Websites

Website Design

Think about your audience

Ease of use should be your highest priority. There's no point having a website that looks fantastic, if no one can find the information they need on it.

Ask yourself what type of people will be using your website.

Don't over complicate it with flash movies or images, these often require people to have the latest updates on their computers, not everyone does and they are often slow to load and people are impatient.

They often go somewhere else if a page doesn't load in a few seconds.

Don't have too much information.

If you have lots of services and products, think about the groupings for menu's to make it simpler to navigate and whether you really want all of your capabilities listed.

Contact details

Sounds dumb, but if you put your email address on your website, make sure that you actually check the email box! If you don't, then just put your phone number and address details.

News

If you really want a “Latest News” section, make sure you update it at least every month, otherwise your website looks out of date and unprofessional very quickly.

What if you have no idea what you want

Join the queue!

Tell us about your business and we can come up with the ideas.

Can I do My Own Website?

Hell why not, we did!

Just be aware that like anything, there are lots of tricks and traps.

If you want to save money, make sure you have typed all the text you want into Word or Notepad and have thought about the layout, gathered your pictures etc.

Keep it as short and simple as possible. Websites are a form of advertising and like any other form of advertising, need to be as straight to the point as possible.

Don't have much content that requires short term updating as this will be an ongoing cost. You only really want to update your website a couple of times a year or less, but don't fall in to the trap of never updating or it will look tired and stale after a while.

If you don't want to save money, do the above anyway and just pay us double!

After your website is up and running

A website isn't magic! Which is a shame really!

It needs to be promoted wherever you can and updated from time to time as if it was a shopfront.

If you haven't had a website before make sure you add its details to your flyers, brochures and stationery and anywhere else that's relevant.

If you change some products or services or introduce something new make sure you update your website.

Printing & Graphic Design

I need a brochure and business cards, what now?

It's a good idea to give some thought to where you will end up. Is that all you will ever get done graphically or will there be a website, letterheads, posters, different size brochures, a sign on your premises etc. Try to get an idea of what you are likely to end up with long term, then we can design something that will work on all those formats so your branding will carry through and not need to change.

Um, I don't even have a logo?

No problems, we've done heaps of them.

You can start by doing a rough sketch of some ideas, if nothing else, this will get you thinking about some themes that will work for your business. Bring them along to us and we'll sit down with you and come up with something terrific.

How much does printing cost?

How long is a piece of string?

It depends of what you print. When you give us more details of your needs, then we can tell you what the printers we deal with would likely charge. You don't have to use our printers, but you will probably get better prices through ours and if you pay direct to the printer, there's no markup or handling fees.

I need something to promote my business other than business cards, but what?

Can you help with private printing?

Of course!

Invitations, custom greeting cards, photo collages, image editing and everything else in between.

I have branding guidelines I need to comply with. Can you still help us with our printing and marketing?

Definitely! We're used to working within corporate branding guidelines, so don't stress, we'll provide you with something fantastic that will get the tick of approval from your marketing department.