The Home of Low Cost CMS Enabled Web Sites

Our Aims

Welcome to Pico Business Web Services, the home of low cost CMS enabled web sites.  Our aim is to provide quality Web sites to very small businesses that have limited resources and technical know how. 

We aim to provide the following key benefits to our customers: 

• Low Set-up Costs
• Low Running Costs
• Low Risk: Money Back Guarantee*
• Simple to use Management Interface
• High Quality/Standards Compliant
• Fast Download Times
• Built using leading edge Web Tools
• Simple Six Step Development Process

Low Risk - Money Back Guarantee

Many IT projects end in failure and upset. To ensure this does not happen I promise that if the web site produced at the end of the Beta stage of the development process is not acceptable, all costs to this point in the project will be refunded in full*.

Simple to Use Management Interface

Our content management system has been developed over the last few years (initially for my wife's business site). Most features are provided using an Ajax based interface to improve the usability of the site. More

High Quality/Standards Compliant

I have produced production quality code for most of the top telecommunications companies (BT, Alcatel, Intel, Nokia, ..) who all require standards compliant solutions.  I have where possible ensured that the XHTML and CSS generated is standards compliant.  More

Fast Download Times

To achieve fast download times, you need to take care in all aspects of the sites design. I have also followed the latest advice from Google, resulting in a "Page speed score of 96%" on pages served from a Pico CMS enabled server. At the time of writing the BBC main site has a speed score of 80%.

Built using leading edge Web Tools

It now includes many advanced technologies including, that are well proven building blocks, that are cross browser compliant.

• AJAX
• jQuery
• MySQL
• SMARTY

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Low Set-up and Running Costs

Typical Web sites have the current cost structure:

• Custom content management system: £500 - £5000
• Graphic designer costs:                            £200 - £2000
• Page update costs (no CMS):                  £20 / page
• Server rental:                                               £20 / month

Giving a cost of ownership over the first few years of over £3000.

Using our development model, we can reduce these costs to:

• Reuse the same CMS between all users:  Free
• Reuse standard page templates:                 Free
• One off setup fee:                            £100 (in two payments)
• Rental charge:                                  £10 / month.

Giving a far lower cost of ownership compared to traditional payment models.

Simple Development Process

Developing a Web site can be a daunting prospect, but with our streamlined development process it will be as pain-less as possible. The six step process is described in detail Here

Additional Services

We do provide addition additional services, which are described Here

Notes

* Conditions apply see small print
* All prices include VAT