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Our varied range of services help us create integrated marketing solutions.

We will hold your hand all the way.

Brainstorm.

The start of your project is by far and without any doubt the most important stage.

Architects play a crucial role in construction. They create blue-prints and models to ensure everything is accounted for before a single brick has been laid.

We operate in a similar fashion, at the very beginning we assess what you want to achieve and identify any obstacles or complexities in the design or functionality. This allows us to better prepare for any bespoke needs and ensures the solution we provide is beyond fit for purpose. 

That said, its all very simple...

Our planning stage typically involves the creation of a Wire Frame that storyboards the layouts and functionality. We may also brainstorm both the marketing messages and logistic issues behind the project to ensure everything ties-in with your internal operations.

“I couldn't believe how quickly you understood the my project! At the end of our first meeting I knew I could trust you (Seed Solution) to deliver the project before I'd seen a single design.”

Once the Wire Frame is complete, we can then proceed to the next stage.

Understand the market.

Ok, we know exactly what we're going to build, but before we go any further, we should probably check out the competition...

Appreciating competitors efforts and bettering their ideas is simply the nature of design and business in general. Even if your idea is truly unique, there will be elements of search engine optimisation, design or functionality you admire in other projects.

We can help you identify these opportunities and add elements to the design and/or development to take account of them.

Typically we work through a list of online advertising channels, including affiliate networks, community websites, search engines, pay-per-click programmes, social networks and media libraries. Identify which competitors appear where (and what approach they take) then capitalise on any shortfalls.

“I was sceptical of online advertising at first. After 12 months of being live and gaining  modest turnover we decided to talk to Seed to see what they would recommend. Our turnover has now increased every month and our ROI has been excellent.”

Not all channels work for all clients, we can help you identify winning opportunities very early on in our project process.

Let the creativity flow.

Our talented and easily inspired design team embrace taking a business concept, product or service and bring it to life; paying particular attention to usability, content placement and marketing messages.

The design stage starts by assessing your branding (we can help here if you don’t have a strong brand) and how it can best transfer into a digital project. Creating complimentary graphics and sourcing appropriate stock photography forms the foundations of a page layout.

From here we run out first ideas past you, take your feedback on-board then revise and finalise initial designs before moving onto other parts of the project (internal pages).

Its a really enjoyable process that allows you to experiment a little whilst working towards quite serious goals.

“The nail was struck on the head first time. Impressed.”

The design process is complete when the artwork is deemed to be perfect. You will be 100% confident in the finished design and so will our team. We ask you to formally approve the artwork before moving onto development.

Bring it to life.

Our goal during this stage is to covert the design into a working (static) website. All interactive features are created including roll-over effects, drop-down menus, forms, image galleries and tool-tips but the website does nothing intelligent.

Our goal is to demonstrate all of the intricacy and ensure compatibility with all mainstream web browsers prior to completing the website.

At this stage we can also determine how the site will appear when viewed on a mobile handset, and if required as part of your project, refine the solution to better cope with being used on a small screen.

The final test is to ensure the page download speed is efficient. We may run some optimisation checks against large images and source-code to ensure the final experience of using the website will be quick.

This stage is complete when all of our internal testing is done and you have generally approved the features that can be demonstrated.

Note: As standard we currently ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. All other browsers may be subject to some variation in design or functionality.

Make it usable.

Your website control panel contains a series of pages designed to enable management and reporting of specific aspects of the website.

The exact features present will always vary depending on your needs; for example, e-commerce websites are far more elaborate than basic content management systems, but, although they are more vast they are just as easy to administer.

Our general rule of thumb is “If you can create a social network profile, you can use our control panels”, they work on similar principles.

The majority of websites we create are powered by PHP and MySQL, a programming language and database used worldwide by hundreds of thousands of individuals. We choose this combination because of its robustness, efficiency and popularity. Its also present on virtually all Linux hosting packages meaning the websites we create are portable.

Although all of the projects we create are bespoke, we can happily provide you with access to a demonstration so you can get a feel for how your finished project might behave. Just get in touch with us and ask for access to a demo.

Keep it online.

In addition to the cost of the website design and development you'll need to pay for website hosting to keep the finished project online.

The kind of hosting you require is subject to two things; the programming languages used for your project (PHP/MySQL) and the specification of the hosting package.

PHP/MySQL is commonplace, you'll have no problems here. But appreciating the complexities of hosting is key to choosing the correct specification.

To keep it really simple, we have three options and you can upgrade your service at any time.

Our starting solution is shared hosting (on one of our dedicated servers). Here you pay a nominal fee each year to keep your website online and the cost burden of a dedicated server is split amongst a range of our clients. Its perfect until you begin to gain some real momentum.

Our other two options are a low-contention ratio hosting (sharing a dedicated server with only a few clients) and true dedicated server hosting. More details are available upon request.

Tell the world about it.

Ok. We've gone live, you're really confident and so are we. We've already identified areas to advertise so its time to deploy a strategy.

Paying particular attention to visitor and financial reporting software (typically Google Analytics) we can carefully track each marketing channel we participate in.

Quickly closing any under performing channels and re-investing in the ones that work we can create sustainable campaigns helping to ensure the long-term success of your website.

After a few months we will be able to establish a solid conversion rate, we can then work with you (optionally) to perform some a/b testing and user profiling to help increase the conversion rate therefore making the website more profitable and allowing us to further embrace advertising channels.

With a strong client base, we can also look into email marketing and previous customer promotions to help generate repeat business and gain customer feedback (often overlooked online).

If you have doubts about your current website, it probably holds you back. By following our project process you can truly participate in online advertising with full confidence.

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