Chelmsford, Essex, Essex
We have a real passion for creating stunning web and graphic designs for our clients. If you’re looking for a completely fresh approach to custom website design, then you’ve found the right company. Too often, websites have been over designed without thorough consideration for the client, the content, or the customer.
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1 customer review
Danny
Worked with Steve and wanted to say how impressed I am with all of the work. Steve really understands my company and needs and the work that has bee completed is exceptional.
What makes a great website?
Provide credible, original content in as many forms as possible
Original content is the most important trait of a great Web site. Sites that provide only links to other sites are essentially meta-lists (although Yahoo seems to be doing well :), while sites that have some information that's useful to the user stand out and will be revisited. A recent check of webreference.com's statistics confirms this, our content providers account for 62% of WebReference.com's total impressions. Content is King.
Provide valuable, timely information to the user, not lots of data.
Web sites should be updated regularly. Stale Web sites say "been there, done that." For the information to be valuable it should be well-edited. For external links include only the best sites with concise descriptions. For internal content be like a magazine editor, don't rush to publish mediocre or incomplete articles. Typos are unacceptible. [sic]
Original Content is the most important trait of a great Web site.
Share everything you learn
Great Web sites share everything they learn and hear (that's relevant of course) with their users. Give behind the scenes accounts of your latest site features, go open source, start a newsletter, and you'll get more than you give.
Customize and target your content/site to your users. Think "one-to-one" Web sites.
Custom-tailor the information to user preferences
One of the Web's strengths is the volume of information available. That is also one of its weaknesses. Sites that offer customization features (Mylook, Slashdot.org) allow the user to filter the content they see. The future of the Web are "one-to-one" Web sites. These automated, database-driven sites adapt the content, advertising, and even the look to individual users. Technologies such as Web Objects and Cold Fusion allow webmasters to create dynamic, interactive, and adaptive Web sites.
What questions might you ask a client when starting a new project?
1. What does your business actually do?
2. What do you want your site to accomplish?
3. Do you have a website already?
4. What makes your company remarkable?
5. Who are your competitors?
6. What websites do you like and why?
7. Who exactly are your customers and what are their pains?
8. What features do you want your website to have?
9. How will you measure your success?
10. Do you have a style guide or any existing collateral?
Bonus question: When do I start? :)
Describe your creative process.
People that aren’t in the web design world are often curious about the creativity designers encompass. How do new ideas come to fruition? How do trends develop?
Personally, the best way to get my creative juices flowing is to simply browse through beautiful web experiences for inspiration to spark. Depending on the type of website audience, the theme of the website, marketing aims, and overall brand / user experience, a designer can pick up some pretty nifty design treatments, elements, interactions, and the like, simply by seeing it done well on other websites. This may sound like a form of copycatting, but often times while applying a certain interaction / element / style I’ve seen on a previous website into my own layout, I come up with my own variation - sometimes even 180 degrees different from the inspiration piece!
What information do you need from a client before you can start work?
1. What does your business actually do?
2. What do you want your site to accomplish?
3. Do you have a website already?
4. What makes your company remarkable?
5. Who are your competitors?
6. What websites do you like and why?
7. Who exactly are your customers and what are their pains?
8. What features do you want your website to have?
9. How will you measure your success?
10. Do you have a style guide or any existing collateral?
Bonus question: When do I start? :)
What do you love most about your job?
Being paid to create beautiful digital experiences for my clients.
What inspired you to start your own business?
A calling to offer a better service than the companies that we had all previously worked for.
Why should our clients choose you?
World class design
Cost effective price structure
Design that works and not just looks good
Full training given
Full support
Trustworthy and honest
UK based with in-house staff with over 30 year experience
website design
Although we specialise in affordable fixed price web solutions and most businesses find that our brochure or eCommerce solutions provide everything they need we can also cater for larger or more bespoke projects. Disruptive Digital have a bespoke development team that can provide completely bespoke developments or functionality improvements to meet specialist requirements all with our same promise of great value and good service.