Surestate Ltd: Services: Creative Website Design, Website Development, E-commerce, CMS, Search Engine Optimisation and Hosting Services

NEW! Click HERE to use our own Design Brief Tool to develop your design brief and send it to us.

All types of visual communication involve aesthetic considerations: knowledge of the audience's habits, technical restrictions and of course, budget limitations.

While most costs associated with establishing a web site are fairly straightforward, the design side is probably the most important and complex choice you will make as a business owner. A poorly constructed site can damage your image and hurt sales, while a well planned out site can increase your revenue.

To keep the costs down, there are three things you should have thought through before discussing site design with anyone:

Who is your intended market?

Answering this question will allow clear direction on what objectives the web site is supposed to meet. Finding out who your audience is will also help you cross link to other businesses that can improve the traffic to your site.

What is your message?

Web sites are only as good as the content they contain. Be focused and combine your message with your objective. Get on the web and 'browse around'. Look at sites that are well put together and tell us which sites you like and why.

Why do you want a website?

What is your objective? Why do you want to be on the web? Increase sales? Get referrals? Get a new image? Increase exposure? Settling these issues in your mind will help reduce cost and focus on only what is needed.

The design brief is a written explanation - given to a designer - outlining the aims, objectives and milestones of a project.

It's essential to thoroughly consider the questions above before you approach an agency to develop your website as a well-crafted brief can enhance creativity, shorten the time necessary to complete a project, and practically guarantee quick approval of the solution.

Above all, the brief ensures that important issues are considered and questioned before the agency starts work. Click HERE to use our own Design Brief Tool to develop your design brief and send it to us.

Creative and Design

We offer a complete range of bespoke website design services, from developing creative Flash marketing applications to complete end-to-end website design. A look at our portfolio will quickly convince you that our designers are hot!

Consulting and Strategy Development

Our consultants are qualified to MBA-level and are highly experienced in business analysis and strategy development. Our most recent high-profile consulting assignments include:
- Developing the online marketing development plan for an entire country's online tourism marketing (Government of Lesotho)
- Managing the entire online marketing strategy and development for Europe's largest literary festival.

E-Commerce

Our secure e-commerce systems have processed over £1.25 million worth of online transactions for our clients. Numbers like this prove that we have both the "know how" and experience to turn your e-commerce requirements into reality.

Online Application Development

Our online application development experience encompasses content management systems, contact management systems, accounting and financial management systems and inventory/sales management systems. So, whether it is a simple content management system, or a full blown online business system, we can design and deliver solutions that work for your business.

Hosting and Email

We have over 50 clients who are using our hosting and e-mail services on our dedicated web-servers - including websites that handle half a million site visitors a year!. Using dedicated servers allows us to offer significantly better speeds and levels of service than the standard "shared hosting" web servers that many web design agencies offer their clients. In additiion, we also offer secure (SSL) encrypted web pages, SQL Server and MS Access database access, detailed website statistics and anti-spam protection. Contact us to find out more.