Jottful is a software company, not a design agency. We use our software to build and manage made-to-order websites for small businesses.

A designer or agency will:

• Be able to design you a fully-customized website
• Be more expensive
• Take longer to deliver your website
• Probably not handle ongoing maintenance of your website
• Charge you any time you need to make changes to your website after it has been launched

Though Jottful is a software company, it is not do-it-yourself software. We actually build and manage our customers’ websites for them.

With Jottful:

• You don’t have to build your own website! We do it for you. (whew!)
• You don’t need to learn how to use new software.
• You don’t need to know anything about website design or marketing. Don’t worry; we’ll make sure your website design looks polished and it incorporates all the marketing and technical best practices.

• Attractive, polished, one-of-a-kind design so you look professional
• Mobile-responsive design so your website looks and works great on every device, including smartphones and tablets
• Free website hosting and help getting your website launched online
• Free ongoing support provided by real (helpful!) people — at no additional cost
• Our “magical” click-to-make-changes editor so you can make simple changes to your website yourself without having to learn how to use new software
• Free SSL/TLS (security) certificate so your website will be secure
• Search engine optimization (SEO)-ready so people can find you online
• Speedy page load times so your visitors won’t be forced to wait for your website to appear
• Ongoing upgrades, backups, and downtime monitoring so you won’t have to worry about any of that technical maintenance
• Integrations with your other software, such as email marketing platforms, appointment-booking software, applicant-tracking software, your social media accounts, Google calendar, and donation programs, to name a few

Absolutely! Your website will feature your text, your images, your brand colors, your logo and a visual look-and-feel that matches your brand’s personality. We’ll organize everything so it’s easy for your website visitors to navigate the website and take the action you want them to take.

Absolutely! Jottful websites use “mobile-responsive” design, so your website will look and work great on every device, including smartphones and tablets.

Yes, indeed! All Jottful websites include a free security certificate. There’s absolutely no cost or hassle to you.

All Jottful websites are “SEO-ready,” meaning that they are built in a technical way that makes it easy for search engines to understand them. This is the first step in having a website that is optimized for search engines. The second step is to update your website’s content — such as page titles, descriptions, and other text — to use the language (or “keywords”) that your website’s visitors are likely to use when they search for you. For this, we recommend you engage an SEO professional; we can recommend a professional who provides discounted service specifically for Jottful customers.

Certainly! Most domain names cost between $15-$25 per year. Once we know which name you’d like, we can check to see if it’s available and how much it would cost to purchase. When you purchase a domain name through Jottful, we’ll also set it to automatically renew each year, so you won’t have to worry about losing it because you forgot to renew it.

Absolutely! You can keep your domain with your current registrar or, if you like, you can move it over to Jottful. It’s all the same to us.

Sure! Jottful is a Certified Google G Suite Partner, which means we can set you up with a business email account that will use the familiar Gmail software and feature your custom domain name (e.g., hello@yourbusiness.com). Business email accounts cost just $6 per month, or $72 per year.

We don’t design logos at Jottful, however:

• We may be able to recommend a Jottful Community designer to you with that skill set
• We can provide a “creative brief” you can use to communicate your needs with your designer
• We can build your website with your name instead of a logo. So, if you don’t have one, don’t worry — you don’t need one!

At Jottful we don’t provide marketing services, but we should be able to refer you to a Jottful Community partner who can help. Just let us know your needs and we’ll see if we can make a connection!

A Jottful website costs $59 – $99 per month, plus a one-time setup fee.

The monthly fee covers access to our software, customer support, assistance making updates to your website, technical maintenance, security, and hosting. We don’t nickel-and-dime you by charging extra for hosting, security certificates, plugins, and so on. It’s just simple, all-in-one pricing and you can choose to pay monthly or yearly — whatever is most convenient for you.

We also don’t charge big setup fees like an agency or designer would. To build your website we charge $149 per page — and we’ll reduce that to just $99 per page when you sign up within 24 hours of your demo.

