The government may be encouraging us to trade in our trusty old bangers for shiny new motors to keep the industry going, but here at Provide Design we have come up with a much more useful idea.

We are pleased to introduce our very own….

WEBSITE SCRAPPAGE SCHEME!

That’s it folks, just like on the car version, trade in your clapped out old website for a brand new, professionally crafted website from Provide Design and enjoy 25% off your final bill.

SO WHY SHOULD YOU TRADE IN YOUR OLD WEBSITE?

Unlike the UK’s roads, the internet is constantly being upgraded by way of the computers we view it on and the web browsers we use. Technology has leapt forward so fast within the last few years that capability of websites has increased ten fold and it is actually now possible to get some return from your website investment. New ideas about software and design make anything possible. It is necessary to keep your website up to date to make sure today’s audience get the best user experience possible.

Unless your existing website is what you would class as a classic Rolls Royce then you shouldn’t really be representing yourself online with a Robin Reliant…

SO WHAT KIND OF WEBSITE CAN YOU GET?

The website scrappage scheme applies to all websites that we design and build as long as you are replacing an existing website.

Here at Provide Design we design, develop and build many different types of websites including: E-commerce shops, brochure websites, blogs, video sites, content management systems, bespoke database systems, email marketing systems, Flash animation, club websites, news websites, online directories and much, much more.

This is all bespoke, the real deal, no off the shelf templates here. We custom design and develop all our websites based on an initial discussion with you about what you really want from your new site. We will propose the best solution based on available technology, fitted around your needs.

View our portfolio of websites here.

25% OFF SOUNDS NICE, BUT WHAT IS IT WORTH?

The typical cost of a new website, designed, built and hosted by Provide Design is £2220.00. This is based on a brochure style website with some elements of Flash animation, a built in blog, content management system and a built in email marketing system that allows you to communicate effectively with your visitors.

So 25% off that is worth a massive £555.00!!

All our websites are built and priced to your specification so please get in touch and we will gladly put together a quote based on your requirements.

OFFER ENDS 28th FEBRUARY 2010 SO CONTACT US SOON!

Terms of the Offer:

1. You must be replacing an existing website to be eligible for this deal.

2. Minimum spend on a new website is £1200.00.

3. Payment terms for work under this offer is 20% deposit with order and balance on completion of work.

4. Offer is only available on quotes for new websites, not updates to existing websites or single webpages.

5. Offer is not available in conjunction with any other discounts from Provide Design.

6. Offer is available on all new website quotes (if an order has not already been placed) from 01/12/2009 to 28/02/2010 (cut off date for orders).

7. All website work is subject to our standard terms & conditions. View here.

Design and build of a comprehensive website for Dunstable Downs Golf Club. The club needed a new website that gave them greater control over it’s content and allowed them to communicate news and important dates to its membership.

The site was built on a full content management system with several unique features such as live, dynamic weather reports on the site and an interactive scorecard that tours visitors around the course.

Take a look at: www.dunstabledownsgolf.co.uk

In the world of social networking it seems that Twitter is the web 2.0 app of the moment. A micro blogging service that allow users to add quick ‘Tweets’ about themselves, their lifestyle, job, company, breakfast, dogs etc.

3 years ago I was asked to put forward suggestions for a quick, personal, update app that allowed a company to put a ‘friendly’ face on their website and grow their social network. I put forward Twitter. At this time they barely had a 50,000 users and was very much in it’s infancy. However, the company in question felt it wasn’t ‘corporate’ enough and shelved the idea.

Moving forward 3 years and Twitter, with it’s few million users, has recently become an integral part of the companys website. This isn’t just a one off. Many companies are now using Twitter to reach a wider audience, to promote their products and increase their traffic. It seems Twittering is fast becoming the new blogging, so much so that the mighty FaceBook has restructured it’s homepage to rival it.

Twitter takes less time to write and perhaps more importantly it take less time to read and with the use of such tools, (FaceBook, LinkedIn, MySpace et al), the possibilities have now been totally realised by many companies, especially in the doom and gloom climate we all seem to be living in today. There seems to be a certain sense of urgency, to be a “part of it”.

But what about good old fashioned blogging? A well written blog will always attract more attention than a tweet. It becomes indexed by the search engines and it’s not confined to a user, it is far more global. The possibilities of using a blog (or blogging platform) when considering a website should never be under-estimated. We have had some great success from constructing sites based around blogging platforms and are continued to be amazed at the development that goes into them. Wordpress in particular is always highly recommended at the Provide Design camp. But now we have many more options/toys to play with.

With the amount of web apps available to web developers a company can reach their target web audience in more ways than ever before. We as web designers, can utilise this time of social networking to create that killer site that really works the way it needs to work as well as look darn pretty.

And that really does make us want to blog more!

The design and build of a WordPress based website for The Badminton Academy. Website features integrated news and blog system (which allows the players to keep their tour diaries up to date online), profiles for all of the players, their results and an events calendar.

The Badminton Academy teach some of the UKs top junior badminton players. Expect to see more of these kids at the Olympics!

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The design and build of a WordPress based website for Marketing agency BigBird. Website features integrated news and blog system with dynamic content through the use of Prototype and Scriptaculous javascript library technologies and Flash.

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