Web Development
Beautifully crafted, slick websites that enhance the image of your business and give customers confidence.
We like to take advantage of the free tools that are available from industry giants such as Google and Yahoo! to give you a great solution at a great price.
Complete adherence to web standards means your site will work as intended in all modern web browsers (IE7+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera) and optionally on mobile devices to maximise your audience.
E-Mail Newsletters
Keep in touch with your customers by periodically sending them a newsletter to update them on your products or services. Marketing e-mail guidelines require that an "unsubscribe" option be included with every such message so we use a service called MailChimp to ensure full compliance and to avoid having your message end up in the Spam folder.
We can design your newsletter in the style of your website or brand and we have corporate communications expertise to assist in developing an effective message.
Why not add a Contact Us page to your website that will automatically collect e-mail addresses for your newsletter distribution? We can build this for you.
How effective is your web presence?
Does your website pay for itself? Who is visiting your site - are they potential customers? Is your site getting your message across?
All our sites are created with a Google Analytics account that gathers information about the visitors to your site. We will review this information and send you a periodic report to help you evolve your web presence.
Google Search
Our analysis of traffic to the sites we manage suggests that some 70% - 80% of search referrals come from Google. So it makes sense to give special attention to how your site appears in Google's many search sites, including Location based search.
We can help you devise a strategy to attract customers via Google.
Sentinel Water
Currently updating this website while also bringing back into use a document sharing system that had been developed some time ago but had never been fully utilised.
Will post images of the new site once available.
MS Technologies
Update to a website that had been built up in house over a number of years. The brief was to utilise the style developed for a brochure and to create a modern, easy to use site.
Piri Piri Cricket
The Brief
Enhancement of existing site to add a map, using Google Maps, showing location of all stockists (Store Locator link).
Domain transfer to new hosting service.
News feature using Google Blogger integration to allow the company to make announcements.
Target Plant & Tool Hire
The Brief
A brand new website for this business based in Colchester. The site design evolved from their new logo colours and is a showcase for the many products they offer for hire.
Subsequent work added a Facebook widget as this was a useful tool for keeping existing customers updated about any new machinary on offer.
Green Energy Nayland
Pro bono work for a community enterprise based in the Suffolk village of Nayland.
A group of residents led by Transition group are working on a scheme to install renewable energy systems on public buildings in the village.
The site includes some dynamic effects such as the carousel at the bottom of several pages and utilises Google Charts to show the energy generated through the scheme.
The site also has a feed from Delicious, which is a website bookmarking service. This allows the site administrator to quickly tag interesting websites to share with members.
For more information visit the website.
Veduna Centre
Quinta Raddison
A design based on recently published brochures. Site includes a searchable list of products supplied by QR.
Oak Cart Lodges
A new site designed to bring in new customers. The site has been optimised for search engines and includes a picture gallery slideshow feature.
Trotters Bar
The Brief
An enhancement to an existing site to allow customers to order their lunch online.
The site has subsequently been developed to add the Facebook widget and overhaul the design.
Our approach is different.
We work on the principle that IT is all about providing good Information to support your business - it's not just about the computers and the software. Therefore we like to keep things simple and that tends to mean it costs less in the long run. If you can do the job better using a pen and paper we won't try to sell you a sophisticated technological solution.
Tools
Google Analytics - track the success of your new website using this powerful free tool from Google.
Google Webmaster Tools - a useful tool to improve the search success of a site
Our company name reflects our belief that small is beautiful in many respects.