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I’ve been involved with a residential property management firm in Birmingham who have been looking into slicker ways of dealing with enquiries on the internet, particularly from existing tenants and residents as opposed to say any new-business enquires (however it will indirectly help with new business as it’s an important service that can be offered for new clients).

Last month’s free website design I helped with was www.rite-price-building-services.co.uk. A local building company I’ve been involved with who do a good local job, and we got onto the subject of websites as I spotted that one wasn’t mentioned on their works van. They had one ages ago but it hadn’t been viable to keep on, and they had been hit by one of the bigger companies offering the world for only so much per month (they had treated him to coffee, and talked about a flashy new website costing hundreds of pounds and then monthly charges for hosting and keeping updated).

There’s an interesting article in the Peterborough Telegraph on how you should account for any website development costs in your business accounts so they are correctly taxed. To date a new website has just been perceived as another form of advertising/marketing or IT cost to a business like any other costs such as newspaper adverts or servers, wheres now the HMRC are seeing them as a whole new entity.