Welcome...

I build and maintain web sites for the UK small business, from my base in Somerset, UK. My emphasis is on clear navigation, usable and uncomplicated design, with every effort made to ensure a good natural search engine position over time. My services include web site maintenance, hosting and email provision, setting up discussion forum and other add-on features where required, and a particular specialism is creating e-commerce stores using the Actinic Catalog e-commerce application. For many clients I also manage a Google Adwords campaign and carry out search engine optimisation work. I am also an approved supplier for Business Link customers. Click the links opposite to find out more about my services.

About me...

I have been "on the net" since the mid-90s, initially doing intranet pages for large UK companies, and an independent professional web designer since 2001. Previously I worked in IT quality assurance and my initial introduction to computing was as a COBOL programmer. This business has been running since 1995, and has customers from all parts of the UK. Some moved their design and/or hosting to Kaywebs after a bad experience with a previous design house or internet service provider. And some also sought makeovers of sites that were created for them years ago "by a bloke they knew" and not touched since, to improve visitor and conversion rates. Others ask me to take over existing sites and maybe remove excessive Flash animation or irrelevant graphics, improve their search engine position, add new functionality or just aid general site accessibility and page loading times. The vast majority of my clients are small shops, consultancies, healtchare providers, artisans, accommodation providers and other small-scale traders or home-based businesses.

I receive many requests for "first" web sites, often via Business Link, for companies that are looking to e-commerce stores to improve the financial situation of their existing bricks-and-mortar venture or to tie their web site in with existing printed literature and corporate identity. Clients will often ask me to take input from their own copywriters or graphic designers and I'm more than happy to do that. I also provide fair and impartial advice on all web-related matters, to fully support your web presence.

Most of my sites are assembled using regular HTML or via the Actinic e-commerce system (as this one is), styled with CSS (cascading style sheets), plus simple Javascript and PHP/MySQL coding where needed to meet basic web standards. And sometimes it can be cost-effective to use and customise off-the-shelf add-on functions; I have installed a wide range of these including databases, forums, photo galleries, content-managed sites and live web stats. Find out more by clicking the margin menu items.

Cheddar Village

Since 2004 I have created and maintained the local web site Cheddar Village providing local news and information to tourists and residents, and supporting local initiatives in our community of around 5000 people.

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