Currently 50% of my clients are charities and the aim is to get this to 75% as the business continues to develop.
I offer an uncomplicated charity web design process, layout design, help with planning your content as well as ongoing maintenance and support.
Updating your website?
Your website needs to be quick, easy to use on all devices, secure and have great functionality. Talk to me about creating you a website that achieves this at an affordable price.
As a web developer I run a specific scheme offering the same level of service as my regular clients, but at much reduced rates or in a lot of cases free of charge.
The mission is to provide charity web design services for charities, social enterprises and not for profit organisations to support their social and environmental objectives.
Since the scheme started the focus of Mark Wardell Marketing Ltd has shifted from mainly small business clients to actively seeking out and supporting more and more charities.
Currently 50% of clients are charities and the aim is to get this to 75% as the business continues to develop.
There is no specific criteria to who we work with and often things start off with me learning a bit more about what you do to determine if I can help.
The outcomes of the work are varied; getting found online more easily, attracting and recruiting volunteers, increased donations (providing more payment options) and raising awareness of your work in the community.
How it works
The charity web design process is very straightforward, together we review your content and messaging, see if there are any gaps and put together a plan to build a complete picture.
I then design a structure and layout to get the most out of your content. I take care of all the back end aspects of the build and we work on the front end together using a test website that we can view online.
After the website is launched I look after it for you. Ongoing service and support for all aspects of your website, not just the technical things such as hosting, security and back ups but the management of your content.
Any time you want to amend, adjust or add to your website simply send me the content and we will do the rest. Or if you prefer I can teach you to do it.
Mark has been brilliant for our charity website design. He gave it a great redesign a few years ago and ever since has hosted and managed the site exceptionally well.
He is very quick to respond to anything needed and works efficiently. highly recommended.
Recent Charity Web Design Examples
FAQ
WordPress is open source web software that you can install on your web server to power your website, blog, community or network.
WordPress started out life as a tool for blogging, but it has evolved into a fully-fledged Content Management System (CMS), capable of powering websites, networks and communities. Source.
One of the principle advantages of WordPress is that you are in control. Unlike services such as Blogger and LiveJournal, we host WordPress on our own server.
Installation is very simple, as is the configuration. (We take care of this for you) Unlike other software programs, there are not a million files or templates to edit just to get your site set up and looking the way you want.
Also, pages in WordPress are generated on the fly whenever a page is requested, so you do not have multiple archive pages clogging up your web space. Waiting for pages to rebuild is a thing of the past because template changes are made in seconds.
WordPress is built following W3C standards for XHTML and CSS, ensuring that your site is more easily rendered across standards-compliant browsers.
Other browsers are also supported. Aggregator support is built-in with a number of standard RSS configurations already done for you.
Following standards makes your WordPress site easier to manage, increases its longevity for future Internet technology adoption, and helps to give your site the widest audience possible. Source.
Yes, I mainly work with charities, small business and Churches, sometimes an entire Parish can be using WordPress websites for their Church web design.
Yes, very easily. Great content is key to giving users and search engines a reason to come back to your site, WordPress makes it easy for you to add images, documents, text, video… And we provide full training and support if you get a little bit stuck along the way.
WordPress has a huge list of features, and as it is constantly evolving and growing. Check out the up-to-date list here.
Yes, WordPress websites work on all devices, mobiles, tablets etc. They respond to the screen size and it is very straight forward to remove features you may not want to display on a smaller screen and vice versa.
Most of my client websites still have more visitors on desktop but only by a fine and ever shrinking margin.
More than likely yes, we often work with people that have had a WordPress site built but need to learn a little bit more about how to get the most from it. We can review your existing site, suggest improvements and provide training and support.
WordPress has a glossary where you can find definitions of many of the key phrases.