About Key Designs, Web Design and Development
Our Company History
Established in 1999. Key Designs is a small independent web design and hosting company based in Leigh, Gtr Manchester the heart of the North West.
We provide everything from simple brochure style web sites right through to full E-Commerce Solutions and bespoke database driven dynamic websites. Our web design and development is compliant to the latest W3C XHTML coding standards.
Why Use Key Designs to Design your Website
Unlike so many amateur web design companies that are currently flooding the market Key Designs are actual code writers, all of our sites are written from scratch, we never used downloaded templates or software meaning that your site will be unique to your company and function how you want it to function.
Our superior knowledge, web design and coding skills guarantees that we can deliver professional looking accessible websites that comply with industry standards and because we write our own code we never need to outsource work to other companies so our quotations can be considerable less.
As a successful web design company Key Designs doesn't need to tie you down with licensing fees or charge monthly fees to clients to keep the turnover going, we charge no ongoing fees, once your site is completed and your final invoice has been paid we won't ask you for another penny until your annual hosting fee is due again, plus , you own everything we create for your project, including source code and specifications, without restrictions.
Content Management Systems
What is CMS (or Content Management System)? CMS allows the web site administrator to perform their own updates from their browser without any coding skills or knowledge. Basic Content Management would allow users to update text and images on one of more of their pages, while a more complex solution would allow the user to actually add additional pages meaning their site can grow as their business grows. Key Designs are industry leaders into bespoke content management systems so will never download an open source Content Management System such as Oneadmin, Joomla or Drupal add it to your site and try to pass it off as our own creation like some amateur designers do, Our CMS code is written from scratch in house exclusively for your site meaning it will work exactly how you want it to work, it will be streamlined easy to follow and navigate and will process information and upload content quickly.
Ask us about a CMS for your existing site.
Bespoke Quotations
As well as set priced packages, We also specialise in Bespoke quotations for larger more complex dynamic database driven sites, online stores, members forums, recruitment sites and more.
Even if you have received a quotation from another company and the quotation has been far greater than you expected making you change you mind about a web presence, you should still get in touch with Key Designs for a free no obligation consultation, as independent designers and skilled coders we don't need to outsource any work so our fees are usually much lower.
SEO ( Search Engine Optimization)
It's all very well having a good website , but if your not getting at least a page one ranking on google not many people are going to see it, this is where our SEO services come in. Key Designs are experts in achieving page one and even position one rankings for organic search results on Google, each site we create undergoes our standard Optimization with very good results, although our enhanced optimization has proved a winning formula with many of our satisfied clients, we never use illegal ( Black Hat) techniques to achieve our results so there is no danger of being dropped from the index, we simply use our superior page structure and keyword placement knowledge to achieve our results, visit our SEO page for more info