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Website design and Web Development
If you do not have a website for your business yet, we thought that it is a good idea to start planning for one. In today's world, most businesses and consumers are connected to the internet and it has totally changed the way people source for business contacts, products and services. It is so convenient to just log on to the web and type in the web address of the business that you want to contact or if you are a consumer looking for a particular product, you just need to do a search on that item in the search engines such as Google or Yahoo!. If you are still not convinced yet, here are some of the advantages of having a website:
Cheap form of marketing for your business
To set up a website initially, you probably have to pay about 700 to 1000 dollars to a wed design firm such as yours truly to produce a 15 pages website. Web hosting and quarterly maintenance charges will probably set you back by about 600 dollars yearly. Compare that to other traditional forms of marketing such as radio or TV campaign for a year and you will find that it is not a bad deal at all.
Accessibility
Your website can be viewed by anyone with a computer and internet connection, anytime and anywhere. People around the world can access your website and your website do not sleep. It will be there 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Sales tool
You can incorporate an online catalogue of your products on your website. You can update the range and prices of your products easily and as often as you want. Your customers will also appreciate the fact that they just need to visit your website for the latest products and prices rather then waiting for you to send them the catalogue in print.
Contact point for potential business partners and customers.
With a website, it will be easier for your potential business partners and customers to find you and do business with you. Some people may have heard of your company or a particular product that you are selling and they want to find out more. However they do not know how to contact you, chances are they may do a search in the internet and there you are.
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Businesses with a website and their own domain for email addresses look more professional.
Customer service and feedback
A platform for you to put across certain information to your customers. You can also put up a Frequently Asked Questions page that contain some of the queries that customers have been jamming your phone lines with.
Website Revamp/Redesign
You probably had a website done a couple of years back and since then, the excitement has fizzled and the website is left on its own in the wilderness known as the world wide web. The design looks outdated and the content no longer relevant. If the above description fit you, why not consider having a redesign done for your website? After all you need to reprint your business card when you change address and you need to redo your catalogue when you launch new products, the same logic should also apply for your company's website. Your website is a tool to improve your business and like all tools, it will require servicing and maintenance. For most businesses, We recommend that website maintenance and update to be done at least quarterly and a website redesign exercise at least once every two years.
We believe in creating good looking and practical websites. Some of the factors that we will consider in the design process are:
Usability
A website with fantastic design and graphics is practically useless if its users are unable to navigate from one point to another. The worst thing that can happen is to have a potential customer to come to your website, get frustrated by the layout or navigation, and disappear into the deepest depth of the world wide web, never to come back again.
Speed
We make sure that all web pages that we designed are optimized to enable quicker loading time. Visitors to your website with slow internet connection will most certainly be put off if they have to wait for a long time for your web page to load up.
Content
The purpose of your website is to provide visitors with information on your business, products and services. Therfore the content that you put into your website is of the utmost importance. Your website can be visually attractive and nominated for best web design of the year but it does not accomplish anything if visitors are not able to find the information that they are after.
Accessibility
We will conduct Accessibility Tests of your website on some of the most commonly used browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera.
Customised Design
Your website will be designed from scratch to tie in with the theme and concept that you are looking for. You can rest assured that we will not download some cheap templates off the web and try to pass that off as our own creation.
Flash Design
If a static website with just graphics and text is not your kind of tea, maybe we can spice it up with some Flash animation. Flash animation will definitely make your website look more dynamic and attractive. If your priority is to create an visually pleasing that will impress your visitors, a flash site is probably the way to go. You can either choose to have a website made entirely out of Flash or incorporate flash animation into part of a static website. Each of the methods has got its advantages and disadvantages which we will be glad to share with you. If you are worried that users without Flash plug-in installed on their browsers cannot view your website, we can solve that by creating a HTML-only version of your website as well.
Quotation
Since different people have different needs and wants, we cannot give you a fair quote without knowing what you are looking for. We will need to understand your objectives and how you want your website to work for you, from there we can work out the time and people to be devoted to your project and come out with a package that everyone will be happy with. As a reference, a static website with 15 pages will usually set you back by about SGD700 with additional pages at SGD20 per page.
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