Web Sites from Colebridge.Net

Our experienced specialists at Colebridge.net can provide you with your own 'Shop Window on the Web' by designing and building a site tailored to your requirements and your identity. and by choosing us to supply this service for you - you support the work of the Colebridge Trust.

About Web Sites

Should I have a Web Site?

Contrary to the opinions of most Internet Solutions salespeople, a Web Site is not for everyone. If you have a successful, established organisation in a limited catchment area, thriving on word of mouth and with no aspiration to expand, then a Web site is not for you. Otherwise, you should consider the prospect and evaluate the potential benefits. Colebridge.net can quickly advise you on how a Web Site could help you.

What will a Web Site do for me?

It all depends on your objectives. If you are a business seeking more customers or market share or to reach beyond current geographical boundaries, a well designed Web Site can achieve this for you. If you are social organisation seeking more members or greater public awareness, a Web Site can achieve this for you. Colebridge.net can design a site for you which is matched to these objectives.

Can I have the latest in flashy design for my site?

You can if that is you want, after all, you are the customer. But Colebridge.net recommends the sparing use of movement and resource hungry imaging on Web Sites. There is no point in having a site which has the ultimate in impressive appearance, only to have no one use because each page takes ages to download. If you let us, we will get the balance right for you, delivering a clean, fresh appearance and a site which performs. We also advocate following the established guidelines on accessibility, which only a small percentage of sites do, resulting in a percentage of users that cannot access a site at all!!

If I ask you to design my site, will I be tied into you to maintain it?

Not at all. We will maintain a site if a customer wishes, but we will also help and encourage our customers to become self sufficient and take on the skills to maintain their site themselves. Colebridge.net wants repeat business because our customers are satisfied, not because they have no choice.

Can you give a make over to a site designed for us by someone else?

Absolutely, Colebridge.net will be pleased to look at your present site and understand how you would like it to be improved.

If you design my site, will I get what I want?

Yes, we understand that too many web designers meet a customer, take notes and then come with a finished site. This is not an approach that will fulfill customer requirements. Our approach is to involve our customer at all stages of development so that we evolve the right solution to your own particular needs through a partnership.

If you design my site, do you insist on hosting it?

No. Naturally we would be delighted if you choose Colebridge.net hosting services as well, but we understand that there may be good economic reasons for you to remain with an existing service provider and can easily establish a site for you on another provider's webspace.

How will the Colebridge Trust benefit?

Colebridge.net is a not for profit enterprise, but is operated on a commercial basis. Our profits are used to support the ongoing work of the Colebridge Trust for the community of North Solihull.