You won’t find these on our website – just think of them as a little thank you for following our blog.

25% off SSL Certificates
Our SSL certificates provide essential security for your website, giving your customers the confidence to trust you with their personal information, and you can use them even if your domain name isn’t hosted with us.

The fantastic 25% off deal makes the Domain SSL, which provides trusted brand security and mobile device support, just £37.49 per year. And if you need maximum security, you can get the Extended SSL with maximum brand verification and a browser green bar will only be £187.49 per year.

Just use the code: ssl0112

Code expires on 23rd February, so secure your website at these fantastic rates now!

Half Price Instant Website!
Instant Website makes it easy to get a quality website online even if you’re not a coding expert – just choose one of the inbuilt website templates and use the simple WYSIWYG editor to customise it so it’s perfect for you.

And now it’s even better value than normal – just use promo code IW0112 before 23rd February to get 50% off our usual prices.

Not sure where to begin? Let us give you a Helping Hand.
Our Helping Hand service takes the hassle out of designing your website. For just £75 for up to five pages, we’ll design the site and organise your content for you. Start the ball rolling now – buy Helping Hand – once you’ve purchased your Instant Website package.

Almost everyone recognises the value of having a great looking website for their business or organisation, but not everyone has the coding experience or the time and inclination to learn to build a website from scratch and if you’re just starting out you may not have the budget for a bespoke site from a professional web designer. Enter Instant Website. It’s an easy to use website building and hosting tool with hundreds of customisable design themes, plus lots of useful features like photo galleries and, if you get the Pro version, even a basic online shop.

It also only works out to a couple of pounds per month if you take advantage of our current 30% off offer! Until 31st August, we’re giving you an extra 30% off our yearly and two yearly Instant Website and Instant Website Pro packages, on top of our usual up to 25% discount for yearly and two yearly accounts.

What are you waiting for?

Use code: 30IW07
Use by: 31st August 2011

Buy Instant Website now

Offer applies to first payment period, yearly and two yearly packages only. Packages will renew at the standard rate in force at time of renewal.

Well, in response to customer demand we’ve added a new string to our web design bow – we’ve launched a completely bespoke Web Design service in partnership with talented East Midlands design firm Tor Studio. Customers who want a totally unique website but don’t have the resources to develop it themselves can use this website building service to get a site that’s perfectly suited to any of our web hosting packages developed from scratch.

We’ve worked with Tor Studio ourselves (they were heavily  involved in developing the Daily website, no less!), so we’ve no hesitation in recommending their services. All you need to do is fill in the ‘let us call you’ form and Tor Studio will get in touch and work with you every step of the way to develop a website that meets your specifications and budget. So, why not drop them a line?

Don’t worry – if you already have an Instant Website you won’t be losing any existing features and there won’t be any downtime when we roll out the upgrades either.

In brief, the upgrades will add the following to Instant Website packages:

• YouTube Support – You can embed YouTube videos into your web pages
• Support for Google Chrome and  Safari 3+ browsers
• A banner option on both the top and bottom of your pages

There are also the updates in the ‘Page Editor’:

• Improved Tables
• Upgraded Spell Checker
• Extra Fonts
• Enhanced Undo/Redo options
• More user-friendly tool bar
• Faster loading of the editor

We think you’re going to like the new features and that they’ll improve your whole Instant Website experience, but please let us know what you think.

The upgrades will start on Wednesday 10th February.

Firstly, what made you build the website?
My wildlife pencil art has been sold all over the UK and around the world for twenty years. My support base includes celebrities and other artists as well as a loyal group of fans and collectors. Most of my limited editions have completely sold out and increased in value many times – the most extreme being a Green Turtle print which originally sold for £8.50 and resold on the secondary market for £3,500.00!

It has become clear over the years that internet sales have affected gallery sales and it was time to get in on the act. My wildlife drawings are very detailed and I have always been suspicious of the quality of images on the web, but I am very happy with the outcome.

It looks like yours was already a flourishing trade in some wonderful artwork – how would you say the internet has made a difference?
My business has been successful over the years and I have kept in touch with a loyal group of supporters by mail, which is costly and very time consuming. It became apparent that I needed a new way to communicate my art to my supporters, and also to gain new support. The internet allows me to do this as well as expand my UK support to other countries. Clearly the web is extremely competitive but I believe that my established market gives me a useful boost.

Can you talk us through the evolution of your website?
My partner did the work on the site with my considerable input. It has been three months of deciding what to say as well as learn how to say it. My support base already asks certain questions so I knew what people would want to read. We started with the biographies and then the galleries. Each stage took time as we learned the process using Instant Website Pro. One of the problems were that the templates were quite complicated – and my art needs simplicity. So we stripped out some of the layouts and built each page separately using the text editor.

What was the biggest challenge you faced in getting your site to where it is now?
I am not used to the web or even emails, but my partner has been using it for over a decade. It took a lot of time for me to be convinced that it was the way to go, although now we have the site up and running I’m really excited about the possibilities. Once we’d decided to go for it, we had to decide how to build the site since neither of us had this experience. Instant Website Pro gave us an affordable option which overcame the technical challenge of website building. The mental challenge has been overcome by the passing of time!

So what’s next?
The site is simply a portal for my art and a way for people to buy limited edition prints. I have already notified my support base and early response has been really encouraging – including sales! In the future, the website will be regularly updated with news, new art, and even new thoughts. With the use of Google Analytics we can see how successful it is and react to the data provided. I want it to remain a friendly, warm place to visit for those who like my wildlife art.

What measures do you take to promote your site?
It is early days but we’ve already filled in all the search engine optimisation data on the page provided by Instant Website Pro and started to look at Google Analytics. We’ve submitted it to the search engines but understand that it will take time to appear. It has been promoted to people who already receive a printed newsletter from me and they have been asked to tell their friends. At the moment we’re contacting web directories for free inclusion and creating web links with charities I have donated to over the years. We may soon offer a promotional deal through some of our connections linking back to the site. It is still a learning process.

What attracted you to Daily.co.uk?
We found Daily through a search engine when buying domain names. We then found the site fast and easy to use and the Instant Website Pro package seemed to be a feasible option to learn how to publish a site. It turned out to be the case. I’ve found Daily responsive to questions and the site loads really fast, so I’m very happy.

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If you’re a Daily Internet customer and you’d like your site to be featured on our blog, just drop us a line and we’ll see what we can do.

To solve that problem, we’ve got two web design services that take the pain out of getting up and running – there’s a Helping Hand for Instant Website and Managed Setup for eShop.

If you’re an online trader, whether you’re just starting out or already pay your bills on the strength of online shopping, we can take the pressure off getting your online shop sorted with our Managed Setup service for eShop. eShop is a hugely flexible product that gives you the power to build, host and take payments via a professional looking shop, and our Managed Setup service is just as flexible. Because each trader’s needs are different, the service is completely bespoke. We’ll start by discussing your requirements so that we can work with you to get your web shop just the way you want it. To have a chat with us about how we can help, just give us a call or drop us a line.

For a standard site, our Helping Hand service for Instant Website takes the hassle out of designing your website. For just £50 for up to 5 pages of content or £70 for up to 30 pages, we’ll do the legwork for you. All you need to do is have a chat with us about how you’d like your site to look, send us any text and photos you want to include, and we’ll organise the site and content on your behalf. Once you’ve bought your Instant Website, just purchase the service from within your My Daily control panel to get the ball rolling.