About simplewebhosting.co.uk
We pride ourselves on the simplicity of our feature-packed web hosting services. simplewebhosting.co.uk offers affordable web hosting accounts, great value website design and quick and easy domain name registration. As well as the fastest UK based web hosting servers you also have access to support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Web Hosting
Your website needs to be hosted on a web server in order to make it available on the Internet. Hosting involves housing, serving and maintaining files so that visitors are able to view the content of the website.
Your website is the public face of your business, so the hosting solution selected must be able to provide a fast, secure and reliable service. This is where simplewebhosting comes in.
We have a range of market leading web hosting plans packed full of features and facilities to meet your exact requirements! Take a look at our range below, click the names for more information:
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Ideally suited to the small business and home user alike, including everything needed to get your organisation on the Internet quickly and hassle free. Should your needs grow you can upgrade your account at any time, all aspects of which can be configured via your control panel. |
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Couples phenomenal capacity with a powerful back end making it the ideal choice for any data intensive application. Support for 128 bit encrypted SSL connections provides sound basis for a fully e-commerce enabled presence meaning you will be able to sell your products on the Internet quickly and easily. |
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The most any website could need including full e-commerce facilities and powerful databases making it the ideal choice for any data intensive site. We also include a wealth of free software to help make your website interactive! |
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Offering full support for Active Server Pages, Microsoft Access databases and SSL secure transactions, the Windows Plan enables the construction of dynamic, data driven web sites with the minimum of technical knowledge. |
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We also have a range of web hosting reseller plans available.
Need a little bit more? Why not have your very own server all to yourself?
Our UK based dedicated servers include industry standard web server software making it possible for you to host thousands of websites or dedicate the server solely to your own medium or large-sized website.
Using hosting technologies such as WebHostManager (to manage your own accounts) and Cpanel (complete control panel for your end users), will minimise your work and will keep you away from the command line knowledge that used to be a part of the web hosting industry. Learn more about our dedicated server options...
Web Design
"Affordable website design to make sure your message is delivered in the most effective way."
Here at simplewebhosting, we are able to offer you a complete service getting your business online. As well as the best value and highest quality web hosting, we can also provide a fast, low-cost design service to make sure you get your message across in the best way.
You can have one of our designers create your site for a lot less than you might think or you can find out more about designing your own site. We have a variety of specific website design packages that suit most clients with prices to suit everybody!
Use the buttons above to take a look at our extensive web design portfolio and give us a call FREE on 0800 619 1970 if you have any enquiries or wish to have a website designed by us!
Web design - a brief introduction
"The intent of web design is to create a web site that presents content (including interactive features or interfaces) to the end user in the form of web pages. To create a successful website, however, so much more needs to be taken into consideration..."
There are two main types of website widely used by businesses on the Internet today. Whether you are intending to utilise a flat, or static, website (generally used as a type of online 'brochure' or advert for your business) or an interactive e-commerce site, the overall look and feel will play an important role in its usability.
It is important that visitors to the site can quickly and easily access the required information. The web design should present the content in an intuitive manner, making effective use of colour, layout and site organisation. A cluttered and confusing website may frustrate a potential customer and force them to take their business to a competitor!
'Brochure' websites
'Brochure' websites are used by a business to present themselves on the Internet to provide any potential customers with more information about them in a favourable way. These websites can be any number of pages, depending on how much information the business wishes to display. Most brochure websites feature a home page and a contact page in order to ensure that any potential customers can quickly and easily see how to contact the business, and then any number of additional pages depending on the specific requirements of the business.
We offer a wide variety of design packages for set prices, or custom designed websites to meet specific requirements.
eCommerce
"Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet...the amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet."
E-Commerce websites are for those who are interested in selling things on the Internet, they need to be designed and implemented by professional web designers and developers. However, once the website - or web shop - is up and running they can be used by anybody, as they have a very easy-to-use interface familiar to anybody with a basic grasp of modern computers and operating systems.
Businesses can sell almost everything and anything on an e-commerce website, using it as a complete shopping system or just as a shop window. Often businesses wish to have the best of both worlds and so have both a brochure and an e-commerce solution created for them as a complete package. The advantage of this is that a customers can read more information about the business before they are presented with the shop interface, this allows a business to present themselves to the customer in a more friendly and accessible fashion.
Domain Names
We believe that we offer the best value on domain names. Buy any domain name from us and it will cost you only £10.
simpledomainnames.co.uk and simplewebhosting.co.uk have been registering domain names since 1995 for everyone from individuals and small businesses to the largest nationwide and international organisations.
