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About us
Thrive Digital is a design agency specialising in web and digital marketing which is run by Andy Lang, based in Ampfield between Winchester and Romsey in Hampshire.
We’ve almost 20 years experience, and have over 50 customers, most of whom are local businesses, operating across a wide variety of sectors. The internet has utterly changed the landscape of business, particularly in terms of customer acquisition and retention, but our depth of knowledge and practical experience, gives us a deep understanding and reliable approach to achieving results.
Our philosophy is simple; by taking the time to really understand our customers’ businesses and goals, in turn we will only give the best advice and solutions.
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Some of the clients we’re proud to work with
Portfolio
A small selection of our freshest work
Cavendish Executive Cars
For this start up, against long-established competition, our first goal was to design an attractive website that looked professional and was accessible quickly across all mobile devices.
Geest Line
Geest Line’s website needed a major overhaul. The design process allowed us to re-organise their content to focus on key marketing messages, to significantly improve the site’s aesthetic quality and to make the site responsive.
Evogas Boiler Installers
A new website for a start-up, who were entering a highly competitive market. 18 months since launch, the site now consistently ranks in the top results for their preferred terms on localised Google searches.
Alpha Laboratories
We built 4 product-focused microsites for AlphaLabs to help build awareness through very focused SEO for some of their important and emerging products. Each of the four sites, whilst delivering unique sets of content, share a common visual DNA.
These are just randomly selected projects from our portfolio.
Click the button below to view more websites we’ve built and other design projects.
“The changes you made to our website has transformed our search engine ranking and position. It’s now generating so many enquiries that it paid for itself in a month”
David Ogden – Managing Director, Falcon Precision Ltd
“Hi Andy, bet you’ve not heard this before… but I’m getting too many calls and need you to take my mobile number off the website!”
Philip Price – Owner, mudeford-beachut.co.uk
“Andy, the site looks fab!! I now have a site I can shout about”
James Karsenbarg – Founder, Zip Imagesetters
Web Design Services
We offer a complete range of design & build services
Website Design & Build
We consult, design, build and deploy responsive and mobile-friendly websites for small and medium-sized companies that are serious about customer acquisition & retention and generating revenue online.
Domains, Email & Hosting
If you’re starting from scratch, or re-developing an existing website, we can offer all of the associated services, including domains, email and robust business-class hosting packages.
Digital Marketing & SEO
Good SEO strategy begins with a solid website foundation, and we can enhance this with ad hoc or fixed price solutions for ongoing advice, content marketing, email marketing and online ad campaigns.
CMS & E-commerce
Whether you need to control your content regularly or want to sell to a global audience online, we will help you choose the right technology framework to support your business goals.
Open Source Frameworks
We believe that every client should own their website, regardless of the agency. For that reason we only build on open source frameworks that are free, transferrable and can be worked on by any developer.
Monitoring, Support & Updates
Server monitoring is standard across all of our hosted solutions. Additionally we can offer ad hoc or fixed price packages for ongoing support and consultancy, so your website’s always healthy and up to date.
Simply put, we offer all aspects of web design and supporting services. The prices we charge are refreshingly simple too. Our fixed price website design packages include everything you need to launch your business online and generate awareness, profitable enquiries and sales.
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Website Pricing Plans
Complete packages that include everything you need
HTML Website
From£1495
- The best option for businesses who don't need to modify their content or who wish to keep costs down.
- All meetings and advice
- Professional website design and build
- UK domain or transfer included
- Essential Hosting included (Year 1)
- 1 Free email account
- Up to 5 pages
- 1 Contact form
- Search engine registration
- SEO optimised
WordPress Website
From£1995
- This is the best option for most businesses. If you need to modify your content from time to time, then you will benefit from a website that you can update yourself.
- All meetings and advice
- Professional website design and build
- UK domain or transfer included
- Essential Hosting included (Year 1)
- 5 Free email accounts
- Up to 5 pages
- 2 Contact forms
- SSL Certificate
- Search engine registration
- SEO optimised & tools included
- Half day staff training
E-commerce Website
From£2495
- Start selling online. Simple to manage, and extremely cost effective.
