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Do you want a professionally designed cost effective website that promotes your company and increases your exposure beyond Surbiton, Kingston, Tolworth, Surrey, London?
Surbiton Web Design can design / update and manage your current company's website so that it reflects and enhances your company's profile and brand image as well as ensuring it complies with current legislation in the UK ,Europe and USA.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - (the DDA)
The DDA states that company websites must be made accessible came into force on 1 October 1999 and the Code of Practice for this section of the Act was published on 27 May 2002.
In October 2004 changes to the DDA that came into effect as follows:
- small employer exemption removed.
- All employers are now legally obliged to make all their services accessible including websites, intranets and extranets accessible.
What happens if my website does not comply?
A disabled person can make a claim against you if your website makes it impossible or unreasonably difficult to access information and services.
If you have not made reasonable adjustments and cannot show that this failure is justified, then you may be liable under the Act, and may have to pay compensation and be ordered by a court to change your site.
Surbiton Website Design and web design services are tailor made to meet your company's specific needs and budget,while endeavouring to make your website accessible to all visitors.
More importantly,we give you plain speaking advice and share information on effective marketing the website (because as you know what is the point of a company website if no one sees it !)
Surbiton Web Design can show you how to list the website on search engines and directories so customers can select your business rather than competitors or we can list and optimise the web site for you as Surbiton Web Design realise time is money.
Our aim is clear
To achieve top placements on search engines. Surbiton Web Design achieve this by producing clean, clear, easy to navigate, fast loading, search engine optimised web pages and company websites.
By keeping website graphics down to a minimum, and generally sticking to flat XHTML pages where possible, to ensure that we only produce search engine friendly websites that stand the highest chances of gaining a number one position on the most important search engines.
User friendly Website Design
Whilst every effort is made to produce a search engine friendly website, at Surbiton Web Design, we believe that the user- your customers! should always come first.
Considerations Surbiton Web Design make for the users of any accessible website include:
- Website must be fast to download and accessible- all images should be compressed and optimised for minimum download times without compromising too much quality
- Use only standard - easy to read fonts throughout. Not every browser supports your favourite font.
- Friendly navigation - your user should be able to get to virtually any page on the website within 3 clicks.
- Consistent design throughout - keep your user in familiar surroundings.
- Content is more important than graphics - remember, your user is looking at the website to find out about your company products and services.
- Break up content into easy to read paragraphs - drawing the user to important areas by use of bold fonts or bullets points.
- Always making your contact details easy to find from every page - there is nothing more frustrating for a user when they cannot instantly find an e-mail address or contact page
- These are just the basics - there are many more considerations to make when producing a user friendly company website.
Examples of current on going Website Projects:
E-Commerce Websites and Content Management System Websites
Through our exclusive partnership with Flawless-Studios who have substantial expertise in delivering high volume, high turnover e-commerce solutions for leading UK retailers.
We are able to deliver affordable custom led ecommerce web site design solutions, with shopping carts and merchant solutions fit for every purpose and friendly and easily updateable client interfaces .
They integrate their own software, best of breed Open Source software, leading financial services, professional artwork and world leading e-marketing techniques to deliver and manage highly successful online business operations for clients.
An eCommerce website can minimise the need for routine sales calls if you sell to the same customers on a regular basis.
It also makes ordering quicker and easier for the customer, who can make purchases via a step-by-step interactive process or a Web-based electronic form.
For information visit the Guardian Newspaper Online to read an article on e-commerce websites for SMEs(Thursday April 28 2005). www.guardian.co.uk/online/businesssolutions.
Anglo French Websites
Does your web site attract visitors from France? One of the most obvious ways is to speak their language.
Multi Language web site development is a specialized skill.
We have experience in building web sites aimed at a primary French audience through our native French web site developer partner www.alaphaho.com.
We can also provide a translation service.
Wedding Websites
A wedding website is the modern way to display all the information about your special day in one accessible place.
It complements your invitations, is time saving, reduces costs of photocopying maps and can be updated quickly .
Surbiton Web Design can set up your own individual wedding website as soon as you provide me with the relevant details that you wish to put on your site .
Ideally this would be before you send out wedding invitations so that the website address can be included on the wedding invitation.