Web design
Web design is more than a collection of pages, your website is showcasing you and your services and increasingly your clients main contact with you on the web.
Custom websites for Startups and SMEs
By focusing on what's important, we design what's needed to demonstrate how your services and experience can transform your clients and deliver significant value. We deliver designs that are visually appealing, easy and intuitive to use and don't get in the way of your great content.
Be Radical and activate your website,
make it work harder for you and your business.
What is web design...
Web Design is Aesthetic
Beautiful and pleasing. From clean and simple to a work of art, each design is a reflection of your organisation and resonates with your audience.
Web Design is Visual Design
Good design is transparent. From first impact through to leading the way with menus and visual clues that are cognitively aligned guiding users to relevant aspects of your site, it's their attention that's essential.
Web Design is User Experience UX/UI
Good design ensures visitors and customers can do what they want without getting in the way and discovering new and relevant information – Good design is transparent to the point where you don't even notice it's there.
Web Design is Architecture
Just as buildings have foundations, structural walls, water, heat and power, so to does web architecture. Good web architecture needs to work with different browsers across mobile, desktop and tablets, as well as respond to user clicks, mouse events, search engine and AI requests and in general make a page work for users, apps and robots. It also needs to be flexible enough to facilitate change as a site evolves.
We tend to use open source – Python's Django, Bootstrap and PostgreSQL as they offer the best flexibility going from concept to launch in a matter of hours with excellent scaleability. They take care of much of the hassle of web development, so you're not paying to reinvent the wheel
Web Design is Durable
Browsers change and get upgraded, standards evolve, businesses pivot. Good web design anticipates and accommodates change. Some of our previous work has gone through many revolutions from over two decades ago to present day modest evolutions.
Our choices tend to include Python's Django, PostgreSQL and Bootstrap precisely because they have stood the test of time. Behind the scenes there are many such choices ensuring durability, scalability and ease of use for similar reasons.
Web Design is Workflow
From users first discovering your site, arriving at a page and then clicking thorough to learn more or achieve a task, perhaps visiting your premises, adding an event to their diary or making a phone call, all these and more make a customer journey that can be planned and made easier by design.
Web Design is friendly for SEO and AI
It's not just humans that use your site, search engine optimisation and increasingly artificial intelligence and large language models will read your site and if relevant to a user's query will refer and/or use information you provide to answer their question.
Web Design is Marketing
Whatever your strategic marketing goals, your website should facilitate these.
Web Design is domain specific
Whatever your domain, it's essential your website demonstrates capability using language and styles that your customers recognise as competent and authoritative.
Web Design is Personal
Each organisation is a reflection of it's people, and we're all different.
The best time to start is now
Effective web design is one that's started and improved. Don't let perfection prevent you from going something good. It can always be improved over time.
Limited budget? Start with a vision and create something good that can grow with your business.
Here are a few examples of our work
Paul Ayres catalogue and performance listing
Paul Ayres is a highly respected multi talented freelance musician and his catalogue reflects the diversity, depth, and delight of his compositions and arrangements. Browsing and searching a complete catalogue of Paul's music, keeping up-to-date with a performance diary of future concerts, buy CDs and scores, and discover other information about Paul and his work.
Dr Marian Dolan, writing in the International Federation for Choral Music's 'International Choral Bulletin' says: "one of the best composer's sites I've found on the internet. It is extremely clear and well-organised, easy to use, filled with information, and could be a great model for other composers' sites".
Leadwort Arts
Leadwort Arts is a dynamic, privately-funded enterprise based in South London with a mission to publish plays, poems and topical pamphlets.
"Excellent: thank you, just what we need"
"This makes an excellent impression: thank you!"
Christopher WINTLE
David Johnson
David Johnson is an artist of long standing.
His subject is the core subject of philosophy - the basic nature of human reality. However his method has allowed him to sidestep the question of whether there is such a thing as a unified self.
A showcase for his art https://david-johnson.co.uk/ does just that. Each artwork is clearly displayed with background information and clickable links.
There is a section for essays going into depth about David and his work.
Backing up with evidence is essential so there is a page of independent reviews and another for comments left at the Roundhouse exhibition.
There is also a catalogue of the works to the exhibition ISBN 978-0-9539928-0-5 as a permanent record.
David is also a collector of Ancient Cypriot & other Antiquities.
Roughcheck – the checklist with added intelligence
Asking someone if they have everything is unhelpful, pointing them to a list of things might be better, but what if you could help them prepare for a complex issue with clear sections and guidance to help them understand and if necessary make notes to both get them up to speed in their own time then present them with options to take and action of your choosing so conversations can be faster and more productive from the start.
Roughcheck is just that, a checklist, organised into section topics with configurable risks and rewards.
It's a Single Page App that, once loaded, acts like a mobile app with an API reducing network traffic and increasing user response. It could also be transformed into a mobile app.
By using Django and the Django REST framework, it's easy to create a secure API for use by mobile apps and keep it in sync with the main website avoiding duplication and keeping costs to a minimum.