Web design

All our websites include a full content management system (CMS). Other features you may be interested in are detailed below. If you'd like a quote, give us a call on 01223 873349 or complete our CREATIVE BRIEF and email it to info@catfishwebdesign.com

WEBSITE DESIGN AND BUILD

• Full CMS so you have complete control over updating your site
• Horizontal and/or vertical navigation with facility to add new links including drop downs
• Add/edit text and images, downloadable documents, web and email links
• Upload images direct from your PC/MAC
• Customise each page for the search engines with keywords and descriptions
• Favicon
• Automatically updating xml site map
• Google analytics to monitor traffic to your site

FACEBOOK APPS ... MAKE THE MOST OF SOCIAL NETWORKING

• Automatically display products, news or events on your Facebook group page
• Facebook Like buttons next to items you want people to share on their facebook pages

NEWS SYSTEM

• Add and edit your news or articles
• Select items of news to display on the home page
• Allow visitors to submit comments which you can vet before displaying
• Allow visitors to subscribe to your news RSS feed
• Allow visitors to integrate content with Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc
• Visitor registration facility so they can post up news (items can be vetted before display)
• Display the contributor's user name next to the article

EVENTS BOOKING SYSTEM

• Include free and/or paid for events
• Can be customised to offer price reduction for members/students etc
• Automatic countdown of places so you are not oversubscribed
• Fully booked sign automatically displays when no places left
• Facility to manually update places booked in case people pay offline
• Email notifications to visitor and site owner when booking is made
• View and manage bookings in an admin area
• Integrated with Paypal, Worldpay etc

MEMBERSHIP OR REGISTRATION

• Invite visitors to join membership database or directory
• Login for members to update their profile
• Search facility
• System can be integrated with Paypal, Worldpay etc
• Member only area can be accessed by password e.g. forum

IMAGE GALLERY

• Categorise your work in different galleries
• Upload images direct from your PC/MAC
• Landscape and portrait images automatically cropped to square thumbnails for display purposes
• Display as static images or a slideshow

BLOG

• Create searchable categories yourself
• Display previous blog items next to main article
• Invite visitors to link to your social networking pages e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin
• Allow visitors to integrate your blog content with their social networking pages
• Allow visitor comments with facility to vet them

NEWSLETTERS

• Send out newsletters and track the results with MailChimp
• Let us integrate the MailChimp mailing list sign up form with your membership database

FORUM

• Visitor prompt to register/login before using the form
• Start new topics, post up messages, reply to messages
• Monitor messages and manage users