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What are "Sample" sites?

Available styles
Style : Inviting
Style : Distinctive
Style : Clear
Style : Smart
Style : Spacious
Style : Advanced menu system


What are "Sample" sites?

We have pre-prepared a number of "off the shelf" sites for clients, for speed of development and great value site creation.

Much of the cost and delay in developing web sites arises in designing the site. Typically, with standard cost constraints that arise in business, the need to keep costs in control impacts on the quality of the design. Often, inadequate time is spent designing a site that works well for a business's own particular needs.

Our range of pre-designed, "off-the-shelf" sites are designed to have built in style and to work in different situations. This means we can produce stylish, high impact web sites for our clients in less than one hour, at costs that are almost inconceivable to web designers.

Typically, we help select a site that is appropriate to the circumstances of our clients. Usually, the colour schemes will be modified to match the logos and colour schemes of a business. Once the colours and images have been tailored to our clients, their sites take on an individuality that belies the design process.

To see the available sites, click on the images below.

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Style : Inviting

The "Inviting" site is designed to accommodate extensive text. It has room for many or few images, but will retain an airy feel, even with significant amounts of information to convey.
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Style : Distinctive

The "Distinctive" style has a dynamic and "modern" feel to it. It is a site that is particularly appropriate where there is "movement" to the images and text.

A good example of this site in action is www.amershamjudo.org.uk

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Style : Clear

The "Clear" style is distinctive and simple. It can accommodate most business images and provides a good and quiet background. It is a site that works particularly well for a short, succinct message, allowing strong images to take centre stage, whilst retaining a good feel where there are few or no images that are relevant to the business. It is also adaptable to accept a reasonably extensive number of pages.

The sites works well where there are some "headline" messages that need to be conveyed, with some "subsidiary" explanation needed but where care needs to be taken to avoid watering down the message with the detail.

An example of this style being adapted to display Sportswear can be found at www.flashsports.co.uk

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Style : Smart

The "Smart" site has a very sophisticated feel. It is particularly well suited where there are a small number of very strong images to display which support the objective of the site. The site will have a very strong impact where the images themselves are powerful.
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Style : Spacious

The "Spacious" site is designed with a considerable amount of white space. It is a great site where there are a small number of very important messages to get across, and which need more than the standards "two to three" words of an advertisement to convey adequately the message or messages.
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Style : Advanced menu system

The "Advanced menu system" sample demonstrates use of a menu system that accommodates a very large web site, whose content changes continually. Typically, it is very time consuming and difficult to updating every relevant page in a web site every time a new link is added, where the site contains more than 10 pages and where the site is updated regularly. This sample site illustrates a system that requires updates to the menu system to be entered only in one file, with all web pages being updated automatically from the page. Note how each page has a "map" showing both where you are in the site, and what options are available. This facility is also automated, so that the single updated file propagates these updates too.
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