This month we have been busy working to re-vamp the ASK Piearcey website. The company are consultants specialising in Air Pollution Control. Their current site was a little dated and suffered from regular breaches in security and was often been hacked.
ASK Piearcey Logo
The new brand identity and newly designed and developed site now mean that the ASK Piearcey can continue in their business growth and continue to succeed.
ASK Piearcey Website
Britain’s Got Talent finalist Liam Richards, from Strike, is setting up a martial arts training academy here in Sheffield. design101 have designed and built a website which will allow Liam to promote the academy, showcase students progress and to build up an ‘excel‘lent reputation for Excel Academy.
The site has proved very popular and allows for training sessions and programmes to be showcased.
Excel-In-Life Excel Academy
The world of live action role-play (LARP) has invaded the office for our latest client, Aftermath.
They require a re-vamp of their logo and a CMS site to allow for events, the history of Aftermath and the rules to be available online.
The designs include a new brand identity and a website which helps promote the atmosphere of the city of Af’ael and the battles between races.
Aftermath Logo
Aftermath Website
It’s been great working on a new brand identity and website for the high-tech telescope company called AstroScienTech.
The company is based in Rotherham are designers and manufactures of Dew Heaters for telescopes.
AstroScienTech Website
The company use a revolutionary technique for their product and were therefore looking for an eye-catching and technical feel for their new brand and website.
News of another poor soul who has paid ‘someone’ and extortionate amount of money to build them a website and yet again ended up with an unusable, poorly designed site that uses an ‘off the shelf’ CMS system has made the headlines in Sheffield again.
The real issue is that many agencies don’t publicise their fees, or costs for building sites, to allow them to charge the client ‘what they can afford’ rather than what it should cost. This means that the less savvy, technically bereft of clients, can be hoodwinked and convinced that the site they want is going to cost a not unsubstantial fortune.
We think this is wrong and it makes us angry that there are agencies out there taking advantage of clients and over charging them for functionality that they don’t want or need.
A professional web design agency (like design101) will…
1) Be able to guide, support, advise and direct you and will be open to discuss the development time and costs for each element of the site.
2) Demonstrate sites that they have built before and show you how your site will function and perform.
3) Show you a list of satisfied customers who have benefited from their sites and statistics to back up improvements in traffic and sales.
4) Quote a fixed price for project rather than an estimate of time to be taken and a cost per hour. Beware of hourly rates unless the total is capped or a monthly payment is agreed, as it is possible for the number of hours to be pumped to inflate the overall final cost above the initial quote.
A well designed, carefully built website should offer an investment return of between 100 – 400% in its first year depending on the size of the initial investment.
If you want your business to have a web presence which delivers effective results, have a look around our site: www.design101.co.uk, say hello by email or give us a call on 01709 300265.
We can help your business grow.
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