What are some of the biggest fears of the business owner who needs a website?
- What if I get stuck with some low-end, pre-packaged website that I outgrow?
- Will my website work on mobile phones and tablets?
- Will I be able to find support for my website?
- Will my content be trapped on some proprietary service?
- What if they stop making the software?
- Will it be too hard for me to use?
We understand. Since the very existence of our company depends on building websites that could grow as quickly as our customers, we did a lot of research to make sure what we offered was built to last. We build your website with the same software as most of the largest, highly-visited, famous websites in the world. Not “similar” software, or a stripped-down, “lite” version – the same software.
The Pleiades team will build your small business site with WordPress. Today there are over 27,000,000 websites using WordPress and that number is growing daily. This means the WordPress platform has to be easy to use, because business people need to be up and running quickly, and demand solutions they can master with little time or effort. That also means there is a huge community to call on for support. How do we know that for sure? The Pleiades team leads are also the co-organizers of one of the largest WordPress Meetups in the world. The Austin WordPress meetup has continuously hosted multiple monthly meetings since 2007.
Pleiades Services would love to be your web development company for as long as you own your site, so we strive to provide the best service you can find anywhere. We further distinguish ourselves by offering only best-in-class themes and add-ons. We also use our years of research and first-hand experience to find and recommend the best website hosting companies. In fact, we recently removed our endorsement for several major companies whose service and support were not up to the standard we demand our customers.
You can be sure when you get your website from Pleiades Services that you are making a safe, quality investment in your business.
What do you get?
Below you can see a list of the features we offer. You may find companies with a cheaper price, and if you are most interested in saving a few bucks, we’re probably not the company for you.
On the other hand, if you want to be sure your website can grow as big as your business goals, then consider our offer.
We’ve made websites for some of the biggest companies in the country, and biggest agencies in the U.S. Government. So why are we offering small business websites? Because it’s our mission and goal to help businesses succeed – whether you want to be the best in your town or a world-class venture, we want to be part of that journey, and we’re willing to sign on at the beginning.
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Basic Business Package
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Pro Business Package
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Ultimate Business Package
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WordPress Installation and configuration
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WordPress Installation and configuration
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WordPress Installation and configuration
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Choice of 6 professionally designed themes
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Choice of 20 professionally designed themes
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Choice of full catalog of professionally designed themes
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Professional landing-page and sales pages
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Professional landing-page and sales pages
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Professional landing-page and sales pages
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Mobile-responsive design
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Mobile-responsive design
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Mobile-responsive design
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Optimized for Search Engines (SEO)
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Optimized for Search Engines (SEO)
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Optimized for Search Engines (SEO)
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Content migration for up to 5 pages
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Content migration for up to 10 pages
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Content migration for up to 15 pages
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Website security package including protection against SPAM, Malware, Viruses, and Hacking
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Website security package including protection against SPAM, Malware, Viruses, and Hacking
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The same as Basic and Pro, but also includes continuous scanning for Malware and Hacks and full website restoration in less than 24 hours.
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Social Media Integration with Facebook and Twitter
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Social Media Integration with all of your Social Media accounts
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Daily backups
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Daily backups
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Optimization of files and database for maximum performance
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Optimization of files and database for maximum performance
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Google Service-area business listing
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Google Service-area business listing and optional Google Business Page or Google Brand Page*
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24-hour Uptime monitoring
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Integrated Google Analytics with customized weekly reports
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$3,000
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$4,800
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$7,200
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*Google provides strict guidelines for Business Pages and Brand Pages. Your options will depend on qualifying settings and Google authorization of your account.
What Does This All Mean to You?
Far too many sites inundate you with technical jargon in the hope of impressing you with how much they know that you don’t. We can’t skip the technical stuff, but we also want you to be an informed consumer, so here’s the breakdown:
WordPress Installation and Configuration: In the same way that you have to install software on your computer before you can use it, WordPress has to be installed on your web host computer. Then the settings need to be edited to correctly identify it as your business site and authorizing you and anyone else you designate to make changes to it.
Professionally Designed Themes: You’ve probably seen websites that look like they were designed by somebody’s nephew. Designing how a website appears is a challenging discipline with a lot of moving parts, and the people who do it best are the ones who do it full time, and with professional quality tools. This is why the Pleiades Services team works with the Genesis Framework, Studiopress themes. and why we maintain working relationships with licensed Studiopress Designers. When you are ready for a fully customized site, branded to your exact specifications, you have the opportunity to work with some of the communities best designers.
Professional landing-page and sales pages: The value of these pages is what you do with them. By setting up a special purpose domain name, or a specific link on your website, you can direct traffic from different ads and marketing efforts. This lets you measure and compare your marketing effectiveness.
Anybody can create a landing page for your site, we actually help you make it so in reliably converts site visitors into customers.
Mobile-responsive design: More the half of all traffic on the internet is by mobile phones and tablets. That’s why it is so important that your customers have an easy and pleasant experience with your site – even from small, hand-held devices.
There is an advanced school of design that combines two technologies – Mobile-friendly Design and Responsive Design. This involved sensing the size and type of device the site is being displayed on, and changing the size and position of the visual elements on screen to fit well, and even changing the size, shape, and position of buttons so they can be clicked with a finger instead of a mouse pointer.
Before signing on with anyone else, ask if they know how to do that.
Optimized for Search Engines (SEO): SEO is one of those terms used by many and understood by few. Our friends at Search Engine Land have a great video explaining the basics of SEO.
This term is mostly about your content, however, the programming code that creates your web pages has an effect on SEO. The inefficient code makes your site load slowly, and that hurts your page rank with Google. The most recent coding standards supply supplemental information to search engines to help them understand the underlying structure and organization of information on a page. If Structured Data elements are missing, that will definitely lower your ranking. There are numerous other factors – large and small – that can add up to making your site a shining star of search results, or be missing in action at the end of a long list.
Content migration: Many people face the problem of content on an old website. There are countless reasons why moving that content to a new site may be a problem. These include lost passwords, access denied by the previous host or designer, some proprietary site claim ownership of everything on their server and won’t permit it to be copied. In some cases, old sites have completely disappeared off the web.
Our migration experts have a remarkable track record of recovering your old text, pictures, and other content.
If you have a large site that needs to be moved, we’ll need to discuss that separately.