Bespoke Website Development

Bespoke website production can be either from your specification or one that we draw up together, either way, we use industry standard tools such as Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and technologies such as the PHP scripting language, the hugely popular, powerful and stable database engine, mySQL and the industry standard Apache Web server all running on the best web server platform - Linux. However, having the best technology and tools to use is no use if the craftsmen don't know how to use them! Our development department have over 10 years experience in the computer software industry and nearly as many of Internet development. Utilising their background in software development with the art department's design skills means that we can design, develop and produce anything that you could desire for your website!

How do you change a design on paper into a website? After sitting down with you and gaining a good understanding of your needs, UK Websystems will provide you with the options available. Obviously with bespoke work, there are always a few different ways of doing things, and based on what will get the best results on your budget, an agreement will be made. Then as with the majority of website development companies the first stage is to create the layout in Adobe Photoshop. Once both parties are happy with the graphical look of the site, it's then handed over to our web development team who chops up the graphic into separate images and converts the graphic image into a website layout, while carefully optimising the resulting graphics for load time vs quality. As I'm sure you've found, websites in the past that take ages to download (even over broadband in the worst cases) tend to be ignored - the reason the majority of the time? - The designers omitted the very last step - optimisation.

All the websites we produce are designed to be completely downloaded in under 8 secs, even on 56k dial up. Anything over 8 secs and the visitor to the website tends to click the stop button, mutter under his/her breath about slow websites and move on to another site (perhaps a competitor?). The site itself is then created on a secure online location, where you have access to view it, and make any comments should anything need fine tuned. Upon completion, there is a full handover meeting, where all features and functions are presented.