Website design

Effective website design is an essential component to any business. Whether you need your first website or it's simply time to refresh your existing site, you can trust us to provide you with the right design to deliver your message online. For many potential clients, their first point of contact with your company or organisation will be your website. With this in mind it is crucial that this first impression portrays the correct message to ensure that these visitors to your website are converted to future clients.

At Pad we understand an engaging visual design, clear navigation, sensible site structure and an appropriate page layout are key criteria to encouraging a visitor to use, and keep coming back, to your site.

Don't just take our word for it, see some of the websites we've produced for our clients.

Website development

Our websites are built using compliant, search engine friendly, xHTML and CSS mark up, using the best practices in usability and accessibility. Our sites are tested to run on all the latest browsers while backwards compatible to at least two previous versions of each browser. We'll manage all your domain name and hosting requirements and offer a very competitive service for updates and additions.

Content Management System (CMS)

A CMS provides a simple and effective way, via any modern web browser, to manage and edit the content on your website, and is most suited for sites or sections of a site that require regular updates. Whether it's simple functionality to update a news page or the ability to edit the text and imagery throughout your entire website, our bespoke, user-friendly, content management system is right for you. Our CMS is very intuitive and contains many features familiar to those who use Microsoft Word and all your edits can be previewed prior to being published online. For all those more advanced users there is the facility to directly edit the HTML code.

E-commerce

E-commerce has fast become a serious revenue generator in the retail sector and it has never been so accessible to the SME marketplace. We provide a fully bespoke service – whether you are an SME or a Plc – to provide a system most suitable and cost effective for your requirements. We'll guide you through the whole process, from how best to set it up, delivery pricing and product grouping to payment collection and refunding, and most importantly of all, allowing you to quickly harness the potential sales that the online shopping market provides. 

Management systems

We also produce online management systems that can assist with a company’s operational systems. Whether it be tracking a sales process or an online database to store client information that is relevant to your industry, we can assist. Perhaps you already have a system that covers part of your operations. We can also look into integrating or linking it to the new system.

Hosting and domain names

We provide a competitively-priced and reliable hosting service offering a full range of packages to suit all types of sites. All our hosting packages come with at least one free .co.uk or .org.uk domain name. We can, of course, design a site to be hosted elsewhere, but we prefer to host using our own servers in order to ensure a fast and reliable service. If you've already registered a domain, we are more than happy take over the administration processes.

Marketing tools

Websites are a fantastic way to generate leads providing they are created in a search engine friendly way and are promoted effectively. People very rarely employ services without taking a look at their website. The web is often used to promote specific company campaigns and competitions and is an effective way of creating brand awareness.

Letting people know you are there...
It is imperative to let potential and existing customers know that your site exists, how to get to it and what it offers. Search Engine Optimisation is only part of this and each business will require a different mix of marketing, whether it’s email marketing, direct mail, online advertising or simply by having your web address on your business card.

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