Web Design - Web Hosting - Search Engine Optimisation  (SEO)

After years of writing websites for our own campaigns and projects we have decided that it is time that Footprint Workers Co-op offered web design services professionally. Additionally, to enable us to do this as smoothly as possible we have bought ourselves server space so we can even host the pages for you. Our web sites are hosted by an very large hosting company, while this is not ideal from our ethical stand point (supporting the little man etc.) it does offer extremely reliable hosting (most months it is 100%, some months it will go down for upto 30 minutes in the entire month). We have also chosen the host with the best possible eco credentials that we could find who offer the services we needed. They do the usual 'buying green credits' for the power they use meaning that they can claim that they run on 130% renewable energy (though I'm sure that is just greenwash and doesn't really equate to much) but they also wax lyrical about the other eco-iniatives they have employed to the extent that they seem to actually realise that simply buying green credits is not enough and they take their responsibilities seriously.

Web Design Services

We design our sites using a 'content management system' called Joomla. By using Joomla we're able to quickly create good looking websites with many advanced features that, once created, you should have no trouble in keeping updated yourself, thus saving you time and money.

We can easily create sites with features such as

• Comments pages
• Forums
• Online Forms
• Document Handling / Downloads sections
• Blogs
• Advertising Banners
• Audio and Video Streaming
• Events Calendars
• Photo Galleries
• Flash Animations

And Much More... 

Our Portfolio is still small, but take a look at the following sites to see what we have come up with in the past.

www.footprinters.co.uk

Nothing particularly clever, though we're quite pleased with the masthead. Pretty standard site, simple and clear.

www.theorganicpantry.co.uk

Online ordering, integration with ZenCart, full integration with Sage Line 50 accounting software.

www.lupineadventure.co.uk

Use of Forms for bookings, secret front end login. Search engine optimisation gaining front page presence in Google for the terms 'navigation training' 'map reading courses', 'vegetarian walking holidays' and 'freelance mountain leader' to name a few.

www.bassandguitar.co.uk

Peter Wright's Bass guitar and Guitar instruction

www.radicalroutes.org.uk

Extensive password protected members area. Comments page, large private file download area. This site has 30 different registered users who all have write access to their own area's of the site.

www.lilac.coop

Flyout Menus, Rss feeds

handson.latch.org.uk

www.rootstock.org.uk

www.shatterjapan.com

Flash animations, Photo Gallery, 2 languages, remote working.

www.megaboon.co.uk

Scaleable pictures. On small screens the pictures appear smaller, on large screens they grow. Custom template built from scratch

Web Hosting from £35 per year

We are able to offer web hosting from the bargain price of £35 per year. This includes

500Mb Disk Space

5GB per month of Bandwidth

Unlimited e-mail addresses (POP, IMAP and Web based)

E-mail Forwarding

 Unlimited Mysql databases

Unlimited subdomains and domain forwarding.

If you need a bit more space or bandwidth the following prices apply

Search Engine Optimisation 

For the vast majority of websites it is vitally important to get a good position in Google and the other search engines. After all, there is no point in spending the time and money on a website if no one ever sees it. If we design your whole site we will do so in such a way that will maximise it's chances of a good ranking on key phrases. Once the site is live, for an additional fee,  we will tweak its content and help boost its rating over a 3 month period. Depending on the keywords chosen, we can often anticipate front page ranking on Google for key phrases that will bring people to your site.