Web design and search engine optimisation services in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, East Anglia

Web Design
Portfolio & Case Studies

Please find below you can find a selection of web design projects by Designaweb.

Designaweb creates all kinds of websites including static, brochure, catalogue, ecommerce and content management websites to name a few. All of our websites are built to the highest standards by our team of professional designers, coders and web promotion specialists.

Please browse through our portfolio below which contains a selection of our recent web design projects.

Orbital Foods

A complex high ranking product catalogue website containing over 1000 pages of used food processing machinery and equipment.

Fastec Engineering Ltd

Website promoting the company's specialist engineering services. Website comprises of a mixture of flash and quality graphics.

Office Extra

Product catalogue website offering office furniture and office design services. The website has full CMS and eCommerce functionality.

Blue Chip Worldwide Ltd

A simple static catalogue website promoting the company's inventory of used food processing and freezing equipment.

Foremost Logan

A simple product brochure website promoting the company's specialist railway services. Contains text, quality photos, and contact forms.

Camtech Innovations

SEO project for an international client;Client also requested the design of matching emails stationery and business cards.

Beds Direct 2 U

Full Ecommerce website with HSBC bank payment integration. Website Video which was produced by the Designaweb website video team.

Anfi UK

Website contains general information, photo galleries, contact details and private members area and forum for over 2000 members.

The History of Web Design

The Internet's very first web site was born in the early 1990's and soon became a popular way for individuals and businesses alike to promote their products, services and ideas on the world wide web. The very first websites were programmed in a computer language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which has survived the test of time and is now being widely used in its 4th version HTML4, with the next major version, HTML 5 being rolled out in the very near future. HTML 4 has been the main website programming language for nearly 10 years now and has piloted the development of hundreds if not thousands of other internet programming languages, software and platforms that are used in conjunction with each other to develop modern, eye catching and dynamic web sites for presentation on the internet.

Web Design and Web Development

Modern web design techniques require a whole range of different practices that enable web designers to build a both stunning and interactive websites. The process of creating a web site can be summarised as follows:

1. The Web Design

The main aim of a web site is to meet all the requirements laid out in the original client specification. The majority of websites are geared towards attracting web site visitors with a view to converting them into paying customers or subscribers. The main aim of a web site design is to reassure, educate and persuade a web site visitor that they have found the ideal place for the information, products or services that they are looking for. The objective of the web design company or sole web designer is to produce a suitable web site design that is appealing to the target audience and encourages them to view more pages from the web site. A good web designer will use a multitude of programs, skills and various software packages to design a web site. An example of these are as follows:

• Mock-up designs - are used to quickly produce a selection of layouts and visuals for the initial design approval.
• Adobe Photoshop - can be used to produce the above mock web designs and web optimised graphics.
• Adobe Illustrator - is another program that is used for creating logos, graphics and other design elements.
• Adobe Flash –is a program used to produce animations, website video, visuals and functionality on a web site.
• Adobe Dreamweaver - is the main program used to build a websites and is used to assemble all the various components of a web site and create the master web page layout. Dreamweaver is widely used by web designers as a design tool in the process of creating a web site.
• Cascading Style Sheets –or CSS as it is known in the web design trade is used with HTML to design and style the web site from a single file that contains special coding instructions to determine the formatting of text, images and layout elements throughout the whole website. The use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has many advantages and enables websites to have advanced design features, lower file sizes and consistent styling throughout the web site. The look and feel of the entire web site can be changed simply by editing the one CSS file.

2. Web Development

Web development is the term used for the process of developing a web site for presentation on the internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network).

This process can include client liaison, web design, web content management, scripting or coding, Content Management Systems (CMS) and e-commerce development. Web design companies usually refer to "web development"as the main non-design aspect of building web sites such as bespoke coding requirements and online database development. Web development can range from building the simplest static web page to the most complex automated internet applications. The web development process may be carried out by a single web designer or could be a team effort carried out by a group of designers / coders each responsible for their own section of the web design project.
Web development is carried out using a wide range of programming languages and skills to meet a clients web site specification. Web development can be as basic as building a web page in HTML to developing a comprehensive database driven website. There are a variety of languages and tools used by Web Developers or Web Designers during the web development process including:

• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is the basic language for presenting a website.

• XHTML - is the markup language with the same depth as HTML, but XHTML also conforms to XML syntax.
• XML - is a custom language for creating custom markup.
• RSS - Stands for 'Real Simple Syndication' and is a popular format for publishing frequently updated articles and stories like blogs.
• ASP.NET - Is the Windows Framework used for dynamic applications.
• PHP - Is a free (released under the PHP License) scripting language for constructing dynamic web sites.
• MySQL - Is a Open Source Database platform (available under terms of the GNU General Public License) and used in conjunction with PHP and other languages to store and retrieve data.
• AJAX - is a coding nickname for the combination technique of XML and Javascript for making rich internet applications.
• Javascript - is an established client-side scripting language commonly used by web site developers.
• Perl / CGI - is an aging scripting language that was developed originally for NASA in 1987.
• Actionscript - is a scripting language primarily used within and to integrate Flash. The latest version of Actionscript is 3.0 but 2.0 is still widely used worldwide.