Content Management System

Our content management system has been custom developed by the Affordable Websites team to meet the needs of our clients perfectly. We want our clients to make the most of the stunning website we provide them with, so we provide only the best in content management system development.

Why Choose a Content Management System?

Update your Website: Anywhere, Anytime. Your website should be yours. We give you the power and ability to update your content, images, details whenever you want to. There are no delays while you contact a webmaster, your changes will appear instantly on your website, so you can keep your clients up-to-date and take advantage of time-sensitive opportunities in your market, including adding special offers over the weekend, last minute deal etc.

Add Images, Videos, Maps and More: Impress potential customers with more than just text by adding your own images, videos, and more. Our content management system system gives you the ability to incorporate multimedia elements with ease to add to the visual aspect of the website after we initially build it for you.

Small Business Website

Small Business Website

Can you remember the last time you used the yellow pages to look up a business? we cant remember either, although the latest copy that was dropped off at Affordable websites office seems to have shrunk alot compared to previous copies. Over the past 5 years alone we have seen the golden pages, yellow pages and business directories shrink to an all time low as almost every business nowadays have chosen the online route as there main source of advertising for their business. These days the best way to find new businesses, products, and services is by searching the internet for options. It’s really of no great surprise that most businesses today have gone down the online route to the internet, to connect with consumers in a way practically unheard of 30 years ago.

Now, only you can decide whether or not a website is right for you, but here are seven reasons to make the change.

Here are 7 reasons why your business needs a small business website

1. Your main competition is already online.

Choosing to get your business online with other businesses that have gone online is a no-brainer at this point. In 2016 not having a website for a small business is rather like saying that you do not need the revenue and an online presence is not for your business. The simple fact is that if you are a business and if not all of your competition is already online, and they’re getting customers that you’re not as a result. Not having a small business website is a huge disadvantage to your own business.

2. A small business website will increase your audience.

Having a small business website opens up your business and your products to a global audience, which is especially important if you utilize your website as an e-store. Selling your products online is a great way to supplement your offline business, and even if you’re not selling a product even the simplest of websites offers exposure to a free market otherwise left untapped. Plus, we live in a culture where “Google It” is a phrase used by almost everyone in Ireland on a daily basis, and I think not having a website is a bit of an oversight for any business in existence if they are to succeed.

3. 24/7 customer service.

Having a small business website is a great move for customer service, allowing your customers to find basic information online that they would otherwise have to call in about taking up the time of you or your employees that could be better spent doing other work. Information requests by customers, or prospective customers, can be handled instantly. A website can work for you while your business is closed, allowing customers to figure out vital information they would otherwise have to wait to have answered. Your business can run online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. With some attention to detail and a solid SEO strategy, your website could become your most valued asset.

4. A small business website allows you to create a very good first impression.

We all have phones and where your customers can pull out his smartphone and access your website within 10 seconds is a massive bonus to your business if they require information. You can likely see how this kind of instant gratification also results in a viewer making a judgment about your website and any service it offers. Unless your website is mobile responsive, showcases useful information about your business and user friendly you’re likely to lose a customer. Just like your business store front, it is your job to create the first impression to get customers in the door or on the phone. Creating a small business website puts you in pole position. A good website design company knows how to implement a style that portrays the impression you intend users to have leaving your business.

5. Great for recruitment.

Your small business website is a great tool for recruitment when you’re looking to fill positions with your business as you can advertise for free and set a page within your website that users can include the relevant information that you require and upload their CV at ease. The classified ads have all but disappeared from newspapers and have moved to digital (like everything else). Your website can be a direct hub for processing online applications, taking the hassle away from sorting through piles of cover letters and CV’s.

6. Having a small business website makes you more discoverable.

Getting discovered online goes beyond search engine results, and having a website with well thought out keywords, proper coding, and appropriate classification aids in having your business information indexed on GPS devices, social media, and other websites that index your business’s information for users to access.

7. People are already talking about your business online.

This comes as a surprise to many small business website owners, but there’s a chance that your business already has a presence online. With websites like Yelp, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other websites that allow user feedback, you can bet that someone has already reviewed your business. It’s an unfortunate truth, but a customer who has had a bad experience with your business is more likely to take to the internet to write a review than someone who had a pleasant experience. Having a small business website and utilizing search engine optimization techniques allows you to push this kind of website further down the page in the search results. Even with positive reviews, if the first thing that pops up when users search your business name is a user review site like Yelp your credibility takes a steep slide, even if you have more good reviews than bad. Having a small business website gives you the opportunity to have customer testimonials online and you can dictate what customers are seeing online about your business.

