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Website planning session

A planning session is a 90 minute video call about your website's goals, audience, pages, features and budget, and afterwards you receive a written summary of the decisions. It costs £360 plus VAT where applicable, and the summary is yours to take to any builder.

Who it suits

The session suits a business owner who has started thinking about a website but wants to talk the decisions through: which pages, which features, what to leave out, and how to budget. It also suits someone replacing an old site who is unsure what to keep.

If you are happy working alone, the free planner, feature selector and budget estimator cover the same questions without a call.

What happens

  1. You book by email and receive a short questionnaire. Answering it is optional, but it lets the call start with your business rather than with background questions.
  2. On the call, we go through the five planning steps in order: the job the site has to do, who it is for, the pages, the features and the budget.
  3. After the call you receive a written summary: the goal, the audience, the agreed page list, the features sorted into now, later and not needed, and the budget approach.

What you receive

Planning session compared with the written website plan
Planning sessionWritten website plan
Video call90 minutes90 minutes
Written summary of decisionsYesYes
Brief for each pageNoYes
Feature list with builder questionsShort listFull list
Content checklistNoYes
Budget outlineApproach onlyLine by line, using your figures
Price, before VAT£360£780

What the session does not include

The session does not include design, writing your content, building the site or choosing a supplier for you. It does not include legal, tax or data protection advice; where a rule applies, the summary points to the official guidance and suggests you check it with an adviser.

Before you book

You will be asked for a little information to arrange the call, such as your name, email address and business name. The privacy notice explains how it is used. Payment is due before the call; the terms cover moving or cancelling a session.

How this relates to builds

Booking a session does not commit you to anything further, and the note at the foot of the page explains who offers builds. The plan is written so that any builder can quote from it, and you are free to take it elsewhere.

Asking about a session

Use the contact page and choose "Planning session" as the topic. Mention the type of business and whether you already have a site.

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Ask about a planning session

Tell us what kind of business you run and whether a site exists already. The emailed reply says whether a session would help.