Web Design

First impressions count

Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows*.

Stunning graphics are key to engaging your visitor. Easy navigation, comprehensible yet innovative layout styles are all critical to encouraging further reading. A visitor focused experience is essential to ensuring the success of your site. Make the  journey through your website comfortable, interesting, informative and complication free.

Our graphic designers create websites with a clean visual interface, using complimentary colours, legible typography and appropriate photography. Your corporate colours and/or logo can always be used effectively.

* Source: BBC News.

Usability

Usability refers to the overall ease by which a visitor can complete a task on your website. This might be a simple task like finding your contact details, or something more involved like retrieving a press release from your archives.

Web users are incredibly fickle, and if your site is difficult to use they won't give it a second chance; they will move on somewhere else.

All our sites follow usability best practice.

Accessibility

Websites must be accessible to all, regardless of what type of computer or software the visitor is using. It is true that the majority of people use Internet Explorer on a PC, but a significant number choose other types of computer (like a Mac) or use internet browsing software like Firefox or Opera instead of Internet Explorer. If you already have a website can you be sure it works on all computer-software configurations?

Importantly, websites must be accessible to people with disabilities, who may not be able to see (or be partially-sighted), or they may not be able to use a mouse effectively. In fact, this is a legal requirement for many sites. Just as buildings have to be adapted for wheelchair access, websites must be built to co-operate with screen-reading software.

All our sites can be accessed by PC and Mac computers running any of the popular internet browsers, and are accessible to people with disabilities.