Designing a web site, consists of many tasks that needs the total support of the client at key stages. Together with the designers & developers the right balance between the visual, informative and functional aspects have to be achieved. You will be more confident in marketing your site when those aspects are met.
Visual Aspect : What will grab the visitors attention and make them relax to go through other parts of the site from any page they started.
Information Aspect : Providing the relevant contents on the site to promote your business that will satisfy and justify the visitor's choice.
Functional Aspect : Making and placing every element to provide the best user experience(UX) relative to your content and also having a robust platform.
Time Saver & Life Saver
I use some techniques and platforms for development used by design agencies for faster deployment time and quick maintenance of sites. Using back-up systems to always have the latest updates of the site handy, ready for any inconvenience. Easily manage layouts, templates and contents. Web site that is ready for expansion, to include e-commerce and other functions.
Styles and Grid System
Web sites are designed using the latest development platforms, but also to keep a consistent look and feel the use of a grid system is invaluable, maintaining a flexible approach to move and organise contents. The templates and layouts can be easily updated as are the contents, without affecting the structure. Fully customised layouts using styles, CSS mainly - now with the new capabilities of HTML5 - the user interface is taking a new step. Typography as well is taking another step, with the ability to have web fonts makes reading and viewing web pages more 'stylish'.
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Having full control over your content, using Content Management Systems (CMS), like Joomla and Wordpress gives you the ability to update your site online, if you wish to do so, just like using a text editor. Using the latest CMS and framework your site will be Mobile Ready (Smart phones, tablets and new small devices). Using Joomla gives the possibility to start with a simple Brochure Web site to be expanded to a full Small E-Commerce Business Web site, thus saving time and money.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Integrated SEO functionality that does not require additional cost for ads and other SEO experts or programs, my knowledge of the web and how Google and other search engines do their indexing. It may be the difference between you paying a fortune to get noticed, because of a poorly designed site. Google uses a new system, which makes SEO, big money and adverts and linking a bit of the past. They rely on a good structured site and content, well defined descriptions about the site, and they use specific listing sites - manually updated and verified listings.
Small Business Internal Communication
You are more aware of the web sites that are advertised for you to know and visit, using different marketing strategies and listed in your search engines. But there is more beyond your search engines on the net. I design web sites and framework platforms for both internet and intranet. Small companies and agencies rely a lot on internal communication in their organisations, some sites are designed specifically for their needs and others are pre-built packages that are customised accordingly.
One of the most commonly used application is a Project Management site, this allows teams or individuals to plan their steps and share tasks, with automatic e-mails to every member of the team after updates. Everyone is aware of any changes , this guarantees co-ordination.
With Intranet Web sites, no more daily newsletter, but daily blogs in a company, department and teams. What's new inside the company, what we don't want others to know is accessible to everyone at the work place.
My Services
Everything will be taken care of, design and set-up, from managing hosting servers, configuring e-mails(redirects, auto-responders and more), FTP, multiple domains and databases.
If you have a project in mind and would like to know how to get started, please feel free to get in touch with me. It will be a pleasure to be able to assist and help you. Get in touch with me.