Your website is the beating heart of your digital presence, a key component to achieving online success and growing your business.
We understand websites need to look appealing in order to impress visitors interested in your business - 38% of people say they will stop engaging with a website if the visual impact is unattractive. Our affordable web design and development services guarantee high performing websites with strong levels of user interface and user experience - both essential in improving conversion rates by upwards of 200%.
Professional Web Design
In such a digital driven age, it is essential businesses have a responsive website in order to grow successfully. Our affordable web design and development services create websites with simplicity at the core whilst maintaining an eye-catching visual appeal. Our team works to ensure these principles are evident throughout all work we complete.
We have built hundreds of websites from scratch throughout our time operating within this field. Each one is unique from the rest due to industry requirements or custom components from the client.
Our offices are based within London and the south east. Many of our clients reside within these areas and enjoy the freedom of being able to arrange in-person meetings, however we have customers and enquiries from businesses all across the UK and offer remote meetings to those who are located far from our operation centres.
If you have a question, please call us free on 0800 111 4504.
Experienced Web Design Services
We bring your ideas to life. Our affordable web design and development services combine our expertise with your visions to create a website that proudly represents your business and leads the online front for digital success. Our services can guarantee the following:
- Open Source - We specialise in Concrete CMS which is open source and provides our front and back end developers with a responsive platform to create custom features that would be typically hard to come by on other CMS platforms. We also accommodate Wordpress projects.
- Custom Built - We’ve built many sites from scratch, each with unique, bespoke qualities and applications matching the individual requirements of your business.
- Input - We value customer input and feedback along each key stage of the process to help create an end product that everyone is proud of.
- Secure - The websites we create never compromise data for design. We deliver websites that not only look and work great synonomously, but are also bulletproof to security breaches.
Solving Your Digital Problems
We recognise that the majority of business owners have a lot on their plate and finding the time to create and maintain a website functioning at the high-end of their industry is a tough ask.
For those requiring a complex website that is outside of their skill set, our affordable web design and development services can create a site that delivers on the following:
- Simple to Buy
- Simple to Use
- Simple to Change
- Simple to Extend
Below are some of the problems we regularly solve for our customers:
Problem: Updates are troublesome (Lack of time to manage the site, shelf life of technology has expired, the supporting partnership has come to an end or refuses to support the technology any more).
Solution: Purpose built CMS. Fit for purpose. Point and click. Any change. Any time. CMS editing made simple.
Problem: User experience negatively impacted by poor design (Level of client dissatisfaction that is impacting lead generation, conversions or sales).
Solution: We review your competitors who are at the top of Google for your industry related searches. This provides us with insight as to what is performing well. Combining this with our expertise and your input creates a design that is fit for purpose. Made Simple Media plans using flat, responsive modern techniques that follow the latest trends to stay ahead of the curve. We then wireframe the site, and only afterwards move to the following phase.
Other problems we solve for our clients...
A high performing website takes strategic planning and execution. Each stage can throw up problems which need to be confronted in order for the site to perform well. Some of these issues may sound familiar?:
- Design that just doesn't work - UX and UI issues (Unusable website that frustrates customers causing them to bounce and join competitors).
- Poor accessibility (Mobile users account for more than half of web traffic - website lacks strong mobile compliance.
- Poor communication from current agency (missed sales/ ineffective response times etc).
- Poor value from current agency (too expensive, deliverables are not correct etc).
- Hard to maintain regular communication from current agency.
- Failure to understand your business to provide the right solutions.
How would you like to...
- Improve enquiries/sales/conversions
- Improve representation of your company/organisation
- Add new functionality you want to promote
- Increase brand awareness
- Deliver on marketing objectives: More traffic, leads, brand awareness, and exposure
- Make easier updates, add new products and new promotions etc
Our Process to Help You Reach Success
We have fine-tuned and streamlined our affordable web design and development services to leave our clients delighted with a website that truly reflects the quality of their services. The Made Simple Media process includes:
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1. Exploration We carry out research and competitor analysis of websites within your niche to help form a clear and successful plan of foundations. |
2. Wireframing We produce sitemaps and wireframes that create a clear structure of how the website will function and operate. |
3. Design A collaborative process where we add your branding (logo/graphics/images/colour scheme). |
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4. Development Our front and back end developers help transition the design into an interactive stage with custom coding. |
5. Web Content Content, either produced in-house or by our copywriting team is added to pages throughout the website. |
6. Testing
Before we hand it over, we undertake thorough and stringent testing of all website aspects. |
Below we discuss our processes in greater detail so you can discover why each stage is key to achieving the end goal.
