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Build a free website. Really?

Why have many a client come to me after going down the 'free' website route?

Here are some of the reasons I have heard:

  • They realised that the annual fees they were being charged were over the top and that they should not be paying more than €40 hosting plus €7 for their .com or €27 for the .ie URL, per annum.
  • Their website was not being found by the search engines and what's the point of that?
  • The functionality on offer for the free version was so basic that they did could not portray their products or services effectively.
  • They could not grow the website to reflect what was happening offline in the company.
  • The free period was only for one year and the after-sales service was non-existant.
  • Their website was 'down' a lot of the time or took forever to load.
  • The email package included was very limiting.
  • They realised that a well designed site has the means to grow with the company and when it is found by search engines, for each service or product, it pays for itself many times over.
  • Many of the free pieces of functionality on offer, like Google places registration, are free anyway.

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Interactive Website Design; Ireland

Two Fat Fingers, a website design company, creates interactive website designs from our studio in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland.

website designA website we design is search engine optimised as part of the website design package and the online experience is well integrated into the company's Social Media pages.

From these interactive websites, we create mobile website pages that work for the media and the mindset of the user. This allows users to access your online information in the way they want, when they want.

The company website should inter-connect with the social media network, the blog and back to the website again, seamlessly.

People want different things, in different ways, at different times.
Does your online presence allow your users to get what they want, the way they want it and when they want it?

Website design options:

At Two Fat Fingers provides both the bespoke designed websites and template based websites.

  • Bespoke website designs are just that; one-off designs fitting your exact needs.
  • Template website designs take less time to design and build and therefore cost less. Templates can however be tailored to match the company's colour scheme and content needs.

Click the above links to find out more about each design option.

Read more: Interactive Website Design; Ireland 

Bespoke Website Design Service

Two Fat Fingers offers two options for bespoke website design; Entry Level Websites and Business Level Websites. When properly planned and structured, entry Level websites have the ability to develop into Business Level websites and grow as the company does.

Whichever option is chosen, clients can be assured that when we design a website, we provide everything needed to place your website in front of potential customers.

  • Client: Brendan McCarthy; Tenor

    Involvement:
    - Full brand design, website design & search engine optimisation
    - Content Manamgent System implementation & training
    - Social media integration and Bespoke Facebook fan page design
    Site: www.BrendanMcCarthy.ie

  • Client: Pilates Lifestyle

    Involvement:
    - Full brand design, website design & search engine optimisation
    - CMS & training, eCommerce build & integration
    - Social media integration and Bespoke Facebook fan page design
    Site: www.PilatesLifestyle.com

  • Client: Munster Shotokan Karate Association

    Involvement:
    - Website design & search engine optimisation
    - Social Media integration on Facebook and Google places
    - Bespoke Facebook fan page design
    Site: www.MSKA.name

  • Client: Ecodev

    Involvement:
    - Full brand design, website design & search engine optimisation
    - CMS & Social media integration
    - Google adwords, Google places and Blog
    Site: www.Ecodev.ie

  • Client: Touch of Glass

    Involvement:
    - Online brand design, website design & search engine optimisation
    - Social media integration of Facebook and Google Places
    - interactive product presentation
    Site: www.tog.co.za

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1. Entry Level website design service:

Included in this service:

  • A website with up to 10 content sections.
  • Identification of both the immediate and future website requirements to enable structured growth.
  • Content Management System (CMS) backend, allowing client management of site content.
  • Training in the easy-to-use CMS, as well as take-away training material for future reference.
  • Keyword analysis of site's subject matter, so that articles written by clients achieve high rankings in search engines.
  • Integration of the website with the client's preferred social media services.
  • A website built with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in mind, so that it ranks on page one of Google.
  • Submission of the website to all the major search engines.
  • Creation of a Google Places account.
  • Creation of website icon as seen in the address bar.
  • Functionality to limit spam from the website emails.
  • Realtime website analytics; the ability to monitor user interaction with the website, in detail, with weekly & monthly reports delivered to your mailbox.
  • Management of domain name registration (unlimited domain aliases), 5GB website hosting and 100 mail boxes of 500MB, 50GB monthly transfer. More options available.
  • Professional after sales service.

Read more: Bespoke Website Design Service

Template Website Design

Two Fat Fingers is able to offer a less expensive website design service using our website design templates.

Why use a template?

  • Templates are cheaper, because we have already built much of the 'behind the scenes' functionality, structure, SEO enhancement and social media integration.
  • Our templates have the same level of detail we put into our bespoke website design service. This makes them work well and achieve high search engine rankings.
  • Our templates can grow into large business sites like any of our bespoke websites.
  • Templates simply save us time to build and that saves our clients money.

Elements that can be changed in templates:

Our templates are modofied to suite every business. The following items can be modified at no extra expense:

  • The colour scheme can be modified to suit the business colours.
  • Header imagery to contain individual company logos.
  • Column arrangement into one, two or three columns.
  • Side column functionality placement, like the search box, recent articles list, facebook fans box, etc.

  • Template 1: Spacious

    Features:
    - 2 column layout shown
    - "white space" for spacious feel with subtle colour variations
    - CMS backend and modern clean design.

  • Template 2: Blue Sky

    Features:
    - 3 column layout shown
    - colour variations for striking emphasis
    - CMS backend and compartmented design.

  • Template 3: Compact

    Features:
    - 2 column layout shown
    - compact design with soft edges & clear definition of content areas
    - CMS backend with 'traditional' structure.

  • Template 4: Centred

    Features:
    - 1 column layout shown
    - spacious centred feel with visual linkage to background
    - subtle navigation buttons and CMS back end

  • Template 5: Strong

    Features:
    - 2 column layout shown
    - powerful corporate visual design
    - Content Management System back end

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Read more: Template Website Design