Web Design
From Evrose
Evrose specialise in particular types of website: clean, economical, easy to self-maintain, and as accessible as possible for the disabled and visually impaired. We keep costs down by using a number of different types of web application that then only need adaptation and configuration to a customer's needs rather than creating everything from scratch. Wherever possible we use Open Source applications so there are no additional or ongoing licensing costs for the customer.
The type of site we design and host is suitable for a range of customers: business to business, community portals, information sites, business collaboration, and online training organisations.
- Wiki based sites, such as this one.
- Sophisticated photo galleries
- Content management sites
- Forums
- E-Learning
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Collaboration Projects
- Shopping sites linked to eBay or similar methods of purchase and payment processing.
Costs vary according to the complexity of a customer's requirements, the amount of configuration, and the amount of bespoke customisation required. However, one thing is for sure, this method of web design is considerably cheaper than producing a fully customised website for every customer.
An example of a fairly simple Wiki installation, with custom colour scheme, security locked down, and a contact form, plus domain name, plus hosting of 500Mb web space and 5000 Mb monthly bandwidth, including 10 email accounts is likely to be in the region of £250 plus VAT to setup and maintain for 12 months. Ditto for skeleton (we provide the bones, you provide the flesh) content management, forum, or e-Learning sites. You are not limited to one type of site on the same domain name - you can have a wiki site and a photo gallery, or an e-Learning site with a forum and CRM application all running off the same .co.uk. There would be additional configuration charges and you might need to consider your web space and bandwidth needs, but it would still be very affordable.
What we don't do... Flash sites, and shopping baskets. Why? They are expensive to develop and to maintain. For Flash sites you need specialist design resources that our customers don't require. Shopping baskets require signficant levels of security and are better designed and hosted using services that specialise in that type of site. However, sites that link to other hosted payment systems can be suited to our type of site, e.g. where the product links to eBay for the purposes of processing payments.
If we specialised in everything we wouldn't be specialising!
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