FAQ

At Primal Space we are good listeners. We listen to your requirements before any project commences. Our development process focuses on you, the client. The company name Primal Space comes from our belief that websites should be kept as simple and clutter-free as possible. Our team love clean, simplistic designs, featuring plenty of white space, allowing your web content to take centre stage in the design.

There are a few things we ask of you to allow us to bring your design to life.

Here at Primal Space, we have created a vast number of website designs for a large number of clients, in a wide array of different sectors. Each website is completely unique. We’ve worked with online retailers, letting agencies, scientists, garden designers, property developers, hairdressers, tour companies, trade services, yoga teachers, agricultural suppliers, charities and musicians… to name but a few.

WooCommerce is the top choice for us when building eCommerce websites for our clients. The plugin which is used alongside WordPress has a user friendly interface and can be used by businesses both large and small. It is the most commonly used e-commerce software across the globe currently. And for good reason, we believe! It offers by far the greatest expansion potential and largest degree of flexibility of any of the available e-commerce development platforms in the market.

Yes, we always build a responsive website design that is mobile friendly and will load perfectly on any smartphone or tablet device. With the web pages optimised to fit the space of the screen size that the user is viewing from. Every website that we build, will be compatible with any modern mobile device. We realise that it’s essential that your website looks perfect on any screen size. Allowing your customer to access your website from their smartphone or tablet while on the go. That’s why every website that we create and update features a fully responsive web design so that the website adapts to be as functional and beautiful as possible on any device.

Yes, because we understand that good, high-quality content will attract more users to your website. It’s essential that your content is unique, mainly for SEO purposes. But also because users get bored of reading the same content over and over on multiple websites. At Primal Space, we understand that writing quality, compelling content, that also functions well from an SEO perspective, can be incredibly time-consuming. That’s why we provide our clients with a unique content writing service. We just need some general guidance on what you want to be included. We have a questionnaire that we’ll work through with you to ensure the content generated is relevant to your target market and fits in with your brand’s ethos.

WordPress is our CMS website design platform of choice. CMS stands for content management system. The WordPress setup allows our clients to benefit from a large scale, open source, software environment that’s extremely user-friendly. Our websites designed in WordPress all benefit from having an integrated admin area included for the management of your website’s content. This empowers our clients to be able to update their own website ongoing. Easily being able to add new text or images to their own site as they wish.

Yes, here a Primal Space we offer various graphic design services, pricing starts from as little as only £195 + VAT. We believe that there are 3 key components that make up great visual and graphic design when creating a website. Those are; logo, font and imagery.

Don’t worry, you’re in the right place. The most important thing is your vision for the website, what do you want it to look like, and what purpose do you want it to serve to the user and you business? Do you have a colour scheme in mind, perhaps ones that already fit your branding? Do you have images that you’d like us to use, content with information about your company, product or service? Our job is to help you bring your ideas to life. Contact us and we can arrange a quick chat to help you get started in the right direction. You can also find a useful getting started guide providing you with our client requirements for website design on our blog area.

Yes, we’ve worked with a whole host of clients who have booking system functions incorporated into their website. Whether it be a completely new website build or an upgrade to an existing website, we can help! There are many capabilities, particularly when using the WordPress developers platform that allows us to incorporate a booking system within the design.

An e-commerce website is designed on a platform that allows for products or services to be purchased by a customer by means of an integrated shopping cart function. Find out more about e-commerce web design and the platforms that we use, which include; WooCommerce plugin for WordPress. As well as the Magento platform.

Yes, we provide website hosting services starting from just £20 + VAT per month with free website migration and setup. All of our servers have Linux operating systems, with complete server management included.

Yes! Not only do we design websites, but we can also regularly update and maintain them for you after the build is complete. This website maintenance services is offered to you for an agreed monthly management fee. We’ll generally only offer this service to clients that have their website hosting with Primal Space too.

Our website hosting packages are great value for a fully manged hosting service. We realise the needs of your business are unique. Which is why we offer a range of different levels of hosting packages. Helping you decide which option best suits your needs.

You can find our Website Hosting Prices on our dedicated prices page on our website. We offer three packages with the first starting at £20+ VAT per month.

Every website needs to be hosted on a server. Read our blog to find out what makes our managed hosting service a unique and valuable offering providing security for your website.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. The term defines the process for optimising your website to rank well for a particular keyword or phrase in the major search engines like Google.

Get your website found on the 1st page of Google with our Search Engine Optimisation services. We help you get the full potential out of your website by ensuring that you are maximising your potential leads online. Improving your organic search ranking results will allow more users find your website. We offer a range of SEO services to achieve these great result.

It depends on the nature of your business and specific requirements. But generally the answer here is yes. Obtaining positive results with organic SEO rankings can be one of the more cost effective methods to obtain exposure and traffic for your website.

This depends greatly on a wide range of factors. We’d love to say yes to answer this question always. But it isn’t that simple unfortunately. Taking the world’s largest search engine Google as an example. They have hundreds, arguably thousands of individual algorithms that dictate how their rankings are ordered for websites. If you have an established domain, and are ticking all the major boxes that search engines are looking for. Then the answer to this question will more often than not be yes. Contact us to discuss to hear more about our SEO services and what we can do for you.

It’s a secret….. Well some of the techniques we use to gain an advantage for your website we like to keep to ourselves anyway. In a nutshell, we see SEO as 2 components in terms of how to achieve success. So on-site and off-site optimisation.

Not immediately, these things like a fine wine take time to develop. Dependant on the competitive nature of the keyword you are targeting, it might take from a few weeks, to a few months to see results and an increase in your search engine rankings.

Website design pricing varies dependant on the scale of the project and the functions and integrated systems that you may require. Our simple website designs start from just £720 + VAT. Our prices are calculated based on how many hours a project will take to complete, based on an hourly rate of £90 per hour +VAT. You’ll find that we are one of the most competitively priced web design companies in Scotland.

We’re ideally located in Scotland’s beautiful capital city Edinburgh and benefit from a remote working environment. We opt for this set up to reduce our carbon footprint and positively impact the environment. While at the same time we’re able to reduce our business costs and pass these savings on to our clients (because why should you have to pay for our rent and office costs!) through our competitive pricing structure.

We provide a whole variety of digital services for websites. Everything from web design, e-commerce and online marketing. Tobranding, graphic design and ongoingwebsite maintenance.

Yes, we offer online advertising campaigns to suit any budget. Services offered include the creation and ongoing management of Google Adwords campaigns, content writing, search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media advertising to name but a few. At Primal Space, we have vast experience in marketing websites online and ensuring they are found quickly, by the people you want them to be found by.

Yes, we can provide our clients with on-going training following the build of their website. Primarily we offer WordPress training and can provide this on the various functions you’ll need to utilise to update your website and run your business with ease.

Please visit our Contact page. Then fill out the contact form with your details and a bit of information about your website design requirements. We’ll then be in touch as soon as possible.

Here at Primal Space HQ, we provide a 25% charity discount on all of our services. Because we are proud to be able to use our web design services to give back to the local community. As a result we have worked closely with several registered charities providing them with WordPress website development and hosting services at our special discounted charity rates. Therefore, allowing these groups to share their message, gain support and help others in need of their services. As well as raising money for their cause allowing them to make a greater impact.

Yes! At Primal Space HQ, we pride ourselves on being environmentally friendly. How do we do this we hear you ask? Firstly we benefit from a remote working environment. By cutting carbon emissions from the daily commute leads to a reduction in fossil fuel consumption. This has a direct effect in the minimising of greenhouse gas emissions.