We were approached by iola who are a leading suppliers of beautiful and functional indoor and outdoor rattan furniture. They came to us with the requirement of designing a professional website to represent their rattan furniture business. The website was to look good and perform well in the search engines for searches related to rattan furniture across the United Kingdom.

Iola’s all weather rattan furniture creations are exclusively from Australia and New Zealand and are hand crafted by their team of master weavers, originating from Cebu in the Philippines, and produced in their state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, with exacting standards for quality.

So if you are looking for a piece of rattan furniture for your conservatory or garden then you simply will not find better quality or designs and a more professional service. We are certain you will be impressed.

The website is located here.. iola rattan furniture

We have just designed and developed a new website for South Wales UPVC Ltd. The company based in Taffs Well, South Wales had commissioned us to create a new optimised website for their upvc windows and doors business. The website, as you would guess, contains lots of information on upvc windows and doors, as well as information about the company themselves. The company supply and fit a wide range of upvc products, including windows, doors, conservatories, orangeries, roofline products and commercial fittings.

During the development of this website some of us at Designer Websites used South Wales UPVC to supply and fit windows and doors on our homes, and I must say the cost was MUCH lower than any other company we spoke to and the jobs themselves were done quickly and easily, with no fuss and no mess. I would highly recommend these guys for windows and doors, not only because they are a client but because the jobs they completed for us were very professional and outstanding quality.

Anyway take a look at the website and see what they do.. UPVC Windows and Doors Company

Lovingly Managed offer a unique service, which offers a range of services which help people plan/manage their or a loved one’s end of life. We have recently launched their brochure site with a content managed system within the site which easily allows the site to be updated with news and announcements relating to Lovingly Managed. The informative site gives in-depth information of various ways in which the business can help ease the burden at an emotional time.

Visit the website to find out how Lovingly Managed could help you.

We have launched another promotional product website for a client. These guys specialise in promotional pens, promotional mugs, promotional USB Memory sticks and so much more..

Take a look here.. Promotional Products

Perhaps one of the most interesting observations about website  design is the way in which they have evolved over the years. Rather than being a linear progression, the changes in website design have varied and even come full-circle. Starting off by presenting text for the most part, they then went on to host images and animations as well as - or, in some cases, instead of - text. However in recent years, traditional text-based websites have made a comeback.

Of course, there’s a very good reason for this evolution, which looks somewhat unusual on the surface. When the World Wide Web made its debut in the 90s, Internet connection speeds were much slower than they are today and so websites were developed to contain mostly text: anything more and there could be long loading times. As things went on, Internet connections grew faster and could handle larger files, such as images and eventually animations. When animations entered the fold, multimedia platforms such as Flash encouraged companies and their designers to develop their websites to look pretty, eye-catching and - forgive the pun - “flashy”.

With the birth of Broadband Internet access, online browsing speed is even faster these days, yet many companies have dropped their animated-based sites in favour of more text-based websites. Why? Three words: Search Engine Optimisation.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of increasing traffic to a website via the search engines. There are many factors influencing how this can be obtained and therefore many different techniques can be implemented, but one of the most important factors is that search engines crawl text, so a text-based website will fair far better in the search engine results over those that focus heavily on animations.

SEO is on its way to becoming a standard practice for every business website - even for the big brands, who are scared of losing customers to higher-ranking competitors. Those who implement SEO into their website last will inevitably be left behind.

Even though many website designers prefer to create websites with animations instead of text it is foolish to do so at the cost of online enquiries. The key to perfect website design is a good-looking site that also performs well in the search engine, not placing too much emphasis on one and sacrificing the other.