Never Ignore The Web

Retailers, service companies and professional firms are all relying more on the internet for new business. A whole new generation of valuable customers now base their decisions on information they can access easily via their pc, Mac, tablet or mobile device. If you do not have a website compatible with all these forms of access, you could see business volumes fall away in favour of more savvy competitors.

You could spend as little as £100 setting up a website, but the cheap option is rarely the most effective. Your website needs to reflect a clear corporate identity and provide your customers with the right information and visitor experience to help them choose you over the opposition. Zercat will design and build a bespoke website that does this from £500. Branding is also available as an optional add-on.

Zercat Limited is a family-run business based in Surrey. Founding director Matthew Malkin gained a degree in Computer Science from the University of Southampton whilst also pursuing his career in the IT industry. His deep involvement has coincided with more than a decade of rapid advancement of the internet as a sales and marketing medium, equipping Zercat with the skills and experience to serve a diverse client base.

Until he founded Zercat, Matthew worked with successful website designers E-Business Plus. There he created sites for businesses such as kitchen designers, golf clubs, shoemakers, property developers, graphic design studios and home furnishers. When the owner retired, many E-Business Plus clients opted to join Zercat and continue their working relationship with Matthew – a ringing endorsement of Zercat’s capabilities.

When you ask Zercat to create your new website, you can be sure it will be constructed to a bespoke design that suits the needs of your business and target market. We can build-in company branding, at an agreed extra cost, and we naturally make sure that every website we create is tested for compatibility with current hardware, from PCs to tablets and small mobile devices, so no potential online business is missed.

Customers need to find your site and we specialize in search engine optimization (SEO) that helps keep you near the top of the list when they make an internet search for what you provide. The world of interactive websites and applications is advancing fast. We are always up-to-date with this and with the e-commerce solutions that work best for your market segment. We can also help with persuasive internet videos to promote your offer.

Nothing stands still in information technology and a website that fits the bill today may need upgrading in a few weeks or months, or it may want frequent updating simply because you have new products or services to talk about. Our initial site creation charge includes free hosting for a year and, whether or not we built your site, we can also offer a maintenance service to keep it up-to-date with the latest information and content.

Our maintenance service can be one-off at a set hourly rate, or based on a pre-arranged annual, biannual or monthly contract covering a given number of hours, with timings to suit you. We also offer an advice and problem solving service, charged at our hourly rate. We can help you make changes or recover access to your website; and of course help you expand and adapt your website as your business grows and its needs evolve.

As well as offering a website hosting service essential for ensuring that your prospective customers can access your site, we can provide an email hosting service. An advantage of this is the ability to send and receive your emails from an address at your own domain – joe@smithcompany.com, for instance. This helps to perpetuate a familiar online identity and all your staff can have addresses with the same structure.

Zercat email hosting is secured through encrypted SSL and accessible using POP3, IMAP and Webmail. It also includes our standard spam filtering. The basic package includes five mailbox accounts, each with 5GB storage, and costs £100 annually or £10 per month. Other combinations are available to add mailboxes and storage. Webmail is available from any internet connection; no website or software needed.