Great Website Design & Building

A great design strengthens your brand identity and conveys a positive message to your prospective clients. When you're thinking about upgrading your website or getting a new website, you'll discover we've created a simple website design process because we can take care of everything:

Step 1 - get a free quote

Step 2 - get in contact

Step 3 - We'll ask you some simple questions and start the design process. You can be involved as much or as little as you like.

Step 4 - Your site goes live. We take care of all the hosting and setting things up so your time is free to focus on what's important to you.

Providing Bespoke functionality so you stand out

Because your business is unique and you want to stand out from the rest of the online crowd then that's where our programming and web application experts help by developing unique features just for your website. A good example is our online quote generator giving our customers instant quotes. Imagine what useful features would really help you win clients over too, and we'll build them for you.

Galleries to showcase your products

Imagine having the ability to add images, videos and sound clips to one or more galleries on your site. You'd be completely in control! and your clients would be able to see examples of your products and services. That's what our Spartav plugin does, the "av" stands for "Audio Visual" it's that simple.

Built to industry standards

Industry Standards insure things are done right and continue to work for years to come without costly maintanance. That's why we adhere to standards like CSS2.1, XHTML, XML. To most people these are just letters... to us it's another way of guaranteeing that your online presence stays online and works for all your clients.

Tested to work on all major browsers

In the table below you'll see many other things to consider, but we mention this one here because it still amazes us how many so called web designers don't actually check their designs on all major browsers. We found one client who's website only worked on Internet Explorer so they were missing out on about 35% of their target audience! imagine the impact on their business. Luckily once they started working with us, we made sure their sites worked on all browsers.

More information about website design considerations:

When we design your website we take into account many aspects that people often overlook. Below are some of the key factors that we take into account when designing and delivering your professional website making it even better.

