Websites

We can do everything for your website, or just take on particular tasks as you require them.

Design

Consultancy is an important part of website design, so we take time to understand you and your organisation, to determine exactly what your website is required to do. As your website is an extension of your business premises it has to have the right look and feel. It has to create the right impression. And it has to be useful to the people who will be visiting it.

The design process includes deciding on images, layouts, colour schemes. It involves the design of buttons, menus, graphics. And it has to take into account the level of sophistication of your users.

Everyone with a vested interest, from the marketing team to the receptionist, may have important input for the design of the website. We are happy to run an interactive planning and design session with all the relevant people, if you wish.

Development

We can develop your website for you, either from our design work, or from designs you have decided on. While we are developing we place regular updates on a test website location, so you can see how it is going, determine if you like the look, and have input during the development stage. Tell us early if you don't like a colour scheme or a button design, and we will change it.

Your site might be static (ie fixed content, which is cheaper and easier to implement), or might be database driven if you will want to make changes to the content yourself on a regular basis.

We develop using HTML, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and other technologies as we require them.

**If you have a club or other organisation with an event calendar we have a Club Website template which, with minimal set up, you can keep updated and relevant yourself, with no programming experience required**

Maintenance

Much of your website may stay the same for a long period of time. However, some of it may change, and change often. We can look after the maintenance of the site, changing it as often as required - daily, weekly, seasonally. You might like to have a monthly newsletter added to the site; up-and-coming events; new products as they are launched; a joke-of-the-week. You may even like to change the style every so often, just to keep it fresh. You might have seen a special effect on another website, and want similar on yours!

Much of your website may stay the same for a long period of time. However, some of it may change, and change often. We can look after the maintenance of the site, changing it as often as required - daily, weekly, seasonally. You might like to have a monthly newsletter added to the site; up-and-coming events; new products as they are launched; a joke-of-the-week. You may even like to change the style every so often, just to keep it fresh. You might have seen a special effect on another website, and want similar on yours!

We can make all these changes for you, so you never need to learn a web-authoring tool! [Alternately, we can just pass all the code over to you, for you to edit if you wish.]

Packages depend on how much you want to change how often and how quickly, but we'll be cheaper than you buying the software to do it yourself - even if you do have the time to do it!

We can also take over the maintenance of your existing website if you wish.

Hosting

While we don't have our own servers, we can look after the hosting of your website. We partner with a number of Internet Service Providers, so we can get the most appropriate deal for you. This will depend on whether you want other Internet Services (such as email or Internet access), and other requirements (such as scripting, databases, password protection, web statistics and the like).

Your hosting fee will appear on your invoice from us, so you don't need to deal with a service provider direct.

Support

While it is not our core business, we can assist with basic IT support, such as domain name registration, email set up, and the like. We can also set up email forwarding, mailboxes, and assist you and your staff as required.

We are here to help you, and are happy to work with you and your existing IT suppliers.

Our approach

You'll notice a difference from the start - because we won't start by talking websites and technology and buzzwords - we'll start by discussing what your company does now and what it wants to do in the future.

We think websites are more than computers and design. When done properly, they involve all facets of your business, from marketing, to branding, to your bottom line. They save you time and money.

When done badly, they can cost you lost business and worse.

We approach your website design and implementation from a business perspective - it's an extension of your business premises, so it must have the right look and feel, it must reflect what you want from your company. It must have a positive effect on the whole company.

We have marketing, sales and general consultancy skills, and many years experience. So we make websites that serve a purpose - to sell your products, to promote your business or services, to speak your designated audience.

We reckon it is better to have a website that shows off your company and its products/services, and that provides information to your target audience, rather than it show off our webmaster skills.