Web Site Development, Design and Support
The New Curiosity Shop Web Services – we design, build, host and maintain web sites.
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
We specialise in supporting individuals, small businesses or other small organisations who are looking for an affordable and easy to maintain web site.
Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and we can contact you to discuss your needs, or phone us on 0131 208 1900.
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Our Philosophy
Web sites are not static. A web site is never ‘finished’. Our philosophy is that we will help you design and develop your site and we will continue to work with you to maintain, manage and update your site, making sure that your site remains current and as Google-friendly as possible. For that reason, we charge an initial development fee and an ongoing monthly maintenance, support and hosting fee.
We also prefer to work with individuals, small businesses (SMEs) or smaller organisations – that’s far more interesting than working with some bland, big corporation. Please don’t contact us if you are BT or Microsoft, for example.
1. Features
Our sites are based on the industry standard WordPress Open Source Software (see wordpress.org). This provides a solid foundation on which to build a web site to suit you, whether it’s a few pages of information or a fully interactive site for e-commerce and selling online. Better yet, we will show you how to edit and add information yourself: you remain in control. (We will also hold your hand as you grow in confidence).
We will create a site that is:
- Attractive and easy to use
- Fully standards compliant
- Is designed to suit your needs
- editable by you
Your site can include any web features such as:
- blog
- online forms
- mailing lists
- ecommerce tools
- comments
- user registration
- spam protection
- multiple authors
- password protected areas
- visit statistics
- integrate media (video, audio, flash)
2. Development, Design and Construction
We work with you to design the look and feel of your site for your requirements, and we discuss the functionality of your site. We ask questions such as: what is the purpose of the site? Who are the visitors likely to be? What features and functions do you need? We also help you to organise and edit the content you want to include in your site.
Once we have the basic information we will build a prototype site that you can watch – and help – grow into the site you want.
3. Hosting, support and maintenance
We handle the technology – We manage the hosting your site and maintain the web software, upgrading as required. We manage the daily backup. We leave you free to concentrate on the content.
We can update and modify the site content for you (you provide the content!), but better yet, we can show you how to manage that yourself. However, we are on hand to support, guide and advise you.
Let us discuss this with you
Fill in the form and we will contact you to discuss what you are looking for.