As one of the UK's leading web design companies and mobile app designers Satsuma have the expertise and experience required to provide a complete web solution for your business. From creative design which reflects your brand, to great functionality which means that your website will really work for its visitors, we can use our range of web design services to build your company's online presence in a unique way. We understand that a new website can be a big investment, which is why we work hard to offer the highest standards of design, development and web optimisation. Quality comes as standard and you can trust our team to combine their knowledge and your ideas to create a website which you simply wouldn't find anywhere else.
Since the middle of 2014, the use of mobile devices to access websites has exceed that of desktop and laptop use. The growth of the Internet via mobile devices is massive and keeps growing year on year.
Still only about 40% of websites have been optimised to work well on mobile devices despite the huge use. This means that businesses who still run what we call a PC style website are potentially missing out on lots of business. Why? Try looking at a website that has not been optimised for mobile use using a mobile phone. What you see is a compressed version of what you would see if you were looking at the site on a PC. In order to find what you are looking for, you need to expand the page and scroll around. Annoying isn't it? That's why most people that visit sites that aren't mobile friendly quickly leave the site and look elsewhere, meaning the site owner loses out on potential business. The modern way of building websites is to make them "Responsive". Responsive websites detect the type of browser you are using and adjusts the style of the website to fit it perfectly. The style may be slightly different to the PC version, with the navigation menu in particular being set up differently but it will be simple to use, images and text will be displayed in the correct resolution so they are clear and it will mean no need to expand the page to see what you want. Every site that we build nowadays is responsive, there is no point in building them so they are only suitable on certain devices.
e have been developing user-friendly, ecommerce websites since we started Satsuma in 2005 (and before that when we worked for other companies) and have put all of our web development and design experience into a range of excellent ecommerce website packages. With packages to meet all budgets, we can design and develop your own online store, this gives you everything your business will need to start selling online.
Magento is one of the most powerful platforms available for use in building ecommerce websites. The range of functionality is simply astounding, giving you as a website owner, full control over your online store. Magento can be linked to your accounting software e.g. Sage 50 to provide you with up to the minute sales figures and product stock inventories. Drupal is a highly flexible platform used where the requirements of a client fall outside of "standard" or simple ecommerce solutions. Drupal works from a framework perspective, allowing us to build from the "ground floor up" to achieve the result that is required - however unusual. Building ecommerce websites using Wordpress and the Woocommerce plugin is a very effective solution, especially if further requirements such as online booking via a calendar function are needed. The plugins used by Wordpress integrate very well to provide a good, all round ecommerce package. If your ecommerce requirement is particularly bespoke and is something that packages with pre programmed core platforms as shown above will not manage to cope with without significant amendments, we would recommend that we build your website from scratch using the PHP framework. We are able to programme the site according to your exact needs and as many of our clients have found, the results are impressive, easy to use websites that deliver exactly what is required.
SEO is central when doing design and development. Satsuma Media. Our SEO service is affordable and highly successful! First page ranking in Google, Bing, Yahoo and other major search engines can be the make or break for any business website. At Satsuma we offer Search Engine Optimisation that works for your website. By cutting out the jargon and concentrating on results we are able provide a bespoke SEO service that will give you 1st page coverage and drive traffic to your site. Most of our clients are more interested in results than in us telling them what experts we are and how all of our SEO techniques are ethical and won't result in their web site being penalised by major search engines (but for our own benefit we want to let you know that!)
