Clean, good-looking, fast loading, easy to navigate websites that
exceed our client's requirements

Web Site Collaboration

We create clean, good-looking, fast loading, easy to navigate sites that exceed our client's requirements. Our web design process is an interactive one. First we listen to our customers and advise them how we believe their best interests will be served, then we produce an initial skeleton of the website. We upload this to a non-public web space where the client can literally watch it grow. We encourage feedback and make changes if required. The results of this collaboration are websites that fulfil their purposes and give their owners a true sense of involvement. We have never had a dissatisfied customer.

Design Ethos

There are too many formulaic web sites out there and they are easy to spot; stock template design with stock library photographs. As web designers, we are tired of seeing 'corporate' websites with the obligatory office photos with attractive, pin-striped models smiling on the phone or photographs of manicured fingers on lilac-highlighted keyboards! These sites are quick and cheap to produce, are blatantly unreal and they all look alike. If this is what you're looking for please look elsewhere!

Web users are becoming increasingly suspicious and discriminating of anonymous and cynical websites. We believe it is imperative that your website and it's design truly reflects who you are and what you are about. Most businesses like to think that they provide something that is unique, 'the edge' they have that makes them preferable to their competition. We are driven by the same ethos. We create unique website designs for every client and we provide a second to none service and reliability. These are the sort of web sites we agree to make.

There is a school of thought that believes design in websites is supplementary, something added to tart up otherwise flat content. We believe design is integral, part of the content and part of the message. In the same way as your clothes and hair-style reflect and communicate about your personality, the appearance of your website should reflect and emphasise the textural content within your pages. Making a good impression is hugely important and you don't have long to make it. Recent research (2006) by Dr. Gitte Lindgaard at Carleton University in Ontario has revealed that visitors can decide whether they like a web page in as little as 50 milliseconds! Lindgaard discovered that;

"...the strong impact of the visual appeal of the site seemed to draw attention away from usability problems. This suggests that aesthetics, or visual appeal, factors may be detected first and that these could influence how users judge subsequent experience.... Hence, even if a website is highly usable and provides very useful information presented in a logical arrangement, this may fail to impress a user whose first impression of the site was negative."

We had always been aware of the importance of first impressions in web design but didn't realise quite how fast that impression could be made.

Services and Pricing

Our team of independent design, copy writing and programming experts have the combined experience and skills to undertake any web project; from simple one page websites to full-blown ecommerce, database-driven and Flash solutions. Our multi-disciplinary design skills enable us to integrate the look of your site with your brochures, advertising, logo and stationery design. Often our clients ask us to design all of these and in those cases we always start with the logo and it is that design that dictates the appearance of the website.

We don't host sites ourselves, frankly we'd rather spend our time being creative and we don't want to take money from our customers for services we don't actually provide, many do! We strongly recommend Xcalibre Communications Ltd who provide an excellent service at very fair prices. Our own pricing is also very competitive, we don't have the overheads of large design studios and our advertising budget is tiny. We don't have web design 'packages', preferring to quote a fixed price for each project. Our quotes are based on a daily rate of about £350 or £45 per hour. We work quickly and efficiently so a lot can be achieved in one day. Whatever you choose to spend on your website, we treat all projects with equal respect and they are always on budget and on time. We have never had an dissatisfied customer.

If you think we can help you with your internet presence either complete our web quotation form or contact us.

Search Engine Optimisation

Logomotion strongly believes that websites should be optimised for human beings not for search engines. As it happens, the search engines' robots are actually programmed to look for the same things as people ... relevant content and functionality. We will advise you about your text and if necessary will edit or re-write it for you.

Once we have finished your website we will register it with the top free search engines and The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) which is the largest human edited database in the world and is used by the biggest search engines. This is always part of our web design quotes. It can take between a few days to a few months for your site to be indexed and appear in the lists. The initial year of a new site can be frustrating for site owners, often it will appear high in the listings for a few weeks and then suddenly plummet into the ether. This is known as the 'sandbox' effect and is largely overcome by getting lots of relevant sites to link to the new site. The larger and more established those linking sites are, the more weight they have to influence the search engines, convincing them that your site has credibility.

We are not SEO specialists but we will 'tweak' your pages to help increase your placement in the first few months. In most cases this is not necessary because we usually get it right first time. We can recommend SEO professionals who will provide a dedicated search engine optimisation service. There are also excellent commercial programs available for optimising search engine placement, we can manage such campaigns if you wish. We can also manage your website marketing, including pay-per-click campaigns which can dramatically increase your visitors and therefore profits but can also be very expensive. We can manage your on-site advertising, which will help your site pay for itself.

Our Website Portfolio

A selection of web sites we have designed over the last seven years. Click the screenshots or titles to go there.