Web site Design and Development in Essex by Paicemaker

If you’ve decided to spend your company’s money on fully establishing its presence online and beyond, then you’ll want your money and our work to produce results.

This is why every step we take will be designed to help you drive your business forward.

We’ll work with you every step of the way to help you develop and implement a new media strategy that uses the best parts of your business to their fullest advantage.

Paicemaker Limited is a comprehensive visual design consultancy. Our expertise covers all areas of web and interactive design, design for print, marketing for the web, bespoke software solutions and much more.

Paicemaker produces work that is attractive, functional and accessible – work that fully communicates your message and enables people to do business with you in a way that complements your existing processes.

We’ll take a good look at what it is that you want to promote, whether it’s a specific product, brand, event, service or your company’s image as a whole.

You’ll know where you’re going and why you’re going there – and we’ll make it happen.

At Paicemaker, we understand the concerns you may have about getting your business online. Perhaps it’s a step into the unknown – or maybe it’s not the first time you’ve looked online for ways to grow your business. Either way, getting sorted needn’t be a headache.

That means you’ll get close and available contact when you need it. It means we won’t try to blind you with science when all you want is a straight answer. It means you’ll be updated regularly about our progress so you can feed back to us at your leisure – not when you’re at the end of your tether.

Browse below if you want to get a feel for some of the Nuts and Bolts of making Online your next place to be:

Your domain name is like the sign on the outside of a shop. If you're going online and you want people to know you're there, you'll want a memorable address - something that reads well, is easy to type and easy to say over the phone.

Paicemaker can go through your options with you and get your name registered without delay and at a minimal cost. And, if your first choice of names is unavailable, we'll look into a range of suitable alternatives for you.

Paicemaker provides flexible, stable hosting packages that represent excellent value for money. Our hosting has a 99.9% uptime so you don't have to worry about power surges and failures. Located in the most up to date data centres, our servers are hosted on the most secure environments.

Depending on your requirements, Paicemaker can tailor a range of hosting requirements to suit your needs.

At Paicemaker, we don't offer you a false economy by short-cutting our design: We do keep your project in perspective but we won't charge the Earth.

Paicemaker places functionality, usability and accessibility at the core of its design and development. That means we won't just make a website that looks good - we'll make one that does the business and gives your customers the information they're looking for, whatever systems and technology they're using to access it.

Paicemaker is equipped to design and develop many different types of web sites, from normal ‘brochure-sites’ – for advertising your presence, acting as your soapbox and drawing people to your business, to all-singing, all-dancing eCommerce and bespoke portal sites - designed to offer you a direct return on your online investment.

If you need a site that provides a real interactive link between you and your customers, Paicemaker can deliver a wealth of possiblities:

Why not use the web interactively and gather data from your customers?
Need a full on-line shopping solution?
Product catalogue with search facilities?
Recruitment search engine?
Need an easy way to update the news or other rapidly changing information on your web site?
Want visitors to book parking spaces or hotel rooms on line?
How about letting your site visitors download brochures?
or simply want web visitors to be able to complete forms on-line?
Or perhaps you have a half finished project that you just need help with?

Paicemaker provides these and other robust, reliable, easy to use and secure database connected web sites.

Using industrial-strength tools such as PHP, mySQL, osCommerce, ASP etc. Paicemaker can web-enable your data.

Applications developed for web servers can be accessed securely from any Internet connected PC anywhere in the world, enabling home working and remote access anytime.

Content Managed Services (CMS) are systems we can place into your site which enable you to edit your own content quickly and easily.

Maybe you are a retailer with a constantly-changing product database, or perhaps your business focus changes seasonally or is subject to other factors which require you to be flexible in the message to give out. A CMS can help you with this.

Paicemaker builds content management systems to suit your requirements and budget. Whether you need a simple content management system to edit the text on your web pages or a fully bespoke content management system to control all of your website's content Paicemaker has the solution for you.

OsCommerce is the most comprehensive and popular open-source Shopping Cart system in existence. It has a huge list of features and is probably the most versatile shopping cart solution and offers vast range of customisation choices for the on-line storefront owners depending on their need at a very affordable price.

Paicemaker provides design, customisation, integration and development services to make your osCommerce site stand out. We can customise the front end to make your site unique, add additional features and configure your shop for you.

We also provide integration services to allow your site to talk to merchant services such as worldpay, secpay, able2buy and HSBC.

From hosting, installation, design, optimisation, customisation and support right through to go live and beyond, we can help.

At Paicemaker, we understand the range of obstacles you have to deal with when you decide to go online. Although many companies and organisations invest in the development of their web presence, few are given any guidance through the pitfalls - and opportunities - that you can encounter when you take this route to market your business or organisation.

When you're promoting yourself via the web or by other means, there is no single recipe for success. Each component of your marketing programme needs to be put into perspective.

When Paicemaker takes on your project, we'll be able to advise you on all the aspects of your website, how you can integrate it with other marketing activities and how you can make it work to get you more business.

There are three ways you can help your clients and customers to find you on the web:

You can tell them the address - and hope they remember it
You can write it down for them or send them the link - and hope they keep the scrap of paper or the e-mail you sent them.
You can tell Paicemaker to optimise your website.

Search Engine Optimisation is a process that Paicemaker can go through with your website - whether we designed it or not - to ensure that it is visible to all the leading internet search engines.

