Website Design for Small Business

What are our Design Services?

We'll provide the expertise to create your Web Site look / feel and populate the site with your content for the launch.  If you're considering a website for your business, our best advise is to stop and look at your business first and work out exactly what you want to acheive through launching a website.

Without the right focus, you'll have a website that will not be designed for the specific goals of your business.  Joint Plan can help you realise your business goals through our inexpensive Consultancy Service providing you with the right guidence specific to your business up front.

We will build designs from the ground up or we can take one of our existing designs and modify it to your specific needs if keeping cost down is the driving factor.  We can provide designs for any size business and invite you to contact us for a no obligation 1 hour review of your business and your website goals.

Overall Design Considerations

Our base Design service takes into account the basic Search Engine Optimsation requirements to ensure Search Engines can read your website correctly.

This means Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) will understand the structure of your website, it's content and the information each of your web pages presents to the search engines.

Base Design & Technology

We are unique in offering a standard base design which is specifically setup to be the start of a Web Site Project and incorporates many essential features.  Further, with our optional extras, you are able to incorporate additional business functionality and design enhancements which will take your website to a completely different level.

Your base design will include:

• CMS - A license free Content Management System known as Joomla (no per user / Monthly / Annual fee to pay) which provides excellent management of your website and enables you to change your own content to keep your support costs down.
• CMS Optimisation - Joomla is optimised to perform at it's best, be Search Engine Friendly and minimise load times on Internet Browsers to improve your visitors experience.
• Technical Enhancements - Additional software is added (known as Plugin's and Components) to give Joint Plan a great base to design your werbsite from. (Advanced menus, Tabbed Content, Scrolling images and text to name but a few)
• Best Practice SEO - We adjust specific files that control your website to best serve your web pages to visitors (.htaccesss & robots.txt) to provide improved cache settings and URL rewriting.
• Your Design - Your website design based on our base architected Designs or you can upgrade to a totally bespoke design service.
• Content - 5 articles (pages).  We have incentives designed to promote more content during the initial design phase rather after deployment.  These prices are ridiculously low and help you make the most of your initial website deployment for your business.
• Contact Form - 1 Standard Contact which will incorporate Anti-spam technology
• Multi Browser Support - There are many Internet Browsers out there.  We ensure your website works with Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.6+, Google Chrome & Safari.
• Social Network communication - Visitors will be able to Retweet, Facebook Share or Google Buzz your articles straight from your website.  This enhances your search engine rankings over time if your article prove popular.
• Integrated Website Backup - We'll show you how to monitor the backups of your website and we will configure the tool to email you the nightly backup results.

Optional Enhancements

Although this is not an exhausive list, we have a great number of enhancements to offer you based on your requirements.  We hope this gives you some great ideas for your website and just what you can do with it.

• Stock Photography & Illustrations - Professional images and graphics to enhance your website from a library of over 11 Million images and growing.
• iPod, iPhone, iPad optimised website - We will create an mobile optimised version of your website perfect for people to browse anywhere.
• Enhanced Website Security - This dramatically reduces the risks of your website being hacked with patent pending technology.  We strongly recommend this option for all websites.
• Twitter - Integrated into your website with Auto posting of new articles to your Twitter account.
• Facebook - Integrated into your website with Auto posting of new articles to your Facebook account.
• Simple e-Commerce - Great for a startup business who has less than 30 products or services to sell.  This can be setup with Paypal or GoogleCheckout.
• Advanced e-Commerce - This is the full e-commerce experience.  We integrate Virtuemart into your website and design to provide a full online store with many advanced features.
• Calendar / Event Management - Gives you an Events calendar for your organization, a personal calendar for users or a combination of both. Additionally, you can present the calendar in a number of ways around your website that provides great flexibility and saves you time not having to recreate the content two or three times over.
• Integrated Forum - A great interactive experience for your customers and members of your website to interact with you on an ongoing basis.
• Fundraising Tool - Take donations online
• Advanced Forms and data management - Have many custom forms created for visitors to fill out.  The information is captured to your database as well as emailed to you.
• Google Analytics Integration - Know exactly what visitors are doing on your website.
• Google Adwords - We will set up your account and if requested, manage your advertising campaigns for you.