Website Development

An awesome design will certainly attract people's interest, but the way that design is turned into a functional website is vital both to keeping the visitor on your site (i.e. getting them to contact you or buy something!) and making it easy for Search Engines to index your site and thus more likely to list your website in search results.

Converting the design into a working website

We break up the graphic design into numerous components, graphic and textual. Where possible, textual elements are preferred as search engines will be able to read them, and the website will load much faster.

Graphic elements (logos, images etc) are optimised to be as small as possible maintaining the highest possible visual quality. Websites are rendered in XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) separating content from layout allowing for easy future maintenance and speed of download in browsers.

Accessibility

Apart from the fact that is is required by law, we recommend that Website Accessibility Standards are adhered to, to ensure your websites meet the requirements for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Conformance Level "A", which allows the website to be used by people with certain visual and physical disabilities.

Interactivity

Gone are the days when websites were just brochures - interactivity is the key to engaging your visitors. From mouse hover effect buttons, Google maps that will give driving directions to your address, forms that take customer details or application information and email you, or automatically enter the information supplied onto a PDF form (see our Instant Quote for a working example), to embedded video promotions - we can do it all!