Services

‛Web’sites and hosting

Function Design can help you by developing an online presence which describes your services and products clearly, looks good and has smooth interactivity for your visitors.

Perhaps you are considering ‘special’ features, for example a video presentation, shopping cart, music player or updateable product catalogue? These are all areas where our company can help.

Regardless of the scope of your project we provide the experience, resources and dedication to ensure that you get the right website, delivered in a professional manner.

We also provide a web-hosting service for clients whose sites we develop or maintain.

Sites You Control (Content Management Systems)

If your organisation needs to update site content regularly Function Design can create a secure Content Management System (CMS) that is tailored to your needs and is easy to use.

This means that if you need to add a news article from time to time we will not bog you down with superfluous features, but we can provide fine-grained control over different kinds of content and contributors if you need it.

Flash

Flash can be used to increase impact of a website through the addition of animated, video or audio content. For example you might consider the addition of:

• an animated graphic to add impact to a single page;
• professionally filmed and edited video presentations;
• interlinked video and audio content.

A combination of technical and visual skills are needed to produce this kind of eye-catching multimedia.

Function Design will provide these qualities, and make sure that the end result is a pleasure to use.

E-commerce

If your organisation uses or wants to introduce e-commerce, Function Design can advise on current operations and best-practice, including:

• developing secure and reliable shopping carts;
• creating updatable product catalogues with stock control;
• integration with payment processors such as Sagepay (formerly Protx), Worldpay, Paypal, etc.

Entering into the online market can bring a new source of revenue, and success stories abound. However, it is a common misconception that e-commerce represents a "magic marketplace" where sales can be made without effort. In reality, it takes either a niche, untapped market, or old-fashioned hard-work and persistance to make substantial returns.

We can build a fully featured e-commerce site for you, but we're equally happy to get you started with a compact and elegant option that can be developed as you gain online confidence.

Support and maintenance

Regardless of whether we built your website we can ensure that it is well maintained and that any problems are speedily resolved.

We are happy to provide support and maintenance on a pay-as-you-go or prepaid contract basis.

Techie Alchemy (Specialised Tech Development)

Requests for non-standard functionality are becoming more common as the range of online services and the ways of accessing them expand. These developments could mean that you have a need for unusual or specialised requirements, for example:

• integrating your website with third party services such as digital printers or Facebook applications;
• administering large databases, perhaps containing tens of millions of records;
• video blogging and podcasting.

At Function Design we make it our business to keep up-to-date with the latest developments and so can assist you if you want your organisation to be in the first wave of those implementing the latest web technology.