Website Design
Our job is to make you look good
Web design is an art. Great web design occurs when design and content are seamless and you don't notice its greatness. With great web design, it's easy to find the information you need. The content makes you want to return again and again and, most importantly, great design gives credibility to your company or organization.
Need a website design?
If you are reading this then the answer is probably yes. Those who do have a website understand the importance of having web presence, and just how powerful the internet is for you and your business. Those who do not have a website are missing out on potential customers....fact! Currently, around 8 out of 10 people search for a business by using the internet. Is your business listed? If not, one of our web designer’s can help you.
Design skills
The primary objective of a web site should be to meet the requirements of the client. In most cases this would be to attract then convert Internet users into customers, subscribers or in the case of charities, donators. The design of the web site is paramount to reassuring, educating and ultimately convincing the viewer that they have come to the right place, or that they have found what they are looking for. It is the responsibly of the web design company or sole web designer, to produce a suitable design that is attractive to the target market, and doesn't deter people from exploring the web site. Web designers often use a variety of techniques, programmes and software during the design of a web site. These may include any combination of the following:
- Hand Drawn designs - and conceptions are used to quickly produce layouts and
visuals for the design. - Adobe Photoshop - Can be used to produce mock-ups and ‘Internet Ready graphics’.
- Adobe Illustrator - Is another tool for producing mock-ups, graphics and design
elements. - Adobe Flash - Can be used to produce animation, movement & interaction on a web
site. - Adobe Dreamweaver - Is used to construct the web site as it is being constructed for
the Internet. Some designers even use Dreamweaver to help them with the design
process of a web site.
Development skills
Our Web Development team are highly skilled in the following key areas:
- HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is the basic language for presenting a web-site.
- XHTML - is the markup language with the same depth as HTML, but XHTML also
conforms to XML syntax. - CSS - Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is used in conjunction with HTML to design and
style the web site from a separate file. The use of CSS brings many advantages including advanced design features, lower file sizes and a universal styling document that updates
the presentation and design of the site automatically from a single document. - XML - is a custom language for creating custom markup.
- RSS - Stands for'Real Simple Syndication' and is a popular format for publishing
frequently updated articles and stories like blogs. - ASP.NET - Is the Windows Framework used for dynamic applications.
- PHP - Is a free (released under the PHP License) scripting language for constructing
dynamic web sites. - MySQL - Is a Open Source Database platform and used in conjunction with PHP and
other languages to store and retrieve data. - AJAX - is a coding nickname for the combination technique of XML and Javascript for
making rich internet applications. - Javascript - is an established client-side scripting language commonly used by web site developers.
- Perl / CGI - is an aging scripting language that was developed originally for NASA.
- Actionscript - is a scripting language primarily used within and to integrate Flash. The
latest version of Actionscript is 3.0 but 2.0 is still widely used worldwide.