We deliver an initial consultation to gain your input and industry knowledge to help contribute to the creation of a website that reflects your business. This provides a great starting point for the project and the collaboration between both parties. The websites that we create for our clients follow three simple steps:
Planning it Right. Designing it Right. Building it Right.
But how do we do that exactly?
- Plan It
We produce sitemaps and wireframes to distinguish the location of all important pages and where specific elements belong on the page. We make sure there are enough pagetypes to grow the site further down the line with minimal development work from our end. We also explore the user journey to ensure a quick and smooth navigation for your users.
- Design It
Once you’ve approved the sitemap and wireframes, we move onto the design stage - we’ll add your branding (logo/graphics images/colour scheme). Additionally, web content that resonates well with your audience may also be required. Our team can assist you with this stage.
- Build It
Our front and back end developers help bring the idea to life. Normally, beginning with the home page first and once you’re happy we move onto the next pages.
The penultimate stage involves thorough testing where we use a range of browsers, devices and our website testing software. Finally, we are all set for the launch of your new website when your business is ready to go live.
Digitally Market Your Business
Digital marketing of your business is paramount to online success and growth. All websites that we build are compliant and support marketing services such as SEO and social media marketing.
We have a specialist department for SEO, search engine optimisation; providing either a full campaign or regular consultancy for those requiring guidance with their digital strategy. Search engine marketing will drastically improve the quantity and quality of organic traffic to your website, in turn increasing leads, conversions and sales.
How do the websites that we design, develop and build boost SEO marketing?
Google crawls and indexes every open avenue of your website. A site that is structured well makes it easier for Google and other search engines to understand. Their goal is to return their users with the best results matching the search – numerous factors make up this algorithm including the website content and the website health. Google does not favour sites packed full of errors, often negatively impacting the rankings of multiple pages. Our affordable web design and development services deliver an end product that is strategically assembled to provide strong technical SEO foundations throughout, helping any optimised content thrive.
The websites our team builds are always user-centred, placing particular importance on a well-designed user interface. This can result in a 200% increase in conversion rates. Similarly, a better UX design can improve conversion rates by 400%.
Web Design For All Industries
We have successfully built websites across various industries including; jewellers, local news websites, garden machinery suppliers, digital marketing firms plus much more.
We welcome enquiries from all industries when it comes to creating a bespoke website that positively reflects your business.
Don’t just take our word for it… have a look at some of the feedback we have received from clients.
We support you throughout your journey
We never undertake a project knowing that our client will require support elsewhere. We want to continue to work with you, supporting you and your website.
It's no secret that business owners and the teams beneath them experience trouble finding times for troublesome maintenance issues such as site upgrades and security updates. Our support packages do all of this for you - each level is tailored to support businesses of various sizes. Find out more on how we will keep your website operating at the peak of its field courtesy of our support and maintenance.
Our 94% Client Retention Rate!
We recently measured our client retention rate over five years and discovered we had kept 94% of our clients on board during that time!*
Sadly, we are aware that not every company keeps to their word of offering affordable web design and development services. At Made Simple Media, on the other hand, we are always transparent with our customers so everyone involved in the project is on the same wavelength, helping contribute to success. We enjoy building relationships with clients and look forward to developing many more in the future.
*Measured over a 5 year period to Sept 2020
Year on Year Growth
Our business enjoys growth in turnover year on year (even during the recent pandemic). Why do we mention this? So you can be assured that we will still be around for years to come!
Who are we?
We are a digital agency specialising in Web Design, Development, Concrete5 and digital marketing, based in London & West Sussex.
We make digital simple. Our purpose is to simplify your frustrations in digital and solve the challenges you face to help make you more money and progressively grow your business or organisation.
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