Services | Website design & development

A website isn't just a means to advertise services or products, it often acts as the first interaction potential customers have with a business. An intiutive and easy to navigate site will ensure site visitors can find the information they seek quickly, to guarantee overall satisfaction. A logical structure coupled with relevant high quality content helps to retain a professional brand perception.

Times have changed, considerably...

We have created hundreds of websites since the late 1990's having previously worked for numerous web development and marketing companies, starting long before buttonless smartphones appeared, and the terms 'apps' and 'ecommerce' became topics of everyday conversation. Websites were something very different back then, massively inferior internet connections in UK households meant that every aspect of a site had to be heavily compressed, with noticable quality reductions in imagery and lengthy 'loading' screens.

Nowadays a website is regarded as a true 'multimedia experience', including highest quality visuals, animated effects and video, all of which were previously only seen in high end PC and console videogames or movies. The possibilities are now limitless, opening up the ability to compete for business on a global scale via 'responsive' modern day websites, viewable on both desktop and mobile devices.

Whilst the need to optimise website content has remained just as important, producing an 'online presence' that immediately conveys the correct brand messaging and retains the desired tone of content is essential to success.



We inform and discuss

Graffeg Lliw is based in Swansea, South Wales but we do operate on a UK-wide basis. We take time to understand your aims and determine the best methods (in simple jargon-free terms) to deliver desired outcomes. Our service also includes advising on the administrative aspects of website development:
  • Domain name registration (so you 'always' remain the legal registrant)
  • Website hosting (provided by a third party, including POP3/IMAP email accounts and database setup)
  • SSL security certificates (provided by a third party, site visitors will see https:// next to your URL and the padlock icon)
  • Google Analytics setup (track the movements site visitors make and view the session via a private dashboard)
These are important considerations to have in place to ensure that your site remains scalable, secure, and easy to monitor, providing a means to periodically re-assess your content. It is possible to determine which pages draw the most attention from site visitors, and see exactly what route visitors took to arrive at your website. This is crucial to the success of any site as it provides a means to see how effective your chosen 'online marketing channels' actually are.

A small sample of sites produced in recent years are provided below:


Website maintenance

If our clients want to update their website themselves (i.e. text, image and blog updates), Graffeg Lliw can make use of the Wordpress CMS (Content Management System) for template-based sites, but if clients simply don't have the free time to change the content we can handle the process ourselves through an agreed ongoing maintenance fee.

We often find that business owners start off with good intentions to keep their sites up to date and relevant themselves but this does fizzle out over time, which will prove to be detrimental. NOTE: search engines regularly check your content, if it isn't being updated on a regular basis they will view your site as less worthy for ranking highly in their search results, as the site appears to be less active in attracting visitors.



Website marketing

Effective promotion of a website on the Internet ensures the success of an online presence. It needs to include various digital channels and methods (e.g. high quality webpage and social media content, search engine optimisation reviews, targetted email campaigns to generate high volumes of website traffic through inbound links, to name but a few...). A modern website must act as a 'lead generation tool', aiding with the conversion of site visitors into quality customers via a 'sales funnel' approach.

Graffeg Lliw are happy to discuss and analyse your existing marketing methods to determine if a rethink is required, to identify any critical adjustments, or develop a marketing strategy from scratch. We offer 'competitor analysis' and consultancy services to identify the methods being used by your competitors, producing a report that will help to shape your long-term plans for online growth.



Website pricing

No two websites or client needs are ever the same, so they do not practically fit into set pricing brackets. As such, we always treat every website developed as a bespoke project which is reflected in the price that will be quoted, or if required we can work within set budget constraints. Even though we are happy to produce template-based Wordpress sites, we have the ability to create fully customised hand-coded websites that break away from conventional styles to deliver something unique. We initially hold a 'discovery meeting' to determine what our clients are looking for, even if they have seen an existing website that has caught their eye and inspired them to redevelop theirs. We are equally as keen to work with startup businesses who are dealing with their very first online presence.



A complete list of Website services offered by Graffeg Lliw:

  • Professional custom website design and development, or development of an existing third party design.
  • Hand coded or Wordpress CMS sites, PHP & MySQL database driven sites.
  • SEO, Google Search Console and Google Analytics setup.
  • Static and animated banners.
  • Email HTML newsletters.
  • Competitor analysis.

Do you have a Website Design/Development related project that you'd like to discuss?


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