website design

We offer a full range of internet services, professional practices and disciplines these are: 

PROJECT PLANNING:

Hammer Design can help you with planning your website and planning your website marketing strategy - identifying needs, preparation and writing the brief. Specialist support includes online marketing consultancy, media planning and even help with grant application.

WEBSITE DESIGN, BUILD AND DEVELOPMENT WORK:

Designing and building your website: Specialists in turning the visual into a practical reality. We give you a website exactly how you want it to look working the way you want it to. Website technical coding including html, xhtml, php, javascript, actionscript and ajax. Code is written to browser standards agreements and to defined validation standards. In other words by the book, compliant and excellent. To view our PORTFOLIOS click here.

WEBSITE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT AND SYSTEMS:

After building your website you will need to run it, manage it, tweek and change it - nowadays this is easier with the proliferation of what we call content management systems. These allow you to add, edit and archive the content on your website quickly and easily.. We design and build our own content management systems (also known as CMS), back offices and website management systems:

Bespoke solutions:
chameleonCMS: The content management system that can do everything (a big claim for a big system) - putting you absolutely in control.
Off the shelf solutions:
ospreyCMS: Hammer Design's own brand fully developed off the shelf service. To have a quick look at our osprey content management system brochure click here.
Maintenance and support: In addition to building systems that leave you to run your own website, we offer maintenance and support contracts: These offer varying degrees of technical service and support online, in person and on the telephone.

WEBSITE PROMOTION AND MARKETING:

Hammer Design will work with you to maximise the effectiveness of your website, working to drive sales of your product and service. Specialities included in the website promotion and marketing process include search engine optimisation (often abbreviated to SEO): Reporting and ranking service. Consultancy, planning and implementation. Marketing - Off line promotion and web marketing
Online / offline marketing mix from traditional paper marketing to ingenious online solutions to increase business and traffic.

WEBSITE HOSTING:

Hammer Design runs, manages and maintains its own webservers, so that we have complete control over how things happen, maximising the effectiveness of our work.

 

IN HOUSE SKILLS AND SPECIALISMS

Hammer Design offer the following skills and specialisms:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Functional specification authoring
Timetable creation and milestone management

WEBSITE DESIGN

Graphic Design
    Brand development
    Website usability
    Website user behaviour psychology
    Photography: studio and location

WEBSITE CODING AND DEVELOPMENT

Specialisms: (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, XML, AJAX, Flash.

WEBSITE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Content Management Systems, design and build
    Chameleon and Osprey CMS  (See Products and Services)

E-COMMERCE

Online sales analysis, development and reporting
Yukon Fox E-Commerce (See Products and Services)
Online accounting

WEBSITE HOSTING SERVICES    

Technical domain services
Database engineering
Hosting Packages (See Products and Services)

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION

Reporting
Consultancy
Review and Implementation

ONLINE MARKETING

Campaign creation and management
E marketing - HTML Campaign design and implementati

WORKSHOPS

Website design features
Social networking, media and marketing
E-commerce and online sales
SEO

TRAINING

CMS training for clients

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A full service design agency - original and exciting  award winning work that hits the nail on the head.