Geek Practique:
Web Design
Hosting
Training
Empowerment
Geek Practique is a female led web design business that centres its client base on female entreupeneurs, business owners and other organisations that focus on or are led by women.
It is not enough at Geek Practique to simply build you a website and host it securely for you. It also matters that the process of developing your website leads to your empowerment and ability to be able to self-manage it should you so wish.
Geek Practique is uniquely different in that it is led by a very creative and practical geek, who understand both the coding and the aesthetics, Di Winn
Web Design
Web Design at Geek Practique centres around the aesthetics and ergonomics of your website and your end users experience of navigating it. Good design principles are as important in a website as they are in the architecture of our towns and cities. We spend a lot of time there.
I can help with that!
Bespoke Solutions
If you require a website solution that is a little more demanding or requires a bespoke design rather than one of our packages, please feel free to get in touch and discuss your requirements with me in person. It’s important that your website presence is a match to your business needs.
Let me turn your website vision in to your website reality!
Pricing
Whether you need a simple 3-Page brochure site, a more detailed 5 or 7-Page website, or something more corporate in size, we have or can put together, the perfect package for you.
Why not get in touch to find out more!
WordPress
What is WordPress?
WordPress is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, mailing lists and Internet forums, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems and online stores
How versatile is WordPress
One of the major reason people use WordPress is because you can extend the functionality to make it an extremely advanced site that does all sorts of cool things. Or, you can add just a few things to make it exactly what you want it to. And, you can do this by installing WordPress plugins.
Does WordPress support ecommerce websites?
WordPress is the ideal tool for entrepreneurs and companies to showcase their products and services, help their search engine ranking, and market themselves to prospective customers.
In summary, WordPress offers flexibility, customization options, and SEO-friendliness for e-commerce businesses.
Divi
What is Divi?
Divi isn’t just a WordPress theme, it’s a complete design framework that allows you to design and customize every part of your website from the ground up. You have control over everything down to the finest detail.
What's the difference between Divi and WordPress?
Created by one of the leading WordPress agencies, Elegant Themes, Divi is a robust framework that allows WordPress users to build a website with no knowledge of code. Divi does not replace the functionality of WordPress, but rather extends it and makes it easier to use.
What is the Divi Visual Builder?
Divi is a modern no-code visual drag-and-drop website builder for WordPress. With Divi, you can build stunning websites from the ground up. Divi harnesses the power of complex web development and lets you design custom websites by using the Divi Visual Builder so you can see the changes you are making in real time.
SEO
What is SEO and how does it work?
SEO means Search Engine Optimization and is the process used to optimize a website’s technical configuration, content relevance and link popularity so its pages can become easily findable, more relevant and popular towards user search queries, and as a consequence, search engines rank them better.
Why is SEO important?
When your website is built, ergonomically it is created with your users in mind, trying to make it easy for them to find and explore your content. One of those users is a search engine, which helps people discover your content. SEO—short for search engine optimization—is about helping search engines understand your content, and helping users find your site and make a decision about whether they should visit your site through a search engine.
Does SEO require ongoing maintenance?
The simple answer to this question is yes, most definantly and equally important each time you add new content. As part of the process of building your site for you, it’s ongoing growth and development is built in for you via plugins. I provide training for this if you are not an experienced WordPress user.
Featured Work
Lesbian Fightback
Lesbians Denied
Labrys Security
Literally Dyke
Hosting
Hosting with Geek Practique
Web hosting is available either on an annual or monthly basis, as part of a new build, redesign or as stand alone product. I could descend in to Geek speak and tell you all about servers, security and such like, but… if you want a website, you need to host it somewhere.
I can help with that!
Web Design and Hosting Packages
Whether you need a simple 3-Page brochure site, a more detailed 5 or 7-Page website, or something more corporate in size, we have or can put together, the perfect package for you.
I can help with that!
Pricing
Stand alone hosting is available from £5 per month for the Standard Package. The amount you pay depends on the size of your projects requirements. Our hosting packages are sized as Standard, Large and Super.
Hosting Only
Hosting Packages
Stand alone hosting is available from £5 per month for the Standard Package. The amount you pay depends on the size of your projects requirements. Our hosting packages are sized as Standard, Large and Super.
Standard Package
Control Panel Access
10GB Disk Space
500GB Bandwidth
3 FTP Accounts
5 Email Accounts
£5 per month
Large Package
Control Panel Access
20GB Disk Space
1000GB Bandwidth
10 FTP Accounts
20 Email Accounts
£10 per month
Super Package
Control Panel Access
40GB Disk Space
4000GB Bandwidth
20 FTP Accounts
100 Email Accounts
£20 per month
Web Design & Hosting
Web Design & Hosting Packages
Whether you need a simple 3-Page brochure site, a more detailed 5 or 7-Page website, or something more corporate in size, we have or can put together, the perfect package for you.
3-page Website
Control Panel Access
10GB Disk Space
500GB Bandwidth
5 Email Accounts
12 months hosting
From £299
5-page Website
Control Panel Access
20GB Disk Space
1000GB Bandwidth
20 Email Accounts
12 months hosting
From £399
7-page Website
Control Panel Access
40GB Disk Space
4000GB Bandwidth
100 Email Accounts
12 months hosting
From £499
The cPanel:
cPanel Main Screen
WP Toolkit Screen
One of the most significant benefits of hosting with cPanel is its easy-to-use interface. cPanel provides a graphical user interface that is simple to navigate and allows you to manage your website without requiring any advanced technical skills. cPanel is one of the most widely-used options, with good reason. It makes managing your web hosting environment far easier than it otherwise would be, and is made for Linux, the most popular operating system for web servers.
