Web Design

Having a professionally designed website for business can often be a great expense that deters people from utilising the power of the internet to promote and run their company.

Certainly it is not uncommon for a 5 page website to cost £1000 or more, with only the basics included.  If your website is succesful and does exactly what you want, this amount of money would seem a good investment even for a small business.  However, a professional website need only cost a fraction of this amount without any compromise on quality, functionality or value for money offered to the owner.

Quite simply, SONA can provide you with a professional web solution to fit the smallest of budgets, with even the most elaborate efforts costing far less than what you might pay other companies for a very basic website.

This means that not only is a professional looking website available to businesses at a fraction of the cost associated with their production, but now clubs, groups and even private individuals can afford to commission their own tailor made professional web solution.

Why Is Web Design So Expensive?

The answer is simple...

When a web designer creates a website for you, it is generally hand coded from scratch and can take hundreds of hours to produce your site.

If a coder takes 100 hours to produce your site at let's say £15 per hour, you can see the cost starting to add up.  Throw in overheads, which go up as the company gets bigger, and the price you are charged for your website increases further.

While you may feel that you are being charged a fortune for what amounts to a few pages on the internet, you are in real terms getting what you pay for.

So How Can SONA Design Sites For Less?

By using open source software, we essentially cut down on the hours used to code individual pages and website components by using ready made code etc.

Most of this code, in the form of templates, plug-ins and modules is licensed.  Some of these are free but the majority of the licences cost sums ranging from a few pounds upto about £30.

Most importantly, you needn't be concerned that your site will look like someone else's.  There are literally thousands of templates, designs, plug-ins etc., and even if we used the same ones for two sites, we can customise them to the point that you wouldn't be able to tell that they had the same origins.