Absolutely! We’ll create a homepage design for your firm, for free, so you can see if you like. Go ahead and request your free homepage design now.

Nope; you can cancel at any time.

Think of Jottful as being like a scrapbook: we provide the book, you provide all the text and images. If you choose to leave Jottful, we’ll give you all your text and images back and you can use them to fill up a new “scrapbook.” In other words, you can take all your content to a designer, agency, or software program and use it to build a new website.

Nope!

Nope; we include website hosting in our monthly fee. If you already pay for hosting elsewhere, you can turn that off once your Jottful website launches.

You’ll need to provide us with all the text and images you’d like to use on your website. If you don’t have this content now, we may be able to help you find someone in Jottful Community who can create it. In addition to this, we’ll ask you questions such as:

• What you want to accomplish with the website (e.g., get appointments, receive donations, etc.)?
• What two colors do you want to use?
• Do you have a preference for the name of pages or the overall website navigation?
• If you’ll have a contact form on your website, what information would you like to collect with that form?

Once you provide your text and images, one of our Producers will build your website for you. Our Producers are trained in website marketing best practices and design. Plus, they’re friendly and helpful!

If you have your own text, we’ll use that. If you need some text written, we may be able to help you find a writer.

We’ll work with you to identify a visual look-and-feel (aka: “style”) that matches your brand’s personality. That style will determine such things as what fonts are used and what size the text will be. You’ll select two brand colors and provide your logo, the text, and photos you want to use (or suggest edits to photos we find for you). You can tell us to move sections around on a page or put them on different pages.

We’ll honor your requests where our styles permit and we’ll tell you if there’s something we can’t do. If you want to choose your own fonts or you consider yourself to be picky about design, we are probably not the right solution for you.

Your website will be built for your business, with your text, your images, your brand colors, and your logo. We’ll arrange everything in a way that makes it easy for your website visitors to find what they need. We’ll also work with you to select an overall visual look-and-feel that matches your brand’s personality.

When your website is ready to launch, we’ll get on a call with you to walk you through the process. It’s super easy. If we purchased your domain for you — or you transferred your domain to us — we’ll just go ahead and do the launch ourselves once you give us the thumbs up. And then you’ll be live!​

You can use our “magical” editor to make most of the text and image updates you need, as well as to write blog posts. For bigger changes, such as adding a new page, you can simply send an email to our team and we’ll go ahead and make the change for you. That’s right! We don’t disappear once your website is launched. We’re here to support you on an ongoing basis.

All Jottful websites are “SEO-ready,” meaning that they are built in a technical way that makes it easy for search engines to understand them. This is the first step in having a website that is optimized for search engines. The second step is to update your website’s content — such as page titles, descriptions, and other text — to use the language (or “keywords”) that your website’s visitors are likely to use when they search for you. For this, we recommend you engage an SEO professional; we can recommend a professional through Jottful Community.

When your website is ready to launch, we’ll get on a call with you to walk you through the process. It’s super easy. If we purchased your domain for you — or you transferred your domain to us — we’ll just go ahead and do the launch ourselves once you give us the thumbs up. And then you’ll be live!

Certainly! Most domain names cost between $15-$25 per year. Once we know which name you’d like, we can check to see if it’s available and how much it would cost to purchase. When you purchase a domain name through Jottful, we’ll also set it to automatically renew each year, so you won’t have to worry about losing it because you forgot to renew it.

Absolutely! You can keep your domain with your current registrar or, if you like, you can move it over to Jottful. It’s all the same to us.

Yes, you certainly can. Many of our customers prefer to keep all of their website “stuff” with Jottful, to make it easier to manage. We’ll set it to auto-renew so you won’t have to worry about forgetting to renew it and risking losing it.

Nope; we include website hosting in our monthly fee. If you already pay for hosting elsewhere, you can turn that off once your Jottful website launches.