Website Design is apparently

The graphic design and coding of web pages, full websites and interactive web applications.

It’s a bit like the story of the man in a hot air balloon who descends and hovers above the ground to ask a passer-by where he is. The passer-by thinks for a moment and then tells him he is standing in a basket, strung beneath a hot air balloon, about twenty feet above the centre of a field. All the information is entirely accurate and totally useless.

While the question was open to all sorts of interpretation, the answer was completely obtuse. In web terms a better way of understanding where it all fits in is to couch the questions differently.

What can you do with a website? What can a website do? Why have a website?

All these are better questions.

What can you do with a website?: You can communicate, transact, manage, administer, promote, brand – the list goes on…

What can a website do?: Talk, listen, sell and buy.

Why have a website: Apart from the expectation, you can make everything you do right now more effective through using a good website well.

If e.g. you advertise online or in magazines, then a website can make that more effective. It extends your message beyond the quick hit and into the extended proposition.

If you retail, a website will help you to sell more goods to your existing customers, and allow you to approach them directly with offers rather than waiting for them to come into your shop.

If you have a service there is probably an expectation that you will have a website. Without a product you only have your ‘brand’ to show and people will form opinions about that and you based on it. Certainly it will be the primary source of research for any prospective client. You can organise your key messages in an unambiguous way, present them properly and leave the right impressions and information with the world outside.
Creative Thing is a unique design firm offering a variety of services from basic Website Design to low cost self-managing websites. We can provide complete e-commerce website development through our own sunsidiary company Starteshop from as little as £199. We have created and launched hundreds of successful websites, for many different types of businesses. We have the creative talent of a successful graphics agency, the technical knowldge of advanced web developers, the know how to get your site performing in Search Engines, and the ability to take your business and develop a compelling web proposition to move it forward.

Our website design clients range from small start-up companies to large corporations and everything in between. With our combined experience in graphic design, website development and e-commerce sites, you can be confident that whatever your project demands, our web developers can deliver.