the next level

Starting from scratch, with an agreed brief, we will design and build your site to your specifications taking note of all the accessibility and usability guidelines demanded of a modern, responsible, and attractive site.

If you have an existing site that just isn't working for you, we can review it, subsequently re-design or re-build it and anable your public to see your business in a more positive light.

Like any marketing tool, your website needs to reflect your business and values.
The website is your window on the world. Make sure the glass is crystal clear so that customers can see in and you can see customers.

Web Sites

Too many designers and clients seem lost when it comes to website design. Too many websites end up being badly built: they don't do their job and, more importantly, they lose you money.

abricot optimizes your user experience and ensures your website works.

Review

We can answer all your questions and give impartial advice.

We’ll tell you which technology is relevant and which is “hype”. We will run an audit and produce a written health report. It will show how your site can work harder for you and probably save money in the process!

Usability within websites is something that is so often overlooked.
Confusing navigation, bad layout, vivid and distracting colours all make for a bad user experience.

Don’t forget there is always a better website a click away.
Why lose your audience and your market?

We can provide an ongoing monitoring service to ensure your web site is performing to your expectations, running costs are kept down and that the site is refreshed to meet the demands of the ever changing trends of buiness in the global marketplace.

Design and Development

If you require bespoke design to meet your own vision for your company and it’s web site – you can call upon our resources of experience and passion for professional standards.

Web design is a process of conceptualisation - to capture the spirit of a company and it’s corporate image generated through it’s products , services, communications, and delivery - and to create an experience that you and your web site visitor will enjoy and want to return to, again and again.

With the continuous advancement of technology and web functionality there is a growing tendency to draw a clear line between web design and web development.

Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.

Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human eg your (web master/) manually updates the page.

Dynamic pages may change their content by either the web user contributing to a page (wg Blog or article) or the client themselves accessing a password protected admin page on the web and updating the content themselves

The abricot team have the combined talents and skill-set to deliver cutting edge solutions

Brochureware

Traditional web sites have long been labelled as ‘brochure-ware’ - so-called because they frequently are the equivalent of reproducing a paper brochure as a web site – however, their impact should not be under-estimated - they are another marketing channel to reach your prospects, existing customers and stakeholders.

More frequently static web sites, have been enhanced by the inclusion of Flash technology to bring movement and vibrancy to a web page,

We have the resources and skill-sets to generate ‘brochure-ware’ style web sites

eBusiness

Web sites that can either enhance an end user’s inter-active experience or a web site that provides the mechanisms to process transactions or provide answers to interrogation.

Examples of such are –

  • Ordering on-line with the integration to the back-office stock system providing an acknowledgement at the time of ordering that an item is available or not from stock with an estimate of a delivery time.
  • On-line tracking systems that allow periodic interrogation and updates answers as to the progress of an order through the supply chain.
  • An intelligent knowledgebase that you can interrogate on-line and gain answers from.

eCommerce

Predominently the buying and selling of products or services over the Internet - utlising functionality such as ‘shopping baskets’ and ‘check out’ processes that calculate price, discounts, taxes and shipping costs – and collect credit card data for processing the payment for the goods or services supplied or purchased.

Due to the increase in fraudulent activities on the Internet, it is essential that the processes employ appropriate encryption and security protocol to meet the demands of the banks and credit card processors.

CMS

Content Management Systems – a software system used for content management - more frequently used for storing, controlling, and publishing news articles, blogs, vacancies, operators' and technical manuals, sales guides, marketing brochures. etc etc.

We can design and develop your web solution - please contact us to discuss your requirements further

Please contact us to discuss your requirements further