Bespoke Websites
Five phrases describe the website that we believe every client deserves:
1) Googleable!
We are often recommended to people as the "search-engine-friendly" web design agency. This is because over many years we have developed a set of company standards to ensure that major search engines can easily locate your content and key phrases.
For example, we use open tools to ensure your code is error-free. It is surprising how many "professional" websites fail that basic text and risk losing out on their search results.
We use a highly recommended format called "tableless XHTML" to ensure your content comes up quickly without a lot of style formatting getting in the way. We position key phrases in tags, metatags, filenames, menus and your web sitemap!
These are just some of the measures we implement behind the scenes to ensure your website is search-friendly.
2) Manageable
We provide all hosted clients with a system that allows you to make all kinds of updates to your website at the touch of a button without incurring expensive hourly service charges.
You can easily add dozens of new pages at your heart's delight and change your text, links, bullet points, images and file downloads at the touch of a button.
We regularly receive praise for the simplicity of our system since it avoids confusing you with an overload of information. Another advantage is that the way in which your content gets updated ties in with keeping your website search-engine-friendly.
To pick just one example of this, every time you add a page our system automatically alerts Google to let them know (by adding it to an XML sitemap registered directly with them).
3) Functional
Our system is packed with features that can help persuade your home page visitors to click through, further explore what you have to offer and ideally part with their contact details so that you stay in touch with them.
The next version of our system is scheduled to come out in June and we are committed to keep adding new features that help move your visitors ever-closer to the point of sale.
4) Branded
Most websites have a very high "bounce rate" off the home page because people take one look at them and click away without necessarily even reading any text.
In the first instance, the home page needs to look not only trustworthy and professional but also create a positive visual impression that encourages the user to explore further by reading text and clicking through to inside pages. Feel free to check out our design portfolio for examples by clicking below.
Our process is designed to ensure that we are always moving in the right direction so you get the most out of our creativity. We only build once we have delivered a "mockup" to your satisfaction, which is posted for you online and can also be edited in real time with you over the phone.
5) Accessible
Did you know that your website may not appear properly on different monitors, browsers and operating systems? We agonise over the way we build our sites to ensure that they display consistently across different browsers and platforms.
We also make website that are highly disabled-friendly, and have received many compliments on how easy our sites are for use by blind and other disabled users.
