Website Design and Build
Our primary area of expertise is website design and build. You may
think that the two go hand-in-hand for any web designer, but this isn't
always the case. Some web designers can design with some building skills,
others can build websites but have poor design skills.
Content Management Systems (CMS)
A Content Management System (CMS) provides a means of enabling a website
owner to manage the content displayed on their website.
This gives the website owner control over how and when content is
added to their website. This can be particularly useful for websites
that include frequently changing information such as news articles
or press releases.
Another benefit of incorporating a CMS in to your website is that
the ongoing cost of updating your website is reduced, as updates are
performed in-house rather than relying on someone like us to make the
updates.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Everyone would like their website to appear at the top of Google.
The skills required to achieve good search engine positioning are quite
specialised and there are a large number of search engine optimisation
specialists out there.
You can pay thousands of pounds for ongoing search engine optimisation
of your website, and this is sometimes necessary for websites competing
with hundreds of other competitors. However, this is not always needed
to achieve the results you need.
The basis of achieving good search engine positioning is a well built
website. This means a website built in a technically proficient way
so as to be 'search engine friendly'. From a technical point of view
it's how we build the website from the ground up that sets a foundation
for good search engine positioning.
We build all of our websites to be search engine friendly, and we
have achieved some good results without our clients needing to spend
thousands of pounds on a specialised SEO company.
For more specialised requirements, such as highly competitive industries,
we work with a number of selected SEO specialists who achieve great
results for our clients.
Website Maintenance Contracts
Most websites will need some updating or changing from time to time.
We perform ongoing updates for a number of our clients as well as support
and advice.
We offer all of our clients a flexible maintenance contract that can
be taken out once their website is live. A number of pre-determined
hours can be purchased and these can be used at any time as support
or updates are required by the client.
Some benefits of our website maintenance contracts include;
- Reduced administration and control of your ongoing costs
- Online support call logging via our support system
- Reduced hourly rate over our standard hourly rate
Website Hosting
Every website requires hosting. A website host is the server on which
your website files, images and data reside. These specialist servers
are configured to send your website pages to a user looking at your
website when they request them.
We use a trusted third-party hosting company to host all of our websites.
We do this as they are equipped to provide a hosting service that is
monitored, secure and fast. The hosting company provide the server
on which our customers websites reside.
We provide our clients with competitive hosting for their website
if required. If you have your own hosting arranged then we can usually
work with them too, we don't insist that the clients we design websites
for use our hosting.
