Design Packages and Design Advice
   

Starter Pack

 Increase awareness, provide information and allow customers to contact you.
   

Online Shopping

 Sell products or services via the Internet. E-commerce is online shopping 24 hours a day.
   

Content Management

 Take control and update your web site as often as you like with our easy-to-use Content Management System.
   

Virtual Tours

 Enhance your web site with 360° images. We can produce 360° Virtual Tours so that your clients can virtually roam around your rooms.
   

Other Facilities

 Enhance your web site with extra features such as forums, booking facilities, auctions, member areas and searchable directories. Add portals, Intranets, Extranets and CRM Systems.
   

Our Approach
   

Consultation:

The most important part of any web design process is determining who your audience is and the best way to reach them. .com’s highly experienced business analysts will provide a free consultation to help you determine how you should use the Internet.
   

Content Preparation and Editing:

 Gathering the right content is an equally important stage and .com experienced writers and editors are here to assist you.
   

Creating an Architecture:

Good content on many sites is never seen. It is important to have a clear and consistent structure with ease of navigation. Again we are here to help.
   

Graphic Design:

 In a visual medium like the web, how your information is presented is nearly as important as the information itself. .com will make your site aesthetically pleasing while keeping downloading times to a reasonable level.
   

Add-ons:

If you are in the retail business perhaps you can add another shop window and till with on-line shopping; it’s not as hard as you may think with our help. Engineering companies may find a forum useful. .com can provide these services and more, to help you maximize your site's potential – and many are free!
   

Visibility:

Once your site is finished, it must be publicised. A good site is worthless if no one can find it. .com can submit your site to all of the major search engines and add links from other sites.
   

Maintenance:

.com can help you add new content, update items such as prices or provide you with software so you can do it yourself.
   

Design Tips
   

Enduring

 Sites must be enduring. They must be appropriate, attractive and tasteful, yet not outdated in just a few years. They must be easily navigated, familiar, fast loading and solid, with an enduring appeal that eschews client complaints about cheap gimmicks. We have the ability to provide Flash sites, but we ask you to think about it first. This site has some activity on it to retain the customer’s interest (hopefully), but does not use Flash or a similar technology. It is a midway point between a standard static web site and a graphically dynamic one that takes people on modems a long time to load.
   

Your Client's view

The more professional you look, the more professional & dependable your visitors assume you to be. And of course the opposite is also true - if your online presentation appears to your viewers to be unpolished and disorganized, then they will not be encouraged to do business with you. Fairly or unfairly, that is the way it works in the world of eCommerce; just as it does in any other venue, first impressions really are everything.
 

What Next?
 

How much?

 The cost of a web site is completely dependant on what you want, and how well organized you are in gathering your content - you can see a sample price list at our "Prices" page. After reviewing that information, please feel welcome to contact us for a free consultation.
   

Summary of what we provide

 southwestuk.com offer integrated electronic solutions that support companies from the initial design stages of a web site through to e-commerce and/or Intranet applications, whilst considering the wider management and marketing strategy of your organisation.
   

Our experience

 We've been introducing companies to the Internet since November 1993, and in the process have witnessed the birth and coming to age of e-commerce and the growth of the Internet industry. We have seen sites work and ones that don't.