Professional Salon Web Design and Secure Online Salon Management Software

Salon Alchemy is a new way of getting the website you want for your business.

You no longer have to make do with a free or cheap website with templates that look the same as everyone else's, or pay out megabucks for a professionally designed website that you subsequently can't update yourself and costs the earth to pay someone to update every time you want to change some wording or add a new photo!

Salon Alchemy gives you the unbeatable combination of a bespoke website design tailored to you (using the graphic design skills of Verve Design who have an unparallelled reputation in the beauty industry for quality design at an affordable price), with a powerful, user-friendly web based system that makes it easy to update and maintain your website yourself.

Our pricing is affordable too - we pride ourselves on being able to offer a fully featured, bespoke designed 5-page website for £200 (including VAT) - and that includes a year's worth of web hosting too! After the first year, we can host your site for £50 (including VAT) per year - less than what some of our competitors charge.

Of course we are happy to work on larger and more complex sites too - we can even offer e-commerce sites with shopping carts - please get in touch for a quote and we hope that you will be pleasantly surprised by how much web site you can get for your money.

Although we specialise in web design for people working in beauty, hair, nails, tanning, make-up and holistics, we are also happy to design websites for other types of clients too, and have recently completed sites for a maker of Celtic jewellery, a public relations and events management company and a dance group - so we are sure to be able to create a website that is just right for you.

Affordable Pricing

Many professional web design companies charge hundreds of pounds for a simple website of a few pages, and then keep you locked in with long contracts that charge you over the odds for continuing to host your website each year too.

With us, there are no long-term contracts - you are free to move your website away at any time, although with our excellent customer service and affordable pricing, we'd hope that you'd want to stay with us!

Our prices start from £200 (including VAT) for a professionally designed 5-page website - and that includes a year of web hosting.

If you want a larger or more complex website, you'll be pleasantly surprised by our pricing too - each extra web page you need will cost you from £30 (including VAT) to set up.

After the first year, we can host your site for £50 (including VAT) per year - which is less money than what some of the cheap "template based" website providers charge!

Easy to Update Yourself

One difference that sets us apart from the majority of web design companies is that we've designed a user-friendly system that makes it easy for you to make changes to your website yourself, e.g.

This gives you the power to easily take control of your web site, and also saves you money, as we can offer you a better deal on our websites as we aren't having to spend as much time making changes to your website ourselves once it goes "live".

Quality Graphic Design

Salon Alchemy have teamed up with Verve - who have an excellent reputation and track record within the beauty industry for providing quality yet affordable graphic design (such as logos, websites, flyers and business cards).

You might have already invested in leaflets and marketing for your salon; if so, we can design your site to compliment your existing material and enhance your salon's brand identity (subject to copyright restrictions). Alternatively, you might want to start from scratch and go for something completely new. Either way, the choice is yours.

Technical Perfection

We aim to make our sites 100% compliant with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards, as we believe that this is better for accessibility, and compatibility with different web browsers. We test all our websites in Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, so you can be sure that your website will reach the widest possible audience.

Good Search Engine Optimisation

Although we don't make rash claims to get you to the top of Google, we take a no-nonsense, common sense approach to search engine optimisation, which we are happy to explain in plain English rather than shroud in technical jargon.

Often, the best thing you can do to get more hits to your site and get higher up the search engine results is simply to have more links in to your site from other websites - and there are lots of "free index" sites out there where you can add a link to your website for free - and other things you can do like setting up a Facebook page or group for your business and putting in links to your website from there.

Plus, our "Reciprocal Link Swapping" system makes it easy to request to swap links with other Salon Alchemy-powered websites - so even if you've got a new website, you'll find it easy to find other people to swap links with - which will soon start bringing in extra traffic to your website and get you noticed on Google and other search engines!

Fast and Reliable Hosting

All our websites are hosted from our own dedicated server at a secure data centre in the West Midlands with a super-fast connection to the Internet.

Friendly Customer Support

As a family-run business, we are delighted to offer a truly friendly and personal service to all our clients. You'll be dealing with real people, rather than faceless corporate bureaucracy! We're especially proud of the testimonials many of our clients have left for us. Please feel free to get in touch with us at any time if you have any queries about your website or related issues like receiving emails from your domain name.

COMING SOON - Secure Salon Software

As well as web design, we are also working on a secure Web-based salon management software system, which will integrate seamlessly with our websites, and will offer features like an appointment calendar, online appointment booking, email and SMS marketing and appointment reminders, and the ability to run an online shop from your website. We plan launch this at the Beauty UK show at the NEC in Birmingham on 25th and 26th April - please come and visit us at stall F49 (near the nail competition area).