Web Design & Development

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We create beautiful, functional WordPress websites, uniquely designed to help our clients meet their business goals. All our websites are built on WordPress – a hassle-free content management system – which makes it super easy to keep content fresh.

• E-commerce
  In today’s day and age, people are shopping online more than ever. If you sell products a shopping cart is critical to your success. We typically use WooCommerce, the shopping cart software built for WordPress. Although, we have experience with Shopify as well. We’ve built and maintain hundreds of e-commerce websites. We know all the ins and outs from setting up your shipping policies to integrating taxes. Leave it to us and we’ll take you through everything step by step.
• Content
  Content is everything. It’s the reason a website exists at all. Design should follow content – not the other way around. Imagine a website is the vessel that surrounds its content, not simply a bunch of ‘lorem ipsum’ placeholder text that needs filling in with real copy later. Whether you decide to use our in-house copywriting services or BYOC (bring your own copy), we’ll compile a complete inventory and perform a thorough analysis to give you valuable insights into the words you have and the words you need.
• Wireframing
  Before any design happens, we’ll wireframe your new website for us to review together. Wireframes are lo-fi layouts that are easy to change – we take your content and arrange it in a way that works on the web. Applying everything we learned at the scoping phase, we structure the website so it pre-empts the needs of visitors, presenting them with information as they think of it. Wireframes ensure the next steps happen based on a known quantity – whatever we design will be geared towards meeting your business objectives.

• User Experience
  Websites are interactive and therefore must be flexible. A website is experienced across many devices – smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, games consoles, even Teslas. It should always present a positive reflection of your company, whatever the platform. It’s not enough to be “cool” or “pretty” – your site also needs to convert visitors into paying customers. We typically start with the homepage, then – once the general look and feel is defined – roll the design across the rest of the site. We never begin development until you’re completely happy with the design.

• Development
  Once the content, design and technical specifications are all agreed upon, your website enters the web development stage. Our web developers begin creating visually stunning user-experiences and orchestrate all the behind-the-scenes magic that powers them. By this stage, there shouldn’t be any unknown variables – the output will match everything that’s been signed off. Animations and interactions are also created during this phase, as well as breakpoints that make a website responsive, so it works on multiple devices and screen sizes.

• Quality Assurance
  Before you experience your new website in the flesh, our quality assurance team will run through it with a fine-toothed comb. We make sure everything is as it should be, checking for simple errors such as spelling mistakes to more complex ones like mobile compatibility or browser bugs in specific versions of Internet Explorer, Chrome and so on. We’ll also make sure the administration side functions as you’d expect, so you can seamlessly add, edit and remove content on a day-to-day basis.

• Domain Names
  Domain names are a small part in the grand scheme of things albeit a very important small part. The length, spelling, risk of typos, copyright, extensions, and availability are all taken into consideration. We’ll help you find the perfect domain name to ensure your customers can find you online quickly and easily.

• Hosting & Email
  We host the vast majority of websites we produce for clients ourselves. As a trusted HostGator partner, we have a tried, tested and scalable solution for your website to live in the cloud. Choosing our hosting platform means iterative changes can easily be published to your site without delay. We use content delivery networks to make sure your website stays fast, sharp and snappy – it doesn’t matter how many people are using it simultaneously.

• Launch
  Once your website has passed quality assurance and all content has been uploaded or migrated (we usually do this collaboratively, so you know how your new website works), then we’re ready for launch! We’ll help with all aspects of transitioning DNS and liaising with the right people at your end to get the site online smoothly and with zero downtime. If you’d like us to promote the launch of your new website, we can do this too – take a look at the marketing services we offer around strategy, outreach and social.

• Web Maintenance & Security
  Once your website is live, it is vulnerable to attack, unfortunately. We take extreme precautions to ensure hackings don’t take place. The easiest prevention method is to ensure all security patches are applied as soon as they become available. Our clients on monthly plans do not ever have to worry about being hacked due to vulnerable out of date plugins.