Our business philosophy is simple - there are lots of businesses that will sell you domain names but we make it simple, with the minimum of fuss and for the lowest prices. We don't believe in tricking customers and have nothing to hide. The price you see on our home page is the price you pay (how many times have you seen 'domain names for 2p' only to find by the time you've added NIC fees, extra costs and VAT you're paying £15?)
We'd also like to reassure customers that you are the legal registrant of your domain name, you decide who hosts your website and you can transfer your domain name away from simpledomainnames.co.uk free of charge at any time. We don't use advertisements or interfere with your domain name in any way. There really are no catches!
We are a member of Nominet, an authorised Tucows OpenSRS reseller and CentralNic accredited registrar.
Top tips for registering a domain name
The domain name is an essential part of any web site, but choosing and registering it can be a tricky process. Here are some great tips to help you through this process.
1. Choose your domain name quickly
Domain names are being registered at a rate of one every 20 seconds and allocated on a first-registered, first-served basis, so a delay in decision making could mean someone else gets there first.
2. Choose a name that suits your business
You should choose your domain name so that it best represents your company's interests. Bear in mind the brand, what you offer, your unique selling point and the implications of being alphabetically listed.
Think about domain names that solve a problem or names that describe the products or services your company provides e.g. 'marketing solutions'.
Either way, your name will help drive targeted traffic to your web site if you take this approach.
3. Be flexible and creative in your choice of domain names
There are approximately 120-130 million domain names registered worldwide.
It may be useful to think about a few alternatives in case the name you ideally want is already registered. Consider using hyphens and acronyms.
4. Decide which Top Level Domain (TLD) to use
Companies based in the UK usually register a domain name ending in .co.uk, and recent independent research suggests that British Internet users are six times more likely to choose a .uk rather than a .com address when looking for information via an Internet search engine. 72% of respondents also said they would visit a British web site above any other.
There are however a number of other alternatives including .com or other Second Level Domains such as .org.uk (or non-commercial organisations), .me.uk (for individuals), .ltd.uk and .plc.uk (for Ltd and Plc
companies) and .com, .info and others for generic usage.
5. Register your domain name in other suffixes
It's not a bad idea to register several similar domain names. If you have 'yourname.co.uk' you could register 'yourname.org.uk' so no-one else can come in at a later stage and capitalise on your brand name using another major domain name type. You could also register your full company name and a shorter, easier to remember version.
6. Check whether your chosen name has already been registered
Use the search facility on our web site to check the availability of all domain names.
7. If it has been registered, you could check if it is for sale
If your first choice domain name is unavailable the cheapest solution is to choose something else. However, if you have your heart set on a particular name, you could try buying it from the current registrant.
There's no guarantee you will be able to acquire the domain, and even if the current registrant is willing to sell, it could cost you anywhere from a few hundred to many thousands of pounds.
8. Create your web site and set up your email address
Once you have registered your domain name you are ready to create your web site and set up your email address. You can do this yourself, or we would be happy to do it for you. We provide a range of web design, hosting and email forwarding services that we would be pleased to discuss with you.
9. Make a diary note of the renewal date for your domain name
We will contact you before the expiry date to ask if you wish to renew it.
For .uk domain names, we will also contact you before cancelling the registration. Be aware that 'Notices of Expiration' demanding payment from sources other than us may be a scam, so check correspondence carefully and contact us if you have any concerns.
10. Tell us if your contact details change
Your details must be correct for the domain name registration to remain valid and we will not necessarily prompt you. If you change any of your contact details please let is know so that we can ensure that your domain name registration is renewed. If you change address and forget to tell us you risk losing the domain name you have spent so much time, energy and resources developing
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
"The person you most want to find your website is the person who is searching for you!"
Search Engine Optimisation encompasses a wide variety of tasks that improve a website's 'presence' on search engines. Maybe you've heard a few SEO catchphrases - meta tags, keyword density, or page rank - but you don't know exactly how to tie them all together to produce a website that appears at the top of the search engines for a specific search term.
Often referred to as "SEO", search engine optimisation is the process of arranging or displaying the content of a website in such a way so that search engines pick up on certain keywords, phrases and other content in order to display your website as a result for the appropriate search terms.
At simplewebhosting we take into account many SEO factors when designing websites for our customers, however, for businesses in highly competitive areas we recommend the HyperSubmit service.
HyperSubmit search engine submission services make sure your business is one of the websites your potential customers can find. HyperSubmit will optimise and submit your website to hundreds of search engines and directories worldwide to help you unleash the full potential of your online business.
