Website Design

Every website we design is a completely bespoke job from scratch and built in our industry-leading content management system. We do not use any templates! Read here why a bespoke website design is worth the investment over a template or cheap off-the-shelf website

Our content management system with its unsurpassed functionality allows for your website to be much more than just a website. We can combine content management, customer management, full e-commerce abilities, email marketing, sophisticated reporting and impressive other add-ons all into your website now or in the future making it an integrated and productive part of your business or organisation. Not to mention the money, time and headaches you'll save yourself running all this important business and brand-building functionality from one system instead of five different ones!

Our system allows for your website to be fully future-proof as we offer impressive functionality as modular add-ons (please see our Website Add-ons) as and when you need it now or in the future.

Here an overview of the features that come as standard with every website designed in our system:

This service includes:

• In depth telephone consultation
• Totally bespoke home page and "inner page" design, completely in line with your brand and required website functionality, NOT based on templates, including 2 rounds of changes if required
• If not already existent, we will come up with a colour scheme in line with your brand strategy
• If not already existent, we will choose the best suited fonts for your website (with the usual restrictions for font usage on websites)
• Professional photo retouching, editing and manipulation of any supplied photos that become part of the overall design scheme where necessary
• Custom creation of relevant illustrative elements (for very complex illustrations you will also need to purchase our illustration package or we may be able to buy in suitable and cost-effective stock illustrations)
• Page background design where part of the design scheme
• Bespoke button designs, we strongly recommend CSS styled buttons over images for best cross-browser performance, in line with your branding
• Bespoke navigation system, in line with your branding and website functionality
• Integration and styling of your first main contact form (with optional mandatory fields and anti-spam-bot image validation) in line with your branding with bespoke landing page (which users will see after submitting the form), auto responder (the email users will receive to thank them their form submission) and workflow set-up
• Bespoke Favicon design and implementation
• Once the design has your sign-off, we will custom-programme the home and content page design in accessible and search-engine-friendly CSS/ XHTML. We also programme your bespoke design scheme so it can be re-produced for every page by our content management system. In essence, this is where we take the design and make it into a fully managed, working website which is ready to have words and images added to it by yourself
• Clear, attractive and user- as well as search-engine-friendly content presentation on up to 3 pages - e.g. Home Page, About us Page, Contact Page (copy and any images to be supplied by you but we are happy to give content a design polish and general proof-reading)
• We will carry out testing and adjustments where necessary to ensure your website looks and functions correctly across all the major browsers including IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome
• Search-engine optimisation including: Search-engine-friendly URLs, xml sitemap generation and ongoing automatic updated sitemap submission to all the major search engines
• Telephone training for our content management system
• For any future queries regarding the content management system, you will be entitled to telephone support from us as per your chosen hosting & support package. As part of this, you will also have access to an extensive online knowledge base/user manual and an unlimited number of email support tickets
• We recommend you buy any add-ons you need from day one at the same time as this design package, or at least advise us of add-ons likely to be needed in the future so we can design and build your website with these in mind for more coherent design and usability