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Our services

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You have enough on your mind just managing your business, so you don't need to spend your time and energy learning the ins and outs of launching or designing a new web site.

That is why you hire a company who will guide you past the pitfalls, steer you toward the best and lowest cost options for your particular needs, and take care of all the tiny details.

South Coast Web Design - a small company who will understand your requirements and help you to accomplish your goals, without all the hassle. Short, sweet and simple.

Whether you want to sell products or services online or just tell the world about your company, we will help you find the optimal solution for your unique market and to fit any budget.

 

re-designWebsite re-design | Make-over | Face-lift!
Call it what you like...

Web surfers make up their mind about web sites within only a few moments of viewing it. If you have a poorly-designed or outdated website it reflects badly on you or your company..... An outdated website can have a negative effect on how your business is perceived by potential customers or business partners.

Unless the first impression is favourable, visitors will be out of your site before they even know that you might be offering more than your competitors.

Contact us if you've got any questions at all. We don't cold call or hard sell - we're here to offer our advice - that's all. We'll be only too pleased to help.



SEO (search engine optimisation) SEO (search engine optimisation) comes as standard with our designs

Web design and SEO are different. Any design company can make a pretty website. Simply put, designing an award winning website is not enough. The site needs to be placed in front of potential visitors or they will not know you exist. Without smart marketing any great website will fail. South Coast Web Design focuses specifically on how to succeed at getting your website noticed - with great website design, search engine placement, search engine marketing and submission. We help you achieve high traffic to your website that converts to revenue...

It's a confusing subject! However, we're here to offer a fresh approach to SEO. We keep it simple.

Our aim is to drive more business to your website through improving your search engine positions. After all, what use is there in having a website if no-one can find it?

The World Wide Web is an enormous living and interactive entity. With over 9 000 000 000 web sites according to recent estimates, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get discovered, firstly by search engines, and secondly by human visitors.

How can you get found in such a colossal myriad of competing websites? This is where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) comes into play. It is the science / art of making your website attractive to the major search engines.

Tweaking your website will make it stand out from the crowd.

Most of the SEO efforts are implemented at the skeletal foundation of the web sites architecture. Once applied, results usually vary notably but may take 6 months or slightly longer to show.

While some SEO firms might guarantee you top 10 results, be very wary of these claims as they are either false or attained using 'black hat' methods that could possibly get your site banned from search engines for life...

Our Search Engine Optimisation or SEO services will help your site perform better in the search engines and deliver measurable benefits to your business. We use a fully transparent approach to SEO - and plain english to explain what we are doing.

As well as taking care of internal changes to allow your website to perform better in search engine results, South Coast Web design can also provide consultation on external strategies to drive traffic to your website.

SEO is included as standard with all our designs to suit your requirements, but we will gladly quote for just SEO if your web site is lacking that much-needed web presence.

We always use safe and tested 'white hat' SEO strategies that comply with major search engines' guidelines and regulations.


our designs are multi browser compatible

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Netscape, Safari...

There are a huge number of web browsers available today and whilst Internet Explorer remains the most common and popular browser, others are becoming increasingly widespread.

It is imperative that your web site displays properly in which ever web browser your customers may be using.

Is this really that important?

YES! Today, internet users are given many options when choosing their web browser, and your website needs to work in all of them!

You need to consider the way your web site displays in each of the many popular browsers on the internet. You don't know which web browser your customer may be using- it can be embarassing for a client or customer to visit your web site and see that the fonts are a different color, size, or style, the flash may not work correctly etc. This reflects poorly on your business image. You shouldn't have to build a different version of your web site for each browser available, and there are a lot!

We work with software that enables us to do just that. Taking care of certain technical aspects will make your website compatible with different browsers and platforms. In every aspect of the design, we continually perform checks to make sure the content appears the same in all web browsers.


 

hosting serviceHosting

What is Hosting?

A hosting server is where your website will be stored. It is a computer connected to the Internet 24 hours a day with the content daily backed up with power failure protection.

We offer hosting with all our designs, and this is included in your quoted fee (hosting payable every year).

Unless you have already purchased hosting or are happy to use your existing hosting company, we recommend a Uk based company (if your business is Uk based).

Their name is Site Hq, they offer a comprehensive range of packages including Windows and Linux home or business packets.

Features: email, statistics, 99.9% up time - your website will always be on-line.



email service
Domain email is an email account that is connected to your website.

