Generally to get your website up and running you have three options:

Drag & Drop

Website Builder

Using a service like Squarespace, Wix or GoDaddy.

Advantages

• Easy to use.
• Cost Effective.

Disadvantages

• Limiting in look and functionality.
• Inflexibility in Hosting your Website – want to change providers, the whole Website needs to be rebuilt.

If only there was a middle ground, a budget friendly semi-D.I.Y. approach utilising a powerful & flexible Content Management System, without feeling like you need to do a university course to get it up and running.

Semi-D.I.Y.?

We like to call ourselves Web Builders, we don’t design sites from scratch, we’re not the artistic type who can choose colour palettes, font types or come up with a fancy design.

Websites built by MATTYPHY use third party, publicly available software and services, which you could totally do yourself, if you were willing to invest the time to do so.

Thus the Semi-D.I.Y., you still need to know what you want your website to look like, as if you were going to Do It Yourself, but we take the time and hassle out of the process for you, by doing as much or as little as you want us to do for you, which also makes the whole process budget friendly.

A major part of the “value add” of our offering is that we’ve spent a lot of time and money researching and evaluating different hosting providers, themes, page builders and plugins to get the most out of a website at a cost-effective price. We’ve put together a package so we can build, host and maintain your website using some of the best software and services on the market at a competitive price.

The Foundations of a MATTYPHY built Website

Vultr Cloud Compute (VC2)

A high-performance website starts with good hardware, we use VULTR’s high performance compute instances to create a Virtual Private Server to host your website.

WordPress

Divi

Divi by Elegant Themes is the most popular premium WordPress theme in the world, we use it as our standard Theme and Page Builder for sites we build because it creates beautiful, responsive sites and it is well maintained by its publishers.

WordPress Premium Plugins

WP Rocket

WP Rocket is a speed optimisation plugin for WordPress which implements a variety of speed-boosting features to your WordPress site.

Imagify

Speed up your website with lighter images without losing quality. Imagify is the most advanced image compression tool on the market and optimises your images directly in WordPress.

All in One SEO Pack Pro

Use the All in One SEO Pack to optimise your WordPress site for SEO. It’s easy and works out of the box for beginners, and has advanced features to get the most out of your Search Engine Optimisation.

Maintenance

WordPress Core, Themes & Plugins get constant updates, with new features, bug fixes and security updates. Most of the time these updates “just work” fine, but on a rare occasion they don’t, they may introduce a bug into your site, or cause a conflict with another plugin.

This is why we maintain the websites we build, we do daily backups of your website to two separate independent servers. We monitor for when there are updates for your Website, do another fresh Backup before we update your site and then double check that there hasn’t been any issues caused by the update.

We take care of the technical back end of having a WordPress Website so that you can concentrate on your content and business.