What - Our Services
Bespoke Website Design
Types Of Website
Outlined below are the most common types of websites created today:
- Brochure Style – This type of website is used to advertise your business, product or service in an informative and lively manner. The website focuses on fewer elements and is therefore able to concentrate user attention to your core business objectives. This type of site typically can have a more advanced graphical look and feel.
- Information, Government, Feedback – This type of website is to the point. It should be easy to use and information should be found quickly. The main focus of the site is to deliver information to the end user concisely and in a simple format.
- Online Catalogues – Used by businesses where they want to display their product range online but do not offer a purchase facility. Typically used by manufacturers to show what products they manufacture but do not sell individual items to the end user. It is used to attract business where by negotiations are usually key to prices and volume of goods sold.
- e-Commerce (Shopping) – Like an online catalogue but focused on the end user. This type of website displays all products available but has the additional feature of allowing the purchase of products by consumers. It also has a more sophisticated backend facility to allow the management of customers and orders.
- Forums – Designed to attract debate on various subject matters that may arise. Forums allow end users to view debates (often referred to as threads) and signup so that they can comment on a given topic. Forums can be useful to reduce costs in support of a product or service as you can let the end users help each other.
Process To Creating Your Website
- Understand Our Client – It is crucial that in order to know our target audience we know our client and what they are offering. We become involved in understanding your business, knowing your competitors and looking to help your business grow in the long term. This is achieved through onsite meetings to improve our knowledge of you and culture us in your ethos and business practices.
- System Analysis And Design – Based upon our understanding of what you are trying to achieve, we design all aspects of your website. We use industry standard best practices to create schematics of the website functionality. We constantly liase with our clients in order to achieve the right solution. This is one of the most important phases in any development lifecycle and taking the time to perfect the architecture of the website reduces errors and bugs in the long run.
- Look And Feel (Graphic Design) – Once we have agreed what the website needs to do in order to achieve your objectives we can look at how to create the most visually effective representation of the goals. Websites need to be easy on the eye whilst creating a stimulus to keep the end user entertained and happy. The happier the end user is, the more time they will spend on your website.
- Special Effects – This follows on from the graphic design phase and can add a greater level of entertainment and richness to your website. We can employ various mediums to achieve this. Some methods we use are Flash, Dynamic HTML, Movies, Music and Sound Effects.
- Production (Programming/Development) – The website is now ready to be created and our team of experienced web developers will implement the solution we have agreed to through the methods above. Any databases, business specific programming and special effects will be created.
- Testing – Once the website is created we will put it through its paces testing for any bugs that may exist. We understand the value of presenting your customers with a solid and reliable medium with which they engage your company. A website that has problems may mean that the company behind it might have problems too. We want to make sure your website is the face of your company online, a gleaming example and a happy experience for all.
- Launch – When we are all happy that the website is ready to launch to the public, we will agree a date to make the official launch. We will provide any training necessary to operate the website and prepare your company or organisation for its online life.
Technologies Used
- Microsoft .NET Framework (Programming)
- PHP (Programming)
- SQL Server 2005 (Databases)
- MySQL (Databases)
- Flash
- Movies
- Microsoft Windows Servers (Deployment)
- Linux Servers (Deployment)
