STOP Searching for Web Designers Oxford or Website Design in Oxfordshire
Your local Oxfordshire business actually needs more than just another website, it needs a website design service, packed with intelligent web marketing tools, combined with support when you need it.
Buddy Websites love working with businesses in Oxfordshire, it's our home county!
We are actually based in Wantage which is perfect for providing web design all across the region, from Oxford to Didcot or Henley to Banbury.
With website design, hosting and support packages starting at just £30 per month, getting your business online with a professional website, logo or video, has never been more straight forward.
What is it about you and your business that makes the difference? What makes you stand out in Oxfordshire?
Buddy Websites provides a range of services for businesses throughout the county to help you identify and shout about what makes you different to all your competition. From a website to copywriting, blogs to email marketing or your logo, what help do you need getting your business noticed?
We're based here in Wantage because it puts us right next to our clients and allows us to be available anywhere from Oxford to Didcot to Banbury, or even Henley-on-Thames!
Oxford clients benefit from pay monthly web design and marketing
As a business owner with one eye on cashflow and one on developing new contacts, you could benefit from the pay monthly web marketing services offered by Buddy Websites.
This includes everything that might be needed whether it's just a 1 or 2 page microsite or something more sophisticated including ecommerce websites. We do it all for you. From designing a website to writing a blog, to creating explainer videos, you’ll have a professional web presence to get your business noticed.
Have you seen how we help other small businesses in Oxfordshire?
We are in our happy place when working with small businesses around Oxfordshire. Helping them reach a wider audience through a mix of marketing techniques, from a website to a blog article or maybe even a leaflet design and print... it's what we do best. Here are a few more reasons why Buddy Websites could be a good match for you.
Already working with small businesses in Oxfordshire just like yours.
Building a local audience with The Vaults in Wantage
The Vaults Cafe Pizza in Wantage sought the expertise of Buddy Websites to help them grow their audience and build a steady stream of customers for their brand-new pizza restaurant and takeaway service. By joining forces, we created a website that demonstrated exactly why The Vaults is an outstanding choice when it comes to delicious local pizzas!
So far they’ve seen their mailing list grow by over 400%! Thanks to regular email newsletters, they’re now able connect and communicate with many passionate customers in their local area.
Buddy Websites pay monthly plans make it more affordable than ever for businesses in Oxfordshire to have a professional web presence. Design, build, hosting and support are all included. Pricing starts at just £65 per month.
Done for you
When you are busy in the day to day running of your business, it's good to know your website is up to date and being taken care of. We design and build it for you, we'll even help write the content and find suitable images. As much or as little help as you need. Read more about our Done for you websites here.
Put you in control
When your new website is built, we set you up with full admin access and show you how to update pages with our intuitive website editor. We also show you where to find useful information like how many visitors your web pages get.
It's time to take control of your business website. Mobile friendly, responsive websites designed and built for an easy-to-manage monthly fee - that can change the future of a company!
"Explainer videos" are a great marketing tool because they allow you to introduce your business in a quick, easy-to-understand way. And, they make perfect content for your social media channels.
Your logo lets the world know you're serious about your business. A professional, memorable design shows that you're not just another company but an established brand with history and reputation to uphold.
Social media is a great way to interact with your customers and build relationships. Don't have an account? Make sure you create one where all of your potential consumers are hanging out online!
FAQs
There are always a few questions, here are some of the most common ones we hear. Send a message if you can't find what you are looking for.
Why have a pay monthly website?
Why have a pay monthly website?
Buddy Websites is one of the few design agencies that offer a pay monthly website service. What is the benefit to me you might be asking? Here are a few reasons:
Service…
Our plans are really geared to small business owners who are serious about their business. You know that you need a professional internet presence but spending hours of your time designing, building and maintaining a site is not a good use of your time and certainly not what you got into business for in the first place.
By offering a pay monthly service, our job is to provide you with exactly that, a quality, ongoing website service, not just a one off payment and then leave you to it. Our service is about working with you as you develop your business, to make sure your web presence reflects all the hard work you put into your company.
It goes without saying, you will have full admin access to your website but, if and when you need help, or are too busy, Buddy Websites is there for you with no nasty surprises or unexpected costs.
Everything is included in the price…
And talking of fees, a pay monthly plan helps you manage your cash flow. You know every month where you stand, everything is included, from design, build and ongoing maintenance and support, through to hosting and SSL security.
Developing sites for our customers is job we take very seriously and want to make sure its an enjoyable experience for you too. This includes the Buddy Websites web builder.
