North East

Investing a smaller amount of money more frequently allows us to make sure your website is always up to date; Taking advantage of the latest technology and ensuring your site is fast, safe and secure.

With a monthly investment we’re also able to offer support and help with any content or layout changes, and every 36 months we offer a design and technical refresh, ensuring your site will always be current and up to date.

Visual design is the first stage of any project. Following thorough research and planning, we construct the user interface and layout for your website. We usually present a desktop and mobile view of the homepage first, then after feedback continue with all other layouts. This naturally develops into a complete visual design which is finalised by a second round of feedback.

We can work from rough notes or detailed documents to create engaging written copy that promotes your business, products or services. We have years of experience creating websites and can optimise your content so that you rank in search engines, and to encourage visitors to follow your call to action.

The front end build involves taking the agreed visual design and recreating it using HTML, CSS and Javascript to run within a web browser. Our modern build techniques support consistent layout across all major browsers including Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Safari and Firefox - on desktop and mobile.

During this stage we take the completed front end templates and merge these with dynamic database driven content. Any custom programming or server applications required for the website to function are also added at this stage.

A page layout refers to a unique design. For example, a blog would include two page layouts, one for the listing view and one for the blog post view. Page layouts do not limit the total number of pages, for example, a blog could have 50 individual posts using a single page layout.

Our top tier subscription level uses layout blocks. Blocks enable you to create custom page layouts created from our bespoke design elements (blocks); Perfectly presenting your content, products or services.

A content management system allows you to log in to your site and update content, post to a blog or add products. We use the Perch content management system which is fast, secure and super easy to use.

If you don’t have the time to manage your website content, simply contact us with the changes and we will be happy to update your site for you.

We fully integrate Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, meaning your site will be easily shared and display perfectly within a timeline or page. We can also add chat functionality so that your customers can contact you on Facebook Messenger without even leaving your website!

We can include reliable spam-free forms, so your customers can easily make an enquiry or booking via email. Backups of all messages are stored securely on our server and can be accessed through a content management system.

Google maps integration allows visitors to your site to easily view your business location or send directions directly to their phone.

We work to a strict code of modern web standards, meaning your website pages and information will be correctly structured and easily found by Google. When working on a new project we also submit your website address to Google and make sure any address forwarding or sitemaps are present and correct.

If you’re working with a third party SEO or advertising agency, we will happily work together to make any changes or amendments which they recommend.

Our analytics dashboard helps you gauge the effectiveness of advertising or search engine optimisation. We supply access to a simple, easy to understand website analytics dashboard. The dashboard details visitors, page views, top content and top referrers, giving you a snapshot of your website traffic as well as detailed metrics to measure performance over time.

If you currently use Google Analytics, we can add this to your site too.

We use a fully featured blog platform running on an easy to use content management system. A blog is a great way to keep your site content up to date and relevant, and is great for improving search results and increasing organic traffic.

Comments are perfect for a blog post or product page, they encourage user interaction, and positive comments or reviews lead to increased page views and sales. We can enable comments on any page on your site, and all include the Akismet anti-spam service to protect against undesired user content.

We can display events on your website through a fully custom searchable events calendar. Events automatically hide once they’ve passed and can be shown as a listing page or traditional calendar view. Events can be edited, added or removed through a simple easy to use content management system.

We use a fully featured e-commerce platform, allowing us to create beautiful stores - fully bespoke to your product or brand. We can work with all major payment gateways including PayPal, Stripe and Worldpay.

Members functionality enables users to sign up to your site to access member pages or information. Perfect for employee only areas, or used together with an online store for order tracking and account management.

We can fully integrate with the Mailchimp API, enabling mailing list subscription forms, opt-in checkboxes and mail list management. We can also set up a Mailchimp account for you and create branded advertising or newsletter templates.

Every 36 months we offer a design and technical refresh. Updating your site to take advantage of the latest technology, and ensuring your business and brand look the very best they can online.

All subscription levels come with up to three fully managed secure (https) domains, usually a .co.uk, .uk and .com - if available.

We host your website on a reliable server managed by a well established UK based hosting company. All sites are fully encrypted (https) and we take daily off-site backups of content and data.

We offer full support and help with any content or layout changes. If you need a new page layout or would prefer we update your website - just give us a call. We aim to complete any smaller changes for existing clients within 24 hours.

We also keep your sites content management system fully up to date and ensure all code on your site is secure and free from vulnerabilities.

We can set up a professional email address using your website domain name. This can be accessed through a webmail client such as Google mail or outlook, through a mail application or forwarded to an existing address.