Look Lively is a web design company based in Christchurch, Bournemouth, Dorset working to support the people and businesses of the local community.
Established in 2001, we develop affordable websites that look good and perform well, confident that our website designs support you in whatever you do.
Look Lively design websites that work for local small businesses
A website provides cost-effective access to you for your customers. Nowadays many businesses are simply expected to have one. There really is no reason why even the smallest business should not have a website. After all, the potential benefits are enormous. It's not expensive; a small business website can cost less than an entry in Yellow Pages and, depending on your business, a single enquiry through your website could pay for the whole thing!
A well-designed website can provide;
- cost-effective advertising
- improved sales
- improved service
- improved communications
- product and service information 24/7
- direct selling to customers
- reduced time spent on admin work
- solutions to the most common questions your customers ask
- visitor data to improve your marketing
If you haven't got a website you could be missing a great deal of the opportunities that your business needs to thrive. If the website you have got isn't working for you it may help to have a makeover. Whether you sell washing-machines or adhesive labels, or are an artist, yoga-teacher, plumber, therapist, motorcycle tour guide, club, or bar (we have all these on our books) a well-planned and designed website should more than repay the investment through increased sales and efficiency. The benefits of a well-designed website will make you more efficient, easier to conduct business with and enable you to maximise you takings whilst minimising costs.
Anyone can build a website!
This may or may not be true, but, for sure, there are websites and there are websites. With the benefit of our considerable industry experience and technical know-how, Look Lively Web Design you will give you a thought-out professional design that is a real asset for your business not some half-baked waste of your time and money. Believe us, there is a BIG difference! If your website is not quick, clean and easy to navigate, you will lose customers.
Unlike many others who flit in and out of this business we have been successfully in the business for a few years now, giving us the experience essential to doing the job properly as well as a broad skills base which is also very important. We won't disappear suddenly and leave you in the lurch either. Quality web development is a complex science; all of the processes involved are explained on these webpages but if you prefer just call us on 01202 478948 and we'll happily explain it to you.
The services we offer;
Look Lively offer a full range of web-based services for your business, whatever you do;
- website design and development
- website consultancy
- website makeover
- search engine optimisation (SEO)
- ecommerce
- content manangement
- domain name registration
- web hosting
- copy writing
Web standards and accessibility
By using standards, your website's foundation is built upon technologies that have been developed and tested by leading experts in the Web community. Standards organizations, like the W3C, build a consensus among these groups and experts to maintain and develop consistent architectural principles.
In the context of a web site, accessibility refers to the degree that a Web site can be accessed by people with disabilities. Information and services should be accessible despite physical, sensory or cognitive user disabilities, work constraints or technological barriers. content should be presented in a clear and simple manner, and should provide understandable mechanisms to navigate within and between pages.
Look Lively work hard to produce valid standards-compliant code to ensure your website is as widely available and as accessible as possible regardless of who visits your website or what type of computer, device or web browser your visitors are using.
A standards-compliant website is better because it;
- works on all browsers
- loads faster
- is optimised for search engines
- is easier and quicker to update and maintain
- is future-proofed
- is cross-platform compatible with Macintosh, PDA's, mobile phones etc.
