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Our client for this project was a Chester interior design company. Our brief was not to redesign their website, built by another web design company, but to recode it as there were issues that were making it difficult to update. We were also asked to transfer the domain and webhosting.
With a great many existing sites we are asked to look at, the first thing we do is look for more efficient ways of coding. This site contained lots and lots of code on each page that we either moved somewhere else, replaced, or chopped out completely.
We kept the layout and the graphics, but we did remove the introduction ’splash page’, taking visitors directly to the home page instead. We also integrated a powerful blog, complete with it’s own RSS feed.
Finally we gave tutorials in how to update the website, using our client’s choice of content management system; how to optimise images in Photoshop; and how to update the blog for maximum effect.
Most website makeovers we undertake are usually very straight-forward. We are able to take existing content, such as text and images and drop it into the new pages we have designed for our client.
In the case of a TV Production Company in Chester, the works went a little further. The original website had been designed some years ago, used frames (not good for Google), had hosting issues, and the domain name had not been registered in our clients own name.
Fortunately we were able to sort the registration issues out on our clients behalf, set them up with our superior webhosting and email services, and gave them the website they always wanted. It is optimised for search engines, each page can be updated, and benefits from Social Network integration.
Our client now has a website that customers can easily find on Google, they can update it themselves and perhaps most importantly they are now named as the owners of their domain name.
Our advice to everybody is to always insist your website designer registers you as the owner of your domain. This prevents potential problems further down the line.
If you have a similar issue, contact us – we’ll be happy to help.