Website Design

Building websites effectively, both from a design perspective and an optimisation (SEO) perspective requires skill. It is unfortunate that far too many people (just like with SEO) decide to call themselves a website designer and the extend of their knowledge goes as far as installing a content management system or they still think best practice web design is building pages using frames and tables.

Professional website design starts way before build phase, it should start at understanding the customer, understanding the target market, the future user's of the website. Only then can a design strategy be initiated and as with everything, requires a plan, design planning.

Platforms We Can Work With

We can work with any opensource platform in any language, just a selection of some of the software and/or content management systems we are familiar with inside out, include:-

Wordpress
Joomla
Drupal
ExpressionEngine
MODx
Elgg
Boonex Dolphin
Pligg
Umbraco
XOOPS
Movable Type

There are hundreds of other readily available opensource scripts on the web, some more suited for what you wish to achieve than others. We will have the knowledge and expertise to work with any of these but in the event you want something built completely bespoke, whether ecommerce or otherwise, then we can also build you a platform complete with administration area for you to manage your content as well (costs and timescales for bespoke projects will be significantly higher).

Ecommerce

If you're specifically looking for design services for an ecommerce website/project, then you would find more relevant content at our ecommerce web design page.

What is it?

Website design is simply the build and front end visualisation of a website, often from a design/visual concept created in professional software such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Fireworks.

It is often a required for a web designer to have a good understanding of frameworks, development languages and databases. The implementation of very basic static websites formed with a small amount of pages is very rare now and to produce dynamic content based on templates/themes will almost certainly require a knowledge of PHP/ASP.net and MySQL.

Why you need it?

Why You Need It?

Everyone on the web is competing and when there is so much choice available, if you aren't impressing your target audience as soon as they are landing on your website, then there is a higher risk of you losing them to one of your competitors.

As part of first impressions, the design, functionality and usability of your website will all play a big role on whether a visitor stays on your website for more than a minute or two.

How we work?

We'll work with you to deliver an optimal website tailored specifically to your requirements and to within your budget constraints.

Before we begin the build phase of your project, we will listen to your ideas, make notes on your current website (if applicable) and branding and produce design concepts based on these. The final concept will be approved by you in image format befre we start integrating the design into the structure of your website.

How much will it cost?

Costs can vary largely depending on the functionality required and whether large parts of the site will be built bespoke.

We can produce CMS websites (such as Wordpress) from as little as £299. We can produce completely bespoke CMS's or ecommerce websites from anything between £4,999 to in excess of £20,000.