This is the newly launched web site for a Chester-based business offering Varicose Vein Treatment services.

This is a web re-design project that see’s a completely new skin added to the site, the addition of a full content management system, and Search Engine Optimisation. Visit the website.

Graphic Design and Illustration

We were also able to show off our illustration skills with a series of original (hand) drawn graphics that feature throughout the site.

Want a website re-design?

We can take content from an existing website and give it a new lease of life. We love website makeovers just as much as we love starting from scratch with a new webdesign project. Our office is in Chester, and we accept projects from businesses and individuals based across the North West of England and North Wales – and sometimes beyond!

Ask us for a quote on 01244 566286.

Website News Chester, makeover, medical web design, Redesign

Today we have completed a major update to the website for a Chester-based business. Our client, a window, door and conservatory company, A1 Plastics Windows And Doors commissioned us to upgrade their website and include a fully updateable blog.

As we had designed the original website and it was built in a modular fashion, it was really quick and easy for us to expanded the window and conservatory gallery sections.

To see the website click here.

To ask us about any aspect of updating a website or completely revamping your web design, get in touch. Our office is in Chester, and we can be reached on 01244 566286.

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We are often asked to redesign or ’sort out’ underperforming websites. Sometimes it’s because a competitor has taken delivery of a better website, but often it’s because an established website has started to look dated or isn’t performing as it should.

If you’re considering a website redesign, here’s some helpful advice from Roodee Web Design:

Have  A Clear Goal

Whether it’s an online shop, a lead generating site, an online brochure or an information website, establish what your goal is. For example, if you have an ecommerce website, the goal is get a click on the submit button on the payment page. Consider how you are going to take your site’s visitors from the point they entered the site to the goal. 

Our advice: make reaching the goal as easy as possible and strip out any obstacles that get in the way.

Look Current

What looked great a few years ago can quickly look tired, so new visuals are often top of the list when we’re asked to rework a website. Styling a concept begins on paper. See what else is out there; inspiration doesn’t just have to come from other websites.

Our advice: Get your pens out. We do this before we think of firing up Photoshop.

Ditch Splash Intro Pages

These were very fashionable in the 90’s. The majority were animated company logos that whizzed in or jiggled about a bit. They were supposed to give websites a professional and expensive ‘feel’. The truth is they got in the way for users, and they didn’t do well with search engines either.

Our advice: Whip out  the splash and ditch any pointless Flash.

Switch From Table Based Layouts

For a long time websites were built using tables to hold everything in place. These days websites use something else called DIV’s to place elements on pages and are styled with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS not only gives us far more freedom to come up with visually exciting designs that work in modern browsers, but it means the websites work better with search engines too.

Our advice: Ditch the table layout.

Keep Your Site Up To Date

What’s the point in presenting old, out of date information? It used to be very complicated making websites updateable (and expensive). These days it’s not. Visitors like current content, and search engines do too.

Our advice: Opt for a Content Management System.

See examples of our website redesigns or contact us for a quotation.

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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.

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