Affordable website design for Middlesbrough, Teesside and beyond

McGregor Media is a website design and development company based in Middlesbrough specialising in affordable, pre-priced modular websites for small and medium-sized businesses.

Our aim is to ensure that you get the best website design for your budget - whether you're starting out in business or have been in business for a while and are only now looking to the internet. We've designed successful websites for businesses in the manufacturing, entertainment, sports and service sectors and we'd love to have your business in our portfolio of clients.

Our standard website product is modular - start with a base product and then select Add Ons to suit your needs. These may include a mailing list with bulk email facility, a blog or what's on guide, a list of testimonials or FAQs, or image or video galleries. All our standard sites have a Content Management System so you can update your content whenever you want, and a mobile-friendly version - UK mobile internet use increased by 8000%* between 2009 and 2011, and is continuing to grow at a remarkable rate.

It may be that you require something a little more complex than our standard website product offers. If this is the case, we can offer a bespoke solution - call us on 0844 474 2054 and we'll have a chat about what we can do for your business.

Or maybe you're at the other end of the spectrum - you need an internet presence and company email addresses, but don't have enough content to fill an entire website. Our single page websites are a perfect solution - let your customers know about your business and allow them to contact you through your website without the need to fill more than one page. You can always expand your one-page site at a later date.

Our One Page Package option includes a mobile-friendly version of your page, contact form and one year's managed hosting among other benefits.

In terms of how your site will look, every website is designed from scratch and each one is unique. We will work within the current branding of your business or, in the case of startup businesses who do not have branding, we can assist in designing a brand package which will reflect the vison and values of your business.

All websites are built with standard search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to attract the search engines to rank your website higher because of its relevent content.

* Source: www.tecmark.co.uk/uk-mobile-stats-2011

We do more than just website design!

Although it is our main product, we do much more than just website design! We can register your domain name and host your website too.

Domain name registration

Ideally, the domain name you choose should reflect your business name, your business type or location.

It should be as short and concise as possible. It is not case-sensitive, and should be easily remembered by your customers. It can only contain letters, numbers or hyphens, although it is best to avoid multiple hyphens if possible.

It is often suggested that businesses should buy the .co.uk, .com, .org and .net variants (known as Top Level Domains) of their chosen name. This can protect your company against anyone wishing to cash in on your brand in future by registering a .co.uk domain with the same name as your .com domain, for example. This doesn't mean you'll have a website at each domain - they'll just redirect the visitor to your main domain.

McGregor Media uses an award-winning domain name registrar. And we charge you what they charge us - we don't add anything. Prices start at less than £7 for a .co.uk - and that's for two years. Your domain wil be registered to you - we're constantly hearing stories of dubious web designers registering a domain name to themselves and holding it to ransom later. more

Web hosting

Web hosting is physical space on a web server to store your files - and bandwidth to deliver them to your visitors.

Our website hosting is cloud based - meaning it is scalable as your requirements grow. Cloud hosting uses a number of servers all connected together (a cloud), and sites on the servers can use resources from all the servers in that cloud. Processing power, hard drives, and memory are shared. Servers can be easily added or removed as necessary, and if one server is down, sites use resources from other servers instead leading to significantly improved uptime.

Cloud hosting allows us to include a host of features usually found on more expensive packages: a 99.99% uptime guarantee, unlimited website traffic and unlimited website disk space. You'll get your own control panel to manage your web hosting or we can manage hosting for you for a small monthly fee. more