Our emphasis is on service

We have seen how providing a better user experience can boost top-line revenues by helping you acquire and retain customers without having to sacrifice margins to aggressive price competition. Customers care about the quality of the user experience. With our help companies that can deliver interactive experiences that are seamless, focused, connected, and aware will enjoy a clear competitive advantage over those that cannot.

In our delivery of integrated digital marketing, Web design and development services, we put the emphasis on service. Customers rely on us to deliver powerful and compelling brand awareness and services. They get the personal attention that bigger agencies can’t or won’t give them.

We have the creative skills to come up with some very flashy Web designs. However, for most of our clients, we look at Web design with a business focus, ensuring that graphics and page elements enhance the brand and deliver powerful online business messages to customers, employees, suppliers and business partners.

Back-end Web application development is pretty boring stuff - but it's how Web sites work. We have in-depth knowledge and skills and ensure we’re right at the cutting edge in terms of the latest Web technologies, including Flash, Flex, J2EE, etc. That means we can build better Web sites for our clients, faster, and save them time, resources and costs.

Web Development

Nobody knows more about web development than Fastnet Web Design. We have over ten years of experience and have developed loads of web sites for such clients as The Allen Overy LLP and the Victoria & Albert Museum to name a few.

Fastnet develops each site using a holistic, methodical, process driven approach we call “Web design for humans”.

• Content Management Systems
• E-commerce
• Dynamic and database-driven content
• Search systems
• Login and membership systems
• "Member only" content and features
• Response and application forms
• Personalisation
• Questionnaires and surveys
• Database integration
• Bespoke development

Application Development

Fastnet Web Design has extensive experience building web database applications. We are fluent in a variety of programming languages necessary for the wide range of needs of today's business clients.

• XHTML/CSS
• Ajax
• JavaScript
• PHP/MySQL
• .NET
• ActionScript (Flash)
• Adobe Flex
• Microsoft Silverlight
• CMS's & ECM's
• Video production
• Video streaming & encoding

Marketing

Fastnet offers comprehensive and hands-on internet marketing services. Each marketing campaign is custom tailored to your specific web site needs using any combination of below campaigns:

• Social Media Marketing
• Search Engine Campaign - increase your search engine rankings
• Email Campaign - direct email and newsletter marketing
• Pop-up Campaign - pop up advertisement on related web sites
• Link Popularity Campaign - gather links from other sites to increase search engine rankings

Planning

With the site's goals established, a clear plan for how they will be achieved is vital.

We take a practical, jargon-fee approach to site planning. Prototyping ensures that the site's functionality is clearly defined and understood from the outset. Simple paper mockups work through the key design, navigation and interaction issues without the need for complex technical diagrams and specifications. Documentation is presented in plain English, with clear explanations of the issues involved.

Packages Include

Included as part of the initial package: 

• content management system - making you self sufficient
• domain name or the transfer of your existing one
• 1 year's hosting
• Unlimited pages
• unlimited email addresses
• totally bespoke web design
• google analytics website statistics
• initial submission to Google and other search engines

optional extras include:

• flash animations
• search engine optimisation
• logo design