It’s simple to work with. Very user friendly drag and drop functionality that you can access from any computer that has an internet connection, together with powerful tools such as blogs and e-commerce, all in one, it really is one of the fastest and smoothest web builders you can find.
Do you want to try it? Book a call with Mark Baker, let’s have a chat about what you need from a site and if it still sounds good, we can give you access to a demo page to try it out.
There is no denying it, Wordpress has been used for a huge number of sites over the past few years but that doesn’t mean it’s the best.
Yes, it is free, to start, which is another reason for it’s popularity but then what. Wordpress on it’s own was originally designed for blogging but then users wanted more and more functionality. So, while Wordpress has essentially stood still, third party developers have taken over with themes and plugins to cater for the demand.
And this can often be where the fun and games begin. There are of course some amazing themes available that can make your site look fabulous and plug in's that make all kinds of clever things happen. But what if something changes, updates are not made, something new comes along that clashes with older plugins, you may suddenly find your beautiful website turns a bit ugly and you need to find an independent developer to step in and unravel the problems.
Having a site that is not dependent on patches, plug in updates, third party themes or costly maintenance packages, could be a great relief to many business owners.
This is a question that comes up from time to time and we need to have a look at how website development has changed over the years to try and explain.
Traditionally sites are built with html and css etc and you as a paying customer own the code plus the content, words and images you supplied etc. You then need to rent some web hosting space to be able to deliver the site to your visitors browsers. Without hosting, you basically have a file of code that is very little use to anyone.
Sites such as WordPress, Magento, and Joomla, are built with a content management system (CMS) platform to manage a website’s content. WordPress is owned by Automattic, the company behind their CMS. You get a license to use their CMS platform. Once again you need to pay for hosting to deliver the resulting code to your visitors.
In both cases above, the HTML/JS/CSS files that you "own" are nothing if you can't do any of the 100's of other things with your site/brand online.
More recently with builders like Buddy Websites and the likes of Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy etc etc, you are effectively renting space on another type of platform. These are the 'all in one' solutions. A site builder, hosting and security.
As a Buddy Websites customer you DO own your data (contacts, orders etc), your copy, brand, domain, designs, images and everything you upload to the platform. You just CAN'T export your site elsewhere as it is built in a specific way to do with our platform that helps you modify and work with that data.
Our platform makes if easy for you as a customer to deliver your data and information to your customers.
Can I sell my products in an online shop?
Can I sell my products in an online shop?
Absolutely!… Getting your business online and giving your customers the opportunity to buy your products or services is an essential part of trading these days.
Our Buddy Websites builder makes it very easy to start selling. Choose a plan that caters for the amount of items you want to sell and away you go. We are set up to easily integrate with the majority of payment processors so you can get selling even quicker.
Physical products, Digital Products, Services or even Memberships. Once you know what you are selling, book a call and lets get you started.
Do you have a contract?
Do you have a contract?
No. We want it to be a straightforward as possible for you to get your business online. In return for all our work on your design, build and ongoing support, all we as for is a minimum of a 12 month commitment from you. Hopefully once you have started working with us, you will see the benefit of such a powerful builder and support service, this will just be the start of a long and happy relationship.
With every new website we go through a process that helps us deliver a successful project, and it goes a little like this…
It all starts with a conversation, let’s see if we are right for each other.
We then direct you to our website planning document that runs through a number of questions to help you focus on the really important elements of your website.
Once we have this information, we can start the design process. We work though some initial home page concepts for you to consider. Once we are happy with the design then off we go with the build.
Once we are all happy with the finished site we connect up your domain name and your site is live.
Yes. Take a look around our site, you will see we have examples of Logo design and even Explainer Video design. Both are additional services that can really great value to your new website.
Are you looking for more? Image libraries, photographers, copy writers? Just ask. We have an extensive range of contacts within our network that can help you with a perfect online presence.
Can you host my emails?
Email Accounts
The short answer, no, sorry. Being a design led marketing business, we like to utilise our time and energy creating your websites, logos, videos and brochures.
Hosting and administrating email accounts takes us away from our core services. There are lots of providers out there, far better resourced than we are to do this for you. If you need help finding the right one, please just ask. We will happily introduce you to our favourites.
Buddy Websites are here to help you get your business online and visible. Do you have any questions... Prices, process, support, domain names etc, just ask here.
Not only has he created me an incredibly intuitive website, but also has looked after my company branding through key evolutionary stages.
The Wellbeing Girl
Very easy tool to use...
Mark has been constantly at our side. His private tutorials on the use of his tailored web-design tools has also been excellent and allowed us the freedom we needed to adjust our own site under his fatherly eye. I am hugely grateful for his support.”
