A static website, also known as a brochure website, is the type of website that displays information about your company, product or services. These websites usually contain 8 web pages or above and should cost you around £400 - £1500; depending on the actual number of web pages and whether your website has any additional features such as animation or special functionality.

When budgeting for a static website you must remember that web hosting and a domain name (www address) will be required. This is an annual fee and costs around £50-£200 per annum. Complex hosting such as database driven websites may cost more.

Finally, you must remember that each web page within your website will require content such as text, pictures, documents, etc. Your web designer may make this for you but as your designer will not know your business as well as you do, you will most likely have to do this yourself. This takes time to collate so be sure to have all this ready for your web designer before you apply for a Connecting Somerset grant. The reason for this is that you will have 3 months to complete the website and preparation is the key to getting solution/project completed with that time limit.

If you would like your company or organisation to meet best practice with your website then speak to your web designer about W3C compliancy. W3C compliancy basically means that the web designer should make your website to standards that do not exclude the blind, disabled or disadvantaged.

Quick Tips

> Get a written contract between you and the web designer
> Don't forget to view their portfolio before you commit
> Be sure your web designer understands search engines
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If you are interested in a website that you can update yourself then take a look at Step B - you may be able to claim for both steps!