Website Design in Blackwater Surrey UK

<body> <p align="center"> <h1>Website Design in Blackwater Surrey UK</h1> <p>Whether you are just starting out with your first venture toward having a web presence, or you are already well  established, Mitchells Online can provide a service that will give you great results. Our Services range from simply designing your web pages so that you may host them on your own site or ISP, through to completely designing, hosting, maintaining and promoting your site to the internet community.  <h2>Our Services include:</h2> <ul> <li>Develop & Design New Web Sites </li> <li>Managing existing Web Sites </li> <li>Logo's & Graphic Design </li> <li>Animations</li> <li>Database Driven Sites (MySQL, .ASP) </li> <li>Shopping Cart Enabled Sites </li> <li>Keyword & Copy Research & Development </li> <li>Targeted Entry Pages </li> <li>Ongoing Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) </li> <li>Online Database Hosting </li> </ul> <h2>The Process...</h2> <p>The development of a website is in several phases: </p> <ul> <li>Initial Wireframe Diagram</li> <li>Purchase of a Domain Name</li> <li>Purchase Web Space (Hosting)</li> <li>Development of the Website Content (Wording, Keyword & phrasess</li> <li>Development of the Visual style (Logos, Pictures, illustrations)</li> <li>Upload to the Web Server</li> <li>Promotion of your Web Site </li> </ul> <h2>Initial Wireframe Diagram</h2> <p>This is the first step where we decide together the structure of the site and organisation of information on a page-by-page basis. This gives us the best starting point to think about and plan how we organise the way in which information is presented to your site visitors. My initial stab at your wireframe is enclosed so we have a basis to give you a budgetary cost for producing your site. It’s important to note that most people’s typical view of a website is one where a visitor arrives at your site’s home page the explore further from there. In reality however on a site which is well optimised and well indexed by the search engines (Google for example) , the visitor can arrive at any page on your site, and if we do our work right, they will arrive at your site at a page which has the most relevance to what they actually searched for.</p> <h2>Domain Name Purchase</h2> <p>Your domain name is your “address” on the internet. Buying a domain name is a little like buying a company name. If you are very lucky, the domain name that you want has not already been purchased by someone else. But in most cases, chances are your “ideal” name is probably already taken. The simpler and more memorable the domain name, the more likelihood it is already taken! Ideally you should choose a short domain name that either reflects you organisation’s name, or what you actually do, or provide as a service. </p> <p>When you buy a domain name, you generally buy it for 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 years. You can actually buy a domain name and do nothing with it. Many speculators bought up big domain names just to own them and sell them at hugely inflated prices to some corporations that really wanted that name. </p> <p>Domain name priced are priced based on their popularity, novelty etc, a little like a custom number plate. Its worth remembering that the last part of your email address will also be the domain name, and it can be frustrating if you are giving your email address to someone over the phone and its either long, easily misspelled or mistyped. </p> <h2><font face="Arial">Purchase Web Space (Hosting)</font></h2> <p>The next step is to purchase web space. This is basically renting space on a Web Server. We an provide a variety of hosting options depending on the size and complexity of your site. </p> <p>A Web Server is a powerful computer that is permanently connected by a very high speed connection to the internet, and in most cases has several web sites on it. It listens for anybody on the internet requesting your domain name, and when it sees that, it responds by sending them the requested pages from your web site, or collecting email addressed to your domain. </p> <p>This space on a Web Server is known as “Hosting”. Hosting is purchased on a yearly basis and starts from about £100+VAT per year upwards, depending on how many email accounts you want and what sort of features you need from the hosting, such as database driven pages, online selling, etc. </p> <h2>Development of the Website Content <br> (Words, Keywords, Key Phrases) </h2> <p>This is that part of the development process where we need to work closely with you. It goes without saying that no-one knows your business and your clients better than you, so we depend on you to develop the initial content for the website. </p> <p>We’re happy to do it for you but that would be more expensive as we’d have to do extensive interviews with you and research your market to develop an understanding of your business and the write the content. You don’t have to worry too much about the style of the text you produce, we’ll go through it and “webbify” it for you. </p> <p>To help you with the process we’ve developed some “cheat-sheets” to help you with your text development. These sheets will guide you through the process. </p> <h2>Static Versus Dynamic Pages </h2> <p>Static web pages are basically web pages that do not change. These pages are much like a Word document, they are fixed, and don’t change unless they get edited by somebody, normally a web designer. Static pages can be simple or complex, with text, photos, illustrations or even animations or video.</p> <p>Dynamic Pages are just that, they contain programming code to change the content and appearance of the page based upon pulling data from a database. You could almost think of them as being like a mail merge document with content which changes. </p> <h2>Development of the Visual style </h2> <p>This is the part where we take a look at the content and decide what the best way visually is to present the information on your site. This is all about typefaces, pictures, logos, images, video, animations, drawings etc. </p> <h2>Upload to Your Web Server</h2> <p>Once we’re all happy with the content and the design we will then upload the entire site we have developed to your Web Server for hosting. At that point it will be live on the internet. </p> <h2>Promotion of Your Web Site </h2> <p>Once you have a domain and a website and email addresses you can now be assured you have established your presence on the internet and the World Wide Web. But this is not the end the work; it’s just the beginning if you want to maximize your investment in starting a web site. A whole book could be dedicated to the subject of maximizing the potential of your website. </p> <p>A somewhat simple analogy to where you are today would be to compare your site to the sign above a shop doorway, in that it’s the only ones who see it are those who know where to go or who happen to be walking past. To get traffic or “hits” on your site you need to make it easy to find. It’s important to put your website and email address in all your company literature, advertising, Yellow Pages entries and business cards. Always ask new customer inquirers how they found you. </p> <p>The real power of the web is the way it can present almost anyone, anywhere in the world with access to a computer with a way of getting to your site by simply typing in a few key search words or phrases which suggest what they're looking for. </p> <p>This is where the Search Engines come onto the scene. There are literally thousands of them. Most of them will list your site for free, however more and more these days are starting to charge to review your site for inclusion. Notice I use the term “review your site for inclusion”. The amazing thing is that if you read the small print in the agreement when you submit your site for a ‘paid listing’ they often give no guarantee that your site will get listed, only that they will review and consider it for inclusion! The other thing to bear in mind is that even though there are thousands of search engines and directories, it’s the old 80:20 rule.. in fact it’s probably more like 99% of the traffic comes from just 1% of the search engines. </p> <p>So which are the important search engines to get listed on? It largely depends on who your target audience is. For example getting listed on AOL is going to give you hits from more of the home users, whereas getting listed on Google and Altavista will get you more business traffic. </p> <p>To get listed on the search engines you must “submit” your site to them for inclusion. This is a service we can provide for you on an ongoing basis. It is critical however to make sure your site is ready and waiting and that its structure and keywords are fully thought through and ready. </p> <p>Once your site is submitted to the search engines, they will either have a human editor visit your site, to review it and decide whether and in what category to list you. Or, more often, your site will be ‘spidered’ by a robotic piece of software that automatically examines your site, its keywords etc. and it will then make decisions based on rules and logic as to whether and how to list your site. </p> <p>There is no guarantee as to when your site will get reviewed or spidered, unless you pay for it. If you don’t pay, it can take from a few weeks to several months for the reviewers or spiders to get to your Page 4 of 4 site. </p> <p>If you to a paid-for or “express” submission the search engines and directories will then guarantee to review your site within a fixed timeframe, generally less than a week. Apart from the paid listings, we should re-submit your site to all the ‘free’ search engines regularly, about every 3 months, not more often otherwise they may block you.</p> <a href="/index.htm">HOME</a> </body>