We've been helping ambitious businesses create extraordinary digital experiences since 1998. We’re a friendly and professional bunch with a strong set of values that ensure we only employ bright, friendly, diligent and digitally enabled people.

We are also happy to say that we’re different and we've built our business to encourage creativity. Come and grab a glimpse behind the walls of the cosy-country barn that we call home, right in the heart of the Cheshire countryside.

Our team is made up of 50+ plus people who genuinely care about what they do and have the aptitude to remain curious about what is coming next. 

We’re a strong, multi-disciplined, hardworking and passionate team who genuinely care about delivering great results for our clients. 

We do our best work when we partner closely with clients to deliver websites, self service solutions, inbound marketing campaigns and much more. 

Whether it's design, development, consultancy or inbound marketing, we’re focussed on delivering results that provide real, measurable value to your business.

Prodo's headquarters are based in the heart of the Cheshire countryside, a short distance from Chester city-centre.

Our office campus is purpose-built to reflect our culture.

With Ramsey’s, an in-house cafe, serving up homemade cakes, delicious home-cooked meals, salads, paninis and more daily - you don’t need to worry about working on an empty stomach! 

Fancy meeting outdoors?

Our garden is a real sun-trap and don't worry if it rains, you can join our onsite cook, Ollie, in our cosy café for a cuppa and slice of cake.

All our facilities are here for clients to use too and we promise we won't get upset if you beat us at a game of ping-pong.  

Prodo has been lucky enough to work with variety of diverse and exciting business across a range of sectors since we were founded in 1998.

We work hard to ensure our clients benefit from the breadth of our experience, applying learnings from across sectors to help clients stay ahead of the digital curve

To be truly effective, your website needs to keep the user at the heart of everything. It must deliver a smooth and intuitive experience that’s aligned with your business objectives and provides everything your prospective and existing customers need to engage with you.

We genuinely care about building productive partnerships with our clients to ensure we produce the best possible results, our team are passionate as you about achieving your goals.

We’ll go above and beyond to enable us to become an extension of your own business, the more aligned we are with you, the better our results will be - on both sides of the partnership.

Each Prodo client has a dedicated account manager who will work with them to help maximise the benefit they’re getting from Prodo as an agency.

They’re on hand for day-to-day support, drawing on the team to give advice and guidance on specialist subjects and are always looking for new ways to help meet and exceed clients’ business objectives.

Self-service portals allow your customers to access information or undertake transactions with your business without having to directly interact with a member of staff.

We've built many of these platforms, tightly integrated with back-office systems to increase business efficiency complimented by user-centric design that helps increase adoption among customers. 

Here at Prodo we’ve built self-service portals for a range of organisations, including housing associations like Accent Group and PA Housing as well as large, commercial corporations like GJW Direct. 

Whether commercial, not-for profit, subscription or bespoke; our self-service work has one thing in common - the end-user.

We place the customer firmly at the heart of everything we do, ensuring your self-service solution is built to make their lives easier in order to increase adoption and maximise benefit to your business.

Website Design Services

Delivering optimised websites for housing associations and their subsidiaries has been one of Prodo's specialisms for over 20 years. Whether you need a fast-to-launch website replacement or a fully custom solution designed around your needs we've got you covered.

Discovery

The first step in delivering a new website encompasses:

• We give you a warm Prodo welcome and introduce you to our team of in-house experts
• We'll host a collaborative requirements exploration process where we'll confirm the project deliverables and tease out potential future enhancements
• Our team go away to translate the agreed requirements into user stories with success criteria
• And produce a technical specification document paired with a project management plan for you to review and approve

Design

Next up comes the creation of the look & feel of your new website. Depending upon if you've chosen a custom design or a fast-to-launch website, we'll either begin applying your brand guidelines to an established design of your choosing or follow this process for a bespoke implementation:

• Assess your key user goals and audience types
• Consult with you on the sitemap and information architecture
• Optional wireframing to nail the structure pre-aesthetic-design application
• Take opportunities with brand exploration 
• Bring this all together with mobile and desktop custom designs for feedback and amends in a collaborative process with you

Development

By this stage, we'll have the agreed specification and designs in place and proceed with bringing the website to life:

• Umbraco CMS setup and configuration
• Backend development to create the modules and required functionality
• Frontend development to apply the design, look & feel and interactions throughout the website
• Incorporate any required plugins or system integrations 

Testing

Before we get to a point of sharing the platform with you, we take the solution through a rigorous quality assurance programme to ensure we're delivering against the high standards we set ourselves:

• Manual user story success criteria testing in the CMS and on the frontend
• Automated code quality checks with Sonar Cloud
• Accessibility testing with Pa11y
• Once we have approved the platform internally, we'll deploy the code to a staging environment ready for client UAT

Pre-Live

This is your chance to check the website provided to you against the prior agreed specification and designs on the staging environment before we plan to launch:

• CMS training session, building your familiarity and capability within the Umbraco CMS
• Client User Acceptance Testing (UAT), if you spot any items which require a review, you'll have your own Jira portal to raise tickets for our assessment and remedy
• Content population is usually a joint effort where we both add your pre-prepared copy and media into the new modules ready for launch

Launch

By this point we're all happy that as a team we've hit the mark when considering the goal and initial requirements of the project!

• We'll go through some final pre-live checks around SEO and Google Analytics and begin deploying the code to the live server
• Working with your IT team, we'll provide the relevant information for the DNS change to point your domain name at the server where the new website resides
• And we're done! A virtual 'cheers' before moving into your warranty phase