Welcome to Manchester Web Design Company

Manchester Web Design are a professional web design company based in manchester. We specialise in a range of services such as: website design, marketing strategy, search engine optimisation (SEO) and ecommerce shopping solutions.

When you are choosing a web design company to design your website you must look for the following as standard:-

• Great Looking Web Design - A web design company that designs websites that look great, have great functionality and conform to W3C Compliant XHTML and CSS coding.
• Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - A web design company that develops websites that rank highly in search engines such as Google & Yahoo. Generating more custom & revenue for your company.
• Marketing - A web design company that can design a website that appeals to your target market; encouraging customers to purchase your products or services. A company that has an in-house graphic design team that can produce high quality marketing materials such as Direct Mail campaigns, flyers, posters etc.
• Web Development - A web design company that has the ability to develop highly functional and easy to use online applications:-

1. Content Management Systems (CMS) - Enabling you to update the content on your website yourself.
2. Online Shopping Solutions (E-Commerce) - Enabling you to add, edit and update products yourself and allowing customers to pay for products over a secure payment system.
3. Custom Online Applications - Creating a database driven web application that suites your business needs exactly.

• A Friendly and Jargon-Free Experience - A web design company that offer a jargon free web design service to all of their clients. A company that deals with all the technical issues associated with web development leaving clients with a website that serves them in the following unique way:-
  
  Hassle Free

At Manchester Web Design Company we have the experience and expertise to do all of these things for our clients. So why not Contact Us Now for your no obligation free quotation.

Manchester Web Design Company - Web Design Methods

Web Design has changed dramatically since the beginning of the 90's, but alot has stayed the same. The first ever websites were written in a markup language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). There has been 4 versions of HTML to date and HTML Version 4 has been the core internet language for at least 10 years.

Below is the process of how we design, develop and deploy our websites to the world.

Web Design - The Design Stage

The job of a website is to make your business money. It should attract customers into buying products and services. The design of a website is very important because this is the stage in which all the thinking of what style and design would attract your target market. It is our job to produce a website design that refects your company the way you think it should. We should design a website that doesnt push people away from looking around the website in more detail. We should design a website that makes it easy for customers to find what they want quickly and effectivly. As a web design company we use the following methods to create a website design:-

• Hand drawn ideas - At the beginning of a web design project we hand draw our web designs and logos to see how the website and logo will look in a number of ideas in basic form.
• Adobe Illustrator - We then convert the hand drawn logo design into a computer generated illustration. Illustrator enables us to create logos and web graphics that can be any size.
• Adobe Photoshop - We convert our hand drawn web design and create a mockup of the final look of the website. Photoshop is also useful when using photographs and creating graphics for the final web design.
• Adobe Dreamweaver - Once all the graphics work has mainly been completed then we turn to Dreamweaver to build the website ready for the World Wide Web.
• Adobe Flash - Is for creating graphics rich web design, animation and video on a web site

Web Design - The Web Development Stage

Once all the design of the website is completed we then have to turn the picture mockup of the website into a website that people can interact with and use. This is the development stage, to do this we use the following techniques:

• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is standard language for building websites.
• XHTML - is the same language as HTML but XHTML conforms to XML syntax.
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets is used along side HTML and XHTML to style a website from a seperate file. CSS allows a web designer to write style code such as background images, colors, dimensions and keep it in a fully automated style document we call a css document. This CSS document will update a web page automatically upon loading.
• XML - Is a custom markup language for building custom markup
• JavaScript - is a client-side scripting language commonly used in website development.
• AJAX - is a nickname for the combination of JavaScript and XML for creating internet applications.
• PHP - is a server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.
• MySQL - is an open-source database platform. Used along-side PHP and other languages to create database driven websites and applications.

Web Design Compliance and Standards

Good web designers around the world will comply with the guidelines and standards that W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) state. W3C set out these guidelines and validation tools to check that your website is to industry standard coding. Any company who has had a website built by web designers should check to see weather or not there website conforms to these standards because of the following benefits:

• Easier for web designers to edit a website other web designers have built.
• Better Search Engine Rankings
• Better cross-browser compatability

At manchester web design company we use all these languages and techniques to create clients in manchester the best possible web site. We strive to make sure that all modern techniques used according to all modern web design industry standards and compliance.

To check this websites complance please click here of use the W3C Web Design button at the bottom of the web page.