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Website Maintenance

Make sure your website stays current. Regular maintenance will encourage visitors to return and search engines to keep you listed. You should also keep track of how well your website performs in the search engines and adjust your web pages to improve your rankings accordingly.

Try to add new content to your site as often as possible. Adding new pages increases the perceived importance of your website and can eventually lead to your website being considered an authority on your sites subject.

Some website design companies offer maintenance packages. Maintenance packages are a fixed fee method of having changes made to your website by the design company. Another approach, which often works out cheaper in the long term is to have a content management system built in to your original design. Content Management Systems allow you to make changes to your site at your leisure using a web browser. Many website designs companies now offer these systems either for free or for a low initial cost. If your considering getting a website designed for you, ask the design company about content management and whether they offer any packages that include this facility.

Tip 10: Choose your host carefully, make sure your site is listed in the major search engines and choose your maintenance options carefully.

Next: Post Website Design Summary

Mighty Media are a full service multimedia company and have employed an in-house team of website designers since 1997. Our practical, marketing oriented approach to website design has resulted in numerous site launches that succeed in driving qualified, targetted leads to our client's businesses.

Mighty Media is regarded as one of the premier Buckinghamshire website design agencies with a track record in corporate communications that forms the underlying foundation of their work.

Established for over 25 years, Mighty Media began making TV commercials and later diversified into the corporate video production sector working with household names such as Procter & Gamble, Mars, Nationwide Building Society and other familiar names. With a strong background in internal and external communications Mighty Media progressed into new media production. Mighty Media now specialise in CD-Rom design and production, e-learning solutions, intranet design, extranet design, video production and website design.

Based in Bourne End on the border of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Mighty Media now provide website design and online marketing services to businesses from all over the UK.

• Amersham, Ascott, Ashendon and Aylesbury
• Beaconsfield, Bellingdon, Bourne End, Buckingham and Burnham
• Chalfont, Chesham, Chorleywood, Cliveden, Cookham and Cores End
• Denham and Desborough
• Flackwell Heath and Furlong
• Gerrards Cross
• Hambleden, Hazlemere and High Wycombe
• Iver
• Lane End
• Marlow and Milton Keynes
• Primrose Hill and Princes Risborough
• Slough, Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Poges and Stokenchurch
• Taplow
• Wooburn and Wycombe

• Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall and Cumberland
• Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset and Durham
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire
• Kent
• Lancashire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire
• Middlesex
• Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland and Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey and Sussex
• Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire and Worcestershire
• Yorkshire