what do you get?

We can provide secure, fast hosting for your website. As a hosting reseller we can manage your account, giving you the features you require for your site. Our hosting package includes plenty of bandwidth for your gallery site, email aliases (whatever@yourdomain.com) from 5 to an unlimited amount, web stats and site back up.

If you already have hosting for your site that’s fine – we will check out who your hosting is with and as long as it meets the requirements we need to build our sites, we’re happy to work with the hosting package you’ve chosen

If you haven’t already registered your domain (www.yourdomain.com) we can sort that out for you. There are many organisations out there where you are able to register a domain offering all levels of service – with varying levels of cost! We use trusted domain registrars and our reseller status allows us to offer economical prices to you.

If you  have already registered your domain we will of course help you set it up to point at your new domain name if required

Our websites are designed to stand out from the crowd. Whilst most off-the-shelf websites tend to look plain at best, we aim to design sites with as much finesse and style as the photos or artwork they show off. Rather than using standard templates, we design each site individually – meaning your site will not look like anyone elses. Our designer, Dav Thomas, has 20 years design experience, with 10 years working on website design. With a penchant for uncluttered, stylish design, his desire is to produce websites that are unobtrusive, easy to navigate and rich in features.

WordPress is our chosen platform for website content management. Why? – well, it gives us the opportunity to customise each website with the features it needs; it provides a platform that is easy to upgrade – allowing either us, or you, to add functionality to your website over time; it provides an administration system that is straightforward for you to use, allowing you to update your site as and when you want. Tim Parkin is an experienced web programmer with the skills needed to adapt WordPress for our needs as builders of portfolio websites. Rather than using available WordPress plugins to add website features, we have developed our own functionality specific to gallery websites – such functionality is only available on the sites we build

The days of static website came to and end a long time ago but that end gave birth to a proliferation of different systems, many of which disappeared as fast as they came. Unfortunately, most website that were built during this period never had the opportunity to progress, to grow and develop as developers moved on as fast as the systems did. WordPress has been a consistent line throughout this period and the few people that developed their websites with it  a few years ago have had the chance to expand the functionality as new plugins have develop, adding Twitter, Facebook and even Google plus plugins almost as soon as they appeared. And if they kept up to date adding posts to their blogs, they would also have benefited from Google’s increasing reliance on fresh content and social media interaction. Blogs allow a website come to life and play an important part in helping customers engage with photographers. 

There’s not much point having a wonderful website if no one can find it. We build our sites with search engine optimisation in mind. We will advise you on the best way to write copy for your site, where to put it. Using the latest WordPress plugins we can optimise each section of your site, and we will show you how to maintain and expand your search engine optimised content. Search engine optimisation goes well beyond on-page content these days, it also calls for social networking, external links and blogging – we’ll help with all these elements and make suggestions for how you might improve your online profile.