Websites Built For Design Agencies

PLEASE NOTE: These Are Not Websites We have Designed, But Websites We Have Built For Designers & Agencies.

WellMadeWebsite also build websites for design agencies. Currently we build website for 5 Design agencies, 2 in Scotland, 1 in London and 2 Wiltshire/Dorset area. Agencies find clients and design the website template (hopefully discussing feasibility beforehand!), and we build the website. Build is normally 2-3 weeks (1 week to build 2 weeks for the client to change their mind).

Content Management Systems :
Most sites are built with WordPress Content Manangement System. There are many benefits to wordpress, namely:

• Its Free
• Its very well supported by the Community
• It has many thousands of adabtable Plugins for every conceivable occasion
• There are many Wordpress Developers, so if you dont like us the web site can easily be taken over by someone else (unlike a bespoke system)
• Its remarkably secure.
• Its very easy for users of all ages (in our experience) to use it
• It comes with a lovely skeleton template to which any (not beaten yet!) template a designer can come up with can be applied to. Caveat: please discuss feasibilityof design with is first!

We have also built sites using Joomla, Expression Engine, Magento, OSCommerce, Typo3, and even a few bespoke bits and pieces. Of these latter ones we would recommend Expression Engine and Magento.

Bespoke Scripting :
Though plugins and mods exist for all CMS there comes a time when some individual scipts, database calls, and strange things need to be created to do stuff specific to a site - on the whole (again - not failed yet, though sometimes by the skin of our teeth) we can do it..

Ecommerce:
Currently in an interesting situation with Ecommerce. From 2000 to 2008 we built quite a lot of successful online shops, cheaply and effectively, but they were static HTML sites, though that meant we could be very exact with out Search Engine Optimisation. But now as things move ever more towards CMS its got more difficult. Wordpress can work ok for a small shop - less than 100 items. In fact we have quite a successful shop of 500 products and growing, but we had no control over the template (at the time). Joomla has an OK shop , but it is the only CMS that we have had a security problem with. OSCommerce is a nightmare (sorry, it just is, i think it stopped being devloped in the mid '00s). I suspect Magento is the way forward - though it might be a bit much for some hosts. Open Cart could be OK too, but we have not tried it in the wild yet, but have heard good reports.

Search Engine Optimisation:
Our worry with CMS has always been Search Engine Optimisation. Some CMS just don't seem to think that it is important. Wordpress is very good though and, with a little help with the template designer before they start, we can help it be even better.