Professional Web Design Service
Some important things to consider when commissioning a web site:
- Speed: not all users have high-speed internet connections (70% of internet connections in the UK are still dial-up). It is important that your site loads quickly across a dial-up connection.
- Compatibility across browsers. 70% of internet users use Internet Explorer, which means 30% do not. Many sites are designed and tested to work in IE, and do not work well, or at all, in other browsers. Sites that are compliant with Web standards will function in all browsers.
- Compliance with legislation. At the very least you will be subject to some form of Disability Discrimination legislation. Compliance with such legislation is easy to achieve when designing a site, but can be expensive to correct later.
- Cost. A web site that meets these criteria and is stylish and professional in appearance and in use need not cost the earth. All our prices include domain name, hosting and site creation. A small site can be yours from under £200 - including domain name, email addresses, hosting for one year and registration with search engines.
Quick to load, compatible with all browsers and legislation compliant. Your business on the Web - in style and affordable! Contact us now to discuss your needs.
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www.vins-froquet.com
www.peche-tabouret.com
www.ferme-et-tradition.com
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Further Information
Quick loading
Research shows that if a page takes more than 8 seconds to load, many users will give up and go elsewhere. What causes pages to be slow to load? Images (pictures, logos etc.), and animations can become large files and take a long time to load; but that doesn't exclude their use. The page you are reading now has a Flash™ animation at the top, and a number of images, but still loads quickly. The page has been designed so that it loads the elements in the order that the viewer will want to see them: first - the text, second - the navigation menu, third - the contact information and lastly the animated logo. The animation and images have been optimised, and the page coded to give fastest possible transmission of information.
Browser Compatibility
Why design for all browsers? Microsoft's market share is falling: over 30% of internet users do not use Internet Explorer, over 10% do not use Windows. It is therefore important that a site works on all platforms. We test sites are under Windows and Linux operating systems, using IE6, IE5.5, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox and Konqueror browsers. In addition, we design sites that degrade gracefully, so that much older browsers - which count for less than 1% of users - will still see the content, but may lose some of the layout. Thus your message reaches the maximum audience.
Web standards are defined by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web). Your site will be designed and certified to be W3C compliant in respect of html and css coding. (HTML is the language used to create a web page; css is the language used to control the style of a page or site)
Legislation Compliance
Responsibility for compliance with relevant legislation falls upon you, the owner of the site, but we will do everything we can to ensure your site complies.
Disability Discrimination
Web sites must comply with Disability Discrimination legislation, and must therefore be accessible to all users, including people with visual, hearing, mobility and cognitive disabilities.
Your site will be produced and certified to comply with at least level A of W3C standards for accessibility.
Sites that do not comply at least to level A of W3C standards for accessibility run the risk of being judged non-compliant under Disability Discrimination legislation. To date no actions have been brought against UK web site owners in respect of the legislation, mostly because most have changed their sites when threatened. However, in Australia, the organisers of the Sydney Olympic Games were successfully sued under similar legislation and damages of 20,000 A$ plus costs were awarded against them. The legal costs and the subsequent web development costs ran into millions.
Compliance with web standards will aid compliance with disability legislation and designing your site from the outset to be compliant will not add much to the cost.
Advertising Standards
A web site may be classed as an advertisement and must then comply with appropriate legislation. We will advise if we think you may run foul of this legislation.
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