Website Design and Development
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A company's website should be an integral tool in a its Business Plan often being used for Marketing, Selling or Communication purposes in conjunction with other existing practices. The type of website required will be dependent on the company’s business requirements. Cake Solutions can help a business decide how a website may contribute towards those requirements.
Cake Solutions is equally adept at designing brand new websites or adding new features to existing websites often breathing life in to older websites whose full potential is not being realized.
Cake Solutions can offer a full range of services which include (this list is not exhaustive);
The design of your website is crucial to your company’s image. If a logo already exists we can incorporate it into the design of the site. If it doesn’t we can arrange for a specialist company to design your companies branding.
Important to the design of your site are:
- Images
- Colours
- Navigation
- Page load time
Cake Solutions works closely with design specialists so if we believe that we do not have the required skills to design the look and feel of your website we will organize some one who does.
Cake Solutions allows you to open up your business to new markets across the world and exploit new revenue streams by creating an effective on-line shop front.
E-Commerce is a fast growing market, but many online retailers are losing out due to fundamental flaws in the design of their site. Cake Solutions are aware of the obstacles that an e-commerce site must overcome to be successful and we can pass this knowledge and experience on when developing your application.
One of the most critical parts of an e-commerce design are the systems that run the 'backoffice', systems that control procurement, delivery, workflow, supply, etc. It is likely that most businesses will have some of these systems in place already. In this case we can look at integrating your e-commerce site to work in conjunction with your current systems.
You can benefit from increased profit margins by reducing your operating costs and increasing your sales efficiency.
Our solutions can assist you in providing added value services in a full, end to end sales solution, thereby increasing customer satisfaction.
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Brochure Sites |
Brochure Sites provide information on goods and services but they do not provide the functionality for orders to be fulfilled on-line. Therefore, it is vital that methods of contact are plentiful and prominent as the purpose of the site is to get customers to contact you regarding your products or services.
Cake Solutions have vast experience dealing with brochure type websites and can create an effective, prominent on-line projection of your company.
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Hosting |
All websites need hosting but complexities arise because the type of hosting is determined by the type of website you have. Cake Solutions can assist you in your decision making.
Partners include Alentus, E-Apps and Rackspace.
There are many different web technologies such as ASP and CF. Each one can be used to create websites and systems. A list of Cake Solutions main skills set can be found by clicking here
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Flash |
Flash comes in different shapes and forms and can range from simple Flash intros (animations) to full web systems using Flash throughout. The advantage of Flash is its relative small file size and available on the majority of PCs.
Every website requires some sort of regular maintenance, whether it is updating product listings, news items, articles or aesthetic changes. Cake Solutions can offer maintenance contracts for such updating and will ensure that work is carried out within timescales to suit you.
Your website must be pertinent, updated and hold interesting content to increase the length of time a visitor spends on the site. With this in mind Cake Solutions have developed numerous website content management systems to enable you to take control of your website.
Once you have a website it is important that you promote that site and maximise it's visibility across the search engines. Whether you need a boost to your current ratings, a longer term promotion or a full analysis of your current market in relation to the search engines, Cake Solutions can assist you.
See some examples of our Website and Development work - portfolio, case studies.
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