Over the years the web has evolved from a simple and fun information tool to an essential part of both our lifestyle choices and business processes.  Whether booking a holiday for the family or researching a new supplier; the internet is our first, and often single, point of reference.

Research has shown that on average a visitor to your website will spend just a fraction of a second deciding whether to stay.  Unless your website design looks professional, functions correctly and accurately reflects your company ethos; you’ve potentially lost a new client before they’ve even made contact.

Tell have all of these basic fundamentals in mind when working with our clients on their website design and development. We collectively have over 30 years of experience working alongside businesses of all varieties and sizes in order to combine the latest technologies with striking and original designs that go a long way to ensure visitors to their websites not only stay, but keep returning.

Tell Website Development

Tell maintain the highest standard of website development applications and programming languages in use for browser-based systems.  Each of our web developments is carefully planned using structured work-flow processes and professional project management.  A client’s knowledge of their own business and market, matched with our experience and expertise enables us to provide the right solution and ultimately ensures every project objective is met.  Full documentation of the project not only allows the client to have a clear picture of the work that will be delivered but will provide a detailed specification for the developers to work to ensuring that complete transparency is achieved.

Tell web development offers a huge variety of solutions including content management systems, e-commerce, intranets, extranets and rich media. We will work with you to assess and adopt the right technologies for your development. 

Our development team has expert knowledge in .net, Flash, Shockwave, ASP, PHP and Java providing every skill required to deliver any browser-based solution. 

Tell Website Design

Throughout our portfolio you will see a huge variety of designs for a variety of organisations from Fortune 100 companies, charities and not for profit organisations to SMEs, consultancies and micro companies.

Tell web designers are commended for their innovative, suitable and original web designs tailored specifically for each of our clients and have included:

• vibrant, exciting and ‘fun’ websites
• corporate and professional clean designs
• bold, arty and retro statements
• evolutionary designs that coincide with a re-branding exercise
• subtle and understated websites

Tell will work with you from the start; getting to know you and your business, sketching out designs and discussing ideas until we have a clear picture of your requirements.  Taking into consideration any existing branding and corporate identity, we will present you with our design concepts of which further evolutions are provided if necessary. 

Please visit our portfolio for examples of previous designs.

Website Compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act

As of October 2004 the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) requires service providers to ensure the services they provide are accessible to people with disabilities.  The DDA requirement applies to services delivered via the web and it applies to all businesses and public sector organisations.  

The most widely accepted guidelines for the construction of accessible web sites are those specified by W3C who have produced the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

There are many reasons for making your site more accessible:

• Reputable organisations recognise their responsibility to the disabled community
• It can increase market size to include people with disabilities
• It is more accommodating towards the aging population 
• It reduces corporate risk – companies with accessible websites protect themselves from litigation, costly settlements, unfavourable publicity and potential loss of business
• It can increase accessibility for users with old browsers, non standard operating systems, slow connections, small screens or text only screens such as PDA’s and mobile phones that do not read websites in the same way PC’s do
• It improves search engine optimisation and usability
• Text only pages are printer friendly

Tell recommend that clients consider these responsibilities when planning their web development and we will work alongside clients to ensure sites are accessible in line with W3C guidelines.