Why use pre-designed?

It may be  space efficient, energy efficiency, designed especially for a couple, designed more for a family with children or especially designed for someone single or a person with disabilities. We don't despise development companies because they have these ready made plans, but rather, we recognise that they have understood what it means to make an effective, pleasing design to meet our needs. 

The other great aspect is that these plans are cheaper than going to an architect and getting a house tailored made to your design.

Our point?

Don't be afraid or embarrassed about template websites. They are great, efficient, designed for your needs, colourful and now transparent.

Website templates are the next big thing for the internet - everyone is using them. They give great results without bursting the budget! - See one of the best template providers around

Insight on templates 

Hundreds of company's have benefited from the research that has been done to ensure that the templates are the best commercial solution for your company's advertising. 

Each working sector has a certain type of style, customer need, online shopping, navigation facilities that are expected by the visitor to your site.

For example, visitors that go to an estate agent expect to have a search facility where they can input their property requirements, they also expect to see a contact form so they can make an appointment for a visit and photos of the property etc;

Do not under estimate the power of a website template. Your company can profit from every help it can get.

Shopping Cart features include:

• Top selling feature products shown at the front of the store
• Related products "people who bought this product also bought..."
• Facility to enquire about content of basket without making an order

Categories and Products features include:

• Each product having its own price, size, image and description
• Possibility of products existing in multiple categories
• Creating and maintaining of the product catalogue is easy to use and quick with tools.

Customer Discount features include:

• A regular customer can be offered a percentage of discount shown at checkout
• Coupons can be created for single or multiple use with a start and finish date.

Mailing Lists features include:

• Users can request text or html style emails
• Verified mailing list to avoid spamming
• Use as marketing tool to send emails to your mailing/export addresses

Wish list features include:

• Possibility for customer to create a wish list for weddings etc and share this account facility with their friends and family who can browse and purchase products using a private password for entry.
  
• These items are shown as purchased on checkout.

Save Basket feature includes:

• Allowing visitors to make a selection using one computer and this being saved and accessed on another computer saving time. 

Stock Control features include:

• Allows you to keep track of how many items you have in stock with advance warnings when items get low. Disabling the ability to purchase products that are no longer in stock or warning customers.

Search Facilities include:

• Searching by category, product, type, colour, size.

Currency Display feature includes:

• Currency conversion rates
• Browse in local currency
• Multi-currency payment

Shipping and Tax features include:

• Choose shipping option by districts, countries and speed
• Tax is set by country to ensure correct tax is calculated and paid
• Set up by prices including or excluding tax
• Set minimum order size for overseas shipping

My Account features include:

• Facility so customers can view their own full order history, see saved baskets, check on current order and admin facilities such as changing passwords, change address etc;

Multilingual features include:

• This facility enables up to five languages including French, Spanish etc;
• Simple drop down menu facility to change language

1. Flash Sites

The way the world does business has changed and it keeps changing thanks to the internet. The only way to keep up is with a well-planned, well-executed e-business infrastructure.

Successful companies have implemented focused e-business strategies to build cutting-edge enterprises that serve and retain customers, manage suppliers, and integrate selling chains better than ever before. 

By combining our business knowledge with our deep understanding of technology, we can guide you in the right direction.

Let SWDL create you a Flash website that your customers will remember and recommend!

2. Flash Intros

A Flash introduction is a little movie that is placed on your website's home page, containing stimulating graphics or animation.

Flash intro pages are used to give a stunning first impression to visitors of your website. You never get a second chance to make a first impression - and first impressions can make a difference.  That is why it's important to take the same care and effort with the design of an flash intro page as you do with the rest of your site.

3. Flash Presentations

Flash presentations use animation and sound to grasp the attention of the viewer. Because the sound and movement command more attention, Flash is more effective for distributing information than static presentations are.
Animated visuals, original soundtracks and hands-on information will stay fresh in the minds of your customers much longer than a brochure. Allow your customers to dynamically interact with your company through your Marketing Presentation on the Web. Interaction encourages the building of relationships. Trusting relationships encourage sales. Our team provides the latest Dynamic HTML, Flash & Streaming media for you to achieve success.

