Website Design
a digital home for your business.
Digital Assets for Growth
Get Your Website Right the First Time
Holmes Design have 10 years experience in the field of website design and marketing with many happy clients from the University of Cambridge to set designers in California.
Each website we design is bespoke because no single business is the same. We get to know your business and your exact needs because this is integral to producing a beautiful website that looks professional and sells your services or products to your target audience effectively.
Our Process
Project Journey
Consult & Strategise
We set out a strategy after understanding your goals in order to account for ROI and sales. We often complete the whole website in one stage, but can also stagger the site over a few months creating a solid foundation upon which to build once more content becomes available.
Design Your Website
We can often design your new website in just 3-4 weeks. You can supply the content or our expert copywriter will compose a narrative that aligns with your brand.
We can help source images or have custom graphics created. However, we suggest professional images of your business to make the web experience more personal and engaging.
All of our websites are designed on WordPress so you can update content on yourself without technical knowledge.
Maintenance
Just like buying a car, to keep your website performing it’s important to look after it.
The only ongoing fee a website needs is hosting. We provide dedicated hosting only available to our website design clients. This means your website is not held hostage by third parties.
We can maintain plugins and updates for a monthly fee so you can be confident your website is up to date and concentrate on your business.
Best Practice Design
Our Standard Website Features
Responsive Websites
All of our sites look great on desktop, tablet and mobile. We optimise websites for Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox.
Wordpress
Our prefered content management system is WordPress. It’s reliable and easy for our clients use to keep their website content up to date.
Security
As standard we install security plugins to safeguard your website. When hosted with us, we also provide secure backups of your site should there be any problems, so your website can be restored to working order.
Image Optimisation
We optimise each image individually (resize and give appropriate file names). Images have a massive impact on website speed, user experience and SEO – we think it’s a critical aspect of any website project we work on.
Analytics Integration
We can add this to your new website so you can track traffic and goals over time.
Sole Trader | Small Businesses
We work with sole traders and small businesses to build a new website, as their existing ones are often out of date and need a facelift. We can work with you to develop new, up-to-date content and help source photographs. We take the stress out of the process and are happy for you to take a hands-off approach so you can spend time working on your business.
Medium Size Enterprise
We also work with larger enterprises, who often come to us with an official creative brief, brand guidelines and may have developed a lot of their content. We work with you to pull all these resources together, and advise of the organisation of these assets to create an aesthetic user experience.
Aftercare
Hosting & Maintenance
We have different maintenance and hosting plans to suit your needs after you’ve completed your website, so you can have peace of mind over your new digital investment.
We offer these only to our existing website clients. We understand it’s easier to keep everything in one place and we can manage your digital needs from initial consultation all the way through to post-launch.
Plugin Updates
Dedicated Servers
Website Back-Ups
SSL Certificate
Chris Benson | Director
Professional digital consultancy providing web design, branding and SEO, based in Cambridge.
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Stephen Holmes Website Design
Allia Future Business Centre, King Hedges Road
Cambridge
CB4 2HY
