We design practical, effective Websites you can update yourself!

Although most of our business is print-related, we are really good at websites. We live and breathe websites. We love the challenge and the satisfaction of creating sites that not only look good, but they work.

The ideal way to show a potential client what you do is point them to a well-designed website.

It's simple! "Here's my card. Have a look at our website!"

And, if your site is effective, it does the rest of the work for you. Well, most of it anyway.

Why your own website?

A website is far more efficient and effective than other forms of advertising. It's cheaper and easier to change a detail on your site than to change printed material.. So, if you have a sale, a promotion, change of address or staff or whatever, show it to the world with a lot less cost or drama.

You can include things like instructions for your products, to save you the cost of printing them. You get full colour, complete and truly representative coverage of who you are and what you do, 24 hours a day, all year round. Your web page is personalised with your logo and colour scheme and can include photos of your business, your products, yourself, your staff and everything you can provide for your clients. And a lot more - if you want.

Talk to us about any aspect of the design or redesign process, We are happy to help.

How much is a website?

Good question. And not so easy to answer. Whenever we get asked that question we tend to want to answer "How long is a piece of string?" Of course, what we think and what we have to say are two different things. Our job is to try to explain the differences between various types of websites, and establish what you want, and what you need. This can involve a lot of questions and a lot of thought before we clarify it sufficiently enough to give you an estimate of cost.

"Estimate?" you say. Why not a quote, like I asked for?

Well, it's like this - no website is the same, and the finished website has sometimes morphed from what was originally described into something quite different, including one or more new ideas, functions, pages, last minute changes, etc. Functional websites take time and skill to build, usually lots of time. And lots of testing, because they are no good to anyone if they don't work.

How do we establish what you want?

To help us understand what you want from your website, we have designed a questionnaire which we will email to you on request. The questionaire has been carefully written in lay person's terms to help you clarify what type of site you want and need. It is a useful exercise for you too, because it helps you confront the real issues of what you want the site to do for you. You can print it out, think about it, fill it out at your leisure and return it to us. We can then give you a far more accurate estimate of cost.

A word of advice

Content is all important, and it is also the most time consuming aspect of building a website. It is better to have too much than too little as it can be edited and pared back until it is suitable to use, BUT, it cannot be fluffed up and spread out to fill pages.

Preparing your written content will be your biggest and most important task. Having it ready will speed the task of building your site, saving us time and you money. We can edit it, format it and make it look good, but you need to supply the substance. No-one knows better than you what you do, and what you want to tell the world. We cannot make this up.

We specialise in designing Content Management Systems (C.M.S.) - Dynamic sites you can easily update and extend yourself, from any web browser.

For an obligation-free analysis of your needs and estimate, please use our new website questionaire.