Web design

A core area of our business is web design. 10 successful years of experience in this medium make Spectulise well equipped to make your presence on the internet, coupled with our other skills in search engine optimisation, accessibility, usability, multimedia and hosting services.

Spectulise builds standards-compliant websites using xhtml code, a modern coding standard and css (cascading stylesheets). This serves to separate the content from the design, allowing the design to easily be changed over time as your branding changes.

Coding pages in this way also lends itself to making your site accessible and search engine friendly. Combining this with our specialist search engine knowledge and experience of accessibility will help put your site in front of the competition.

As your website represents your business, it is important that it does this correctly. For this reason, we keep you involved throughout the design and creation process.

The first stage is finding out what your requirements and needs are. An important part of this process is gathering your ideas and preferences. If you already have a website, we can use this as a starting point, taking the features that you like and improving or removing those that you don't. It is also important to start mapping out the page structure. If you have ideas of sections and pages that you would like to include, we can discuss the best ways to display these.

Spectulise will then draw up a selection of conceptual designs. The design process should be an iterative one. We don't want you to settle with what you first see, unless you are completely satisfied. For this reason, we're prepared to take your feedback and go back to the drawing board. We oftern find that clients like to 'cut and paste' their favorite parts of the different designs. This is a fantastic way to create a hybrid of all the designs that we create, including the bits you like, leaving out the parts that you don't.

From there we can then build your site, keeping you informed as you go. We will also make a keyword list with you of the words and terms that you feel represent your business and what your customers will look for. Our research will help to optimise this to best suit the audience.

Content is essential, to attract users and search engines to visit and come back to your site. As specialists in information management, Spectulise will help you write and structure your content in the best way for the web.

Pulling all of this together we will start building your site. Depending on your needs, we will then take it from there, until you are ready to launch your site.

Launching or re-launching your site is only the start. Spectulise can help you keep your site looking fresh, updating content and styling as required. In the background, we will also continue to tweek your webpages to help them perform in the search engines, so the launch is really only the beginning.

See some of our sites in action