Web

We plan, design and build award winning websites and applications with an emphasis on compelling content, great design and robust technology.

We plan... to make your audience happy

The planning process is fundamental to any successful website project. Once we know your business aims we immediately start thinking about the people who will be using your site or service.

We consider 'what's in it' for your audience. How can we make it easier for them to achieve their aims? What will make them return to your site? How will you manage the content or the data?

As part of this planning process we'll undertake user/competitor research and start to map out scenarios, user journeys and wireframes.

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We put gorgeous into GUI design

A consistent and engaging user interface is fundamental to a successful site. Just placing a call to action button in the wrong place can make the difference between a service being used or not. Just sit in a usability testing lab for a while and you'll quickly see what we mean.

We place a huge emphasis on this part of website and mobile application design. Graphical User Interface design (GUI) is of course the art of make a site or service as easy to use as possible.

We use consistent colours, patterns, layouts, icons, typefaces to help your users complete their goals and to enable your content and key calls to action to really stand out.

 

We write, illustrate, photograph, film and animate

Content is and always will be king so we put content at the heart of every one of our websites. Social media has done much to reinforce this point too. Vast amounts of content is tweeted and retweeted, linked to and shared by enthusiastic individuals every minute of every day.

We've always been huge advocates of using great copy, video, photo, audio and animation. It's so important to use digital to best effect and not try to publish material meant for other mediums. It's about presenting your messages to you audience in the most meaningful way.

Our team are skilled highly skilled content producers, script writers, editors and directors. We produce videos, interactive flash animations, games and eLearning modules as well as provide great copy, photos, and audio for our clients, often on a daily basis.

We make websites accessible to all

Many web sites and applications do not conform to contemporary design and development standards. They simply fail to meet the essential usability, accessibility and disability criteria.

Our in depth work with Channel 4, BBC and many public sector clients opened our eyes to the wide variety of ways in which people need to interact online services and we work to meet these standards time and time again.

We often conduct user testing for general usability and are no strangers to testing our sites amongst users with cognitive, audio and visual impairments.

We choose the best development tools for you

One of the most exciting aspects of our work is often the most invisible. It's the clever code that's written and tested, the code that sits behind the scenes and powers the site, the applications, the tools and widgets. Of course, the better the programming, the more seamless it appears to be and the quicker it performs.

We're well versed in all the majors like objective C, Java, C++, C#, Actionscript, HTML 5 and always put the time in to plan the right mix.

We've also developed our own content management solution, based on the popular open source technology Umbraco. Screenmedia Reach enables you to manage your content and publish it to web, mobile and social channels at the touch of a button.

 

 
 

... and we're always here to help

Our success in retaining clients is in no small part due to the level of ongoing support we offer. We are almost always on the end of a phone talking over new ideas and offering advice.

Our support and maintenance packages often underpin these relationships and enable us to give our clients the time and support they need.

We offer affordable and flexible hosting facilities too, on secure and dedicated servers, using Amazon EC2 web services and can help you work out the appropriate service for your site.

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Need our help?

If you need help with any aspect of your website, just let us know. Perhaps you're thinking about making improvements, need a complete redesign or need a better way of managing your content. We're always happy to talk things over.

Tel: 0141 552 3112
Email: info@screenmedia.co.uk