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Web design

Hopefully you've been looking through the site thinking that it looks good, is easy to navigate and loads fast. If your company or business is in Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucester or Bristol, wants to get on the web, and needs good value but high quality web design, contact me for a quote.

Out-source your web design projects

I specialise in working collaboratively with print based design companies in Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire and Somerset, to produce high quality, accurate, compatible and highly visible web sites to budget and on time. Many print based designers don't have the time, specialist knowledge or understanding of the web to offer a full range of web design services to their customers. That means they are losing jobs and money to companies that can. You should consider using Sweet Apple to out-source all your web design projects. I am well used to working side by side with designers to produce sites that actually work to drive traffic and sales for customers.

A complete solution

If you actually want some care taken over designing your web site, call me. Everything from registering your domain name, to helping you configure your email systems, site design, registering with the search engines and even e-commerce can be quickly and cost-effectively achieved.

• Web sites: starting from £200 for a domain and simple site
• Hosting: high-performance Unix servers, full web stats, flexible email or web space plans.
• Standards compliant: Using XHTML and CSS we produce web sites that confirm to existing standards for accessibility. This also means the design of the site is seperated from the content, so that future design modifications can be made more quickly and less expensively.
• E-commerce: from simple shopping baskets to complex database driven sites using SSL Certificates and content management to run your own store online.
• Content Management Systems: enable the customer to update their site themselves, using just a web browser and minimal knowledge. Initial costs are higher, but if frequent updating is required the ability to do it yourself will rapidly save you money.
• Flash design and programming: for the web, e-cards, CD-ROM business cards, etc. Custom Actionscript programming and linking to database back-ends enable you to have the visual control that Flash provides without the headache of the awkward updating.
• PHP, ASP and MYSQL: lots of buzzwords, but essentially it usually means adding or manipulating databases to change your web site. We are fluent in hand-coding in PHP, and produce clearly commented, well structured modular code, using custom functions and classses when required, or using open-source code when appropriate.
• Traffic analysis: interpretation of the web stats and how they can help plan your marketing.
• Search engine optimzation: improve your web marketing by registering with the useful search engines, using online advertising to generate additional traffic, or simply by modifying the content of the site to maximise your position with the search engines.

I try to let my customers have the maximum flexibility with their site. If they need more web space or additional email addresses its not a problem. All sites have full graphical web stats available so you can monitor how much traffic your site generates.

Sample sites: Atwell Martin ,The Lawns , Premier Stores, Greg Pullen, Simeon de la Torre, HB Designs, GetResolution, Heywood House, Awdry Bailey & Douglas, Shout Design, Heads of Government, David Partner, Miniscoff, Active-move, Gingersnap, Erica Sharpe, Gamekeeper's Hide, Ex-Libris Books, Fotospeed, Great Ashley Farm, Hyper-Focal , Raincoat (polishing the HTML and Flash)