Web Design

From brochure based websites through to online product catalogues or e-commerce websites, Skillset Media hold proven web design solutions that help you get online quickly and cost-effectively, ensuring that your website is a professional reflection of your business.

E-Commerce

To keep up in an increasingly competitive and fast changing competitive business world, your company will need to make your services and products available to all your customers anytime and anywhere.

Skillset Media can customise existing e-commerce products or build a bespoke solution around your business needs. All of our e-commerce products will incorporate the following functionality as standard:

  • Simple interfaces will allow you to interface with a Content Management system that puts you in complete control of your website and online catalogue.
  • Clean coding and intimate search engine knowledge will allow you to optimise your site for Google, Yahoo, Kelkoo, Google Shopping and more.
  • A powerful backend to your website that feature such tools as order tracking, invoicing, notification of customer orders and the ability to print shipping slips.
  • Each shop will have a shopping basket/cart feature allowing your customers to be in complete control of their orders.
  • Secure payments and credit card security. Our sites will encrypt transactions, keeping both you and your customers data secure. We can also facilitate many automated payment gateways like Paypal, Worldpay and 2CO.

A well-planned strategy will establish the immediate and long-term requirements of your site and we will always factor in your longer-term requirements. This helps to avoid expensive rebuilds as your business develops.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a process whereby a website owner can achieve a high search engine ranking against certain seach keywords.

Whilst no one company can claim to know everything there is about ranking well on search engines, Skillset Media scripts it’s websites using clean mark-up, allowing your website to be indexed by all the major search engine providers. Website presentation and structure also play a major part in ranking well on a search engine, Skillset Media utilising effective design techniques to promote your website.

Skillset Media will never use “Black Hat” search engine optimization techniques that can damage your businesses reputation and harm your visibility on Google, Yahoo, Live Search etc. The higher you rank on a search engine, you gain increased visibility and the possibly of higher sales.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

You may ask whether a Content Management System is the correct solution for your company.

A content management system allows any website owner to update their website without the need for web design skills or experience. As business needs change, the ability to change the content on your website whenever you wish will allow you to keep one step ahead of your marketing, not having to use consultants or extra staff to make the necessary changes for you.

All of the systems that Skillset Media provide are browser based. This means you can edit your website from wherever you are in the world, simply using your login credentials.

Skillset Media’s CMS solutions will always incorporate a front-end and a back-end for your product. Your front-end is the public face of your website, the live site on the internet that your customers will see. The back-end is the tool that facilitates the addition of content to your website be it text, graphics, photos, videos or music. You will have the ability to create new pages on your website, amend existing content or simply delete the things that just aren’t working.

All systems will be designed to your companies look and feel, using colours and images that you specify. We work with you to capture media that keeps in line with your branding.

Skillset Media are always developing new, customized applications engineered for a perfect fit. Our website management tools increase your ability to compete by integrating the leading internet-enabled applications in one package. Authoring tools reduce the need for extra staff, therefore lowering your business costs.

Such systems do have a longer lead time, simply because the framework will be built to your specifications. If you think a Content Management System could be for you, call 0845 xxx xxx and speak to one of our dedicated customer service team who can answer all of your questions.