Website Services

Are you thinking of setting up a web site for your Business, Company or Organisation - Do you need a website?
Do you have an existing web site and want to improve it?
Do you find it difficult to find the time to update and maintain your existing web site yourself?
If you answer 'Yes' to any of these, then you are just the type of Business, Company or Organisation we want to help.

Our professional consultants work hard to give our clients the best possible service with minimal disruption. We build W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) compliant websites and maintain other websites to those same exacting standards. So you can be sure your website has been built and maintained by a true professional and that you are not going to be sued or prosecuted for owning a non-compliant website. This why we are a specialist and more importantly a "qualified" Company who employ strict rules in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and W3C Compliancy - This makes our Company a rarity in the community since it is considered that there is to this day very little knowledge out there in respect of Compliancy, which a huge area in its own right. We are probably the foremost authority in Hertfordshire and North London on Internet Web Accessibility Compliance. Please see our Compliency section below.

Did you know that over 80% of websites on the internet today are still non-compliant? (survey to end June 2009).

That means there is a very strong likelyhood that if you already have a website it is more than likely going to be non-compliant and you are therefore leaving yourself open to the possibility of being sued or prosecuted - whichever comes first!. Remember that in the eyes of the law, the owner of the website is ultimately responsible for their website, not the designer of that website.

New Websites

After an initial FREE consultation, we will design options for you to view at a time convenient for you.
Our consultants will then act on your preferences building and customising the website.
Finding and obtaining the domain and webspace for your site.
Optimising your website so that the money you invest will give you real results. This is called Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Uploading and checking the website is operable.

Domain Name Registration

We can register and maintain an internet name for your Business, Company or Organisation.
A domain name is your unique address on the internet and generally takes the form of yourname.co.uk or yourname.com or one of a number of other types.
We can provide this registration for you starting at just GBP22.00 for 2 years for a .co.uk name or just GBP36.00 for 2 years for a .com name. Whilst these are the most popular domain name types others exist and these include:
.org.uk    .me.uk    .ltd.uk   .plc.uk    .net    .org    .info   .biz   .eu and more  
Prices for registration of these varies greatly. We will be pleased to quote for whatever you require.
The Internet is rapidly filling up with registered domain names and finding one that suits your business or organisation can take some searching. We are pleased to be able to offer this as a part of our registration services.

Website Hosting

All Websites will need somewhere to live and we can provide that home for you.
As a part of our complete service we can provide hosting for your website. This means that your website is held on powerful and reliable servers with a high level of service and support ensuring that it is always available.
In addition to providing space for your website we also provide lots of email boxes so you can have a selection of personalised email addresses. We can offer you this service starting at just GBP28.00 per year.
To enable you to monitor the traffic to your website we can also provide you with graphical statistics and analysis.
The basic price for this is GBP45.00 per year, but please ask us for a more detailed specific quotation. Additional services such as database facitiies and secure servers are available and we will be pleased to quote for these too.

Website Maintenance

Keeping your Wesite up to date is as important as having an internet presence in the first place. A website that looks tired, out of date and hasn't changed in months is going to loose visitors. After all nobody reads yesterday's newspapers.
We can offer a regular updating service, changing images, adding news stories and displaying special offers.
On more advanced websites, eCommerce etc, we include maintence pages allowing you to make changes to the site - such as updating product prices and even some of the products themselves.

Redesign and Updating of Existing Websites

If you have an existing site that needs a facelift, expanding or just refreshing then, contact us for a quotation.
Even if your site was designed by another company we offer a full updating service which will bring your website back to life.

For a small monthly fee, our team will regularly check all aspects of your website, ensuring it is working correctly and will complete all basic updates (Minor text additions / removals / edits) requested by you within 48 hours.

With our website Contract Maintenance Service you will also receive discounts on all major updates (Page / graphics additions or removals. Site restructuring etc) of up to 25%. Major update timescales are agreed upon instruction.

Compliance

For a small fee we offer a Professional Consultation Service where we will perform an in depth analysis of your existing Website, and then produce for you, a complete report detailing all Compliancy shortfalls and recommendations. From that point, you are free to take that report and give it to your existing designers, or contract us to make the requisite changes. We are also happy to work with your existing designers and advise them, (and even train them if required), for a fee of course - Or you can wait to be sued or prosecuted - whichever comes first!

Please note: There has been much talk on the grapevine of unscrupulous web designers reporting non-compliant websites to the authorities in order to generate work for themselves, even if those same web designers know nothing about Compliance. One or two have even gone as far as having a disabled person in their employ reporting non-compliant websites. This unfortunately is the kind of behaviour that gives people in our industry a bad name and is clearly unprofessional.

We would like to make perfectly clear that, Pentagon Star Ltd neither support nor accept and absolutely deplore this kind of underhanded behaviour. Those people doing it, please stop - There is enough Compliancy work to go around for everybody!

We are registered with the AWDP (Association of Web Design Professionals).