This means we'll check that the right code and components exist on on each of your web pages and, if it's not, we'll put it there. This process will not interfere with the design or operation of any part of your website.

After we have performed this overhaul, Paicemaker performs regular maintenance checks to give your website the best possible chance of appearing close to, or at the top of your customer's search results.

Paicemaker can also provide monthly reports for you, outlining our progress and your ranking - all at no extra cost.

Adwords is one of a number of 'pay-per-click' schemes offered by search engine providers, which allow you to maximise your exposure to users searching for products or services that you provide. Effectively a form of advertising, this is one way to make sure those users get pointed toward your site more quickly.

Paicemaker can help you use this tool to its maximum benefit for you, picking the right keywords, monitoring response and ensuring that you get the ranking that bridges the gap between you and your customer.

Your web site is just one channel of a complete marketing strategy - not the whole solution. If you need help integrating your project with your existing marketing mix, or you want to look at new ways of finding business, Paicemaker can help. We can look at your advertising, media planning, publicity campaigns, direct marketing, consumer relationship strategies and much more. With a clear idea of what you want to achieve, Paicemaker can help you build a creative, complete strategy.

It’s not always purely been about the web for us. The cornerstones of our work are built on a solid foundation of our skills and experience in two distinct disciplines: grass-roots graphic design and the implementation of computer technology in the workplace.

At Paicemaker, we recognise that these two areas are quite separate, which is why we ensure that our work addresses the needs of both.

The result for you is a product with the right balance of form and function – fit for purpose in every way.

Because we possess this breadth of skills, we are able to workin in other, more traditional or more diverse media. Browse below for some of the other kinds of project we deal with:

If you're getting your brand online, now could be a good time to ensure that your image is consistent, everywhere that your customers see it.

Paicemaker can design and set your corporate literature, posters and advertisements as well as all your company stationery. We can help you keep your message current, consistent and professional.

Is is time to look at your logo? Paicemaker can help you , whether you're overhauling you existing identity or you're starting from scratch. Our track record in creating clear, effective typographic design means that we can shape the image you've been looking for.

Brochure design utilises some different concepts to other kinds or design because people read it differently. At Paicemaker, we're aware of those differences and we know how to make those design elements work for you. Online or on the page, Paicemaker can produce brochures that your customers can navigate easily, find the products they want - and see the products you want to sell them - all in a way that supports and builds on your brand.

Paicemaker doesn’t just deal with the day to day development of web sites and print based design: we also concentrate on new media projects for our clients which will support other forms of marketing that they choose to pursue.

Paicemaker builds exciting interactive presentations to enable your company to bring its services or products to life. Our creative team listens to your ideas and helps to turn your visions into reality.

Paicemaker's team works with you to closely to storyboard your presentation before its development. Optional additions such as video, music, animation and also voice-overs give your presentation the edge in captivating its audience.

Paicemaker designs and builds your multimedia presentation in multi-formats including:

• Macromedia Flash
• Macromedia Director
• Microsoft Power Point
• Microsoft Windows Media Player

Every business is unique and sometimes "off the shelf" software just doesn't meet all of your needs.

Once-managable paperwork systems are now holding back your business, costing money to look after and providing little value.

Many businesses collect data from customers & suppliers and then lock that data in a filing cabinet.

Need a customer’s address, phone number & sales history?
Need to find information quickly?
Our software can help you!

Working closely with you, Paicemaker will develop custom software especially for your business.

Our user-friendly applications are tailored to your needs and can be simple standalone tools or sophisticated database systems.

If you have older software that is unsupported or just doesn't do what you want, we can build a replacement tool, often migrating your data.

We can also update your existing DOS & text based applications into full windows applications, which are easier to use, compatible and supportable.

Specialising in database connected software Paicemaker is highly experienced in developing database designs.

Working closely with your staff, examining your processes and existing data sources, such as:

Paper and electronic forms
Diaries
Hand written notes
Business cards
Invoices
Purchase orders
And even other databases
Paicemaker will then create a database design that links all of your data together.

This database design becomes the foundation for the solution Paicemaker provides for your business.

When we have built the database design we then develop software that allows you to easily and quickly enter the information and reduce unnecessary duplication of data.

Once the database is populated with information, searching is fast, analysis is easy and errors are reduced. Existing data is re-used and updated.

If you have an existing piece of software Paicemaker can either connect to its database and consolidate the information into a single front end, or copy that data into a single data source for your company and replace the old application.

Using SQL database technology and the latest development tools ensures fast access to your information and offers opportunities for web enabling the database in the future.

Many companies have older unsupported database applications that are putting their business at risk!

Every time you enter new information you're increasing the risk, all business critical applications need a support structure in place to ensure the effects of failure are minimised, in the same way you service your car to prevent breakdowns.

Paicemaker can take your existing database application and redevelop it, making it supportable and reliable once more. We'll add new features to the software, making it compatible with the latest software and hardware. The new software will reduce your business risk and increase productivity.

In addition to Windows™ based applications we can also develop web based tools that allow you to securely access your data from anywhere in the world that has an Internet connection.

Whether you have DOS, Q&A, msAccess, dBase, Informix or any other data driven software we can help you bring it up to date and ensure you get full value from your existing and future data.

Paicemaker Limited - Web Design and Development

Every project with Paicemaker starts with one objective:

We’ll make work that works for you.