Web Design
- Web Design
- Small Business
- Voluntary & Community
- Schools & Statutory
1. Professional Design : Your new website should reflect your company image. At Red Abbey we learn about your company, your competitors and your target audience so we can create a unique website to promote you.
2. SEO : It is even more important that your customers can find you. We optimise your website during the build process so that it performs well in search engines and receives a high ranking for key words and phrases of your choice.
3. Accessibility : As well as developing your website to meet disability discrimination standards and be compliant with w3c, you should also be aware that access issues are important to all your website users. At Red Abbey we ensure your website is quick to download, simple to navigate and works in multiple browsers.
A website is a cost effective way to market your business and gives your company credibility too. With more and more people searching for businesses online, it is essential that your business has a website and can be found for the right search criteria. How many of us have searched for a tradesperson in our local area? A website is a great way for your business to tell potential customers about your qualities and we can offer small business websites to suit your needs.
Our professional bespoke design service will develop you a logo, corporate brand and website to enhance your company image and all at an affordable price too. If you budget for marketing over five years, how many paper adverts can you get for £1,500.00? (average price for design and hosting of a small business website with Red Abbey).
Red Abbey has been developing websites for the voluntary & community sector since 2003. Red Abbey Managing Director, Colin Garnett spent six years working in the sector prior to 2003 and has expertise marketing service sector organisations to their potential customers.
A website offers a cost effective way to communicate with your customers, enabling you to develop questionnaires, surveys, polls, blogs and forums to allow your customers to provide feedback on your services. A website is also a great way to distribute information and post news. Our content management systems (CMS), enable you to update your website on a regular basis ensuring you keep your customers up to date with all the latest information, news and events.
Schools and council offices have traditionally been poor at marketing their services and information to the local community. At Red Abbey our web consultancy assists schools and statutory bodies to review their customer’s requirements and develop a website to suit those needs.
A website is an ideal tool to showcase information and in today’s society is also an excellent way for a school or council to cut down on printed material and become more environmentally conscious. Our content management systems (CMS) allow you to update information on a daily basis, enabling you to provide up to the minute news on events affecting your users.
E-commerce and online stores
What better way to launch a new business or expand your current business than by opening up an online shop. An ecommerce shop opens up your business to 60 million potential customers in the UK alone and by offering multi-currency and overseas postal you can sell your products to a worldwide audience 24/7.
An ecommerce website can cost as little as £2000.00 to develop and £400.00 a year to run, which is a great deal cheaper than opening a new shop or employing a new salesperson. Online shopping in the UK has more than doubled in the last 5 years as more and more people gain confidence in the service and security online shops can offer.
Logo Design and Corporate Branding
At Red Abbey it is our aim to create an online image for your company, which will enhance your company profile. This can be difficult when companies have existing logos and branding, which may not compliment the new image we are creating.
Red Abbey offers a bespoke logo, branding and creative design service to compliment your new web design. We can redesign existing logos or develop logos from scratch and take the time to listen to our clients requirements before coming up with a number of design ideas. One of the design ideas is then developed further into a final design, which is supplied to the client in high resolution format.
Content management Systems (CMS)
A content management system (CMS), enables you, ‘the client’, to update your website on a regular basis. We have several CMS to suit the requirements and IT skills of our clients and we offer tuition and guidance sheets on how to use the systems.
For smaller websites and clients with low IT skills we offer a CMS where graphics and images are embedded and the client only needs to update text, similar to using a word processing programme. We can also develop a system allowing clients to upload images and for more advanced clients we can offer a system, which allows the addition of new pages and changes to the structure of their site. CMS is also standard with all our ecommerce websites.
Search Engine Optimisation
During the design phase of your new website development, Red Abbey will consult with you on the primary key words and phrases you would like your website to be found for in search engines. There are no guarantees you will be at No. 1 for a particular search unless you are prepared to pay for the ranking, but we ensure that your site is professionally optimised so that it achieves high search engine rankings.
Obviously it is easier to get a website to No. 1 for a geographical location and service, i.e. industrial fans in furness, than it is to get them at No. 1 for: industrial fans, but by carefully optimising the site and offering our clients advise on how they can improve their own website rankings we can ensure our websites are easily found.
Flash
Dynamic content can add the ‘WOW’ factor to your website. Flash components are a great way to showcase photographs in a slideshow or integrate a corporate video or presentation. Flash can utilise audio and video to bring a page or section of a page to life.
Red Abbey has a wealth of experience developing Flash components for our clients, including: flip brochures, interactive comics, video, audio and presentations. We quote separately for Flash construction as it is often more time consuming and technical than standard content.
Web Hosting and Maintenance
Red Abbey can provide a web hosting service for websites designed by Red Abbey or designed elsewhere. Our managed servers ensure that your website is hosted securely and information can be downloaded easily.
We are happy to research available domain names and will register and host domain names on your behalf. Our web hosting also includes: site statistics, email set-up, support and updating & maintenance of your site.
We offer database hosting and can provide fully secure servers for the hosting of ecommerce shops.
Email Accounts
Red Abbey can set up POP email accounts on your behalf, using your domain name hosted by Red Abbey, i.e. enquiries@yourname.co.uk. We can set up multiple email accounts on your behalf and can include spam filters, virus scan and auto responders.
Your email account can be accessed from any computer by visiting: www.webmail.1and1.co.uk or can be set up in Outlook or Outlook Express, please click on one of the PDF documents to the right to download instructions.
