"If I had asked my customers what they want, they simply would have said a faster horse...."
— Henry Ford (1863-1947),Industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company
User Experience Design
- Wireframing
- Paper prototyping
- Electronic prototyping
- Card sorting
- User experience vision
- User centred design
User Experience Research
- Usability testing
- Field research and customer visits
- Personas
- Usability expert review
- Accessibility audit
- Eye tracking
User Focused Design Services
User Experience Design
We take a user experience design approach to your project. User experience is the simple philosophy that your products or services should be optimised and designed with your specific users in mind.
We help you research, define and consult with your users as your product evolves. We also listen to you, to learn about your organisation and your objectives. This insight helps us create a balanced strategy for your product and shapes its very features, behaviour, structure and visual identity. The result is a significantly more usable and profitable product; making your organisation more competitive and your users very happy.
Website Design and Redesign
Consultancy
The initial phase of a web design project is to discover the purpose of your website and who your target audience is. At this stage it’s important to understand the reason behind your website, whether that be to generate sales leads, get more potential clients or to provide information to visitors. A good understanding as to the function of the website before the design and coding begins will help build a better site for you and your visitors.
We offer freelance web design services which can guide you through every stage of the web development lifecycle so whether you’re after a full website design and build or already have a programming team and simply need an HTML/CSS expert, no job is too big or small so please contact us for a no obligation quote or for a chat about your project.
Information Architecture and Content
Before starting the actual design it’s important that the structure of the site has been decided so that a logical navigation system can be put in place. Quite often a client will know what content they want to include but aren’t sure how this will translate to the internet so we're happy to discuss this with you initially and talk about how this can work on a website and how visitors will find their way from page to page.
It is also useful to consider whether you’ll be looking to attract visitors from Google as this should always play a part at this stage. We offer a keyword research service which enables you to see which keywords and phrases people are searching for in your industry but also which ones you’ll be able to successfully target.
Branding and Website Design
This stage in the process includes the design of the actual web pages as flat Photoshop documents so that you can get a visual idea of how the finished website will appear.
HTML and CSS
The creation of HTML/CSS is the next step in the process and includes the creation of static HTML and CSS web pages from Photoshop documents (PSDs) which are built using semantic markup and web standards that endeavours to conform to at least Level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
All HTML and CSS that we create is W3C web standards & cross browser compliant with current versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
WordPress Themes & Content Management
We use a content management system to enable easy management of the website’s content for clients interetsed in keeping their own content up to date. We use an open-source content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.
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eCommerce Stores
We use an open source ecommerce system such as ZenCart or Magento to build a shopping cart functionality into your site.
See our eCommerce Sites >> Miss Lilly's Trading Company
Social Media Marketing
Your website needs to be linked with Facebook and Twitter and other Social Media platforms. We can build a small business social media package for you.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Your website will be built using search engine friendly HTML to ensure that Google can easily read your pages however it’s important to build links to your website from other relevant websites and therefore we offer a link building service to ensure the popularity of your website continues to grow.
Web Analytics and Landing Page Optimization
We believe that a website should be a continual, work in progress and that all websites can be improved based on the data that can be provided via web analytics. For example, it’s great if you’re attacting 200 visitors a day but if they leave without signing up, registering or buying a product then it’s a missed opportunity. We use web analytics to look at this data and determine ways that a website or page can be improved to retain your visitors and ultimately turn them into a customer.
HTML Email Newsletters
Once your website is setup, one of the many ways you can market your website is via email. We offer an HTML email newsletter service which includes the design and development of HTML code to be sent out via email. We have many years experience in the industry creating newsletters for high profile clients and all HTML email newsletters are tested thoroughly in a variety of popular email clients including Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo.
Hosting and Domain Name Registration
We also offer a complete domain name and registration service so that you don’t have to worry about the technical side of things when it comes to getting your website online.
Free Estimates
Do you need quality design work at an affordable price? Would you like to work together? We are currently seeking new and exciting clients and would love to hear from you. Contact us today for a free estimate on your next project.