WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Approaching your website project

Our team works closely together to agree on the best visual and interface design approach; as well as implement the most suitable technologies and tools to help you control your sites. Don't forget that website management doesn’t just stop with web page content, you may also be looking to integrate interactive forms, discussion forums or online payments with your site.

We'll help you plan your website. We'll discuss the most suitable options, think about how your website will be structured and develop an intuitive navigation system so that visitors can easily find the information that they need.

Managing your website content

Think about how you manage your web, intranet or extranet sites? Are you struggling to keep your sites up-to-date? Are you finding it difficult to control the updating of your website content? Do you need a solution to quickly and easily manage your sites?

A content management system is a system used to manage and control the authoring of content of a web, intranet or extranet site. So if your site content is constantly changing then a content management system (CMS) will allow you and your organisation to edit and control the content of your site without any additional help from us.

Our YouDu CMS allows content authors who may not have any HTML knowledge or skills to manage the creation, modification and deletion of content from a website – using nothing more than an Internet accessible web browser.

Also have a read of our How to Guide on ‘Choosing the right content management system’ to help you decide on the benefits that a CMS could bring to your organisation.

You can find further information about YouDu CMS on our website, including full features lists, tours, licence options and pricing. 

Engaging with forums and blogs

User-generated content is a great way to keep your website fresh. Who better to suggest, create and upload content than the people who are visiting your website? Encourage user participation by establishing a forum, or share your views via a company blog.

The web community has grown significantly in the last 10 years and the move to sites promoting online participation and interactivity has advanced enormously. Social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and MySpace provide a level of interaction that Web users have grown to expect.

Providing engagement through discussion forums, message boards, blogs and chatrooms will make your website much more appealing and attract both traffic and visitor attention.

Regularly updating your web, intranet or extranet site with relevant, timely and engaging content will inevitably make it successful. It’s easy to include exciting, fresh, interactive and informative content and features on your website. Also you don’t have to do all of the hard work – encourage visitors to contribute to your site.

Have a read of our ‘How to guide’ on ‘Engaging with your website visitors’ to get some ideas for yourself.

Interact with online forms

Are you frustrated with receiving paper-based forms that are either incorrect or only partially completed? You may be thinking why can't I get rid of all of those paper forms and make them available online instead? It would take up less administration and mean that you always receive the right information without having to go back and recheck.

You can use online forms to easily interact with your web community. You can guage opinions through consultations or surveys and download the results in realtime. You can create forms to take event bookings, registrations and online orders. You can even create complex, intelliegent and interactive forms that rely on answers from previous questions.

All of this means that you can make better use of your organisations time, as there will be no need to re-enter or even duplicate data into your own back-office systems - where data automatically feeds into an existing system.

Our own YouDu Forms allows content authors who may not have any HTML knowledge or skills to manage the creation, modification and deletion of online forms from a website – using nothing more than an Internet accessible web browser. 

You can find further information about YouDu Forms on our website, including full features lists, tours, licence options and pricing.

Event and course booking systems

Wouldn't it be great to offer events and courses online for your website visitors? By simply completing an online form, they could book and confirm their place instantly. You can also track the bookings and even offer online payment facilities.

t's increasingly important to enable website users to convienently carry out online transactions for themselves. This enables your site visitors to communicate with your organisation 24 / 7. It also means that your staff can concentrate on other areas of your organisation, whilst some of the every-day processes are efficiently automated online. This is especially true of transactions such as conference, event and course bookings and registrations. The event and course booking systems developed b BOCC, enable a wide variety of organisations to offer these services to their audiences - whether it's for a web, intranet, or extranet site.

eCommerce and online payment systems

eCommerce solutions to fit all online requirements. From complex fullfillment systems, to simple online shops integrating with PayPal or Google Pay.

Are you looking to sell merchandise online, set-up an events or training course booking system, or simply create a conference registration system?  We make it easy and affordable for you to offer payment services online. We have developed a broad range of payment systems for clients, including complex booking systems intregrating with back-office financial systems; online shops providing simple fulfilment options and payments with many of the major online payment providers including PayPal, WorldPay, DataCash and Barclays ePDQ; as well as flexible multi-service payment systems allowing transactions for variable services.

We provide easy to use, easy to manage and integrated solutions, so that it's possible for you to track payments, fulfil orders and ensure that payments are taken securely in realtime. We can provide a fully featured online payments system with management options, so that you can amend the items and services yourself and keep them fully up-to-date.