Website Design and Development

It’s very easy when thinking about website design to look at ‘pretty’ aesthetically pleasing sites, with moving videos and lots of widgets and tools and think that that’s what you want for your new website. But it is important not to get too caught up in the aesthetics to the detriment of functionality.

A website that works well will often have a good balance between looking great and being optimised for conversion so that visitors take action. First impressions are important, you have very little time to convince someone that they have come to the right place once they land on your website.

This is why your homepage is so important, it has to do a variety of things in a very short period of time. Including demonstrating that you solve the problem that they have, to indicate that you are the right people to solve that problem and to make it very easy for them to take action. We offer web design services with this in mind, we balance function and aesthetics to design a website that gets you results.

To simplify what is a much more complex process….

Once the concept draft is signed off, it’s our job to build the website. We build the majority of websites in WordPress purely because it’s an open source platform and has multiple plugins available to add functionality without having to custom code everything. It’s also very SEO friendly which is always something that we would recommend to our clients. For e-commerce websites we usually use Magento for similar reasons. Both of these platforms have easy to use administration areas which is good for our clients too, especially for an e-commerce website.

Whilst we are building the website our clients provide us with images and words to populate those pages. We can offer content writing services if required and can use stock photo’s if necessary.

Once the site is built and populated with content and images, all functionality is tested, and the website can go live.

We are ultimately a Digital Marketing Company; we work with our clients on an ongoing basis to market their business across the internet. To enable us to do that, our clients need high performing websites. That’s why we design and build them. It’s the start point for us and that’s why we aren’t standalone web designers. Our experience has taught us that trying to market a poorly optimised website built by another designer just doesn’t get the results that our clients need.

If you are looking for an Agency to design your website and walk away, then that isn’t us I’m afraid. That’s not to say we don’t do a good job for our clients, we do, and you can see some of our website design work in our portfolio.

For us, our business is all about building long term relationships with our clients, the majority of whom have worked with us for a long time. We become your outsourced digital marketing department, we work together to achieve success because if you do well, we do well. So, designing and building websites is a part of what we do, but just a part. So get in touch today to talk about our website design services