Boost Your Business: Choose affordable web Packages suiting your need

When thinking about having a website for your business, choosing a website package is one of the most important factors. As there are various kinds of website packages and offers available by web development and designing firms, opting for the most suitable and affordable website packages may be the key for success of your business – remember that you need to look at the web companies portfolio to ensure that even though affordable, you are not compromising on quality. Here are some types of website packages which may help you.

E-commerce websites:

Fully functional affordable E-commerce websites Packages are available. If you would like to take your business to the next level and sell your products via the internet, you can go for setup your entire online shop, with shopping basket and secure purchasing. The world is a big place and there is no reason not to appeal to customers outside your area. Take advantage of this “Multi-Million Pound Market” - Online Shopping

Affordable Dynamic Websites:

Affordable complex websites, which have an administration area where the website “owner” can manage the website them self. These websites can be designed to take online bookings, view availability, list events etc….

Content Management Systems:

Affordable Content Management System (CMS) which can be incorporated into your website once the design has been completed. You can log into the Content Management System (CMS) and update your website. The Content Management System (CMS) will allow you to add or remove pictures, change text, change text colours and sizes.

Business Packages:

whether you are a new business looking to have a new image designed, or a large company that feels like they need a new look, making sure that your website, logos and stationery all compliment each other.

Brochure Website:

Brochure Website is a 3 Page web site designed for the smaller businesses or perhaps businesses that do not have a shop window like Tradesman and Mobile Hairdressers for example. Your website can consist of Home Page, Contact Page and a Products or Services page.

75% of Local web design companies ignore disabled people

Simpleweb a Bristol(UK) based web design and development specialist, recently discovered that over 75% of local web design companies have websites that are not accessible to the visually impaired or people with disabilities.

Mark Panay, MD of Simpleweb Ltd, revealed how he and colleagues tested hundreds of websites from web design companies offering website solutions that should be accessible to people with disabilities, but the majority of the time were found to be severely lacking.

“Out of the 200 websites that we checked we found that more than 75% didn’t validate with W3C compliance (correctly made websites), with approximately the same percentage again not passing any of the current web based accessibility tests. We find this very disheartening for the current wave of websites being built for small businesses and their potential users.”

Accessibility has now become an intrinsic part of building a website. While accessibility as defined by the RNIB and UK government has become a standard requirement for public sector websites; the private sector, especially small to medium sized businesses, are being left in the dark by website design companies that are not practicing what they preach. The web designers and agencies used in the test were picked out at random from local web design directories in the South West of England, with many having beautifully designed pages but with no thought for the visually impaired or handicapped.

The UK’s Disability Discrimination Act 1995 states that it is the duty of a company providing services to the public to make reasonable changes to “practice, policy or procedure” if a service is unreasonably difficult for disabled persons to make use of. The findings from Simpleweb show that the majority of web companies essentially violate this act with their own website, which in turn puts businesses getting online for the first time in a precarious position.

There are over nine million disabled people in the UK, two million of which have sight related problems, with an estimated £50 billion worth of disposable income. With just a basic understanding of the current web standards from online agencies, every new website could offer a decent experience for all visitors, the economic benefits alone should encourage any website designer or agency to learn the new skills necessary.