Why We're Good
Because we know our stuff.
As well as creating beautiful designs, we're red-hot on the often-ignored but important considerations of Accessibility and Valid Coding. This ensures that your site will be useable for people with visual difficulties (a legal requirement in some countries), and that it displays correctly in all of the popular browsers and on different-sized monitors.
To this end, your site will undergo rigorous testing by the relevant authorities and will only be released to you when it is certified error-free. We also aim for our sites to load in under 2 seconds on a dial-up modem — that's virtually instantaneously on broadband.
Lastly, and most importantly, we ensure that your website will be picked up by the most popular search engines. It is no exaggeration to say that every single one of our 'redesign' clients has reported a significant increase in traffic to their fresh new web site.
We're 0.007% in 2.4 million!
Of 2.4 million web pages evaluated for valid coding, only a tiny fraction met the World Wide Web Consortium's standards. We're proud of the fact that our websites are tested and certified 100% error-free before we release them to their new owners.
Test a web site for valid coding
The W3C Markup Validator is a free tool and service that 'validates' markup: in other words, it checks the syntax of Web documents and reports any 'illegalities'. Any designer worth his/her salt will ensure that their web code is 'legal', thereby avoiding issues such as display problems - or even browser crashes - and aiding search-engine visibility.
Never settle for a designer whose own web site doesn't 'validate'!
Check any web site, including your own by entering its address into the validation tool's address box. The likelihood is that the validator will return a number of errors - although these may not make much sense, they can be taken as a strong indicator of what designers to avoid. Ideally, the results should look like this (the report for our own web site, needless to say).
For a more in-depth explanation about the importance of validation, read the W3C's article.
We're also very friendly...
Our clients love us because we're easy to work with, and we provide a good, old-fashioned, personal, caring service that's second to none. More than 90% of our work comes to us via recommendation, and we don't take on too much so that we're always on hand for after-service such as website tweaks and updates.
“Design is not just what it looks like
and feels like.
Design is how it works”