A WordPress website for a Purley business
Quick answer: WordPress is a sensible build for a Purley business that will edit several pages or keep a blog. A single-offer firm can stay on the £150 one-page Starter site without it. Business at £295 is up to five pages. Growth at £495 includes a blog setup on eight to twelve pages. You keep the login.
WordPress is often proposed as if it were the product. It is a tool. The product is a page a customer in Purley, Kenley or South Croydon can use. The blank laptop in the picture is an example. It is not a client's dashboard and it shows no data. Choose the tool after the page count is known, not before.
When WordPress fits
Choose it when more than one person will change opening hours, services or a short article, and when those changes should not need a developer each time. Growth includes a blog setup for firms that will actually write.
Choose it when a modest shop or a form needs a maintained base. The platform still has to match the job. A booking tool or a shop may sit beside it, with its own fee. That fee is named before the build.
The web design packages describe the page counts. WordPress is how many of those pages are assembled. It is not a fourth price and it is not a reason to add pages you will not maintain.
When it does not
A one-page site for a single service does not become better because it has a dashboard. Starter at £150 can be a straightforward page: responsive, with a form and basic on-page SEO. Adding a system you will never open is scope you do not need.
A stack of plugins for sliders, pop-ups and proof you cannot evidence makes the site slower and harder to secure. We leave out anything that does not serve the enquiry.
If a supplier insists every Purley business must be on one specific theme, ask what happens when you want to leave. Being able to move the site matters more than the theme name.
Logins and updates
You should have the hosting login and the admin login on day one. The domain stays in your name. We do not keep the only keys in exchange for a low build fee. If the relationship ends, you still have the site.
Software needs updates. If you will not do them, say so, and look at website care as a separate agreement. Leaving a site unattended is a different decision from the design fee.
First-year domain, hosting and SSL are included. Year two is around £60 to the providers, or you pay your own host. The WordPress software itself is not a second design invoice.
Editing without breaking the page
Basic on-page SEO means the title and the heading still describe the service after you edit. Change a phone number in every place it appears, including the Google profile, or you create two versions of the business.
Do not paste a block of town names into the footer to feel local. One true service-area paragraph is easier to keep honest. Local SEO is that discipline, described on local SEO, not a plugin that promises a rank.
Test the form after any change to the contact page. A saved draft that never sends is a silent failure. Check it from a phone, because that is how many Purley enquiries arrive.
How it sits in the packages
Starter, £150, is often the lighter option: one page, about a week after the copy is ready. Business, £295, up to five pages and two revision rounds, is where a small editable site usually sits. Growth, £495, is the blog and the larger page count, usually two to four weeks.
A shop or a diary on top is Growth or a quote. Say which you need so the tool is chosen before the theme. The studio is in Coulsdon, at 109A Brighton Road, CR5 2NG.
Ask via contact. Tell us who will edit the site after launch. That answer changes the build more than the place name does.
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