Web sites, galleries and shops
Creating web sites - with purpose
Dolphin Software's creative and highly skilled team offers IT, flair, pragmatism, technical expertise combined with great systems and tools.
We design and create powerful, dynamic and highly customised websites, online galleries and shops, reflecting a client's intent and values, creating graphics and using state of the art content management software.
We are passionate about ensuring that your web presence suits your business needs, and is tailored in function, engagement and design to your market context. Click here for some client stories and examples.
We can help you create your web site in 4 ways -
- Requirements - graphic design, site structure, and communication methods with your audience
- Setting up the underpinnings – domain names, hosting, emails, permissions, transfers etc
- Anything special? Adding particular functions you need
- Adding content, and the final checks – giving it over to you and making it all look great
Your web site's function
One of these will reflect your web site’s purpose - or ask us to mix and match
A basic billboard
A billboard about your organisation - enticing and straightforward
Level 2 - An enticing and informative site for attracting your chosen market
Inviting potential clients to take action, to ask a question, make contact
Level 3 - An enticing and informative site with an added business purpose
Adding your specific business function eg
- A product catalogue or showroom
- An order form automatically reflecting your latest pricing, and reporting in Excel
- Running a customised survey with reporting for a project
Level 4 - An enticing and informative site with more complex business functions
- Adding in ticketing/booking/ calendar functions
- Adding in client and or other membership communities enabling communication and basic relationship management
- Events management
- Or tell us your specific requirement!
Level 5 - All or any of the above and
- Adding in shopping, with secure money handling
- Add a simple secure shop, with product images, for a few items, with all required invoicing and reporting
- Add a full ordering and delivery system, linked to post and couriers, with orders, stock control, invoicing and reporting, and a secure full payment gateway
As a software company, we have watched closely over the years the rapidly developing software tools for creating and maintaining web sites, looking for one that:
- delivers all required web site functions easily both in its base set up and in its optional modules – eg great graphics, search engine optimisation, social media, web forms, privacy management, photo galleries, forums, bookings, shops – turning functions easily on or off. Asditional open source plugins can be added to expand your website's capacity in almost any direction.
- is dynamic ie database driven so that changes are only ever made in one place, and all information gathered through site is readily and immediately accessible to administrators.
- is supported by a wide diverse and skilled user community,eliminating reliance upon one supplier.
- and most important of all, is easily controlled and maintained by clients, not us
And we found perfection in the amazing Drupal open source content management system, well established software used by an extraordinary range of organisations across the world and supported by a dynamic dedicated responsive global user community. Find out more at www.drupal.org, and ask us about it too.
And we partner with HighTek Hosting, with an excellent 24/7 personalised support arrangement.
Click here to see some examples of our recent work and some clients' testimonials.