4. Virtual Tours

Virtual Tours are panoramic images that let you view a scene in full 360-degree rotation and provide an experience much closer to reality than regular flat photographs. They work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week making it possible for you to reach buyers from all over the world. They save time and travel and allow customers to make tour at their convenience. Virtual tours are ideal for electronic marketing for estate agents, developments of new homes, holiday home destinations, bed and breakfast, resorts, and many more. We produce complete Virtual Tours that can be used as a stand alone application or incorporated into your Web site. Increase the visual information on your web site, with panoramic imaging.

5. 3D Designs

Our competence and Flash abilities exceed the bounds of the specified services. Any project of yours can be realized in terms of digital reality with application of any latest technologies required.

What is more, our design activity is not limited to web design and animation: we are happy to offer you a full service package including polygraphs model designing, corporate identity developing, 3-D scenes construction and many more. Contact our office and we will take care of your projects relating to design.

Step 1 Initial Planning - Design Composition
This involves recognizing the target audience, the services or products to be displayed and defining the real goal of the website to ensure maximum client return on investment. It includes an analysis of what you want from your website, details of your company, your competition, size of website your require, what type of audience you wish to attract, what visitors/customers you would like more of, what you wish your website to do for you and the company's future objectives. By the end of this stage both Site Web Developers and client should also possess a clear understanding of the scope of the project. What features and functionalities the website should produce. Also your budget!

Step 2 Spec and Requirements Analysis (Site Architecture)
This is the architectural view or design of your website. It will involve a meeting with our team using a website proforma which is used to analyse your website needs. It will include use of colour themes, imagery, atmosphere, typography and give an idea about the site structure and navigation. Designs about the site map, which is basically a high-level diagram of the overall structure of a site will also be created. And if you already have a website, what you like or dislike about your website, what you would like more of and what you would like to improve.

Step 3 Design Elaboration and Initial Development
This stage is the digital media planning for the development of the web pages. A blueprint enables us to incorporate and test navigation elements and ensure that the architecture of the design is logical and efficient.

Aspects such as the precise typeface of labels and body text, the exact sizes and appearances of images, and colour schemes and palettes are determined. In most cases every single page of the site is not designed, they are split into classes of page (such as home page and then second level pages). Aspects such as the precise typeface of labels and body text, the exact sizes and appearances of images, and colour schemes and palettes are determined.

Step 4 Coding and Design Implementation
Enhancing the navigation, layout, and flow of the selected design according to client inputs and usability testing performed by our own specialists. During this phase the design is interactively refined, detailed, and informally tested. They will then undergo intensive research to provide a text that is suitable for your website needs. Enhancing the navigation, layout, and flow of the selected design according to client inputs and usability testing performed by our own specialists. Aspects such as the precise typeface of labels and body text, the exact sizes and appearances of images, and colour schemes and palettes are determined.

Step 5 Manual & Automated Testing and Integration 
Your website is now being tweaked by the web development department to ensure that tags, key words and other interactivity is fully working and that the website will be acceptably completed so that search engines robots will be able to find your website. Developing the full web solution, complete with code, contents and images in our local server. Entire codes, graphics, database (if any) and HTML are thoroughly tested, both individually and as whole unit to ensure the web site working as flawlessly and it loading at optimum speed. All the content is checked for spelling and grammatical mistakes.

Step 6 Evaluation & Bug and User Testability 
The final leg in our process involves yet another round of testing and editing. The site is proofread and checked for any tag errors or typing errors. Forms and other interactive elements are tested to ensure they are working correctly. Log analysis tools are installed and periodic maintenance scripts are scheduled. Bug and usability testing:
Testing the system in a production environment and check if all the functionalities are working as they should. Testing for user friendliness. Client involvement is most intense in this phase who constantly provides inputs if all the features match his expectations. Implementing the web site in the client hosting server and configuring it.
Final approval and signing off by client.

Post Website Essentials

Site Web Developers service doesn't stop at the completion of the website. Full support is available to ensure that you are fully aware of the website and its great features.A website needs constant attention. Remember, it is your company live to the world.

All in 3 Steps!

Step 1 SEO Search engine optimisation is an excellent tool to ensure your site is maximised by the top search engines.

Step 2 Updating annually of your domain names and email accounts.

Step 3 Additions/Improving  your website is essential. Our web development team are available to ensure that your updates, additions and improvements are made to your website whenever it is needed.