get at handover!).
Answering your questions
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I use (and love) Squarespace for all of my website. I go into detail in this blog post about why I love it so much, but the short answer is that it is extremely user friendly for my clients to use after I hand the site over to them. It also allows me the creative freedom to create a beautiful bespoke website that can be strategic, smart but simple to use.
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As I mentioned, hosting is provided through Squarespace and will be s paid directly to them. You can may monthly or annually and with the annual package you will receive a free domain (website address) and as I am a member of the Squarespace Circle, I can offer you a 20% discount on your first year. For current Squarespace pricing, click here.
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Yes. If you have an existing website with a blog I can transfer this across to your new website.
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Payment is made in 3 instalments. An initial deposit is taken at booking to secure your place in my diary, a further 40% is due at the start of the project with the final 40% due once the website is complete, prior to project handover.
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If you don't have any type of branding or styling set for your business yet, I am happy to pull together a simple Website Style Palette for us to use throughout the project. This will consist of two fonts - one for your headings and one for paragraph text - and around five colours that are selected with website usability in mind.
This branding upgrade will cost £250 and will add around one week to your project. You will receive a style palette that will include the font and colour names so you can use them in your business going forward.
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Yes! I would never leave my clients high and dry with a website they are scared to touch. The best way to build your Google ranking is through an active and up to date website so I want you to feel confident in managing your own website.
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From your start date it will take around 4 weeks to completion. Before we start I will ask you to gather together your text, images and logo/brand information so when that start date arrives, we're ready to dive straight in!
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Before the project start date you will have a bit of homework to do. That will consist of sharing text, images and your branding with me.
I have a Website Copy Guide that I will share with you, which will walk you through writing the text for each of the pages on your website.
We'll use a shared Google Drive as a place to store all of your information and we'll communicate throughout the project using Asana
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Yes! We can chat about what you will need from the website on your enquiry call. Standard pages can be added at £100 per page.
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All websites require a cookie and privacy policy. Including terms of use page for website users and if you have an online shop, conditions and shipping policies are also advisable. As these are legal documents I can't provide these for you but I will share a Legal Pages guide with you that includes a list of requirements and resources for free and paid templates you can use.