Web design

We offer a complete web site design service for business in the Abergavenny and South Wales area, producing easy to use, fast loading, good looking web sites with harmonious color schemes. We help you plan your web site carefully so that the whole site is simple to follow. Many sites are difficult to navigate, and the result is that potential customers leave.

Industry standard web site design

Our web sites conform to the HTML 4.01 standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and make extensive use of style sheets to define the appearance of a web page. The result is pages that are small files that load fast, display correctly on a wide range of browsers and can be updated quickly. The headers, text, menus etc. on this site are all defined using an external style sheet.

Accessible web sites

Far too many web sites are difficult for people with disabilities to read and navigate. If you look at the tool bar above, you will see the option to display site text in a choice of font sizes. Try it and see! Please contact us if you wish to discuss design of an accessible web site for your users.

Cross-browser and platform compatability

We thoroughly test your website on different browsers and platforms. Some web sites look fine on Internet Explorer, but fall apart when viewed on other browsers and platforms. All our web sites are thoroughly tested using IE, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Safari for Mac.

Although PCs are the dominant type of personal computer, Apple Macintosh ™ computers are used by millions of people. Macs have different font sets to PCs. We get around this problem by defining font families for the display of text, so if the user's computer does not have the first choice of font, a suitable alternative is substituted. We use both PCs and Macs to ensure that your web site works on both platforms.

We have taken some screen shots of one of our sites in Linux and Mac browsers. Click here to open a new window with the screen shots.

Multimedia content in your web site

We can incorporate audio or video streaming and animation in your web site, if you require it. We don't believe in using distracting and irrelevant multimedia content - it is more likely to drive visitors away!

An example of an audio stream, using an embedded Windows™ Media Player, is shown below.

Hit counter

You may have noticed the web counter on our Index page. What makes it different is that it counts UNIQUE visits to your site. A counter for this page is shown below.

Free counters provided by Andale.

Try clicking the 'Refresh' button on your browser. The counter does not change! We can incorporate a hit counter on your site to give an indication of the number of unique visitors accessing it.

SPAM protection

Does your web site have normal e-mail links? If so, you are open to the activities of spammers, who use 'SPAM-bots' to harvest e-mail addresses from web sites. We can encode your e-mail address so it can be read by almost any web browser, so visitors to your web site will not notice any difference. SPAM-bots will be unable to detect and capture your e-mail address.