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The perils of a free website
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
I've recently had a client come to me for a site redesign. A few questions later and I ascertained that he was unhappy with the current design - it looked clumsy, was not user friendly and the company were only interested in helping him until they took his money.
When asked how much he'd paid for the site, his reply was surprising... "Oh nothing, but I do have to pay £35 per month in hosting fees!"
So what's wrong here? Firstly, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Secondly, I charge my clients £25 per year for hosting (if you're interested let me know and I'll give you the name of the company).
For the five-page site which left him open to large amounts of spam (through exposing his e-mail address) and very few visitors (due to the poor design etc...), he effectively paid £420 per year. The same site with LittleFish Web Design but created to far higher standards? £325.
Excuse me whilst I blow my own trumpet..!
