Website Design
We have skills, knowledge and experience in all areas of website design and development from e-commerce systems to database applications, search engine optimization to website promotion and marketing, consultancy to website hosting.
The following sections tell you more about how we can help you with your website.
If you want to know about costs contact us on 0845 230 3760.
Advice and Consultancy
Our passionate interest in the current trends and future direction of websites and the Internet means that we can give our clients the information and advice they need to make confident and well-informed decisions. The results are great-looking, successful websites and a high return on investment.
Editable Websites
Our sites include a powerful content management system so that making updates to our websites is easy to do using simple and familiar tools. This demonstration movie shows how (329KB, requires Flash).
Site promotion and Marketing
An accessible and standards-compliant website is the starting point for attracting visitors. After that, there are a range of techniques that can be employed to increase the number of visitors and keep them coming. Such techniques include email marketing, getting popular and relevant sites to link to your website and pay-per-click advertising.
Affiliates Program
For every client you introduce to Hobo, we apply £50 reduction to your ongoing costs (hosting and CMS support).
User Testing Special Offer
If you host your site with us and help us out by taking part in a couple of user testing sessions, we will take £50 off your first year's hosting costs.
We can assist and advise you on these techniques as much as you require.
Information Architecture
Every website needs thought and planning before being developed to make sure that its content is easy to find, navigate through and digest. Working out the best structure and layout for a website (also known as the information architecture) is a key part of the design process and at Hobo we always take great care to get this right.
Usability
Our knowledge, experience and understanding of what people want and expect from a website helps us to design very easy to use sites that turn visitors into passionate users and loyal customers. However, there's no substitute for first hand evidence of how people actually use a website so we always test our design ideas with real users to confirm whether or not we're on the right track.
Accessibility & Standards Compliance
The legal and moral responsibility to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) by taking reasonable measures to enable disabled visitors to use your website isn't the only reason for paying attention to accessibility. It's a very big subject area but it really boils down to the fact that if a website is accessible it will get significantly more traffic than a similar but inaccessible one.
At Hobo we design our sites to meet the highest possible level of accessibility for the target audience.
We're passionate about utilising new techniques and technologies to make visiting our websites enjoyable and rewarding, but we won't compromise when it comes to complying with accepted standards for website development. We continuously test and evaluate a site during development to ensure that the underlying code fully adheres to the standards that it is intended to comply with.
Hosting
If you're looking for an all-in-one solution to your website requirements, we can host your site on our own secure and reliable servers so that your site will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We can register the domain name that you want (if it's available) and take care of all the technical details.
Support
Our content management system is very easy to use but, if you need help, we provide free telephone support to all our clients during normal office hours.