Cambridge Web Design
Everything your ever wanted to know about Web Design in and around Cambridge, Cambridgeshire UK.
Cambridge
Cambridge has an international reputation for technical innovation and many Internet-related companies and Web design agencies have been springing up in the Cambridge region since the mid 90s.
Web design
In the same way that designing for print benefits from some technical undertanding of the printing process, designing for Websites needs a good grounding in how websites work.
The types of organisation that supply Web design are very similar to design and print suppliers too. There are agencies that design and develop websites entirely in-house, some that do a bit of both and sub-contract some elements. Most design agencies and advertising agencies will have some development capacity and will outsource anything challenging in the same way they might produce short-run documents on site but outsource large or technically difficult print projects.
Continuing the comparison, in the same way that larger businesses often have their own resources for producing most of their business documents they also often have their own Web design and development teams, commonly part of their IT departments and seconded in part to their marketing departments as, more so than with printing, the world of Web design is real mix of IT, Design and Marketing and the best websites tend to be online database applications with stylish user-interfaces.
What is Web Design?
Before choosing a Web designer it is probably worth defining exactly what Web design means to you. For new Web-based businesses the design part probably includes logo and brand identity development for on- and off-line documents as well as the design and layout of web-pages. For established businesses designing a website can be a more predictable job of converting existing marketing materials.
Design vs. Development
Content Management Systems are pretty standard these days. Some developers, like MJB Data, write their own software while others prefer third-party solutions. Either are suitable for websites that represent a company online and feature 'about us', 'who we are, 'what we do', 'our products and services', 'contact us', 'news', etc. with a requirement for the company in question to be able to add/edit/delete information themselves. However, third-party software can be a bit limiting depending on what you want to achieve, (in my biased opinion).
Web Designers and Developers in and around Cambridge
Naturally we would like to shout about MJB Data being the best web design supplier in Cambridge, if not the UK and beyond. However, in order to help demonstrate the SEO principle of 'being the best result' the MJB Data 'Cambridge Web Design' listings will hopefully be the most useful online resource for finding web designers and developers in the region.