These email accounts have full capabilities, including sending, receiving and forwarding emails.

An example of a domain email address is yourname@yourdomain.co.uk.

Domain email is great for businesses, organizations and families. It gives you an email address that is unique, polished, professional and fun.

Domain email promotes your site since your domain address is part of your email address and gives your site substance and credibility. It also provides a more professional alternative to using a free email host.

We offer unlimited pop 3 domain email accounts for our clients.

With domain emails you will be able to send and receive emails as yourname@yourdomain.co.uk, regardless of your Internet Service Provider.

Your accounts can be set up with Outlook, Outlook Express or be redirected to your favourite email account (Google mail or Hotmail?)

You also have the ability to view your webmail online from anywhere in the world.

Our email services also include virus protection, spam assassin, forwarders, mailing list, and more...

Whatever your needs, we will make the whole process an easy one for you, so you can rest assured you'll never miss your online enquiries or orders.

If you encounter any problems at any stage with your email we offer free telephone support.

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Support



supportWe won't just design you a great looking website, we'll be there to offer our support at all times.


Most organisations want a long-term business relationship with their suppliers. In the world of web design, this requires four different types of on-going support:

1. Creative input/ too many web developers consider that their job is done once they have implemented a site. At South Coast Web Design, we aim to provide continual creative input into the future development of our customers' web presence.

This can take the form of a simple face-to-face consultation, a detailed site-audit or a simple monthly email containing ideas or recent developments in the industry.

This is the cornerstone of our long-term relationship with our customers.

2. Managing on-going changes / we want to help you maintain your site and become a valuable long-term business partner. We can provide a simple and effective approach to requests and process changes to your web site, while ensuring the very best customer service.

3. Ensuring the website is 100% operational we will monitor your site for you 3 months from the go live date, check forms and links are consistent and operational. If after this date you find a problem with any aspect of your new web site we will assist you with your needs the very same day.

4. Web site visitor statistics provides a wide range of statistical information relevant to your site such as visitor numbers, pages viewed, most popular pages and so on. Full statistics are included with all our hosting packages.


why choose us?

There are tens of thousands of web designers in the UK and thousands in the Hampshire area alone.

So what sets us apart from the rest?

We are a small company and we're intimately aware of every aspect of your website and are available to discuss it at any time.

We're not a faceless company with constantly changing personnel and a buffer zone of secretaries with office juniors to circumvent before you reach the person you're after.

This also obviously means we have low overheads so you're not going to pay above the odds to fund our office space, payroll and fleet of company cars.

Hopefully you'll come to think of us as part of your team!

Above all we are:

Competitive - our aim is to ensure that every pound spent with us gets you more than if spent elsewhere.

Approachable - you can call us - we do not hide behind email communication and we communicate in plain English!

Committed - before and after the design concept- we exist solely to create great websites, you'll often find we have worked into the early hours, meaning of course your site will be up and running and forever efficient.

Up-front - no unpleasant surprises - no hidden costs - ever.

Uncomplicated - minimal paperwork and straightforward processes, and to eliminate technical terminology allowing customers to make a better and more informed decision.

Customer Service - we take a personal, friendly approach to business, making it a priority to build strong, lasting relationships with our clients.

Full Service - from the design to email, hosting and seo, all in one.

Ongoing support - continual ongoing support is offered after the completion of all our designs.

Call us on 02380 899519,if you would like a free, no obligation quote today...


contact / survey form service

We create contact forms, email forms, feedback forms, questionnaires, surveys, polls, or any other type of web form your company requires.

Features

  • Customised feel to suit your website
  • Visual Verification (CAPTCHA) system that dynamically adds a random string of characters to your forms which must be entered in order for the form to be processed. (Anti Spam)
  • Field Validation (required fields)

example captcha verification form

Here is an image example of CAPTCHA. Users must type in the verification code before the form will send. This simply stops SPAM reaching and filling your inbox.

example full form

This is one example of a contact form, users can use the toolbar's autofill button to fill in if required.

The forms support all standard field types including text boxes, drop downs, radio buttons, check boxes, and upload fields. In addition, we allow you to place 'print' and 'reset' buttons on your form.

Colors, fonts, borders, sizes, and error pages are all customizable to fit the existing look of your site.

Call us on 02380 899519, if you would like a free, no obligation quote today...