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Cumbrian Website Designers
Website development may appear to be simple but without the software, skill and time you can spend many hours and large sums of money attempting to create a DIY site.
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Choosing the right web design company can be mind boggling as there are hundreds of web designers and design agencies, all competing for your business.
So why should you choose us?
Rural Web Design uses all the latest web technologies and development tools to turn your vision into reality. We also promise not to use these tools to build a site that attempts to trick the search engines into listing your site above others - we follow the guidelines given by Google the most important search engine on the planet.
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| Designing a website is not simply taking your corporate brochure and putting it online. Websites have to be designed to be easy to navigate, and must make it easy to get in touch. Every visitor to your site will navigate it in a different way and have different expectations of what it should deliver. It must be accessible to first time users to the internet without alienating regular surfers. To ensure we meet your expectations all our sites are custom designed, we dont offer a limited range of templates. |
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Website management made simple.
We believe in giving you control of your website and so our brochure type sites are designed to use Contribute 3 which makes website maintenance easy. Contribute lets everyone in an organization publish to websites and bring them alive with up-to-date information. There is no easier or more affordable way to keep web content current and relevant. Contribute 3 redefines web publishing, making it an activity open to everybody, every day.
Read more about Contribute 3
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For our e-commerce websites we use Actinic Catalog® which is widely recognised as the best value entry-level shopping cart software, Actinic Catalog® v7 provides everything you need to build and manage a business web site and online store to start selling on the internet.
Offers great value, ease of use and a powerful range of features, with comprehensive support options and an upgrade path to more advanced functionality.
Read more about Actinic E-commerce Software
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Pictures
We create all images for optimum performance and minimal download times. Large images might look impressive but web sites with a high graphical content will generate poor search engine listings and will also be very slow to load. Websites that take more than 12 seconds to load lose over 20% of users straight away! More about Website Photography |
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Search Engines
Websites need to be designed so that they are easy to find on the internet. Ensuring your website is designed correctly is the key to getting your website ranked highly on search engines. Search engine results are based on many variables although some basic principles apply such as domain name relevance, links, the use of key words & meta tags and the relationship and relevance of page text and correct page titling. How to design a "search engine friendly" website |
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Internet Browsers
Your website should be designed from the start to work with the major web browsers and at different screen resolutions. For example a website that looks good at 800X600 pixels needs to look just as good at 1024X768 pixels, This is becoming more import as users upgrade or replace their old PC's, sites designed for 800x600 will need a complete redesign. We also ensure full website functionality for Apple Mac as well as PC users and those with current and older browser versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape software.
Websites that state that they are optimised for a certain resolution e.g. 800x600 or a specific browser just mean that the designer of the site could not be bothered to ensure compatibility. You will pay the price of lost visitors who will be unable to see the site or leave because they have to scroll the screen left and right to read the content.
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Understanding
Once we understand what you want to deliver on the internet, whether it is a simple marketing message or a constantly changing community site, we will produce a custom design so you can visualise how your website will look and work. This allows you to see the concept and make any refinements you feel necessary before you commit.
We can develop a website you have already designed, continue development on an existing website developed by another company, re-develop your website or develop a website we have designed with you. Whatever your requirement it will be to an agreed specification, fixed cost and delivery date.
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