We go the extra mile for you....
Many website developers take shortcuts or just simply leave features out altogether to make the development process quicker. Here's a list of things we include in our web design as standard.
Form Validation
Website forms are a great way for the user (or customer) to convey information or requirements to you, or to make a booking or place an order. Form validation is the verifying of information entered by the user, to help ensure it is correct. For example, a email address should be checked to ensure if is of a valid format. This reduces the likelyhood of an error by typing mistake. Address and phone fields should be checked to make sure they have not been left blank by accident, and date fields should be check to verify the dates entered are valid.
You should insist on form validation on your website forms.
SPAM Prevention
Once your website has been live for a few months you'll begin receiving SPAM (junk mail) via your website forms. This is generally computer-generated by "robots" - computers connected to the Internet and programmed to seek out web forms and use them for sending SPAM.
However, this can be combated by having an extra field on your web form requiring information to be entered which only a human can do. For example, the forms on this website ask the user to enter the four random letters shown in an accompanying image. Robots are not clever enough to understand what is being requested here and will enter random information, resulting in our form returning an error rather than sending the junk to you as SPAM.
We would be receiving hundreds of emails every day from our own websites were it not for our SPAM filters. They certainly save us an enormous amount of time and frustration!
You should definitely insist on SPAM filtering on your website forms.
Standards Compliance
We regard this as extremely important and as such have a whole section on this website regarding the importance and benefits of having your website coded to conform to web standards.
Free development quote
No-one likes nasty surprises. Don't have your new website developed and then get a surprise in the form of a larger than expected bill for the job. Get a free no-obligation quote (that won't scare you!) first so you know what it's going to cost. It's all done online and takes just a minute, and we'll phone or email you (your choice) with the estimated cost.
