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Website design, development and maintenance
To us, a website is one of the most important tools in the successful marketing of any company. A site should reflect on your business in a way to raise your profile, boost sales and increase profit.
We see your site as a virtual shop window, and with our talented team of experienced design professionals, we know exactly how to make the most eye-catching and visually appealing website possible. Not only that, we can maintain your site and make any changes required on the same day, and hit any deadline you may have for the site to go live, guaranteed.
Here is just a small selection of some of our online work...
M1 Design House
M1 Design House
Tel: 0161 4089 894
Email: info@m1designhouse.com
Limited company number 06890745
Dealercast
A successful and respected casting and metalwork company based in Greater Manchester needed a new site to advertise the new products and services
Brief - To create, develop and maintain a new website, with an industrial but modern look to iterate the services and products that are on offer. The main focus of the site is the tube manipulation and fabrication services. It should be visually attractive and have the ‘wow’ factor to portray the success of the company.
Prestige Data
Are a prolific marketing company based in Manchester. With a professional background and established high-end client base, the company needed a stylish, simple but professional looking site
Brief - To create, develop and maintain a sleek modern website to advertise and demonstrate the types of services and products that Prestige Data are able to offer their clients, and also to attract new business and enhance their profile within the industry.
Cognitive Publishing
A business oriented publishing company that produce a number of different magazines for various sectors including rail, health and telecommunications
Brief - requires a new, modern looking website designing, developing and maintaining to run alongside their numerous publications. The corporate identity must be clear throughout and deliver a large amount of information whilst still retaining a clean look and feel. Navigation should be simple and straightforward, and constant updates are required.
Smashing Glass
A nation wide specialist glazier thats extremely well established within the industry decided to update their image. They required a full corporate overhaul, including new logos and branding, as well as a website and vehicle graphics
The new websites main function is to work in conjunction with the new marketing strategies for the business and to attract a new, younger client base - mainly new companies within the industry. It must look clean, corporate, professional and visually appealing, without over-complicating things. The type of clients that will be viewing the site will be in the commercial industry, and so just need the relevant information without being bombarded with sales pitches and unnecessary wording.
The Big Green Company - Solar
A new company specialising in the manufacture, installation and maintenance of solar panels in the UK. Set to be the largest solar company
The new website has to look over all clean and relaxing. It must portray the company ethos of making going green an important step we all should take. The target market are high-end, upper class home owners, who have the cash for such an investment. They wanted lots of strong imagery, blues, greens and whites, as well as some interactive functionality such as the solar eligibility test and online submission forms. The site must allow room for the addition of eCommerce functionality.
Exclusively Yours Entertainment Services
An Australian based entertainment agency who cater for the super rich and famous in the luxurious Broome region, providing dancers and entertainers to exclusive parties and events
An eCommerce site with a difference was required for Exclusively Yours. Instead of the typical products you’d expect to find, the site needed to present the different entertainers that will be on offer, for a whole variety of different types of services they provide, from dancers, to waitresses, models and bar tenders. The site had to look sexy, exclusive and have a classy, expensive feel about it.
Blacks Business Brokers
A Business Transfer Agent with over 60 years experience within the market sector
After a disastrous new website, Blacks came to us looking for a complete overhaul of the site and businesses for sale database. The site had to look clean, crisp, sharp and professional, with strong imagery and extremely fine attention to detail. The site needed flash elements, video production and streaming, as well as a complete new database for their stock of businesses for sale. This is a large job that required the use off all of our specialists from different departments working together to create a stunning end result.
Lazer Cream
Tattoo Removing Cream Ltd are launching a new product - Lazer Cream, which is a non-surgical solution to removing unwanted tattoos
Coming to us with just a concept, Tattoo Removing Cream Ltd required a complete new corporate identity, including a logo, website design, product branding and eCommerce solution to sell their products on line.
We incorporated traditional HTML, withJava script, XML and flash elements to create a truly magnificent website.
The Cake Boutique
A high-end prestigious and talented cake maker require a website to advertise their portfolio of work and services on offer
The site is intended to show off the creative cake designs in a classy and stylish way, yet must remain traditional enough to appeal to the more non-commercial clientele. The main focus of the site is the cakes, as the creativity of their designs makes them the stars of the show. A lot of customised graphics and photo editing was required with this site to produce the stunning end result.
Eurasia Net
A research and development department of Brunel University, Westminister, required a remake of their existing site
Eurasia Net had some very specific requirements for their new site. It had to incorporate all of the existing content, but in a more user friendly and presentable way. It must reflect the departments new strategies, initiatives and political views. They wanted heavy use of different blues and greens, and have the logo present next to the earth.
Kenya Fit
Health and Wellness is a branch of Kenya Fit, a leisure and spa treatment club located in Africa. They are an extremely upper class establishment that cater exclusively for the rich and famous
The website had to reflect the luxury of the spa in its design. The heavy use of browns was required, and a very minimalistic simple layout was key. Strong imagery was needed to illustrate the services on offer, the beautiful surroundings and the spa its self.
