Elite Security Services is the latest website to be launched by SO Web Designs Ltd. It has been built under our Level 1 package for just £175.

Elite Security Services needed a simple, but professional looking website that would reflect their level of business, clearly describe the services they offer and allow for prospective customers to contact them.

This is no different to what is required by thousands of companies in the UK but unlike them, Elite Security Services only had to pay £175 for the website design, 1 year of unlimited hosting, ongoing support for emails and other internet services, constant tweaking as required, search engine optimisation and the back up of a company that understands the importance of a successful internet presence.

We are always pleased to hear from anyone interested in having a website designed for them, whether it is now or sometime in the future. Send us an email at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it and lets see what you need, how little we would need to achieve it and together we can move your internet marketing forwards.

One of our latest clients, Sunset Windows, know its busiest time of the year is in the Spring, yet they chose the winter to have their website built and launched!

Why was this, well it takes about two months from a website being completed before it performs well in the search engines.

Of course, advertising the website will bring visitors in but by having at least two months live before their busiest time of the year, they know that in February and March their website will have been established for long enough that they should be near the top of the search engine results.

If they had waited until January or February this would have impacted upon their online business presence.

So, if you want to enhance your online presence in 2007 then please do contact us for the website design you want, the service you deserve and the price you can afford.

It could be the most effectove £150 your business has ever spent!

With its continued success as a low cost website designer, SO Web Designs Ltd has today expanded its business to include low cost web hosting.

SO Web Hosting will offer the same high level of service that SO Web Designs has been providing since 2001.

As a company that consumes a large amount of web hosting for its customers, this was a natural progression.  Our web hosting has now been available for over a month to customers of our bespoke website design service and today this has now been made available to those who want to create their own site, or who already have a website they wish to move to a reliable, affordable UK web hosting company.

There are five hosting plans available, each one increasing in price and size of disk space and bandwidth.

We do offer an unlimited hosting package which is made available to customers who have a website developed by SO Web Designs Ltd.  Many people see unlimited hosting packages and feel that this is the right one for the, in fact the term unlimited doesn't exist as there is always a restriction on what is available, its the web hosting world's trick of overselling airline tickets, oversell and you know some customers won't need the full service.

So our unlimited package is only available to web design customers, they don't need to worry about hasting either!

If you think you need a hosting plan that is slightly different to the ones offered, get in touch with us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it and we can create your individual plan, or if you want advice on which is the right plan for you we will be delighted to help. 

Click here to find out more about SO Web Hosting's low cost, high quality web hosting service

Sunset Windows already had an existing website, unfortunatley it was a static single page website that lacked any user interaction.

SO Web Designs were commisioned to create a website that was clear, simple to navigate and gave instant access to the information any visitor wanted to find.

We added a few features that had not been requested but made the webiste administration easier.

For example the client can simply add their own news, it can be either automatically approved or even held ready for manual approval by an editor.

So what did they pay? Just £150. A bargain really, full website design, search engine optimisation and full web hosting for a year, all for just £150.

If you feel you could benefit from an SO Web Designs website, please do contact us as we are always happy to talk about web designing!

Why open a shop on the high street today?  Here are a few facts that have recently been released:

• online spending increased to £8billion.
• The internet has enjoyed a 350% increase in online shopping in the last five years.

If you have the right product, why not open your own shop on the internet?

Heavenly Tiaras already had an online presence, a static website that was a catalogue with no interaction from any visitor.

Their current website designer was unable to update the website regularily enough and as it had a flash entrance page the search engines were unable to cache any of the product pages, so the website never showed up in the search engine results pages.

Heavenly Tiaras contacted SO Web Designs and we created a fully functional online shop that they can update, take orders from and run as a business, for £500!

Their old website designer wanted £200 to give them their own domain name, so we purchased a new on for them for £8 for two years, and yes it belongs to Heavenely Tiaras!

So what do they get for £500?  All of this:

Products/Categories:

Easy Configuration / Customisation 

• Manage your shop through an easy and completely Joomla/Mambo-integrated interface

• A “Welcome Screen” shows your daily Shop Statistics: A Summary with “number of customers”, “number oders”, “5 newest customers” and so on

• Frontend Administration

• global Price/Currency Display Formatting

• Templates for Product Display Pages

• Extend the Shop with other Modules and Functions

• Manage different Currencies, Countries

Features for Customers

• Let your customers easily search for products through a search form

• Shoppers can see, in what time a product will usually ship, on product-details page (with nice images!)

• Shoppers can manage their user accounts

• Shopper can view all their orders (and order details)

• Order Confirmation mail (customizable!) is sent to shopper and store owner

 If you want to move to having an online shop or you want one recreating, don't spend £2,000, contact us and save your money.

Another satisfied client!

The Petroleum Training Institute operates for the the oil and gas, industry, providing off the shelf courses for companies.  They create plant specific training programmes for almost any process control application.

The website has been designed on our flexible CMS system that allows the content to be managed by the client.  For example they can add or amend any of the courses they offer on the website.  If any aspect of any course changes, the client can simply log in to the administration area and make any changes.

As well as the site design and hosting, SO Web Designs Ltd also provide Search Engine Optimisation, striving to get top positions in the Search Engine Results Pages.

SO Web Designs Ltd always keep to one principle, keep the costs low for our clients, yet provide high quality, feature rich websites.  If you want a website that won't cost the earth, will do well in the search engines then contact us.

We still remember why we started designing websites, 'cos we enjoy it so we work hard for our clients!

If you let your web design company buy your domain name of your behalf make sure they won't charge you to release it to another hosting company later on.

If you think this will happen, go to any domain registration company that allows you to manage your domain e.g http://www.123-reg.co.uk (this is not a referral but a recommendation).

You can then point the domain at the web designer’s servers and when you want to change there will be no charge.

We have had two clients in a week who have had to lose their domain names as the designer / hosting company wanted over £100 to transfer the domain.  It only costs £8 to buy for two years in the first place!

SO Web Designs do not charge for this service and we don't anyone should.  It's not far off blackmail, pay up or you lose your domain name which affects all the promotion you have relating to it!

We hope other design and hosting companies who read this will change their mind.  Clients do change designers for many reasons:

1. A family member of friend offers a website for free

2. They need to reduce costs

3. They just want a change

Don't be bitter, accept it and stop giving this industry a bad name.  Transfer the domain name, let the client go and concentrate on winning new clients, not upsetting ones that just want to go quietly.

And if the two designers that we have been in contact with this week are reading this, do you think you were really being reasonable?

So for all those who have let the designer buy the domain name for them, get it in writing (even email is allowed in court) that you own the domain name and that there is no charge for moving it to another IPSTAG, it takes two mouse clicks so if they do want to charge, divide that by two to find out how much they value a mouse click at!

It has been proven that offering an online booking facility can dramatically increase your occupancy rate.

Most prospective guests research their accomodation options on the internet and if they see what they like, they want to book.  After all they can buy abything 24 hours a day and the website that offers this sevrice is more likely to get the booking.

London Legal Lettings saw this potential and from the 1st October you can book to stay at their Fleet Street apartment at any time.  They don't make their guests wait until the next day to call for a reservation.

The guests can see when the apartment is available, book and they receive a conformation email.

Not a bad solution for £250 is it?

If you want to, or you currently are in the hospitality industry and you want this facility, we can create your online booking website within 2 weeks for just £250!

You can visit our demonstration hotel with online booking or London Legal Lettings to see how professional the website can look and how simple it is to use.

So whether you have 1, 2, 3 or 60 rooms £250 can increase your occupancy rate and improve your image, be forward thinking and contact us for more details.