Website Design Feature Ideas
24/01/2013 Posted by Nick Boy
Brook Cottage offers a full design and build website service. We’ve produced sites for a wide range of clients from a brass band to TV companies to engaged couples and we specialise in content rich, informative, stylish sites. Here we present a few of the features and ideas we’ve incorporated into recent websites, hopefully they’ll give you some inspiration. Our full web portfolio can be viewed here. Please contact us if you’d like to discuss a web project.
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Integrated Social Media
A presence on social media is increasingly important and we can get you started on any social platform including branding your profiles to match your corporate identity. The majority of our sites incorporate social icons that act as links to your profiles, quickly allowing your clients to connect with you. We can also incorporate ‘sharing bars’, a small set of icons which allows your website users to share content on their own social profiles. (Use the icons at the top of this page to share this blog!) |
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PayPal Checkout
If you’re thinking about setting up an online retail business, but only want to sell a few products a PayPal checkout is the cheapest, easiest way to go. You pay a small fee for each transaction but in return PayPal provides a full feature checkout and the necessary security features to ensure your customers can shop confidently. We can integrate a checkout into any site for you, as well as providing customised shopping buttons and icons. |
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Full E-commerce Solution
If you’re looking to build a large online business we can help install a full feature ecommerce solution. There’s a monthly fee, but managing large inventories and dealing with multiple orders is simple. The checkout is secure and can be fully branded. This kind of solution will work for large business, but if you're only looking to sell a few items a PayPal checkout may be more suitable (see above). |
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Geo-tagged Map with Embedded Content
Snapper TV have filmed all over the world and to give website visitors a sense of their global experience we developed a geo-tagged Google map for the homepage. Every pin is clickable, some give a video clip (embedded from YouTube) and others details of the filming that took place. The map can be easily updated in the future and pins can include just about any content – pictures, music clips, text etc. |
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Amazon Shop
Travel Iceland is a travel guide and online shop. The owner wanted to remain hands off and so we incorporated an Amazon affiliate shop. Products on offer can be selected and for each sale that’s made the shop owner receives a percentage from Amazon. The checkout procedure is fully handled by Amazon, making this the easiest way to add an income generating shop to your website. |
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Video Content
Brook Cottage also offers Shropshire video production and can produce any kind of video to enhance your site. Video content can increase your search engine results and is a long term, effective marketing solution. Click here to view our video portfolio. We can also produce clips from your existing video material, either editing into a showreel or uploading and embedding multiple clips. |
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Maps - Bespoke and Google
A bespoke map is an excellent way to liven up your contact page. We can produce fully bespoke maps (as opposite) or embed a customised Google map. Customised Google maps include functioning zoom and pan controls and can be set to load at any zoom level from worldwide right down to your street. |
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Pay-Per-Click Advertising
Advertising funds the internet and we can install income generating adverts on your website for you. Google ad words and Amazon advertising programmes can display appropriate ads matched to your content. Payments are quite small and depend on the advertiser. This isn’t a get rich quick scheme but is a simple way to begin monetising your site. |
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Contact Form
A customised contact form is an excellent way of giving your contact page a professional look. It allows potential customers an easy, quick way of getting in touch with you without having to divert to their email account. Of course it’s important to monitor replies, which can be sent to an email address of your choice. In our opinion it’s also important to provide your full contact details for people who prefer not to fill in the form. Forms can also be used for collecting RSVPs etc as seen on the picture opposite. If you’re interested in finding out more about our web design services why not contact us using our form by clicking here! |
Click here to view our full web design portfolio and find out more about each project.
Tags: web design Shropshire, website feature ideas, web inspiration
Tags: web design Shropshire, website feature ideas, web inspiration