Website consultants
Whether you are seeking technical advice before building a new website or looking to optimise a current site, our team of website consultants are here to help. With expertise across all aspects of digital marketing and web building, we're sure to be able to help make digital simple for you.
How we can help
Our website consultants act as an extension of your team.
Whether you're a web design agency, digital marketing agency or a small business looking to bring on a web designer temporarily, we are here to help.
Our core expertise is web building. From the initial ideas stage, to the designing, developing, testing, launch through to the ongoing support, our website consultants are here to help.
It is no exaggeration to say no two websites are the same. Our team has worked on over 300 websites; no matter how well prepared and equipped you are, sometimes you can be blindsided by bugs or issues. Our website consultants can help to diagnose issues, offer advice and provide specific development support.
Front End Design
First impressions matter, your website is no exception.
Our team of talented web design consultants can help you to design a beautiful, functional website.
Our user interface design process begins with designing mockups and wireframes. We primarily use Figma, but have suitable experience across many platforms should you have a preference.
Once those initial designs have been approved, we develop high-fidelity, interactive prototypes that display the user experience that the design will deliver.
A key aspect to front end design is to ensure the design is responsive; seamlessly resizing to any device size and shape.
Through our website consultancy service, our team can provide expertise and knowledge to any stage of the front end design process. Whether it be filling in gaps in your technical skillset, providing an extra pair of hands to help meet a deadline or purely to have a qualified second pair of eyes reviewing the work, we are here to help.
User Experience
Your user experience will be critical to determining the success of your website. Designing a UX isn't as simple as choosing where to button contact form buttons; instead you should consider:
- In-depth market and user research to understand your target audience
- Create user personas for each type of customer who anticipate using your website, considering their requirements
- