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The Services Offered By Net Art
Here at Net Art we offer a wide range of internet services that our clients can benefit from.
The first thing is, we will not try and sell you every service we provide. That would be a waste of your money and also a waste of our time.
When you become a client of ours, we will chat and discuss exactly what you want your website to achieve. Only then will we advise you which of our services you require.
Domain Name Registration
Web Site Design
Web Site Hosting
Post Design Maintenance
Search Engine optimisation
Photography
Design Of Graphics
Domain Name Registration
The first important step with obtaining a presence on the internet is to register a domain name. There are many types of domain name suffixes available, such as .co.uk, .com, .net, .tv, .ie etc...
We can register the domain name on your behalf, with us as the administrator and you as the registered owner (so many web designers register their self as the registered owner, this means their client has no rights over the domain name) or you can register it yourself (we will point you in the right direction if you want to register it yourself.).
This is not a costly process, some domain can be purchased for less than £10, but a reoccurring fee for renewing the domain will be applicable no matter what domain name suffix you purchase.
Web Site Design
Every client is different so that is why we design every client's website from scratch using a standard skeleton on which to build the design.
The framework allows us to create websites that are made specifically for our clients. In addition you can benefit from our own web site management system to allow content to be added/edited, upload images and a lot more, by you not us.
Many website designers will tell you that their web site management system will allow you to do similar things to ours, but what they forget to tell you is they are using FREE "open source" software like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla.
Open source software can cause security issues. You see, open source software is normally free and cerated in the open domain by a number of different people, all of the code is freely available to download on the internet. This means web hackers can identify "holes" in the code that provides them access to the website to allow them to change the content of the website.
In addition "open source" software often need updates to "plug" security holes.
With our system all of the code has been written by us and is kept private, so a would be hacker cannot study our code, they have to use brute force, which is extremely hard work for a hacker.
Web Site Hosting
Once we create your website we will host it on our dedicated server housed in a purpose built data centre.
The space we allocate to your website will be ample to allow your website to grow and mature.
On our server we do not allow hosting of any web site that has not been designed by us. There is a good reason for this, we have full control over what is hosted on it.
Many web designers will host your website on a "shared server" (A shared server is a server that is divided up into lots of sections, each section hosts a website), the problem with a shared server is you just do not know what other websites are being hosted along with yours. If the other websites generate lots of visitors, then the speed at which your website will be displayed to your visitors will be slower and the connection may time ou resulting in your site not being shown.
If we find that any of our client's websites is generating a lot of traffic then we will discuss the issue with our client and recommend we move it to another server.
Post Design Maintenance
Once your website is designed and hosted by us we can offer a variety of maintenace on your site. Even though you have complete control over creating, editing and adding content to your web site, there may areas were you require our help.
Some of our clients are too busy to add a large amount of content to their site or do not have the right software to process media files, photographs, brochures etc into a suitable format for inclusion into their website.
We can offer such services on a one off basis or be retained to provide such services.
Search Engine Optimisation
It is important to ensure your website has the best possible chance of being displayed in the top 30 results in search engines, like Google, when your existing and potential customers undertake a search.
This process is very time consuming as it requires research in identifying what search terms people will be using to find your company and its services/products. After that research phase there is the process of instigating the findings and then monitoring/updating as well other measures that must be put in place.
As part of this process we can submit your website to some of the major search engines. Our web site management system automatically creates a "site map" of those pages that are set for public viewing.
Photography
Often the photos are staged and contain models - in real life most companies are not going to be employing a number of models as regular staff.
We strongly believe that our clients website should be "real" and not fake. If you want to have a photograph of your customer service team, then get a professional photograph of the actual people who will be answering your phones. It helps your customers see who they will be talking to.
Likewise, if you have a shop/restaurant, use photographs showing the inside of your shop/restaurant and the assistants/staff who your customers will be meeting.
If you use stock photography, visitors to your website will soon twig they are fake. There are actually web sites that will show visitors to your website if the image is shown on other websites.
That is why we provide in-house photography services for our clients. Be them internal/external shots, products or photos of staff or equipment we can provide you with a quotation and an example of our previous work.
All photographs will be processed so they are suitable for inclusion in print and web copy.
Design Of Graphics
Unlike many web design companies we are not primarily graphic designers who have jumped on the "internet bandwagon", we are web designers and coders, that is what we are good at.
When we need to use the services of a graphic designer we will use a freelancer that we have a working relationship with. The fees of the graphic designer are included within our costs.