The designing of a website takes place in a graphics package and only involves the visual aspects of a website, such as the layout and colour scheme. At Agile we keep in close contact with the client during the design phase to ensure they are happy with the layout of their website before programming begins.
Our main priorities when designing any website is making sure it is easy to use and navigate, keeping the website light weight to ensure the quickest possible loading times, while still making the design eye catching and original.
Our websites are always designed and developed in a truly bespoke fashion from scratch, never from a template. This means our websites are suited specifically to the clients needs, and wont look the same as any other websites.
Development of a website means taking the design and turning if from a picture into a functioning website. At Agile this is always done with hand written code, we would never use WYSIWYG editors, as these tend to create bulky and untidy programming, which is not very efficient and not easy to update or modify. The fact that all Agile websites are hand coded also means search engines will be able to index our sites easily, ensuring higher rankings.
All websites from Agile are cross-browser compatible, as you can never predict what someone viewing your website will be using. To ensure cross browser compatibility, our websites are tested in Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Netscape Navigator, Apple Safari, Opera and others. Our code is always written to w3 certified specification*, which helps to make them compatible, and can help increase search engine ranks.
Search engine optimisation is usually defined as the process of making a website appear high up the list of a search engine's results. At agile we believe there is more to SEO than just high ranking, after all, what's the use of being the first result, if no one clicks it anyway? We will also design the way your website is listed to ensure users will see your website as relevant and want to know more. With so many websites always clamouring for the top spots, its always better to be somewhere on the first page and clicked, than the first result and overlooked.
We achieve this with a combination of gearing the website's content to certain specific keywords, search engine specific tools, page title and summary customisation, backward linking, and many other techniques.
At Agile we also offer a logo design service, logos are designed to meet the clients specific requirements, whilst being congruent with the rest of the website.
The logo will also be supplied as a high resolution, vector based (where possible) image file, which can then be used on other products like headed paper.
Applications and games are small programs, usually created in flash or java, which are built into a website to provide extra functionality. These can be almost anything from streaming music or video players to large scale multiplayer games.
At Agile we can design and develop all kinds of programs and games either as part of a website brief or as a stand alone project.
All our websites come with a free .co.uk domain name, and high quality unrestricted hosting can be arranged for as little as £30 per year. We will also organise any domain name transfers which may be required.
