design / re-design
Website Design
The design of a website includes many things, the main items include:
- Discussing the site with you
- Designing the site
- Reproducing your company logo for use on the website
- Setup and organising of website name and email addresses
- Designing good menus for your site
- Making a Contact form for enquiries to be sent directly from your website to your email address.
- Making the site accessible to disabled people
- Writing the content of your site based on written material you can provide
- Optimising your website so it'll appear in search engines effectively
- Supplying you with POP3 email addresses of your choice, that match the website name
- The options of adding anti-virus and anti-spam protection for you email (no extra costs)
- Setting up passwords for your email accounts and supplying instructions on setting up your email on Outlook (or your favourite email program)
- Making sure your hand coded website validates to W3C standards
- Standard website terms of use and privacy policy
- A customised sitemap which will match the design of your site
- A sitemap stored with the website files for use by search engines
- Breadcrumbs (a very useful website navigational aid)
- Browser compatibility testing
- Accessibility testing
- Accessibility web page written
- Submitting the website to the main search engines
Additional to the website design there are other features that can be added to the website, although these are not required in order to have a fully functioning, standards compliant website. Many of them will enhance a website.
- Text size changer
- Alternate colour scheme
- Alternate website style
- Additional website certification
- Digital photos editing and enhancement (basic is included free)
- Access keys
- Logos designed
- Stationary designed
- Re-direction page
- Website videos
- Payment systems
- Additional Domain names
- Additional Online Forms
- 'Send to a friend' link
- Add to favorites link
- Add to online bookmarks links
Website Re-design
If you have a website and it needs a fresh look, or the code behind the website needs updating then a re-design will be considered. There may be many reasons for needing a re-design and these could include:
- It looks out of date
- It was done a long time ago
- Your site never appears in Google
- It doesn't work
- It's difficult to use
- You could be losing customers because it doesn't work?
- You need to get up to date by making your website accessible to disabled users
- Your business is disabled friendly, but is your website?
- Your company stationery has changed
- The company logo and branding might have changed, but not on your website
- The text size won't change on your website
- The date at the bottom says 2003 or something similar!
- You might want to let me loose and see what I can do for your site
- You might just not like it
Whatever the reason, I would love to help. Just Contact me with your project and I will be able to let you know what I can do to help.