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Business Website Builders

Hitchin, Hertfordshire

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‘19 Certificate of Excellence, 2019

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Business Website Builders is a website design and website building company that also offers additional services including well-written, keyword-rich content creation; image and video editing services; SEO & local SEO; plus website maintenance services including software and security updates, site back-ups and restoration; content updates and changes; and website hosting.

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9 July 2017

I was extremely happy with the work Business Website Builders did on my site, which was a review of various pages and the design of a new section. They are good writers and designers. The service was friendly, professional and very prompt. They also went above and beyond the call of duty in pointing out various improvements to other areas which were very easily implemented, either at a tiny cost or no cost at all. I will not hesitate to use them again. More...

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Many thanks for your excellent review and we are most grateful for you taking the the trouble to do this. Designing and integrating the new section seamlessly into your existing website was an interesting and pleasurable task. We very much enjoyed our time working with you and would relish the opportunity to work together on future projects.

7 July 2017

I was recommended Business Website Builders by a colleague so I asked them to design a website for the property development company I work for. I was very pleased with the combination of good design, good functionality and well-written copy. They managed to make commercial property development interesting and appealing with great use of photos and engaging words to complement them.
They now look after the site on an ongoing basis and I receive informative quarterly updates, so I always know that the website is up-to-date and functioning correctly.
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Reply from Business Website Builders

Thanks James, for your most kind review. Pulling the diverse property activities together into one coherent website was a thoroughly enjoyable challenge. It was very satisfying to help create a site that is a terrific showcase for your company's property development skills.

7 July 2017

Business Website Builders took over managing my website (www.active-research.co.uk) about 18 months ago when the site’s designers closed their business. Business Website Builders have been brilliant! They make sure that everything is up to date on the technical front (I had no idea that there were apps and programs that needed to be updated to ensure the site continues to function!) and they also update content for me as required.
Business Website Builders have suggested and implemented some great enhancements to my site and have helped me to re-write some of the text. It’s nice to work with someone who isn’t just a techy but understands my business and what I am trying to communicate. I get a lot of peace of mind from knowing that my website is in capable hands. I couldn’t recommend Business Website Builders highly enough.
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Reply from Business Website Builders

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to leave a review. It is much appreciated. Working on your website was a real pleasure and we are pleased to be continuing with the site maintenance and security for you, freeing you up to concentrate on driving your business forward. Thanks again.

Q&As

A great website should be designed and built with the focus entirely on the user experience of the website visitor or customer. It should be customer-friendly, easily-navigable and intuitive. With over half of searches now taking place on mobile devices, it is imperative that websites are designed and built to be responsive and user-friendly for PC, laptop, tablet and phones. Bearing in mobile access, it is more important than ever for websites to be fast-loading.

Great websites have a crisp, clean, uncluttered look and use great quality images but also ensure those images are web optimised to maintain page-load speeds. All great websites have well-written content with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Finally, great websites need to be properly optimised for the major search engines. It is not a great website if it cannot be found.

The first step is to better understand exactly what client wishes to achieve with their website. Is it an informational site to which they will refer potential customers, or is it a website which they hope potential customers will find which then generates enquiries or sales?

Is the website transactional? If yes, which payment gateway does the client intend using?

Who is your typical customer and what is their profile? Clearly, a website designed for the over-60s will be much different to one designed for the under-20s.

Is the client going to using on-going advertising to promote the site or are they relying on organic searches?

Which of the services we offer will the client wish to use and what is the budget?

How soon should the project start and when is it scheduled for completion, plus can the client get the information needed to me within the required timescales?

There is no doubt that the client reaction when you create a website for them which is beyond what they were expecting is easily the most rewarding part of this job. It is also immensely satisfying being able to turn a client's wishes and desires into reality. I have a broad-based business background myself and have set up a number of businesses over the last 20/30 years, so using my web design skills to help someone realise their dream and set up their own business is incredibly gratifying.

Being an Officer in the Royal Air Force developed my leadership skills and, on leaving, the idea of being independent and self-reliant was a highy attractive prospect. My first business was a successful restaurant in Hitchin which I sold after 3 years to set up a training company for catering staff called: Edu-Caters. During this time, I was Chairman of the Hitchin Chamber of Commerce & Industry for 3 years.

However, my wife wanted to get back into a retail environment and we opened a specialist perfumery store called, L'Aura in Hitchin's Market Place. Over the following years, we grew the chain adding stores in the West Gate Shopping Centre, Stevenage, Letchworth Garden City, the Rookery Shopping Centre, Newmarket, Cambridge and Kettering. During this time, I set up an online transactional perfume store with over 6,000 items, fell in love with website design and started learning how to build sites.

I then built websites for three different businesses that we launched ourselves and, as a result, business acquaintances started asking me to build websites for them or, in some cases, revamp their existing sites. I found it amazingly enjoyable and satisfying, plus a real intellectual challenge trying to deliver exactly what they wanted, and this led to BWB Business Website Builders being born.

I would hope potential clients looking through some of our website portfolio will see the designs are state of the art, visually attractive and simple to navigate. Apart from the obvious areas such as building responsive, fast-loading websites, I think my broad-based business experience, including building my own business websites, makes me uniquely qualified to help clients achieve their business ambitions. Most of my businesses have been customer-facing and I approach the website creation task very much from a customer/user perspective.

In addition to the website design services, I can offer copywriting and content creation, image and video editing, help with SEO and local SEO, plus ongoing website maintenance where required for cyber security, software updates, site back-ups, restorations and changes to content. Well-written, keyword-rich content is absolutely vital, especially now Google are demoting sites in search results where the copy is badly written or has incorrect spelling, poor punctuation or bad grammar.