WordPress Web Design and Hosting

The cost of a website can vary depending on various factors, just like the cost of a house may vary. Though our website projects generally start in the $250 range for basic business sites and range upward depending on your unique needs. We use a combination of WordPress and a framework theme called Divi to kickstart our designs to get amazing results while keeping costs as low as possible.

Your new web site is yours – you own it 100%. brickmonkey reserves the right to display any development examples (web design, banner, logo or other) in our online portfolio. We also request that the links to brickmonkey on your site will remain until the design is no longer active on the Internet. But if for any reason you decide you want to take your site to another hosting service and get another company to service the site, we will happily assist you in making the transition as effortlessly and efficiently as possible. The website is yours after all, and we want you to take it wherever you go. While a hosting customer of ours, the Divi theme is included. If you take your design elsewhere, you will need to get your own license for Divi. Click here for more info on Divi.

For all projects, 50% of the estimated fee must be provided prior to beginning work, with the remaining payment due upon completion of the project. We accept all popular credit cards including Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express through PayPal.

Short answer, no. We focus on WordPress hosting and Divi website design services. We offer a streamlined and extremely cost-effective way to build and maintain informational websites. All of our websites are SEO friendly with clean code. That being said, WordPress has an abundance of great plugins that can handle E-commerce and improve SEO, but they are not something that we offer. You are welcome to hire a developer to add those services to you website.

There are three options for maintaining and refreshing your site content. We don’t care which option you choose, but we strongly encourage you to update your site regularly.

• The Pay as You Go Plan: Call us when you need to add to or make a change to your content. We’ll complete your request within 72 hours, and bill you at our standard hourly rate.
• Ongoing Maintenance Plan: Sign up for one of our ongoing maintenance plans, and you’ll receive a discount on our standard rates.
• Do It Yourself (CMS): All of our websites use WordPress CMS. If you want to fire up Google and Youtube and start learning for yourself how to manage your website, Wahoo! You can even use our self managed hosting to save a few bucks and make all the changes you want.

We will do our best to set milestones for completion of your website, but it depends on your participation. If you are prompt in sending information and respond quickly to our questions, your web site may be completed in several weeks. Some web sites, on the other hand, take several months to launch. It depends a lot on you!

Logo

Usually the logos on brochures, letterhead, etc. are more than adequate. If you have your logo in electronic file format, such as .GIF or .JPG or .PNG or .PSD or .TIF format.

Text or Content

If you have (or can get) the text-based information you want on your site in electronic file format, we prefer it this way. Acceptable file formats are .TXT, .WRI, .DOC, .RTF, .XLS. Handwritten text is strongly discouraged (and there would be additional fee). If you do not have any existing content, please get it written by a content writer/copywriter.+

Photos

Remember that the World Wide Web is a visual medium. If you have photos of your products, services, place of business or even yourself, we will include them. If you have soft copies in .GIF or .JPG or .PNG or .PSD or .TIF format, that is great.

25 Word Description & Keywords

Most Web surfers use WWW search engines and directories to find your web site. These search sites use either a description or keywords in their search. Your description should include the words or phrases that someone might use to search for your business/ products/ services. You can submit as many keywords that you can think of. Remember these are words someone might use to try and find your site (i.e., bed & breakfast, or car repairs, etc.), so think of yourself as a potential visitor to your web site. We will help you in deciding those keywords.

No. We are strickly a WordPress hosting provider. Our focus is mainly on helping small businesses get started with websites and also providers DIY types a CMS platform to built their own websites.

Yes! Our focus is on small business and DIY types who want to focus on their company not the technical details of the internet. We will help you get a domain name, setup email accounts and get your website started.

With our self managed hosting, we will get your domain, email and WordPress setup. After that you take over and update and manage the entire website and CMS backend for design, content and security. With our fully managed hosting we do the same setup and the self managed but also make sure you website stays current for security updates on WordPress and all plugins and also make sure your site is backed up.

No. As the account administrator, only we have access to the server technical support. In case of technical issues, simply e-mail or call us to report the issue and we will do our best resolved as quickly as possible.

We are not a regular webhosting company that has automatic scripts to signup anybody and everybody. Our focus is on small business and DIY folk and we have a hands-on approach to hosting and design. We take each customer personally and want to talk over what they need before getting started. Contact us to get your project going.