Wokingham Website Design is a specialist company designing internet solutions for small businesses mainly in the Wokingham and surrounding counties: Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. 

Whether that be websites that are content managed, ecommerce online shops or search engine optimisation for your existing site, we value the opportunity to work alongside your business in order to provide a longstanding and trusting partnership; not simply just sell you a website and say goodbye.  

We have built up an excellent reputation for unparalled service in the area since 2005 when we started trading and yet we still provide excellent value for money by continually providing quality professional websites for less than our competition.

We come across all sorts of businesses who say they can build sites, design them or indeed both. But being able to build websites doesn’t mean they can design them.

We have seen some interestingly designed websites that work and function perfectly, which is a shame, because they are built very robustly and properly, but they look dreadful.

Why?

Predominantly because although the company claimed to do website design, the person who built it isn’t really a designer.

To a hardcore coder, it’s about function over form. To a designer, it’s the other way around.

However, as WWD has skills in design, software development and support to name a few, we can provide a good, solid design that looks attractive, coupled with a properly performing website. 

But if you some bizarre reason you don’t want us to build your site, and just design it, then why not consider paying for a few hours of design time, to mock-up and create the look and feel of your new site?

We can then liaise with your web developer and get our professional  design translated into a website.

You’ll find it pays dividends. 

If you are looking for a partner to work with to take your mobile app and develop it with you then you have come to the right place.

We have extensive experience in building on both the iOS and Android mobile platforms for both tablets and smart phone devices.

We have a dedicated  app development team  that have a wealth of skills in API integrations, building the middle tier platform as well as the back end systems that house and support the applications on the mobile devices.

As we are also a professional design house we can cater for the design, the end user interface and therefore the user experience and flow.

We test the entire stack from client to back end build and all of this is done by ourselves meaning just the single point of contact for you.

Mobile apps tend to be inherently complex from the many different aspects required to master during the development lifecycle.

Whether that be from understanding the end user experience, the actual business model, how it functions on different platforms and devices as well as any 3rd party interactions required. 

Of course all the questions that are raised from the above won’t have answers straight away.

We understand this totally.

We work on the basis that we know the your needs will almost certainly change from the initial stages of consultancy and design so we are totally flexible in our approach to allow your requirements evolve during the development process of your mobile app.

We are WordPress designers at heart.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes.

Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination.

Creative design

Our websites are not just built, they are created.

Many web companies are good at building sites, but not so great at designing them.

We have our very own designer who has been involved in the industry for years and has worked on design projects for several award winning design agencies and large companies.

He brings with him a wealth of experience and skill that has seen him working on accounts such as BMW, MINI, Rolls Royce, Mazda, The BBC, O2, 3M, Sky and Yonex. He will work with you, crafting the look and feel of your site until you are satisfied.

Development and build

Sometimes we will design your site in Adobe InDesign or Photoshop and work through the design with you until you are happy and then take these different elements to build your site based upon the layouts you have approved.

Other times we might actually set out the homepage on our test server and work through the design with you as it is on the test site. It all depends on your needs, the complexity of the design and your budget.

We have a standard set of code which incorporates a very powerful theme, some tried and tested plugins for both ease-of-use and flexibility along with the must-have security and backup/recovery plugins to make sure your site is both safe and secure.

Testing and end-user training

We have a dedicated test server where we build your site to the design specification we have worked out together.

We can provide you with access so you can see how the project is progressing and even allow you access to add your content or fine-tune it before we move it on our live server. 

During this phase we will test all the components of your site to ensure they all work seamlessly together and ensure all the relevant plugins are configured and bang up-to-date.

We can also take this opportunity to give you some basic essential training in the WordPress CMS so you can keep your content up to date and fresh.

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

Most clients will want some sort of basic optimisation performed on the existing pages, images and posts of their new site.

We will provide this and install a plugin for you, so if you want to, you can then carry on with the SEO for your business with this easy-to-use and simple-to-follow SEO plugin.

No real knowledge is required and it really is quite simple to understand and use.

Making sure you are found

This isn’t just about on-page SEO. We will create within Google a search console user in order that we can submit a new sitemap to let them you are now live.

This will additionally collect useful information about visitors to your site and with the addition of Google Analytics will provide you with very comprehensive visitor information.

Let’s not forget other search engines too. We’ll also set you up in Bing (includes Yahoo), which has at least a 26% market share of the search market.

It’s not just about Google for us.

However it doesn’t stop there.

If you are a business providing a service to your local area/community we will additionally set up a Google Local Entry for you as well. And we can do the same for you in Bing too if you want..

Support, maintenance and stress-free hosting

If you weren’t convinced by now for WWD to build your new site, then this is what really sets us apart from our competition and where we excel time-after-time and have done so since 2005. Fast servers with daily backups which are checked daily for the latest security patches.

Multiple layers of security and options to extend it even further. Support staff with over 100 years of combined experience and leaders in their class.

Your site will be maintained and kept up-to-date on a regular basis to help prevent unwanted software and people on your site.

We use a hosting service second-to-none who we have fostered excellent links with so in the case of an emergency we’re not sitting on phone being number 78 in the queue.

We provide Woocommerce design and development in Wokingham

WWD have been designing, building and deploying eCommerce websites since 2005 and Woo sites since 2011.

So we really do know what we are doing and are here for the long haul.

Ecommerce is a particular niche for WWD as we both fully understand the business model of an online shop and all the intricacies that go with it. We know exactly what is needed for your shop to run smoothly with the minimal amount of manual interaction.

There are many different eCommerce offerings on the market, so how do you know which one best fits your business today and which will be able to grow with you?

The answer is you probably don’t and to be honest (as we are both good and renowned for that) you don’t really need too.

But we do.

We’ve been helping small businesses both sell online and importantly grow online for over since 2005 on many different platforms, so our unequalled knowledge in this arena will help you most efficiently and cost-effectively design and build your online shop.

Why over complicate matters when you don’t need to? Or indeed implement something that has to be thrown away and start again as it can’t scale or integrate with another application?

We can even put you in touch with one or some of our current eCommerce clients and they can tell you what it was like both working with us, getting hold of us urgently on the odd occasion it was required and how we compared to their previous software supplier.

You couldn’t be in safer hands.