What we offer

Website design

Made Up Design specialises in producing attractive, interactive, accessible websites. Our websites don’t just look good – our passion for design is complemented by a thorough understanding of what works.

Our familiarity with current web standards means that all our sites display correctly across all modern browsers. We use standards compliant XHTML and CSS to build our sites, meaning we can create flexible, attractive layouts that don’t compromise on accessibility.

We also know how to keep your visitors coming back. Blogs and forums aren’t just gimmicks – if well managed, the regularly changing content will encourage users to visit again and again. If you want these features available as RSS feeds, we can do that too.

We work with interactive technologies like Javascript and Flash to meet the needs of each particular brief. To ensure accessibility, we always ensure that our sites function equally well wtih Javascript disabled or without Flash installed.

Content Management Systems

Many of our clients want beautiful and professional websites that can be easily managed and updated without the need for specialist knowledge or expensive software, and with no risk of compromising the design.

At Made Up Design, we are firm advocates of Open Source software for website content management. Applications such as Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal provide license free software for everyone. Not only are these programmes freely accessible to all users; they also enable non-specialists to update their websites with minimum fuss. These applications allow website developers to create online applications in a much shorter timeframe, and get the support from a vast development community.

The benefits of using such solutions over bespoke software development are clear - time and cost. Not all projects can be completed using Open Source software, but when they can we firmly believe in using them.

Intranet development

Made Up Design can create intranet applications to suit the needs of your business.

With our experience of working with Open Source software and creating bespoke solutions, we can help you find the best and most cost effective way of building your intranet.

E-commerce

We offer a variety of options to help get your store online and selling. We can create custom online stores, can work with open source products or we’re equally happy customising off the shelf products.

We choose the solution that works best for you, and can integrate with whichever payment gateway you want to use.

Search Engine Optimisation

If you have a beautiful website, you want people to see it. By separating style from content using XHTML and CSS, we ensure that search engines can find and read your content as easily as your users.

For further search engine optimisation we can:

Manage Pay-Per-Click campaigns
Provide keyword analysis
Submit your site to search engines and directories to ensure maximum visibility
Help set up Google analytics and Google webmaster accounts

Copywriting

Made Up Design can offer a full copywriting service in partnership with ink. ink is a team of copywriters, web writers, advertising writers, journalists and strategists based in Bath. Made Up Design have worked closely with ink on a number of web projects.

With Made Up Design’s technical knowhow and ink’s expertise in copywriting we provide a fully integrated solution. Please get in touch to find out more.

Email marketing

At Made Up Design we understand what makes a successful email marketing campaign. We know where to use images, when to use animation, how to use effective typography, how to ensure a consistent look and feel across a vast number of email clients and when best to launch your campaigns.

Our email services include:

HTML email development to the latest accepted standards
Email delivery
Database management
Unsubscription / bounce management
Click-through link tracking
Refer a friend features
Sign up forms to integrate into your website

For examples of our design please take a look at our e-flyers portfolio. For further information about our email delivery and management service please get in touch

Website hosting

Made Up Design offer a range of web hosting packages, with prices starting at just £50 a year. Our options include:

Multiple POP3 email accounts
Multiple email forwarders
PHP scripting
MySQL databases
Unlimited monthly data transfer
Unlimited disk space

All of our hosting packages are bespoke, ensuring that you only pay for the services you need. Please contact us for full details and to obtain a quote.