Harbourview Web Design & Content Management
Harbourview Developments is a locally-focused consultancy and construction company based in Poole, Dorset. Over the past twenty years, the company has worked hard to build a reputation for quality, bespoke builds and comprehensive, caring customer service, but needed to bring its public-facing appearance up-to-date with a new web site design.
As part of a complete rebranding package, Harbourview chose Dusza to develop its new, content-managed web site. The main purpose of Harbourview's site is for the promotion of its activities to potential clients, and for this it required areas where it could display a portfolio of work with descriptions and photography, and where it could outline the company's mission statement and policies, as well as parade testimonials from previous clients. It also required a quick and easy way for clients to get in touch.
As well as the design and programming, Dusza were also commissioned to write the copy for the web site. In all, it took fewer than five weeks from the original consultation for Dusza to design all of Harbourview's new branding, and to build, pre-populate with content, and launch the new web site.
The completed web site comprises five key areas, all easily accessible from the tab-based navigation: Home, Who We Are, Experience (a collection of pages filled with information and pop-up photo galleries detailing past projects), Services and Contact. Where areas are further divided into separate pages, a chunky sub-navigation menu drops beneath the tabs, enabling visitors to jump straight to a specific page.
The main navigation and key page elements all adopt the four principal colours used in Harbourview's logo: blue, green, grey and white. A subtle gradient grey background is used to 'lift off' the white rounded-edge boxes that hold the main content from the page. The overall presentation is designed to give the site a luxurious and prestigious brand feel, whilst retaining a spacious and airy appearance that draws parallels with some of the company's more illustrious builds.
To promote Harbourview's four key building project types, the home area displays a generously-sized click-through banner carousel which rotates through photography and brief descriptions of each area in turn. An additional navigation exists solely for the banner to enable visitors to select any project type and view it again, rather than wait for the advertisement to cycle around.
In order for content to occupy the prime area on screen, the banner carousel is programmed to collapse on all other pages. Text is styled so that opening paragraphs are written in an attention-grabbing, large, green serif type, while peripheral content, including contact details, links within the section area, the quick contact form and brochure downloads, are positioned in the columns that flank the main area.
Interested in a Dusza Web Design? Whatever your target audience, products or service lines we can better communicate your message. Get in touch today on 0845 094 6442 or email hello@dusza.co.uk for engaging Web Design and Content Management.
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we create brand, web and digital marketing materials for individuals, organisations, charities and small to medium sized businesses.
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Based in corporate offices on the edge of Bournemouth, the creative hub of the UK, Dusza offer the complete digital and marketing package. Whatever your size, turnover, offerings and target audience, Dusza have the in-house skills to make your project a reality.
Creativity combined with the cutting edge of technology at our disposal and a dedication for perfection, we know our unique selling points - let us help you more effectively market yours.
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We are really good at considering all the facets of your project and the right direction to take. We have creative and strategic knowledge that helps guide the project, we will offer advice and guidance at every step of the way. We also consider how we deliver the project, how much hand-holding you will require and how much on-going support you may need of ours. We will be completely upfront about all this before you commit to spending a penny.
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We not only offer a full suite of services and products that are all in-house, a skill set that would leave most discerning agency envious, but we intimately know how each service can compliment or enhance each other.
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Web Design.
Great Web Design will engage with your visitors and will sub-consciously instill a confidence.
Ensuring the functionality does not compromise the aesthetics whilst ensuring the aesthetics never compromises the design is a delicate balance, but one Dusza excel in. A website design that fulfills all the above will prove to be successful.
Dusza have a huge and varied client base spanning many sectors, target audiences and cultures. We are confident we can create you the most appropriate and stunning web design to take your business to the next level.
Ecommerce Web Design.
Successful Ecommerce Web Design is never an accident. The considerations extend far beyond web design and enter into strategic marketing, order management and client relationship management.
An Ecommerce website will need to combine the slickest of technologies that the customer will expect with the added value element that distinguishes you from your competitors.
Clients that have already experienced Dusza ecommerce web design or development haven't been disappointed. With number one Google positions for singular and heavily competitive search terms even some of our clients have become market leaders.
Mobile Web Design.
The iPhone has revolutionised the way you and I communicate. It was only a matter of time before our internet experience took off on mobile devices such as this.
With iPhone Apps, iPhone Web Apps and iPhone Optimisation leading other companies such as Blackberry and Sony down the mobile web market path, huge user uptake will mean that mobile web design is firmly a necessity for every company and organisation that has a regular web presence. If you have an iPhone why not browse this website on it! You'll see similar content but delivered in a mobile focused way.
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CRM Systems.
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a broadly recognised, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. It involves utilising web based technology to organise, automate, and synchronise business processes.
The overall goals are to find, attract and win new clients, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former clients back into the fold and reduce marketing and customer service costs.
CRM Systems are now considered a necessary fundamental company-wide business strategy embracing any and every department.
At its best CRM implementation is effective at, maximising human resources, streamlining processes, utilising the most appropriate technology that creates a synergy between all aspects of operations within a company.
Dusza can offer your business CRM Systems that are both bespoke to fully meet your needs whilst being built on a solid and reliable web based platform.
Digital Marketing.
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Currently Digital Marketing covers… Search Engine Optimisation or Search Marketing, Blogging, Tweeting, Online PR, Online Advertising, HTML Marketing and then some!
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Logo Design.
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