Faqs

Can't I make my own website?
It is most certainly possible to make your own website if you have the time and the software required. However making a website isn't like producing a word processing document. There are programmes which you can use which allow you to produce webpages without having any knowledge of HTML (hypertext markup language - the language many sites are written in) but usually the code is poor which may affect the way the page looks in the various browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera etc) and can also affect search engine positioning.
If you want to learn HTML this is again possible but time consuming. The other consideration is the images and graphics to use on the site. The overall design is important and the quality of the images vital. Download times are important to remember - graphics which have been incorrectly optimised can slow down a site considerably.
We regularly have clients who have either made their own site or have let their brother/cousin/great aunt do it, and have found that the site is not doing anything for them. We normally have to start again from scratch.

If amIThyst makes my website for me can I maintain and update it afterwards?
There are different solutions to ongoing maintenance. If you have a very small number of updates over the course of a year we usually recommend that the most cost effective method is that we make the changes as and when they are needed. We then charge on an hourly basis and will give an estimate before we commence the work - if it is a very quick job we do not charge.

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