Web Design Northampton – Web Design

We have helped a number of our Northampton clients create their web designs, and since you might also be based in Northampton and also trying to find out more about web design, we feel it’s our duty to ‘let other Northants companies in’ on the modern day tricks of the web design trade in order for them to make an informed decision when looking for a web design in Northampton.

The web design industry is undergoing an upheaval at present. Web design is very much going the way that photography and DTP (desktop publishing) has gone. Creative fields that used to be for professionals only, are now open for almost anyone, thanks to innovations in technology.

The main driver in this quiet revolution of do it yourself web designs is sitebuilder technology. Anyone with a basic knowledge of web browsing is empowered by sitebuilders to the level where they can create, host, and regularly update their own website without requiring the costly expertise of a web design professional. You yourself are transformed into the web designer! A revolution has already happened in the personal web space arena, with sites like facebook, myspace, and even friends reunited allowing people to create, update and host their own personal web pages at zero cost.

For Northampton companies looking for an online presence, there are various budget-level sitebuilder services now available on the market including Microsoft Office Live and wordpress.com (which we personally recommend as long as you have a .co.uk or .org.uk domain name), Instant Site from 123-reg.co.uk, moonfruit.co.uk, and mrsite.co.uk. If all you need is a basic site, then you could have a professional looking web presence for a few pounds per annum. It may be surprising to find out that this is exactly the same service which we used to create this website, a domain name from www.123-reg.co.uk and the wordpress.com sitebuilder service. Previously we used the 123-reg instant site service.

Budget sitebuilder services are excellent value for money if that is all a company needs, i.e. a simple website. There are of course some disadvantages:

• no advanced functionality like rich media, large websites, or e-commerce – it will be difficult to improve your online presence in these directions.
• limited customising, so your website may resemble other organisations’ websites, more so due to the branding photographs not being replaceable with your own photos
• ads may get displayed on the cheapest options
• very cheap shared hosting environment (your site will be one of many thousands on the same physical server, so your pages will download slow, downtime may be a problem, other issues may arise, and web-based admin might be slow),

We have addressed these issues and more by creating an advanced and more professional sitebuilder service called awebapart.com. Already our Northampton clients have used our service to create a number of high profile websites including:

• web design for Northampton’s favourite BMW dealership, Wollaston Motors Ltd. on the Bedford Road
• multi-media web design for a Tae Kwon Do club in Northampton
• a Northants-based courier, collection and delivery company
• corporate website design for Northampton accountants based in Sywell, serving companies in Northamptonshire area.
• a music site for a  singer songwriter, and open mic acoustic singer/guitarist, in Wellingborough.
• web design for Roy Ward, a Northants watercolour artist famous for his paintings of Northamptonshire

If your eyes have now been opened to the possibilities of sitebuilders and you would like to find out more about our professional sitebuilder service costing £250+VAT per annum including hosting, all from a local and innovative Northamptonshire-based business, then please find out more about our sitebuilder website service.

Although sitebuilders do meet a nice range of business web design requirements, they are not a panacea. Sometimes you may need something very different, in which case a custom web design may be required. This is the common service provided by the majority of web design agencies (including most Northampton agencies), but please consider that this is labour-intensive, people’s time cost money, and therefore it can be expensive, its cost might exclude web hosting, and you might not even be able to update the webpage images and text yourself, with your web designer doing this it will cost extra on an ongoing basis, and the greatest websites are ones which are frequently updated. At this point you may be questioning whether you need a sitebuilder or a custom web designer, if so please visit our awebapart.com website since we may be able to offer further advice. We do not offer a custom web design service, but we have placed an animated banner ad at the top of this page which will take you to Armadillo Web, a fairly local company we recommend for custom web design and development.

This site has been created using the wordpress.com platform, by awebapart.com a web design company based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire