Welcome to 1-Web Services, an award winning web design company. You probably want to know more about what we do. The answer is rather simple - we build websites. We have designed sites ranging in complexity from personal blogs and small businesses, to large scale complex web applications for letting/renting houses, running a University college and more.
All our sites are made to the quality and accesibility standards set out by the W3C, and we make them look very nice too. On top of that we can design and administer various styles of content management systems, provide existing websites with extra features such as user login and advertising, or just tidy up your current site if it's looking a bit dated.
Have a look below to see a breakdown of the services we can provide you with, check our portfolio to see what we've provided other people with or head over to the contact page to have a chat with us about your website idea. We're based in Britain, but if you're happy doing business over the internet then we'll make your site wherever you are. Of course if you're near by, we can meet up for a consultation in person.
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Standards Compliant XHTML and CSS - this basically means our sites are designed so that they work with the majoirty of web browsers, including those on an Apple Mac, and be accessible to the visually impaired using a screen reader. The standards for XHTML and CSS are set by the consortium known as the "W3C". Incidentally, if your current site isn't compliant to these standards we can fix it for you.
Documented PHP - for more advanced sites, featuring content management, user login or any variety of interactive content we use PHP, the most popular web programming language in the business. As well as writing good quality code that will run efficiently on your server, we make every effort to write and document it clearly, so if you have some programming knowledge you can make your own changes once we've handed the site over to you.
SQL Databases - web sites that store data will use a database. Our preferred database software is MySQL, though we can make use of other packages if that is a requirement. We can work with your existing database or provide one tailor made for your website.
JavaScript/AJAX - for cool little features to impress your visitors or to provide advanced user applications we can use JavaScript and AJAX. However, we ensure that all critical parts of each page are useable even if a user has chosen to disable JavaScript in their browser.
Website Integration - these days websites are far more interconnected than in the past, and you might want to use features that other sites freely offer. We have experience of linking client web sites to the API's of "Google Maps" and "Flickr", amongst others. If you're doing business over the internet we can also use PayPal to provide a safe and secure means of carrying out transactions with your customers.
Consultation - as a site develops and as you see what we come up with you're bound to have your own suggstions on how you want the finished product to appear and we're happy to work with you throughout the process. If you prefer we can come up with a number of initial ideas and let you choose the best, or you can give us your own vision of your desired site and we will start with that. At any time during the design phase you can ask us to change things, and we will keep you up to date as development continues.