Brochure websites are designed to showcase your company, skills and act as a point of contact. The name reflects the nature, acting as an 'online brochure'. These sites tend to need minimal updates and are often hard-coded without a content management system.

Do I need one?
Brochure sites are suitable for any small to medium sized company or organisation who are not after an all singing and dancing site. If you wish to display information about your company and the services you offer in a clear logical manner, without planning to do more than a few updates a year, this could possibly be the option for you.

What can we offer?
At Amba design we can offer brochure websites, ensuring it sits within any existing identity or we can design and build a whole brochure website from scratch. We do not use templates, so every site we produce is unique, well designed to sit within your identity and to reflect your company ethos.

Content management systems (CMS) are a flexible way of displaying web pages and allowing users, with the correct access rights to create, edit and update website pages as well as store and retrive data. CMS are designed for ease of use, allowing creation and editing of web pages in much the same way as using any simple word processing software.

Examples of CMS are websites, blogs, image archives.

Do I need one?
CMS websites are suitable for any size company who envisage updating their site on a regular basis. CMS websites are ideal for adding future events, new services, blogs, news and image libraries.

What can we offer?
Careful choice in the right CMS for your requirements will offer you full control over your online presence, allowing updates, page editing and media management as often, and whenever you choose.

Ecommerce is the process of buying and selling online. Whether its familiar websites like Amazon and Ebay selling products to other webstores offering images or training they all have one primary purpose, to trade goods, whether products, courses or intellitual property via a web portal. At Amba Design we have created webstores for both large and small companies, offering complete shopping experiences on one website to fully integrated systems which tap into an existing databases.

Do I need one?
If you are planning to do any kind of product management online with the option to buy - yes 

What can we offer?
An ecommerce system  is an extension of a CMS site with full backend functionality, allowing management of unlimited categories, products, specials and offers. We design and then create your website without using templates, ensuring your website appearance, effectiveness and profitability. Integration with your choosen shopping Merchant (for example Worldpay or Sagepay) can be a bespoke, secure experience or we can set up your shop to take payments on a Merchants own website for consumer confidence. We can also integrate Paypal.

html emails and newsletters are graphically rich text and images combined together to create a branded format which can promote and generate interest in a choosen subject. 

Do I need one?
If you wish to send emails out to multiple addresses promoting a product, service, event or to raise general awareness this is a great way to do so in a visaully rich format

What can we offer?
Amba Design will design and build an email in your choosen style. carefully creating email templates designed to sit within your company or oganisation's identity. Amba Design offer one off designs, or along with integrating into an online email marketing system (for example Mailchimp or Constant Contact) we can create a template with editable fields. These email templates can then be populated with different content by the client to used again and again in multiple campaigns with full reporting details and easy mailing list management.

SEO, or Search engine Optimisation, is the skill of creating and building websites in such a manner that search engines will easily and quickly categorise and display your website in the correct listings.

From the first initial designs onwards Amba Design make sure you can get the best out of your website. All coding is done in a logical, semantic manner for easy catagorisation and content is carefully weighted with keywords for a good response. We offer custom metatags, titles and descriptions on all our CMS and Ecommerce builds for individual page searching and on any hard coding, make sure the coding is clear and to the point.

Social Media

Social Media is online information designed to be distributed through social interaction. This information can take many guises like blogs, forums, message boards, comment posts, social bookmarking and websites like Facebook, Linkin and Twitter (to name a few!).

By combining these channels in conjunction with a website your profile can be greatly raised to achieve your site goal. This doesn't tend to be a one-time process but requires attention and a thorough plan of action to generate results. Amba Design will set up and tutor users into getting the best results and recommend which social media types will have the best return. Or we can do it all for you!