Welcome to Web Design Northampton

We have helped a number of our Northampton clients create their web designs, and since you are also based in Northampton and also trying to find out more about web design, we feel it's our duty to 'let you in' on the modern day tricks of the web design trade in order for you to make an informed decision when looking for a web design in Northampton.

The web design industry is undergoing an upheaval at present. Web design is very much going the way that photography and DTP (desktop publishing) has gone.  Creative fields that used to be for professionals only, are now open for almost anyone, thanks to innovations in technology.

The main driver in this quiet revolution of do it yourself web designs is sitebuilder technology. Anyone with a basic knowledge of web browsing is empowered by sitebuilders to the level where they can create, host, and regularly update their own website without requiring the costly expertise of a web design professional.  You yourself are transformed into the web designer!  This revolution has already happened in the personal web space arena, with sites like myspace, and even friends reunited allowing people to create, update and host their own personal web pages at zero cost.

If you are a Northampton company and you are looking for an online presence, there are various budget-level sitebuilder services now available on the market including Instant Site from 123-reg.co.uk (which we personally recommend), mrsite.co.uk, and moonfruit.co.uk.  If all you need is a basic site, then you could have a professional looking web presence for £2.59 per annum.  It may surprise you to find out that this is exactly the same service which we used to create this website, from www.123-reg.co.uk. This was done online by purchasing the domain name, and 123-reg generously include a free 1 page InstantSite account with web hosting, and an upgrade is available for more designs and more pages with no ads if required.

Budget sitebuilder services are excellent value for money if that is all you need, i.e. a simple website.  There are of course some disadvantages:

• no advanced functionality like rich media, large websites, or e-commerce - it will be difficult to improve your online presence in these directions.
• limited customising, so your website may resemble other organisations' websites, more so due to the branding photographs not being replaceable with your own photos
• ads may get displayed, we have purposefully selected the lowest cost option from 123-reg to show that ads do display on the right hand side of the page, but these could be removed by upgrading to the Plus option for another £1.99 per month
• very cheap shared hosting environment (your site will be one of many thousands on the same physical server, so your pages will download slow, downtime may be a problem, and other issues may arise),

We have addressed these issues and more by creating an advanced and more professional sitebuilder service called awebapart.com.  Already our Northampton clients have used this service to create a number of high profile websites including:

• wollaston.co.uk and wbikes.com, corporate websites for Northampton's favourite BMW dealership, Wollaston Motors Ltd. on the Bedford Road (we have also created some non-sitebuilder sites for Wollaston, including wollastonusedbmw.co.uk and wollastonusedmini.co.uk)
• kamstkd.com, a large and multi-media heavy club web design for a Tae Kwon Do club in Northampton
• heavenandearthdirect.co.uk, an online shop for a Northampton-based business selling angelic giftware online
• elsbyandco.co.uk, the online presence for an accountancy firm based in Sywell, serving companies in Northampton, and the Northants area.
• royward.net, an online gallery for Roy Ward, a Northants watercolour artist famous for his paintings of Northamptonshire

If this has opened your eyes to the possibilities of sitebuilders and you would like to find out more about our professional sitebuilder service costing £250+VAT per annum including hosting, all from a local and innovative Northamptonshire-based business, then you are very welcome to visit our website at: awebapart.com

Although sitebuilders do meet a nice range of business web design requirements, they are not a panacea. Sometimes you may need something very different, in which case a custom web design may be required.  This is the common service provided by the majority of web design agencies (including most Northampton agencies), but please consider that this is labour-intensive, people's time cost money, and therefore it can be expensive, its cost might exclude web hosting, and most likely you wont be able to update the webpage images and text yourself, with your web designer doing this it will cost extra on an ongoing basis, and the greatest websites are ones which are frequently updated.  At this point you may be questioning whether you need a sitebuilder or a custom web designer, if so please visit our awebapart.com website since we may be able to offer further advice.

This site has been created by awebapart.com a web design company based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.