new ventures business development provides resources for starting and growing businesses
Site design methodology
Fresh and exciting
Our aim is to design websites that have energy and freshness which excite and engage both client and audience.
Aimed at the target audience
An Internet site today represents the first contact point for many prospective clients. It is, in a nutshell, showing how professional a company is, and what kind of attitude they have in selling themselves. We will discuss the interface and layout of the site with you to ensure the site is attractive, appealing, and reflects the appropriate image.
Easy to use
A clear, crisp view of the information on the site is paramount in relation to finding specific information. New Ventures Business Development generally uses databases to store articles and information of interest and a content management system that allows your staff to update that content easily.
Our sites are always easy to use and navigate. We specialize in content-rich sites where one of the main aims is for users to be able to access information quickly and easily. We try to provide a range of navigation methods and aids for users, including clearly defined navigation systems, section-flagging, and bread crumbing.
Working with the client
We try to involve our clients in every step of the design process. We present each stage online for the client to inspect and provide feedback. We encourage clients to show our mock-ups to colleagues and a small selection of target audience users. This allows the client to do informal user-testing throughout the process.
Fast loading
The biggest single reason visitors do not stay at a website is that it takes too long to load - that is the time it takes for the page to appear on the computer screen. The site needs to be designed around the premise of ‘loading’ as quickly as possible.
To achieve this New Ventures Business Development will ensure a strong text base for the pages (text loads very, very quickly). When photographs are used, we will tailor them to be the appropriate size and structure to ensure that they load within an appropriate time frame.
Interactive
Without interactivity, a website is purely a book online. Interactive sites capture user details online and monitor what users do inside the system. The more visitors can interact and ‘do things’ on the site, the more likely they are to revisit.
The importance of having visitors return is found in the statistic that people will buy from you after an average of seven previous visits.
Stable
We do extensive testing when building sites, to make sure all pages maintain consistent layout and style across a wide range of browsers and platforms, including text-based, hand-held and Web-TV browsers. Our sites are designed to be completely accessible for older browsers such as Internet Explorer 4+ and Netscape 4+.
Valid and compliant
Our sites currently use valid HTML (4.01 Transitional) or XHTML (1.0 Transitional) and CSS 2.0. All pages and CSS files within our sites are checked and validated using W3C's online HTML and CSS Validators.
Rates
New Ventures Business Development provides quotes for website development per project.
It is impossible to quote an hourly rate as our design and development professionals bill time at varying rates, so we have to review your goals for the site, the look and feel you need, the target market, the message, etc., to determine the best approach and the time and resources necessary to achieve the required results.
Contact Chester Caulder at New Ventures Business Development to schedule a development consultation.
Our work
Sites developed by the New Ventures Business Development include: