Web Design & DEVELOPMENT

CMS stands for Content Management System. A CMS system provides a way for you to update your website yourself - usually with your web browser and an internet connection.

It depends on the development time. Many companies work on a price per page but this can be misleading because certain designs may have very small pages with little content so they should be cheaper. A good information hierarchy should lead the user quickly by good navigation to the information they want, cramming as much content as possible onto pages to keep the page count and cost low is a bad approach.

Our solutions are all priced individually and typically start at £300 - £500 for a 5 - 10 page site in a one-off design. Of course, if existing branding is in place this is adopted and taken into account in prices.

There are a number of ways of doing this but perhaps the most effective is by creating an email newsletter service. We have done this many times for our clients and some have many thousands of subscribers. It works very simply by allowing visitors to add or remove their email address from a database. A simple admin area allows the site owner/administrator at any time to send an email to the subscribers. Other ways would be to have a forum or noticeboard or even a chatroom on the site. These options can be added to any website.

The obvious way of measuring the success of a site would be based on the number of enquiries or sales gained directly from the website but there are other ways of measuring its success. Gaining feedback from your visitors is a great way to understand the effectiveness of the website and more feedback can be "bought" by offering a prize draw for visitors helping with feedback. Easy and quick to setup and very effective. We can also advise on trackers that provide invaluable statistics based on visitor behaviour on your site and where they came from.

Yes indeed, all of our website are built using the latest CSS/HTML5 techniques and responsive frameworks. This makes them flexible, fast and responsive to modern browsers and different screen sizes/devices.

Yes in most cases we do help with copy. Sometimes corporate literature provides marketing information that can be tuned to this media. More often brochures are not suited to direct translation so new and amended copy must be created. We can advise on this and also help source suitable images if needed.

Typically a project would go like this:

1. Agree functional specification
2. Develop design concepts and agree look/feel
3. Develop prototype pages to test navigation, functionality
4. Fine tune pages. Add/refine copy
5. Final test of complete website
6. Upload website and test on live server
7. Submit to search engines
8. Measure visitor numbers and maintain site