web design

Simple Sites | e-commerce | Complex Sites | intranet


Web Site Design & Creation : simple sites
Your requirement is what could be described as a simple site - a home page, subsequent pages with product or service information, a contact page and an e-mail link back to you. It requires your logo, some supporting images and stylish buttons to move around. It has to work in all the principle browsers and on all the main operating systems and be quick, slick, professional and reflect your corporate style and aspirations.

You've written some of the text and gathered most of the pictures - what's next?

You need three things:
  1. An ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host your site
  2. A registered domain name (e.g. one of ours is www.site-designs.co.uk)
  3. Someone (hopefully us!) to build the site and put it out there

What does all this cost?

  1. There's loads of ISP's out there ranging from free (e.g. Freeserve) for personal sites to around �15 a month for a business site with more server space than you need plus lots of e-mail addresses.
    We've found that NetNation offer a very efficient and cost effective hosting service (without providing dialup though)
    Site Hosting from Netnationicon
  2. Domain registration is simple to complete online. There is then an annual fee for every domain name worldwide - these prices are currently falling.
    Note: since the recent explosion in the whole net thing, finding an available/suitable domain is getting pretty tough - if you come up with something you like and it's available register it immediately!

  3. Probably around �3,000 to �5,000 - which may sound like a lot but it's always the initial design, approval & testing process that is very time consuming. The design has to be right and it has to be tested thoroughly - getting something created cheaply and subsequently discovering that it falls over in a significant number of browsers is simply a waste of time and money.


Updating and additional pages following the design are a much quicker operation - either we can charge you an hourly rate or we can train you to do it yourself.

We can take care of items 1 & 2 for you at the same time as part of a build project.


An example of a simple personal site can be found at
www.fishing-forever.co.uk
An example of a simple corporate site can be found at
www.sysprog.co.uk

Creative Capital Partners www.creative-cap.com is a simple design of ours, populated and maintained by the client
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Web Site Design & Creation : e-commerce
If you've got a product to sell online we can implement the best solution for you.

The most common option is the now familiar 'shopping basket' approach leading to an order form and then a secure credit card transaction process which can all be largely automated - your account is credited straight away and all you need to do is fulfil the order that you receive by e-mail.

We can also build a bespoke solution that integrates with your stock control database, distribution system and other computerised processes to fully automate the processing and fulfilment of all online orders.

An alternative (generally for lower volume/higher value items) is a secure/encrypted order form system. This way the customers requirements, details and credit card information are forwarded to you - you then manually process the card transaction only when the order is fulfilled.

M&B Sugarcraft Ltd is a not yet fully e-commerce enabled example - the site is registered as:
www.mbsc.co.uk
www.CakesForAllSeasons.co.uk
www.CakesForAllSeasons.com
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Web Site Design & Creation : complex sites
If your requirement is more complex, if you require animation and interaction then let us quote on your project. We can put together dedicated teams of programmers, database specialists, animators and graphic designers to deliver the site you want.  

www.texturalspace.com - the site for the Textural Space exhibition of contemporary Japanese textile art

www.laporta.co.uk - great Italian office furniture

www.BioVex.com - biotechnology company, gene therapy products potentially delivering a cure for cancer and other major diseases...

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Intranet
We also work extensively on the design and construction of intranet sites - obviously we can't point your browser to these but there's some example pages stored on this site  

Novartis

Other Sites

Design
opencircle.co.uk - where site-designs, ellipsis and direct design come together...

Sites for third parties

Consumer
shakey-jake.co.uk - the lunchbag section/free draw pages created for Endacott RJB

Consultancy
managingbusiness.co.uk - redesigned navigation, layout and graphics for Bergman & Co


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