Posted by Jason on October 19th, 2009 | custardfish news
Hot on the heels of the FA Valiant website and completed in world record time, the JustDuckIt website officially launched today.
Part of the Million Makers scheme where The Prince’s Trust provides £1,500, and JustDuckIt take on the challenge to make it £10,000. The money raised is used in the spirit of The Prince’s Trust to help young people who have often had a hard start in life make their worthy business visions a reality.
Read the rest of this entry »Posted by Jason on October 16th, 2009 | custardfish news
F. A. Valiant & Son specialise in Church and Listed Building restoration work as well as the building and the renovation of high quality homes and extensions throughout East Anglia.
There are some fantastic images of their work on the site – and its nice to see such dedication and craftsmanship!
Read the rest of this entry »Posted by Jason on June 8th, 2009 | Website Marketing Tips
The huge rise in small businesses investing in SEO is testimony to the fact small business owners now realise just having a website isn’t enough. You need to bring visitors to your website.
But statistically 50% of your visitors will leave within a few seconds (bounce rate) – thats a lot of potential customers lost very quickly! Fortunately, AB testing helps you give your visitors what they want, keep them on your site and turn them into customers. And prove its all working at the same time!
Read the rest of this entry »Posted by Jason on April 18th, 2009 | Website Marketing Tips
If your looking for a web designer to build your website your likely to see a huge difference in quotes for your websites development – depending on who you ask.
Ultimately however, its not about the initial cost – it’s about the long term value offered.
For instance if a website costs £10,000 but brings in £1 million worth of business most people would see that as a very good investment.
And that’s the best way to approach your web design project – not as a one off cost but rather a long term investment.
Now it may be obvious but not all websites are created equal. A quick google search will bring up numerous websites in your industry, some google will rank 1st some 500th. Some websites look great, others like they are from 1985. Some easy to navigate, others a complete mess. And the list goes on.
So why does this matter? Well there are a few basic factors that determine how many enquires your website will get. And it’s this that determines the real value of your website .
Read the rest of this entry »Posted by Jason on April 4th, 2009 | Web Design General, custardfish news
The first question we usually get asked is “How much will my website cost?”
We would love to have an easy answer (It would certainly save us time when quoting!) but the truth is we have built websites for as little as £300 and for as much as £15,000. It all comes down to what sort of website you require, the aims and objectives of the project and the exact web design services you would like us to provide.
If your looking for a designer to build (or rebuild) your current website you may have already found that there are often huge differences in quotes from one agency to another.
So why the disparity? How much should you be spending? And what should you look for?
Read the rest of this entry »Posted by Jason on March 12th, 2009 | Web Design General, custardfish news
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Free Design Work! What’s the catch? – No tricks or catches – sign up to our free newsletter to enter our competition for free design work. It’s really that simple – and if you don’t like our newsletter simply un-subscribe! (Although its good karma to read a few first!).
Posted by Jason on March 8th, 2009 | custardfish news
Well it took a while (We’ve been busy working on our clients websites and a couple of ’secret’ projects!) but finally our new website is here!
Hopefully this new site will give both our existing and potential clients a greater idea of who are and what web design services we offer. There are also a few new features which will make editing and adding content much easier for us.
Read the rest of this entry »Posted by Jason on March 9th, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today Realtime Despatchs‘ new website went live! We’ve been working on the web design and build of their new website for a while – we can now finally say ‘Hurrah!’ as the site officially goes live!
Realtime Despatch provide on-line software applications for the management of multiple Ecommerce sales channels and Warehouse Stock Control – or as their headers succinctly put it;
We initially started with the project a total re-branding of their existing corporate ID, modernising the whole feel of the company and enforcing them as market leaders with what is an extremely high quality product.
Once the branding was finalised the web design project started with an in-depth content, wire-frame and grey-scale layout process.
As Realtime’s web based application targets three distinct markets (E-Tailers, Fulfilment Houses & Web Developers) – our (not so easy) task was to deliver the applications general benefits together with highly targeted content unique to each different user base. All without turning away any of the 3 user bases or looking cramped.
Our grey-scale design process helps immensely with finding the optimum way to display the content of the website, so both the copy and layout deliver the right information at the right time and in the right place.
Our solution was to combine a generic header with a tabbed based user-focussed sub-header – giving each user base a quick overview as well as quick and easy access to specific and key area of interest.
Once the copy, content and layout had been agreed we were tasked with final design process, implementing colours and branding throughout. Then onto a standards compliant (including the dreaded and ‘dead’ IE6!) HTML & CSS build.
Unusually the client opted out of a full Content Management System (CMS) build. For ease of use however we also helped build the structure of the site with PHP, making it all as modular as possible.
Charlie and Phil over at RD where great to work with and we’re delighted that they’ve now tasked us with helping them with the User Interface Design (UI) of the main application itself.