Website
design that is attractive, efficient and fast-loading will
be an asset to your company, A poorly designed website
will be a liability. Navigation is a fundamental part
of website design. A website with poor navigation will
frustrate your website visitors causing them to leave
your website and click to another website, perhaps even
your competitors website!
Another important
aspect of website design is search engine friendliness.
There is little point in a brilliant website design
with all the whistles and bells, if the design techniques
used prevent or make it difficult for search engines
to spider. Your website design needs to take these
factors onto account when creating the website design.
Search engines are very busy and don't waste much time
trying to spider your website before moving on to the
next website.
We have built a
strong reputation as a top UK website design company
by consistently producing sites that look good, are
effective and search engine friendly web design that
catches the eye and meets the functional criteria needed
by the client. Affordable website design! Custom web design - the design tailored to meet your specific requirements.
Whether your requirements are for a simple brochure website
or a complex catalogue website selling online using SSL,
we will work with you to produce a website design that
will meet your company's needs. Make sure your website design company will work together with you closely on your new venture. There's no denying that there are lots of web design companies in the UK and whilst many are reputable, professional web designers, you still need to choose wisely. A good website design can be the cheapest and most effective marketing method for your company. As custom website designers we listen carefully to what you are wanting and work towards meeting your specific requirements.
The design of your new
website can be in line with your existing corporate identity
and promotional material, or if you prefer, we can create
a completely new website design. If you are not entirely
sure what type of website will be required to meet your
needs give us a call on 0845
166 2786, and we
can assist you in making an informed decision.
Features and Functionality
Below are
some of the features and functionality which can
be incorporated into your website design or indeed
if you already own a website we can add these features
to your existing website to improve either the design
or the functionality of your website.
Website Design - Creative Professional looking design
Recent studies suggestt visitors to your web site will make up their minds about the quality of your company within a mere second - that's not a lot of time for your website to make your companies' first impression!
Thankfully, we can help you retain those web visitors by developing a professional and stylish web site that will instantly convey a positive message about your business.
Website Content Management System (CMS)
A content management system
allows you to easily update the information on your
website. You can change both text and images, the
images being automatically resized to the optimum
size for your website. With a CMS website you can
add and remove products or change prices as many
time as you need. In most cases a content management
system can be add to an existing website. Website
design that moves with the times! Click
here for more detail on our content management systems
Selling
Online - Ecommerce - Online Shopping - Shopping
Portals - SSL
If you wish to sell online,
we can design your website so that the transactions
are processed via our secure
servers (SSL) through
our ecommerce
portal which utilises the latest
encryption methods to ensure that customer has
full confidence in your ecommerce website. Our secure on line
shopping portal allows you to configure many features
in order to meet your specific requirements. Alternatively
should you wish to use facilities provided by Worldpay,
Protex or any other companies who provide immediate
on line clearance of your payments we can interface
to them for you. Click
here for more detail
Website Search
Allows your
visitors to search your catalogue or your web pages
and find what they are looking for on your website
quickly. Your web visitors can enter search words and a
list of products or information matching the search
criteria is then displayed. It has bee proved that
if a search is incorporated into the website design
it increases your sales substantially
Client Login/Trade Login
If a client
or trade login is included in the website design
you can restrict parts of your web site to those
visitors for whom you have issued login details.
This section is generally designed to meet your specific
requirements.
Download Sections
Allows you to upload PDF files
to your website for your visitors to download for off-line
reading. Can also be used to add Zip files and MS Word/Excel
files or similar to your website. If you already have
hard copies of your brochures which you wish to add
to your website we can convert them to PDF
files for you for you to upload to your website.
Feedback Forms
The website
design can incorporate
feedback forms into various parts of the website.
These website forms can be tailored to your exact
requirements in order to capture specific information
from your visitors.
Product Catalogue
Websites
Products can
be grouped into categories and displayed as "thumbnail" lists
on the website with "click
for detail" drill down pages on each product.
These catalogues are generally maintained by
the client using a content management system
(CMS). We design the CMS system to match
the client's specifications.
Photo Gallery
Allows you to add
your our pictures to your website. A typical use
of this design module would be a builder or bathroom design
company or even a photographer, displaying perhaps
photographs of their work. We can add this website
design feature to your current website or indeed
incorporate a picture gallery facility into the design
of your new website.
Links Page
This page allows
you maintain your own list of website links. You
can enter a website name and description along
with the web address and upload pictures or banners
to the web page. This feature is becoming very popular
as some of the search engines are using 'link
popularity" as part
of the criteria which they use in order to determine
their listings.
Search Engine Meta Tag Management Facility
This facility allows
you to change the key meta tags which are used
by some of the search engines to index your website.
This feature means that should you be for instance "launching" a
new product, you can instantly get this product
into your keywords. You can also update the meta
tags on the individual pages of your website.
Calculator Wizards
It may be that you use your own formulas
or algorithms to calculate you customers requirements.
We can design input forms for you to enable your
visitors to enter relevant information and then either
calculate the answer or if appropriate return a list
of suitable products. This can link into your catalogue
and E-Commerce modules. We can incorporate calculator wizards as features into your current website design - retaining the look and feel of your website or alternatively if we are designing for you a new website we can design to your specifications.
Post
Code Search
This type of search
is typically used to help the website visitor
to find the nearest branch, supplier or
installer etc. This feature can easily be included in your website design.
Website Maintenance
Website maintenance - does your company require website maintenance. Eveb if you have the necessary skills - updating your website can be time consuming. If your website does not have a content management system and you would like to add or alter the text, change images, add additional website page or arrange that a shopping cart/basket be added to your website then we can help you. Click
here for more detail on website maintenance
Sitemaps
It has become
popular to include a "sitemap" into the website design. A sitemap can easily be added to your existing website and it does serve two purposes. The first being that your website visitors can see at a glance whether your website contains a specific webpage. ,this makes navigation of your website even better. Secondly - the sitemap is good for the search engines as once they "spider" the
sitemap they are speedily led to all the web pages
in your website. This helps them to index your all
your web pages.
Google Sitemaps
A google sitemap is also fast now becoming another website design feature which website owners are adding to their sites.Google has launched a free service , Google Sitemaps, which allows you to send them a map of your website in XML format. Search Engines are the most important way that most webses generate new traffic. Google is the largest and most widely used search engine throughout the World. The Google crawler uses this google sitemap map to improve coverage of your content. according to the specific information you provide about page locations, modification frequency, and more.
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here for more detail on google sitemaps.....
Web Hosting
Once you have your website designed you will of course need to arrange that your website is placed on a machine which is connected to the internet 24hrs each day, every day. (this is called website hosting). We offer excellent web hosting packages. You can host your website on one of our high performance servers based in the UK, which will ensure that it loads for your website visitors every time and that it also loads speedily.
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here for more detail on website hosting.....
Spam Filtering - Filter Your Spam Emails
We provide an excellent email spam filtering service. Whether or not you choose to host with us you can take advantage of the Spam Filtering Service Offer. Spam is a major plague, and it can make email a nuisance. But there is something you can do about unsolicited email. Spam Filtering is effective filtering to automatically spot spam emails from even reaching your mailbox. The power and reliability you need to reclaim and maintain control of your email.. Spam filtering prevents unwanted, mass e-mails from entering your in-box.
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If you would like to discuss your website design requirements
- click here for a free no obligation web design quotation
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