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The services listed below are very much what you would expect from an established web design business, so we don't particularly feel the need to show you photos of a bank of web servers or smiley stock images of customer support operatives. What matters is the quality of the technology we use and the services we offer. | Web design services | | Every project is different, and every client has different ideas about how they want their website to look. Our job is to interpret the first ideas into a working website, so what you see in our portfolio is a combination of our design skills and client requirements. Often we start from scratch with no more than a few guide line colours to work with, but then we also have clients with an established company look or clear design ideas which we can develop into a finished site. It's not just how it looks, but designing a clear menu structure to make visiting the site an easy user experience, with room for expansion at a later date if required. The early stages of design are also the time to lay the foundations of industry best practice in terms of accessibility and compliance, with different levels required for different organizations. Ultimately we are only interested in creating website that will actually work, in generating new business or spreading whatever message is required. To this end we tend to advise against flashy intros and impact graphics, we work with design that is a subtle enhancement to your content, professional clear and uncluttered, and not just an advert for our design skills! Example: www.teresawicksteed.co.uk or www.kilmalyn.co.uk | | Content Management Systems (CMS) | | The more you can vary and update the content of your website, the more you are likely to attract repeat visitors and the better your search engine ranking will be. We have a range of options available to give you direct access to your content. From off the shelf software to the complete content driven website where all your content is editable from a single password protected back office. We are big fans of 'joomla' an open source package which gives you complete control of your website and incredible functionality for a fraction of the price of building a bespoke package. Example: 90% of our sites have cms enabled at different levels. | | Development and bespoke programming | | With some applications, you just can't get away from it, you need to build it from scratch. We build in php using MySQL database, this has the advantage that we can also build additional features into other established open source packages such as joomla or os-commerce. We rarely use boxed commercial software for e-commerce or content management as sooner or later you will run into a limitation and you end up designing your business around the limitations of the software, rather then developing the software to fulfill you business needs. Example: www.photo-fit.net | | e-commerce | | For large multi product applications, retail shops etc we use os-commerce. To build an application with this level of functionality would cost a fortune, yet here is a completely customizable system with complete product control, inventory control, secure payment, invoicing and shipping. For smaller applications we have our own bespoke system which we can develop to suit your requirements. Examples: os-commerce, www.fairfaxcookshop.com Bespoke, www.agnesflowers.co.uk | | Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) | | Without this your website will be invisible, and with it your website can be everything you thought it could be. It is a fact that a well constructed, optimized website will out perform a beautiful design every time, clearly both would be good but seo comes first. Its not so much of a mystery as some would have you think, but it does keep changing and you need to adjust your site to respond to those changes. Our aim is to show you everything you can do yourself, so you can have complete control over your website's performance and understand how to drive traffic to your site. For that to happen we have to construct your site correctly from the start to give you the best chance of success. Google 'fruit trees for sale' or 'the bowen technique' our sites are right where they need to be! | | On-line marketing | | In a competitive marketplace the free search listings are not always sufficient, then its time to market on-line. We have had some spectacular results with Google ad campaigns and we can help you achieve the same. | | Domain name, e-mail, webmail and web hosting services | | Standard services, but with the added reassurance that we are there to help you setup your e-mail account, answer queries, and generally the first point of call. | | Training provision | | We can provide and deliver training in all areas of website building and management. We built a range of training courses for Business Link in Somerset to give new website owners the tools to fully understand and manage their presence on the web. |
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