Web design

When it comes to creative and proficient Web site design, usability, leading-edge code and online marketing, SiliconStudio offers you a wide range of bespoke services to make your business successful. From the outset of a new project we stick to our timescales and we really value our customer’s involvement throughout the whole design process.

On-line Wbsite design

Easy to manage, low-maintenance Websites

Content managed System (CMS) sites are preferred by most of our customers because they can update, add or edit their site’s content on any computer or iPhone through a simple and secure content management system at any time and without any specialist knowledge. No longer do you have to go back to your web designer to make changes. SiliconStudio is a WordPress Developer and is our preferred choice for most business and personal websites. From it’s launch in 2003, WordPress is used by 13% of the 1,000,000 largest websites including Nikon, UPS, Wall Street Journal, Blackberry, Nivea, Pepsi etc, so it’s not a lightweight system.

WordPress is a fully structured website system with or without blog capability. Pages can hold content and/or blogs like news items etc, neither are exclusive.  It’s extremely well supported, well documented, very search engine friendly and once up and running is extremely stable and easy to use.

We can easily integrate many additional features either by using existing 3rd party or custom plug-ins such as small eCommerce stores, booking systems, forums, multimedia content, feed syndication, member systems, pay-per-view content, anti-spam, mobile blogging, Skype etc. Depending on what you need and the level of customization that you need, we can, on average, create and post your site within 14 days of your brief. We’re also happy to convert your current html site to WordPress so you have control of all your content and not your web designer.

Social Networks

Social Networks have recently become very popular and are no longer the exclusive province of mySpace or faceBook. SiliconStudio can create a fully customised and feature-rich Social Network for your business, community or club with functionality that exceeds both of these popular networks and integrate your unique look and feel. Our Social Networks are content managed so you can easily change and administer any aspect of your network from anywhere in moments and as often as you like to keep your network fresh. These networks can include user profiles, member level, member payment systems, groups, text and video chat rooms, blogs, forums, instant messages, audio, galleries, video, slideshows, events, extensive search, user emails, classifieds and many more features. We recommend a dedicated server for Social Networks. Average time to “Go-Live” is 42 days.

html/css compliant Websites

For simple fixed content websites that seldom need changing. SiliconStudio can build a standards compliant html/css design with custom graphics. They’re simple to host as they don’t need a database and very fast but unless you understand html/css coding you’ll have to rely on someone else to update your site. Average time to “Go-Live” is 14 days

Flash websites.

Xvisu is a modular flash website system that’s fast to create and post. It can include unlimited pages and subpages and may include news content, HD video, photo galleries and slideshows, regular limited html pages, and a contact form. All of its content is controlled by site-side XML files, one for each module. For Search Engine robots the system includes a site-map file. This is a semi-custom system insofar as SiliconStudio will prepare your logo with tagline, create a custom sidebar, add your content (text, audio, images or video) and upload to your live site or hand you a CD for you to uploadt. Average time to “Go-Live” is 48 hours. More here >>

Bespoke MySQL database driven Websites

Every aspect of our bespoke database driven and custom designed websites can be specified at the outset to meet 100% of your design requirements especially where “off-the-shelf” solutions are not available. We’re already involved in web 3 applications development. Typically our bespoke database driven website designs are for customers creating markets without precedence and often use leading-edge, unique and in-development technologies to build their impressive sites.

Online Advertising and Marketing

SiliconStudio can help you earn money from your website by establishing your context sensitive advertising programs such as syndicated advertising including Google’s AdSense. Likewise we can setup programs to drive potential customers to your site such as AdWords for virtually any budget.

To retain your existing customer base and gain new customers we recommend that you factor email Newsletters into your marketing programs. SiliconStudio can create email Newsletter template art and advise on programs to achieve good results using this targeted marketing approach. We also produce single frame promotional and animated or video banners using Flash technology.

Search Engine optimisation

Is the process of optimizing your website content to improve your visibility and rankings on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. The process includes editing content and site code to increase its relevance to specific keywords by removing barriers to the indexing of search engines. Getting it wrong or using inappropriate methods (spamdexing, link farms, keyword stuffing etc) to achieve higher rankings can result in removal from search engines.

SiliconStudio content managed websites all have SE optimization built in. Depending on the market and competition, custom optimization and analysis might be required in addition. Search engine rules may change over time it’s advisable to regularly check and refresh website optimization as your site rank position may fall on any given search engine’s keyword searches. Your competition will be doing this too!

SiliconStudio can create your Analytics accounts which will allow you to measure your site’s performance and enable fine tuning of your web site to help achieve superior website traffic flow, strengthen your marketing initiatives and increase ROI.

On a consultancy basis, SiliconStudio offers these services even if we didn’t build your website.