- All meetings and advice
- Professional website design and build
- UK domain or transfer included
- Essential Hosting included (Year 1)
- 5 Free email accounts
- Up to 5 pages, with product catalogue & payment gateway
- Account system & multiple contact forms
- SSL Certificate
- Search engine registration
- SEO optimised & tools included
- Half day staff training
The prices we charge for our website design packages are completely transparent. There are no hidden fees and everything you need including domain, email and hosting is included from the beginning. In addition we offer fixed price packages for ongoing support and consultancy.
FAQs
Answers to common questions
What web design services do we provide?
We offer all aspects of web design and supporting services. Our approach is designed to be a one-stop solution so that you can concentrate on doing what you best, which is running your business.
Broadly speaking we offer the following services:
- Website strategy & consultancy
- New website design & development
- E-commerce website design & development
- Re-design existing websites
- Updating content on an existing website
- Ongoing SEO
- Hosting and technical support
Anything else?
Yes – glad you asked.
In addition to the core web design services listed above, we also offer the following:
- Branding and logo design
- Image manipulation
- Copywriting
- PPC advertising
- Reputation recovery from online reviews
- GDPR compliance
Who do we work for?
We work for a wide variety of customers all with their own unique businesses, from start-ups to long-establilshed companies. We have experience in both B2B and B2C marketing at all levels.
No two clients are the same, so we always work hard to understand your business and help you address the challenges you need to solve.
Does a new website include everything you need?
Absolutely.
We’ve designed packages that have everything you need including:
- All meetings and advice
- Professional website design and build
- UK domain or transfer included
- Essential Hosting included (Year 1)
- Free email accounts
- Up to 5 pages
- Contact forms
- SSL Certificate
- Search engine registration
- SEO optimisation
How much does a new website cost?
It’s difficult to answer this until we’ve discussed your business requirements. Much like buying a car it depends on the quality and the specification you need.
For most small businesses our fixed-price packages that include absolutely everything you need, are ideal. Prices for these start at £1495 for a 5 page site. Additional pages are charged at £150/page.
There are absolutely no hidden costs and our pricing is completely transparent.
What platform do we build our sites on?
In most cases we build our websites using one of the world’s most popular website platforms called WordPress. Occasionally we will build sites using static html files or in Magento if enterprise level e-commerce is needed.
What’s WordPress?
Well, this website is running on WordPress. It’s our most popular website framework, and now the internet’s leading open source content management system, which powers over 25% of all websites online today.
Support Options
A wide range of options for hosting, support, SEO, consultancy and peace of mind
Essential Hosting
Robust business-class hosting with performance monitoring
Cloud Hosting from £8 / month
Shared VPS Hosting from £15 / month
Essential business class hosting on a fast and scalable infrastructure, with no limits on data storage, databases or bandwidth.
Technical support is provided via phone and email at our ad hoc support rate of £60 / hour.
Managed VPS Hosting
High-performance VPS hosting with updates, security patches and technical support
From £25 / month
Our recommended hosting solution; your site is installed on one of our high-performance Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and in addition, we will monitor and backup your website and maintain the site’s software on a regular basis. This will guard against hackers & viruses, and ensure that your site is optimised, runs fast and stays healthy.
In the unlikely event your site is compromised, then rest assured we’ve got it covered.
SEO Support
Quarterly rank monitoring and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
£120 / month
We will proactively help you to optimise your site’s ranking on search engines like Google through SEO. We will monitor your position and update your website’s content and images to establish, maintain and improve your rank on an ongoing basis.
This is our recommended and most popular SEO package, which offers great value and a big saving versus our ad hoc support rates.
Enhanced SEO Support
Monthly rank monitoring and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
£300 / month
This is as per our SEO support, except that we will perform a detailed monthly review of your SEO. Frequent checks and a hands-on proactive strategy can provide not only fast results but sustained growth over long periods.
This is a popular support package for businesses who are growing, and one that offers great value and a big saving versus our ad hoc support rates. You should choose this package if you want to run online advertising like Google Adwords.
Custom Support
SEO, consultancy, marketing support, and content
£ Enquire / month
No two websites are quite the same, and this applies to support too. If our normal support packages fall short, we will design a complete SLA (service level agreement), to help you achieve your business goals by assisting you to update your website’s content and images, and work on your SEO and digital marketing for a pre-agreed amount of hours or days per month.
A retained support contract offers exceptional value and a very significant saving versus our ad hoc support rate.
