Web Software Design
“The web software and database we had designed has helped us cope with a 300% increase in our business. We wouldn't have been able to grow without it. It has saved us at least one extra admin person which equates to around £18k a year saving.”
(Phil Staunton Innovate)
Not got a web site at all or unhappy with your existing website?
Do you want your website to generate more leads for you?
Do you want to add more features to your website?
Why should you choose web software design?
If you are thinking about a website of your own or looking to improve the functionality of your existing web site with new web software, we can help. Our web software design team has over 5 years experience and specialise in database driven web software design, mainly utilising MS Access and Active Server Pages (ASP). We produce static HTML web sites too.
Every organisation is different in terms of its business, the image it portrays and how it works with its clients. We aim to provide you with no-nonsense, web software and smart-looking design, tailored to your individual needs. We encourage our customers to go for web designs that are easy to digest for the user.
- Web software designs that fit your business
- No-nonsense web sites and web software
- Simple Search Engine Optimisation
What if you only want a small update to your web site?
We believe there is no project too small and will treat each case with the same high standards and priority as all of our work. We are happy to offer advice on web software and web design or discuss your projects without any obligation.
We can make small changes and updates to a web site over an annual contract or you can pay for one-off changes – no matter how small.
Case Study – Innovate Design
Innovate is a group of award-winning product designers who specialise in turning ideas and inventions into viable, marketable products. They offer support and advice through the whole invention process from advice on patenting products through to product design development to sell the idea to Industry.
Innovate receive numerous enquiries every week, by phone, letter and over the internet. They need to handle each enquiry appropriately, sending out information in response to enquiries, following-up initial enquiries and co-ordinating the product development process when initial enquiries develop into ongoing client relationships. With such a large volume of enquiries they needed a system that would keep close track of the status of each enquiry or client, and assist in the administration involved.
When Innovate were looking for help with the web software design they contacted Software-Matters. Much of Innovate’s business is generated over the web, and they wanted to be able to link their web enquiries to an offline system for client management. Phil Staunton from Innovate discussed with software expert Philippa Turnbull and web software designer James Dudden of Software-Matters the requirements, and together they explored the options. In this case, this vital pre-specification discussion took place by telephone.
This stage is one of the most important in the whole project life-cycle. When disappointment arises in software projects it is very often either because the software designer has not understood what the client is hoping to get out of the project, or because the client has not understood what the proposed solution will deliver. Software-Matters therefore places great emphasis on this stage of the process and encourages clients to engage closely with the design stage, to ensure that their solution does exactly what they need it to.
Having agreed the requirement, Software-Matters produced a clear design specification that explained exactly what the proposed system would do. Software-Matters are experts in bespoke database development and web software design, and suggested a system linking data collection on the web using asp with an offline MS Access database. Often overlooked by web software designers, Software-Matters finds that Access can be a very useful tool, producing robust, easy-to-maintain and reasonably-priced solutions.
The finished system was integrated with Innovate’s existing website. Potential users complete a brief enquiry form online. Innovate collect these enquiries from the web and download them when convenient, to their offline Access database. This database then forms the hub of their client management system, allowing them to see at a glance the details of all their clients, the exact stage of development of a particular client’s idea(s) and the history of their relationship with that client.
A simple and straightforward suite of mail-merge tools provided with the system assists Innovate in the production of all the standard correspondence they require, whether via e-mail or post. A comprehensive To Do List shows them when letters or invoices need to be sent, when to initiate tasks, and when to follow them up.
The system went live early in 2008 and has quickly proved to be invaluable. The deployment of the system coincided with rapid growth at Innovate. Phil Staunton of Innovate comments “It has helped with a 300% increase in our business. We wouldn’t have been able to grow without the database. It has saved us at least one extra admin person.” Given that the total cost to Innovate was £3,500 – including a year’s support and help with web hosting and server management, the system had paid for itself within 3 months and is now saving them around £15,000 per annum. |
