Website Design

Understanding Your Website Requirements

The first step in any successful website design project is to understand the requirements. Every website we design is an opportunity for us to develop a long-term partnership with our customer. We seek to understand your organisation’s aims and objectives, developing solutions which support these.

Over the years we’ve worked with organisations of all kinds, including:

• Small businesses

• Charities and community organisations

• Local government bodies

• Schools

• SMEs

Creative Design

Once we’ve understood your aims and objectives we’ll set to work developing a creative design for your website. If you have existing logos, graphics, preferred colours and so on we will incorporate these into the design. Otherwise, we’ll use our experience to create an engaging design for your website, making recommendations on what kind of design direction is most appropriate.

When designing websites we don’t normally design every page. A website is a living document – it grows and changes over time. Our websites are designed with flexibility in mind. We’ll design a series of flexible layout blocks. These can be assembled in any order to create pages with differing layouts, but with a uniform style. We’ll present these ideas to you, and make suggestions for how the blocks can be used to create pages of different kinds.

More often than not our design ideas hit the mark first time. We love involving our clients in the design process and welcome feedback throughout a project.

Built For Speed and Ease of Use

Every website we design is built for speed. Slow websites are so frustrating to use. Website speed is also an important factor when it comes to search engine optimisation too. More on that later.

We also design each website with both the visitor and the owner in mind. Websites should be easy and intuitive to use. Our priority is to help your website’s visitor find the information they need as quickly as possible. And when it comes to managing the site’s content the same rules apply. It’s important that websites are kept up to date, so we design websites which can be easily managed by their owners. Full training and plenty of support is provided, so you can be confident when it comes to managing your site’s content.

Copywriting, Photography & Graphic Design

Alongside the visual design and technical build of a website we can also provide additional creative services. These include things like copywriting, photography, videography and graphic design. If there’s something out of the ordinary, or we can’t produce part of the project in-house, we’ll use out network of creative contacts to help bring your ideas to life.

As a full-service digital agency, Hello Technology offers a wide range of creative design services. Many of our customers appreciate this, knowing we can handle all kinds of creative work.

Website Hosting

Website hosting is a necessary service for every website. Through our hosting partners (GURU), we offer rock-solid website hosting for every website we design. You may already have a preferred hosting provider, which is fine. But for those who want ultimate peace of mind we are pleased to offer website hosting which just works.

Our hosting platform is fully managed. This means it’s proactively monitored for problems and technicians are available 24/7 to respond to any problems (which are few and far between). We keep our hosting affordable too, providing excellent value for money when compaired with other similar solutions.

Ecommerce Websites

At Hello Technology we love developing ecommerce websites. We’re equally happy using Shopify or WooCommerce. Both platforms offer an excellent range of tools to help your business sell online. We can handle everything from the visual design and build to adding products and setting up payment processing. We’ll take you through everything you need to know to manage the website and process your orders.

These days ecommerce sites can be connected with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Google Shopping and more. This helps expand your reach and makes it easier for people to find and buy what you’re selling. Ecommerce success is dependent on being visible to and building trust with your potential customers. We put a lot of work into ensuring the online shops we design are highly optimised for both.

Search Engine Optimisation

Every website we design is optimised for search engines from launch. However, SEO isn’t a one-time task. Effective SEO takes time and incorporates a wide range of factors, including:

• Content – primarily the text and images which appear on your website

• Technical – the speed of your site, how user-friendly it is and various ‘behind the scenes’ details

• Links – internal links and in-bound links (or backlinks)

These three areas of SEO are somtimes called the SEO Triangle. Over the years we’ve helped lots of businesses improve their search rankings, resulting in more organic search traffic and increasing revenue.

Monitoring and Analytics

We can setup GDPR compliant monitoring and analytics for your website. We’ll give you access to a dashboard so you can see your visitor statistics. You’ll be able to see all kinds of statistics about your website and its visitors, such as:

• Total number of visitors over time

• Average time spent on the website

• Which pages are most popular

• What devices and browsers people are using to view your website

By paying attention to these reports we can make improvements to user journeys, helping you achieve your organisation’s aims and objectives.

Ongoing Support & Maintenance

Every website we design is an opportunity to build a lasting relationship with our customers. We’ll be here for you, every step of the way. We provide ongoing support and maintenance, giving you the confidence to get on with running your business while we take care of the technology behind the scenes.