What makes Beanstalk Web Design different from other web development companies? Every website we create comes with the following web development features as standard.
Self Managed Websites
If you're still paying maintenance or retainment fees to have your website updated, you might want to reconsider. Each of our websites come with a back-end content management system (CMS) that allows you to administer your own content, putting you in control of your site. You can log into your website at any time to make changes to your text, images, video and audio, safely and easily, or configure additional users so that your website can be maintained by multiple people from your organisation. Technical know-how is not a requirement — the management systems we use allow your website to be updated with little more effort than it takes to write a Word document. We recommend using Wordpress to manage your content as it's easy to use and extremely flexible, but we're experienced with a range of content management systems and can develop your website using the system of your choice. Many web development companies can't or won't offer content management facilities, or offer content management as an additional add-on; with Beanstalk Web Design, its a standard feature on all of our sites.
Web Analytics
We install web analytics tools on each site that allow you to keep track of what people are doing, where they came from, what keywords they were searching for and which visitors arrived at which outcomes. Keeping track of this information allows you to see which pages of your website are generating sales and conversions and gives you an indication of how well your website is supporting your business. A deeper insight into your customers browsing behavior will help you tailor your website to better meet your customer's needs and can help you improve your off-line marketing strategies and sales.
E-mail at Your Domain
Using a generic e-mail address like Hotmail or Eircom makes your business look temporary and unprofessional and has a negative effect on your perceived credibility. Your business should handle its e-mail using its own internet domain. When we create your website, we'll set up as many e-mail addresses as you need using your domain name (such as info@beanstalk.ie or stay@ailleriverhosteldoolin.ie) and show you how you to access your mail over the web or through a desktop mail client like Outlook, Thunderbird or Apple Mail. We use Google's business e-mail service which comes with advanced spam filters, powerful search technology and a range of useful advanced features.
Customised Development
Some web design companies offer websites that use templates created and sold by third parties, meaning their sites have an almost identical design to hundreds of others on the web. These templates are designed to be generic, not to support your content or convey your branding. Because we consider your brand to be the most important asset of your product or service, we work only on custom web design. All of our work is tailored to fit your exact requirements and brief — its uniqueness is guaranteed.
A Holistic Approach
Your website is only once face of your online presence. When we develop your site, we can introduce you to other ways of expanding your web presence through the use of social media and other technologies. We'll show you the applications that might be useful to your business whether that be creating a Facebook page, getting you started with Twitter or introducing you to things like blogging, video blogging and podcasting. Social media is not a silver bullet and won't work for everyone, but used practically can help build your online profile and increase your sales and conversions.
Experience Matters
With over twelve years of programming and web development experience, we have expertise in a variety of areas and work with a range of website development technologies including XHTML, XML, XSL, CSS, DOM, Javascript, Ajax, Perl, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Java, MySql, Apache and Sharepoint. All of our concept and design work is done with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign so you'll see exactly how your website will turn out before we even start to build it. Whatever you have in mind, Beanstalk Web Design can deliver a complete solution using the most suitable technology for the job.
If you'd like to find out more about the various types of websites that are possible, you can read the web development options page.