The cPanel platform allows users to easily perform maintenance and updates. By default, cPanel keeps all of these features ready to go on its main page after you log in. If this is your first time in cPanel, the number of icons can be a bit overwhelming! The good news is that most of these icons can be ignored at first. A handful of icons are used by nearly everyone hosting a website. The rest are only needed in specific circumstances. We’re going to take a look at the different sections of cPanel and point out what systems are most useful when starting out.
Training
1-2-1 and Group Training
I offer training sessions or training days to my clients and these can be tailor-made to suit your business or personal requirements.
Prices start from £50 for a two hour 1-2-1 training session, and from £150 per day
How I Deliver The Training That You Want!
Training can be delivered online or in person, 1-2-1 or in groups, depending on your business or personal requirements. It might be that you’ve never used WordPress, or you might be a more advanced user looking to add to your skillset, or to take your business to the next level. Whether it’s WordPress, SEO or something else, the first step is to make contact and we can discuss how best I can help you? Contact me now
What I cover
It is important that your website works for you and you understand how to get the best out of it going forward. With that said, the training packages that I provide include WordPress, Divi and Search Engine Optimisation. Each traing package is bespoke depending on your own personal requirements
Online or Face to Face Training
WordPress
WordPress Getting Started
If you’ve not used WordPress before, it can be a little worrying, but worry not, my WordPress Getting Started training will have you navigating the backend of your websitewith confidence
WordPress Intermediate
Even if you have used WordPress before, it might be that you want to take your skills to the next level and start adding more detail and animations, forms or more detailed elements and information
WordPress eCommerce
Even as an experienced WordPress user, it can be a big step moving your website to be a full eCommerce website. My WordPress eCommerce training is designed to give you the confidence to do exactly that and more
Divi
Divi Getting Started
Divi for Intermediates
Divi isn’t just a WordPress theme, it’s a complete design framework that allows you to design and customize every part of your website from the ground up. You have control over everything down to the finest detail. The Divi for Intermediates package gives you the knowledge to unlock the full potential of this fantastic WordPress theme.
Divi for eCommerce
With over 200 design elements, you can design every aspect of your site while viewing your design changes in real-time. Divi integrates seamlessly with WooCommerce, offering over 20 Woo-specific modules to help you create product layouts, shop pages, and more using the Theme Builder. The Divi for eCommerce package gives you the skillsey to the most out of this powerful WordPress theme.
SEO
Search Engine Optimization
SEO stands for search engine optimization. SEO helps you optimize your website, it’s web pages and content for the purposes of ranking higher in search engines, like Google.
On Page Optimization
On Page Optimisation refers to SEO measures taken directly within the website pages to improve the websites position in the search rankings, by optimising the content or improving descriptions and title tags.
SEO Strategy
A good SEO strategy helps the process of organising a website’s content by topic to increase your position when appearing in search results. It’s can also help to maximise organic traffic from search engines.
Skills
A Wide Variety of Skills for an Array of Projects
Websites work best for the end user when they have great graphics and branding that flows seamlessly through the entire website. You may have your logo, so its my job to integrate that in to the design of your website, making it clear on every page that its your website!
I can help with that!
WordPRess
One of the major reason people use WordPress is because you can extend the functionality to make it an extremely advanced site that does all sorts of cool things.
Divi
Divi isn’t just a WordPress theme, it’s a complete design framework that allows you to design and customize every part of your website from the ground up.
SEO
SEO means Search Engine Optimization and is the process used to optimize a website’s technical configuration, content relevance and link popularity so its pages can become easily findable
ABOUT GEEK PRACTIQUE
Let me introduce myself, my name is Di Winn and I am Geek Practique. I design and host websites for female led groups, organisations and businesses.
As you can see from my list of clients, I am a feminist and I openly support female based businesses as a priority. The web design industry is very male dominated. Some women only want to work with other women as a result of their lived experience that has made them suspicious/untrusting toward males.
I am here to fulfill that demand.
When I left school in the 1980’s, web design as a career wasn’t a thing, so I let my creativity out creating paintings, glass paintings and mosaics. I approach web design in the same way that I approach my arts and crafts endeavours. With a balance of enthusiasm and a keen eye on attention to detail.
I find the process of building a website therapeutic in the same way that I find any kind of creativity therapeutic. I have to prise myself away from a project, but like all self employed web designers, the work never really finishes. Making sure that my clients are fully satisfied with my service and their end product, is the priority for me.
I don’t talk in Geek speak. I’m not going to try to bamboozle you with lots of techy terms to sound clever. I’m going to talk to you in plain english, listen to your needs from your website, give you my honesty and integrity as standard, and make your website dreams come true!
I am not satisfied unless you are, and it is important to me that you also are empowered by the experience of getting your website set up and hosted by Geek Practique. To compliment your website, I also offer a number of courses that will lead to you being able to get the most out of your website by self-managing and reducing your costs
Contact
Get In Touch
Making contact with Geek Practique is the first and most important step you need to take to get your business or organisation the website of your dreams, with safe and secure hosting, as well as providing the training packages that you deserve.