Number of Web Pages
A successful and effective website is composed of a number of web pages, each of which encapsulates relevant information organised in a way that makes it easy for people using your site to find the information they want. A typical 'Starter' website normally has the following kinds of pages: 1. Home - the page people first visit when they go to your website. 2. Contact - it's important for your clients or customers to know how to get in touch. 3. Services - letting people know what you can do for them. 4. Testimonials - providing clients with convincers about the quality of your product. 5. About - providing information about your credentials and qualifications etc. Naturally these examples are business focused, however you can is easily apply the same principals to non-commercial sites.
Page Layout and Design Templates
All our websites are hand built with bespoke templates. Using these carefully designed templates reduces the costs of adding new pages... Saving you money. Each web page in your site is based on a page template that defines the layout of the page. For example where the logo is placed, the position of links and the size and position of the page footer. As your site grows and evolves you can design different templates to reflect the differing content. For example NickKemp.com uses just one template wheras www.zaretti.com uses three templates.
Styled Pages that Work in all Browsers (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets 2.0 (CSS 2.0+) are a web technology that, when implemented professionally allows your website's colour and styling to be properly managed. What does this mean for you? Well because we produce all our websites to the highest standard using CSS, making changes is cost effective because changing a style feature is only done once - rather than for every page! So when you want to add new pages or to make changes you'll have the peace of mind knowing that the work is being done efficiently - again saving you money!
Graphical Design & Branding
Websites are a visually rich medium and Graphics, including your logo, play a large role in forming the 'brand identity' of your site. Because we work with professional graphic designers and branding specialists we can importantly provide you with the right level of design and branding - so you only pay for what you need. How does the process work? We'll have a friendly chat about your exact needs Our designer will contact you to get feel for your target audience and the identity you wish to portray with your site The designer will come up with some designs You review the designs and have a chance to provide feedback to the designer The designer makes any changes needed and when you are happy the design is passed to the technical development team The developers continue to collaborate with the designer to deliver the best of design and web technology
Media Enabled
Many successful individuals and organisations have already realised that their websites are a great way to share important documents, video promotions, audio recordings and brochures with their clients. Having media enabled allows you to publish a wide range of documents and to embed movies and audio into your website - a great marketing tool! The figures shown above are the total amount of files that users can download directly from your site. We don't impose a limit on the number of downloads, we simply state that it should be fair and reasonable, remember our success is in making you a success so we want people to use your site!
Additional Functionality, Blogs, Galleries, E-Commerce, etc...
As well as presenting static web pages, to really have an impact many sites need additional functionality such as a blog publishing tool or photo and video gallery tool. We have developed a library of what we call Spartmodules that provide specific functionality enabling you to quickly and cost effectively add functionality to your site. When you want to extend your site then we will discuss the best option for you and the final solution will be seamlessly integrated into your site so it looks and works great. Visit our Spartplugins section to see examples of plugins we have created so far for clients just like you.
Google Analytics - Find out who's looking at your site!
We can set up a Google account for you, allowing you to access Google's online website monitoring tool. A marketing must - it allows you to see where people are coming from and what they are searching for! We also use this information to further refine your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Professional Email Account Creation and Hosting
Our highly secure email servers provide our clients with secure IMAP and SMTP email that they can easily access using standard email clients like MS Outlook or the excellent Mozilla Thunderbird. What is special about our email is that: 1. Secure - our professionally managed servers are robust and secure, and unlike hotmail, gmail and other web-based email providers, your emails are kept private. 2. No more "mailbox is full" - we care about your business. It's not fair on you if someone sends a large email and suddenly your clients can't get in touch. We monitor the size of your email accounts and rather than stop you receiving mail, we'll simply let you know if it gets a bit full and give you the opportunity to clean it up safely. Remember our job is to support you! 3. Professional - many people let themselves down with unprofessional email addresses. For example if your website was www.cool-stuff.co.uk then it wouldn't look very good if your clients had to email you at cool-stuff123@hotmail.com - but some people make this mistake! Instead working with us you can have a professional email address for example sales@cool-stuff.co.uk! 4. The option to have web based access to your email - allowing you to view it from any computer that has internet access anywhere on the planet.
Website and IT Support
All the websites that we design and host are supported, if there is a problem with the server or a bug then we will fix it, normally before you even know about it. We are constantly monitoring the web, email and FTP servers and network, and we put our money where our mouth is and host our own email accounts and websites on the same servers that we will put your new websites. When you work with us then we treat you like a business partner. You'll be given a mobile number that you can use to talk directly with one of our support staff and we shall also provide you with other means of direct contact including msn and skype. Lots of people talk about problem avoiding... in the real world there are sometimes problems... we take care of you because we know that what is important is problem solving! When you want changes to your website then we offer a range of development support options.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) has become a concept which it seems everyone is talking about but few seem to understand. There are several aspects to improving the rankings of your site in search engines: 1. Technical construction - every aspect of the way a site is put together impacts on search engine rankings. We know how to build a site properly from the start with SEO in mind. It's not something you can "bolt on" easily once the site is finished, which is why all our sites are technically constructed with SEO built in from the start. 2. Content - the actual content, the words, their order and position in the pages will have a drastic effect on your rankings. Because we understand how this works we advise our clients and those who take rankings seriously have found that regular "tweaking" of their pages has a positive effect on SEO. 3. Tactics and Strategy - As well as having a great website with SEO you need a strategy and the right tactics to get your site more hits and higher up the rankings. We've had great success with our clients and know what works and gives the best return on your investment.
Browser Testing
There are a number of different browsers - computer programs that people use to surf the web, and in our testing suit we test every page of your site on all the main browsers (and a couple of more unusual ones!) including: Mozilla Firefox Internet Explorer version 6 Internet Explorer version 7 Internet Explorer version 8 Internet Explorer for Mac Opera Safari Lynx a text only browser Chrome We do this so that your site looks and works great for all your potential clients out there.
OS & Platform Testing
There are a number of different Operating Systems (OS) and we test your website on the major versions of these: Windows - Intel Mac OS X - Intel Ubuntu (UNIX) - Intel Linux - Intel Mobile phones
Future Proofing
A great website is a key component in business and marketing success and naturally your website will need to evolve as your business grows. All our websites are fully customisable, and because we specialise in offering a bespoke service then we build all our sites in such a way that plugging in new features and pages is very cost effective. As your needs evolve we will help you develop and evolve your website... so that you can spend your time on what you do best - your business.
Domain Registration
We can take care of registering and managing your domain names. From setting up your name servers and mail exchange records so that in laymans terms... your website and email work properly. When you have multiple domain names then we can make sure that they all end up pointing at your website. For example sparticle.com and sparticlelimited.com are two different domain names that both point at this website.
Hosting your Site
Like our email servers our webservers are professional and robust. With hardware RAID, which means that if a disk fails you don't loose your site. We own our mail, web, ftp servers unlike other less professional companies who try and cut costs by sharing their servers with others and because the only people who have access to our servers are our professionally trained and competent staff then you can rest assured that your site and your information is secure and safe.