Ably - Brisbane and Ipswich Web Design
Firstly, to introduce ourselves, Andrew and Petra, are a small development
and design team working together as Ably Digital Design. We hope that the Seasons
Greeting Cards were of benefit to any who used them and thank you for your patience
while we were setting up this site. Seasons Greetings allows
you to print or email a Christmas Card. We will continue to develop this
site for special occasions cards. If you have any suggestions regarding the card site
or for that matter something you would like to know, contact us.
Education for thought! - 05/02/08
School is back, the holidays are over and so many parents are faced with the problems associated with education, and if they, as parents, have provided the best possible solutions for their childs needs. At a recent TED seminar, there was particularly interesting discussion by Sir Ken Robinson on education. He discusses how creativity is quite undervalued in modern society, especially in education. As schools and institutions push harder and harder towards academic studies, we really have to start thinking about placing a higher priority on encouraging the creative and social sides of our children, whether through services such as child care, day care, or just encouraging as much play time for our kids as possible.
NEWS!!!
So we have finally opened our business. This means all those questions about websites that you have wanted to ask, and put off, now you can by contacting us via email or the phone!! Primarily we are about setting up, designing, developing interactive experiences on the web, providing online solutions specifically for your business, marketing your business presence, and creating an ongoing relationship for you with your clients. Our first article is about web development and things you should know when making decisions about your online business.
Web Development from our perspective, as developers and designers, gives an overview of our industry. Andrew and I will both be adding articles, Andrews will be a little more technology related than mine as Andrews background is Interaction Design, Multimedia and IT while my background is in both owning and management of small business and Multimedia.
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Overview
It is essential that your website is an exciting and rewarding experience for both you and your clients! Your presence on the web should be a reflection of you, and what you would like to achieve within your business, by attracting clients who specifically require your services! At Ably we will help you through the process of design, developing and marketing your website.
| Your Part | Our Part |
|---|---|
| You know ur business best! | We know how to present it on the web. |
| You want to maintain clients! | We know how to use your website to maintain an ongoing relationship with your clients. |
| You want new clients! | We aim to get you to the top of the search engines, and we understand other ways of marketing your business digitally. |
| You want it to be user friendly. | We have an immense amount of experience in Interaction Design and even teach it at a university level. |
| You want it to function well. | We have a high level knowledge in a large range of technologies, so your feature wish-list is not limited. |
| You want secure information. | We believe that it is essential for your website and secure, for both you and your clients. |
| You want to sell online. | We have experience in creating and customising online shopping solutions to suit you. |
| You want an online store. | We can provide your customers with a shopping experience that will assist them from first entering to the website, until their product has arrived. |
| You want it to be legal. | We know, understand, and can assist you in creating and maintaining your website to meet local laws and proceedures. |
| You want it to be accessible | We believe that is essential that your website is created to meet all accessibility issues, so that all clients (even those using screen-readers or text browsers) can get a great experience from your website. |
Your part is to make sure we understand your needs for your clients, and together we can provide you with the best possible online business. We can provide an online presence but we would always suggest that a business is alive and should keep your clients up to date with changes within the business, exciting specials or events and other relevant content. This means that your client are much more likely to return, creating an ongoing relationship that will greatly assist your business in the long run.
If you have an exisiting site which is not producing the results you expected, perhaps it is time for a redesign or even just an intergration of necessary help to improve and extend your market.
Web Essentials
Every site has some essential elements which are necessary, and these are part of our service when developing or redesigning a site if required:
- Aquire your unique domain name
- Set up your web hosting
- Set up your email accounts
- Cross Compatiblity independant of which ever browser your visitors use.
- Links that are recognised by Search Engines
- Web Optimised Images
- Fast Download
- Web Optimised Content
- Search Engine Optimisiation
- Shopping cart and E-Commerce capabilities
