It is important that your web site reflects your corporate
image, if you are a business, organisation or society. We will
suggest a design for your consideration incorporating your logo,
banner or corporate style. Perhaps you already have a business
or organisation brochure, which you would like your site to
reflect. We can bring your ideas to life.
It would be beneficial to have a banner available to promote
your business on a mutual exchange basis with other websites
to link to yours and vice versa. We can work up a design for
this and make it available for webmasters or site managers to
download so as to automatically link to your site.
Web users tend to get frustrated if a home page takes a
long time to load and look elsewhere. This means that you have
missed out on a potential customer or member. We will use a
fairly simple design for the site home page but, nevertheless,
presenting your image and message clearly, thereby encouraging
users to explore your site further.
If you require a personal web site, we can suggest different
designs to you or build one around your own design.
First of all, we will take note of your ideas and your marketing
philosophy. We will undertake a study of the sites of your competitors
or those similar to yours if you are an organisation and let
you have our findings, so that you can make an informed decision
about the style and content of your own site. You can either
supply us with a template with text and ideas for images, or
you can leave the site content and images to us to work a design
style based on your initial ideas.
Visual quality is vital, as is ease and simplicity of navigation
- what you do not want is a customer to get into the depths
of your site without knowing how to get back to the home page.
Pages must be clear and user-friendly. We will optimise your
images so that they download quickly. Your site content will
be grammatically correct and spell-checked. We will not include
animations or "bells and whistles", unless you have
a particular need for them or unless they serve a very useful
purpose, as we believe that they detract from the professionalism
and message that you are endeavouring to convey to your potential
customers or members. On our first portfolio site (see home
page), we have included an animation to draw attention to
the fact that the band can be booked online and to encourage
bookings. Where you do require a tweak like this, we will optimise
it, so as not to affect the speed of page loading too much.
All images will be optimised for speedy loading and we can
incorporate various response facilities into the page designs.
We will also include a site counter, which will give you a complex
recording facility so you can see where your visitors came from
(eg. which search engine directed them to your site) and the
monthly percentage visitors from each source. It will also record
the number of daily visits.
We will maintain a consistent design flow throughout the
site and test your site on all the major browsers and at the
two main screen resolutions (800x600 and 1024x768 pixels).
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