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We offer a range of print and web design products tailored specifically for small / medium enterprises and non-profit organisations.
Whether your business or organisation operates locally, nationally or internationally, Community Development Design can bring the power of the web to your fingertips, without forcing you to become a geek in the process.
Every web design project we undertake begins as a blank sheet of paper and is truly as unique as your organisation. "Template" is a dirty word here. What most of our projects do have in common is a level of functionality designed to give you maximum benefit for minimum effort (at least on your part!). Typically this would include:
A web based content management system, allowing you to update your website quickly and easily, from any internet connection, without having to learn all about the technology behind it - its as easy as using a word processor!
Full e-commerce ability as required. If you wish to sell your products online we can design your website to include a product catalogue of tens of thousands of items if necessary, with full search and shopping cart features, secure on-line payments, and automated email responses to your customers. All of which you can manage as above, anywhere you can access the web!
You might however want to delegate some of those duties - and you can! You can control exactly who has editorial access to which pages on your site. They can modify the content on the pages allocated to them, but not the basic design of the website. So you might have your storekeeper keep an online product catalogue up to date, while someone else has responsibility for news articles or features, and you yourself manage the email marketing side of things.
Ooops! Yes we just introduced another possibility there. You can also use your website to create and manage multiple mailing lists for contacting your users and cutomers and, guess what, you can do it all as easily as...
Well, you get the picture...
To find out just how easy it can be to maintain your own website have a look at the "Roots Package" (top left on this page). If we've caught your attention use the contact page to ask us for a free no-obligation consultation.
PS. Check out also our "Full Website Management" service - we will do everything for you, build the site, register the domain name, provide the hosting space, promote the site to the major search engines and keep it all up to date! All you have to do is give us the material and tell us what you want done with it each month. Easy or what?
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The new laws of
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1.
A quarter of all web searches are for local business
information. If you don't have a website you are not even
competing for that business!
2. People seeking a
product or service for the first time are increasingly more
likely to use a web search engine. So no website means less
chance of attracting customers who are new to your particular
market.
3. Because the web is not geographically
limited it can offer you access to entirely new markets for
your product.
4. Businesses nowadays are generally
expected to be 'up to date' technologically. This is often
equated to being 'efficient'.
5. Which is not entirely
untrue. Your website can and will work 24 / 7 for you,
and e-mail marketing can provide great results for
minimal outlay.
6. It can also work for your
employees, providing readily accessible centralised
information about policies, procedures, training
opportunities, promotions, news and more.
7. Likewise
it can inform your customers. The single most valued commodity
on the web is information. Technical info, user experiences,
reviews, news items, all help satisfy potential customers'
quest for information - and when they've decided you are the
expert, they are your customers.
8. Which is
good; happier customers spend more money. You can go even
further. Provide a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" for
newer customers, or even a forum where your customers can talk
to each other.
9. In doing these things you promote an
image of your business that is outgoing, confident, pro-active
and customer oriented. You can do this 24 / 7 / 365, - and do
it affordably.
10. In short a good web design can help
build your customers into a community that they associate with
- with you and your products centre
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