Reviva Clinic
A new beauty therapy clinic in Manchester that offers a variety of services from exfoliations to botox injections
The site had to look very clinical, clean and hygenic, taking inspiration from Transform clinic and the NHS in terms of colour schemes and services. They also required eCommerce functionality to sell their at home products online, as well as interactive flash functionality. The use of strong imagery was vital, and the site had to be user friendly and easy to navigate.
Spotty Online
A well established Epos company have put all of its expertise and technical know how into creating a business that is set to rival just-eat.co.uk and such like
Spotty online needed us to create an online takeaway ordering system and front-end site to compete with similar companies such as just-eat. This was a large job, that required us bringing together all of our resources to create a programming heavy but user friendly site.
It required a full eCommerce system, a content management system, a postcode search function, on online payment system, an automated invoicing and order placement system to send the customers orders over to each takeaway, front end design, multiple back end user access and hourly updates.
The focus on this site was to make it as user friendly as possible, both for our client to run the back end, the customers to place their orders, and the takeaways to pick up the invoices. It must also look attractive, clean, modern and fresh.
The Big Green Company - Boiler
The secondary branch of the Big Green Company needed their boiler replacement services to feature heavily on their new site.
The new pages of the site had to look professional, established, clean and clearly convey the message that is is better to replace your boiler sooner rather than later
Atmostherm
Are an established heating and air-conditioner manufacturers who relied solely on off-line marketing to acquire business. They decided it was time to have a website designed along with a new brand identity.
Brief - To design their very first website. It must be minimalist, clean and modern, with the new Atmostherm theme carried throughout the site. It must be simple and easy to access and navigate, whilst getting across all of the information to new and existing clients.
One Central Street
One of Manchester’s most exclusive nightclubs - One Central Street, is the premier location for some of the city’s biggest and most glamorous nights
The club required a new site that was simple, easy to navigate and displayed all of the latest news, events and pictures. There was a very specific brief for us to follow, with a corporate branding and identity already established, the main focus on the site was its functionality.
ACN
The world’s largest direct seller of telecommunications services are based in Dubai, and are an esteemed international business
ACN Needed a new site, and as we have worked in Dubai for previous clients, we were the natural choice. The site had to reflect the world wide corporate image of the company with a lot of custom graphics, as well as
multi-lingual formating, that can be easily changed to suit the individual user’s preference.
Amber Lodge
A delightful guest house in Cambridge
Needed a very simple brochure site to advertise their services and provide customer feed back to new potential visitors. There are some elements of flash, but this small job had a very limited budget, which we successfully worked with and produced a site that they were extremely happy with in a short amount of time.
Miss Charlotte
Charlotte Campbell, a professional model from Manchester is a big name in the industry, with a fabulous portfolio of work and a number of awards to her name
Charlotte required a completely revamped website to replace her old, out-dated site. It had to showcase her stunning pictures in the best possible way, to help promote her as a model and also as a portal for her growing number of fans. The site had to be sexy, glamorous and classy.
Alliance Business Centers
Based in Dubai, UAE, Alliance are a big player in the commercial property market
A subsidiary company of the Alliance group came to us looking to help the with their new site, so we came up with the design, layout, imagery and graphics, providing them with all the necessary templates to complete their site themselves. We also helped them to integrate video into the site, and provide support for the updates.
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MPT English
Based in Manchester,
MPT English are a private English language school that cater for foreign students
MPT were in desperate need of a branding overhaul and new website, for which we came up with several concepts for them to choose from, and went for a clean, professional and modern design, sticking to their exiting corporate colours.
MPT Corporate
Based in Manchester,
MPT Corporate are a private English language school that cater for foreign business professionals
The directors of MPT were so impressed with our work on their students site, they commissioned us to do their corporate site, which caters for foreign business professionals.
For this they needed a new identity and website from scratch, much stronger and business orientated imagery, but still needed to retain a similar appearance the their original site.
HeatinGlobal Ltd
A nation wide church heating specialist that cater for large chapels and church buildings
Looking to expand their business, HeatingGlobal required a new website to look more professional and suitable for their particular market.
We came up with a site that avoided the cliché sky blue and white colour scheme that is usually associated with heating companies, instead opting for something more modern and warm.
Only recently going live, the new site has already proved a massive hit with the clients, and has seen more business as a direct result of their new image.
Chase Saunders
A nation wide Personal Finance Solutions company based the North West offer a large variety of products and services designed to help people in financial difficulty
After having had their existing website for 12 months, the directors at Chase Saunders decided it was time for a change.
They required something modern, clean, stylish and friendly. It must appeal to their specific target market demographic, and allow simple usability from the customers point of view.
We came up with a number of concepts, which had to fit in with their very extensive and specific brief and requirements for the site. The site must be family orientated, and make heavy use of blues and whites to instil a sense of calm and well being.