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Websites & ongoing care

Website design, development & maintenance

TechTenstein designs and develops business websites from India, so customers can understand your business and take the next step. Website as a Service starts with a scoped build; ongoing care is optional and separately agreed.

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Who this is for

Service businesses, consultancies and small teams that need an enquiry, booking or sales website.

What we can scope

  • A page plan built around your services and customer questions
  • Responsive design and an accessible enquiry flow
  • Search-friendly page structure and a migration plan for existing URLs
  • A launch checklist, handover and optional scoped maintenance

Website as a Service · proposal-based

Website as a Service.
Know what you buy. Know what you keep.

A build is a defined project. Care is a separate, optional agreement—not an automatic subscription or unlimited development. Compare Website as a Service with a one-time build.

THE BUILD

A website ready for its agreed job.

  • Page and content plan around the visitor's next action
  • Responsive design, implementation and enquiry or booking journey
  • Agreed accessibility, search and performance checks
  • Launch review, account list and handover materials

The proposal names the exact pages, content, integrations, revisions and acceptance checks.

OPTIONAL MONTHLY CARE

Keep the agreed site operating.

  • Agreed update and maintenance allowance
  • Backups, security updates and checks where the selected stack supports them
  • Issue triage and a defined contact/response process
  • A review of material changes and the next priority

The care proposal names the cadence, support hours, exclusions and third-party costs. New features are scoped separately.

OWNERSHIP & EXIT

Your business should not depend on an unclear handover.

Your domain and business content remain yours. Before work starts, the proposal identifies who controls hosting and accounts, what rights you receive in the finished design and code, and which third-party licences apply. If care ends, the agreed notice, exportable content/data, deliverables, access transfer and any outstanding charges are stated in advance. No care plan starts without that exit path.

How the project runs

Six checkpoints from brief to handover.

A website build follows the same six checkpoints as every TechTenstein project. For a replacement site, the URL plan is agreed in the scope and tested before and after launch.

  1. Define the outcome. Start with the users, the task, constraints and how you will judge success.
  2. Agree scope and fees. The proposal defines deliverables, milestones, review rounds, dependencies, ownership and ongoing costs.
  3. Review the design. Review the page or screen flow before committing to implementation.
  4. Build and test. Implementation proceeds through reviewable milestones, with agreed functionality, accessibility, security and performance checks.
  5. Approve and launch. You approve the release. Domain, hosting and app-store access are handled through scoped access, and store reviews remain external decisions.
  6. Handover and care. Receive the agreed source, access and operation notes. Any maintenance plan is optional and defines its tasks, limits and third-party costs.
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Optional monthly care

Website maintenance
and care

Care keeps the agreed site operating. It is not unlimited development.

Choose a build with care if nobody in-house owns the site after launch, if the site carries enquiries, bookings or sales you cannot afford to lose to a broken form, or if you want a named process for triage and a regular review of what to fix next. Choose a one-time build if someone on your team can apply updates, check backups and fix small issues. You can also start with a build and add care later; the handover materials and account list make that switch easier with any provider.

Website Operations is the evidence layer behind care: it audits a controlled set of public pages, keeps the evidence for each finding, and marks an issue verified only when it no longer appears in new evidence. Managed Care, where TechTenstein reviews, implements and verifies agreed corrections within defined support limits, requires a proposal.

Replacing an existing site

Website and WordPress migration

Replacing a site means deciding which URLs to preserve, merge or retire, then testing redirects and search signals. A replacement build includes that URL plan, whether the current site runs on WordPress, a hosted website builder or a custom application.

  1. Back up the current site and inventory every existing URL before anything changes.
  2. Give each URL an explicit decision: rebuild it, keep it, redirect it or retire it.
  3. Redirect with a 301 only where a genuinely equivalent page exists. Return 410 when nothing replaces a page, rather than sending visitors to the homepage.
  4. Check route outcomes, canonicals, sitemap inclusion, HTTPS and rollback evidence before and after cutover.

We applied this method to our own website. How we migrated TechTenstein from WordPress explains how each of 540 legacy routes received a decision; it is a first-party project note, not a client case study. To size your own replacement, use the website migration risk planner. Search rankings after a migration are not guaranteed.

What is agreed, and what is not promised.

Hosting, third-party subscriptions, copywriting, e-commerce and ongoing changes are itemised in the proposal. Your domain and business content remain yours. Code, design, licensed components, support limits and an export/handover path are stated before work begins. A care plan is not unlimited development. Search rankings and sales are not guaranteed.

We confirm scope, fees, timelines and ownership in the project agreement. A brief is an enquiry, not a purchase or a promise of delivery.

How the project process works →

Free · no email required

Free tools to prepare
your brief.

Use these before you request a proposal. They organise the decisions; they are not quotes or proof of results.

Website cost & scope planner

Answer five short questions to see a page outline, the main cost drivers and the questions to settle before a quote. It does not invent a price.

Website health audit

Check up to five public pages of your current site for search, accessibility, content, conversion and security issues.

Website audit checklist

A manual checklist for the customer journey, search access, phone performance and enquiry handling.

Combine in one reviewed scope

Related work can be combined in one reviewed scope. We do not bundle unrelated deliverables merely to make a project larger.

Before you start

Frequently asked questions

What is Website as a Service?

At TechTenstein, Website as a Service is a scoped website build followed by optional monthly care that is agreed separately. Care covers an agreed update and maintenance allowance, backups, security updates, issue triage and a regular review. It is not an automatic subscription or unlimited development, and new features are scoped separately.

Who owns the website if I stop paying for care?

Your domain and business content remain yours. Before work starts, a TechTenstein proposal states who controls hosting and accounts, what rights you get in the design and code, and which third-party licences apply. It also sets out the notice period, data export, access transfer and any outstanding charges if care ends.

Can you migrate an existing WordPress website?

Yes, as a scoped replacement. Every existing URL gets an explicit decision: rebuild it at the same address, redirect it with a 301 to a genuinely equivalent page, or retire it with a 410. Redirects, canonicals and the sitemap are checked before and after cutover. We used this method on our own site, where each of 540 legacy routes received a decision. Rankings after a migration are not guaranteed.

How much does a business website cost?

TechTenstein does not publish fixed prices. A build depends on the pages, content, integrations, revisions and acceptance checks; care depends on the cadence, support hours, exclusions and third-party costs. The free website cost and scope planner shows what drives the cost, and a reviewed proposal states the price.

Does a website care plan guarantee rankings or more leads?

No. A care plan keeps an agreed site operating; it does not buy search rankings, traffic, leads or revenue. Any approved performance target, and how it will be measured, must be written into the project agreement before work starts.

Your next step

Tell us what
you have in mind.

You don’t need a perfect specification to start. You can also email contact@techtenstein.com.

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