Designs

Do you design my site from scratch?
No. B’webbed starts every website by calling upon a library of templates that we have available to us. This means that the design of your website may not actually be unique, be assured that the content will be however. The thing to remember is that there are more than 4.2 billion web pages at last count, so the chances of you (or anyone else for that matter) seeing another website that utilises the same template your website was built from is almost negligible. The reason we use templates is that it enables us to build your website in the shortest time possible, with the best value for money and still get the most professional results.

Can I just buy the template from you?
No. B'webbed offers an entire package with our expertise we'll assist you in creating a polished, functional and highly professional website, as such our templates are not sold separately.

Can I see some samples of your work?
Yes. If you visit our portfolio page on our website you will be able to see some of most recent customer’s websites.

How long does it take to build a website?
Technically it only takes a couple a days to build your site, however normally there is a bit of to and fro between you and B’webbed. Additionally there are some administrative things that stretch the creation of the website out to around 2 weeks or so. Rest assured that we will always keep you in the loop regardless of what is happening with the build of your website.

What colours can I use for my site – I really love black and bright red?
B’webbed pride ourselves on providing the most professional looking websites for our customers, this means that we work hard to ensure that the colours used on your website are easy to look at, visually stunning, and meet your existing branding and logo requirements. You might really love black backgrounds with red text, but web users don’t.

I’ve got my brochures already printed can I just make my website look like that?
No. Brochures that you give out to customers are a completely different thing to a web page, for many reasons:

The information on a webpage should be broken into chunks, because web users don’t read everything from beginning to end.

A web browser is a dynamic medium, as opposed to a piece of paper or a glossy brochure.

Dynamic means that your customer defines what they want to see, and the web site adapts to meet their requirements and changes every time someone comes to visit.

Most glossy brochures use 4 colour processing to print millions of different colours. There are only 255 ‘web safe’ colours, which is colour that is guaranteed to look the same on every computer.

Most brochures have high quality images, web pages need to have high speed images. So a trade off is made between image quality and download speed.

How do I make my website look more professional?
Maybe the best way to answer this question is to ask “how do I make my website look cheap and unprofessional?”

You use glaring mismatching colours
Make your site very difficult to find your way around
Use graphics that take forever to download
Use a different font and font size on every page
Make things flash and scroll as much as possible
Have a bunch of links that go nowhere
Have product information, but no way to buy them
You get the idea… Making your site look professional is our job, and you can rely on B’webbed to put as much effort into your site as we do our own.

Can I have music on my site?
Yes, but do you really want it? In our opinion music on your website is a little bit tacky! As always B’webbed will advise you on whether music is appropriate for your website when it comes to building it.

I love flash websites, can you do my website in flash?
Yes. However please be aware that a flash website takes longer to download, so people visiting your website might not wait around. B’webbed will advise you on whether your website is appropriate for flash, and if required implement some or all parts of the website using flash.

Will my site look the same in Netscape as it does in IE?
Maybe. This depends on all sorts of technical things. B’webbed tries our hardest to make sure that your website will look the same regardless of what web browser people use. However we do concentrate on making it work for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer primarily. The reason for this? Well as of June 2004, 80.6% of web users are using a version of Internet Explorer. (Obtained from wschools)

How do I keep people coming back to my website?
The best way to keep people coming back to your site is to give them something to come back for! Simple, huh? In most cases this means that you have to keep the information on your website current and up-to-date. There’s nothing worse than visiting a website and seeing the most recent news article published back in March 2001! If you have a section on your website called ‘latest news’ then you need to make sure you are regularly putting the latest news there, or people just will not think you are committed to keeping your site current, and therefore will stop visiting..