Examples of  a Small Business Website

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 The Laurels Perrystown

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CKM Procurement 

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Crumlin D12 Blinds 

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Raymond Brian Strategies 

Website Design Services

Web Design Services

Affordable Websites provide a full range of web design services totaling 20 years of experience to our customers. We are different from other design companies in a way that we do not use mass produced templates and we design everything from scratch so your website is custom built to suit your business. We first arrange a meeting or have a brief chat on the phone to find out what it is you need for your web design project. Once we know what is required, we will then advise you on what service or package you require from us. Not all businesses has the same needs for a website and we do not expect anyone to know the first thing about website design, that is what we are here for.

We have assembled a world class team of website designers that relentlessly delivers perfection and quality on every project we undertake.

Websites created by Affordable Websites are aesthetically pleasing, thoroughly professional, easily navigable, responsive websites (mobile friendly) fast loading and aimed to get you more business. You can count on us to deliver with our custom web design services fulfilling your every need.

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Christmas Special Offer - Ecommerce Website

Christmas Special Offer

Santastic Christmas Special Offer of 10% discount off an Ecommerce website. 

An ecommerce website is a website that has an online business facility with a payment solution (e.g. eBay and Amazon) that can use Realex, Paypal, Sage pay or other payment solutions.

This Christmas Special offers come just once a year and are extremely popular this time of year for any merchant, trader or retail company looking to cash in on the busiest shopping time of the year.

Usually an ecommerce website is hard to manage due to their complexity. Instead, we create a custom ecommerce website for our clients that is very easy to manage and extremely easy to add products, pages, images etc to your online store.

Our Christmas Special Offer on a CMS ecommerce website system would automatically create the search engine tags and URLs for your website, this will not only save your time but also increase your sales from targeted traffic.

Ecommerce Website Payments & Merchant Accounts

A Payment Gateway is an online payment transfer service. The main task of a Payment Gateway is to transfer a payment from one account to another.

An Ecommerce Website developed by us are usually connected to one of the well known and secure payment gateways, such as PayPal, Realex, Google Checkout, Sage Pay and many others.

With our Ecommerce Website we try to ensure that your visitors are turned into customers, and customers into permanent customers with a complete user-friendly experience, ease of navigation and simple payment processing.

Christmas Special Offer by Affordable Websites

See below some examples of our ecommerce shopping websites.

www.ichrono.ie – iChrono is a premium second-hand watch dealing websites selling high-end watches across Europe.

www.wallmurals.ie –  Wall Murals have the Largest range of kids wall stickers available in Ireland.

www.handbags-ireland.com – Stunning Handbags for Irish market.

Super Social Media Checklist

Super Social Media Checklist 

When it comes to Social Media we have a Super Social Media Checklist to kick start your campaign in the right direction. Social Media marketing will improve your website on search engines and is essential to any website owner. 

Google has said it does rank a website higher than others on the search engine that has a high number of Social Signals. 

Below we are going to show you the Super Social Media Checklist that will help you rank higher than your competition because you can almost be certain they are not doing this regularly.

Facebook 

Top Social Media tips for Facebook

• Find and Like 5 Pages. 
• Comment on 2 Pages Per Day. 
• Post 2 posts related to your industry. 
• Include a call to action eg. like this or share this. 
• Include a #hashtag relating to your business on trending topics & remember update your profile regularly

Super Social Media Checklist Top Tip

Tag people or pages in your posts, a lot of people do not do this.

Twitter 

Top Social Media tips for Twitter

•  Try post 3 tweets a day , this can be product related, fun, trying to build your social community. 
•  Add #tags so your post will appear on trending topics. 
•  Retwetting 2 tweets a day can also benefit you if you get a post retweeted. 
•  Follow up to 15 people a day related to your business.

Super Social Media Checklist Top Tip

Add comments to your tweet like "Unbelievable RT" @1affordableweb Ridiculous 1 day sale ends today http://bit.ly/1glZwJm.

Google+ 

Top Social Media tips for Google+

• Add 10-15 people to your Google circles each week. 
• Offer a Google+ Hangout & speak about your related industry. 
• Use Google+ events to publish the articles you are posting. 
• Share your content a few times a day to get more circulation of your article around the web.

Super Social Media Checklist Top Tip

Always make sure your posts/articles are set to public to get maximum reach of what you are publishing.