Website Design

When you commission a website from Nexus we guarantee to supply you with a unique, interactive website that exceeds your expectations. We utilise our creative talents and software development skills to ensure your online business strategies are delivered effectively.

Our website design team will work closely with you to determine the style and functionality of your website. This information is documented in a full specification and quotation, including details of any advanced website features or additional services that you require.

Successful websites today need to look great, be easy to use, simple to update, plus comply with web accessibility and usability standards.

Web Design, Styling & Branding

You may already have a an idea of how your website needs to look based on an existing corporate identity, or you may need everything to be designed from the ground up. Either way, we will produce a stunning web design for your approval that complements your brand.

The final agreed style and branding can also be extended by our graphic design team who can continue the theme throughout your printed literature, stationery and digital marketing material.

Menus & Interface 

One of the most important elements of the design process is to create a logical menu structure and interface so that visitors can easily navigate and interact with your website.

During the consultation phase we help you analyse the content, information and functionality you wish to make accessible to different audiences. This can include public content available to everyone, as well as private content only accessible to authorised groups of users.

Advanced Website Features

The websites we build are supplied as standard with a wide range of content management features. However, we can develop custom-built features or functionality and even integrate your website with your business systems.

No website feature is too complex. We have developed hundreds of dashboards, feeds, calendars and other website gadgets. Additionally, we develop entire ecommerce solutions that can encompass online shopping, customer management systems and most other online business strategies.

The web-based software products we develop can also be used to extend your website. For example you can use MiCore to provide a secure membership based community portal and forum, MiSupport can power a helpdesk for your visitors and MiCRM can be used to manage your customer relationships and marketing activities.

Copywriting & Photography

To complete the website design phase we employ our own team of in-house photographers and copywriting specialists who can help provide top-quality content for your website.

Our photographers can be commissioned to work either on location or in our fully equipped photographic studio. They really can help bring your website to life and set it apart from the competition. For example they can capture stylish portraits of your staff or images of your premises and product range.

The inbuilt content management system supplied with our websites allows you to update and amend pages with little or no technical experience. However, the content of a website is often overlooked. Well written and regularly updated content is important both for your visitors and it can improve your search engine rank. Our copywriting team can help ensure your website contains the right information to succeed.

Web Browser Compatibility & Standards

Two of the guiding principles throughout the ongoing development of our CMS have been browser compatibility and compliance with web standards. The websites we create are built using cascading style sheets (CSS); this helps us to ensure that your website can be viewed on any device, running any web browser. 

Web design should always be appealing, but it should never sacrifice ease of use and cross-browser compatibility.

Accessibility

It is important to ensure that your website is useable by everyone. If your website is not fully accessible it prevents an important sector of the market from visiting your website and viewing your products and information.

Nexus build websites which comply with the Government's requirements for web accessibility standards. We also follow the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines for accessibility.

When you commission a website from Nexus, we will discuss the appropriate level of compliance and design your website to meet your requirements.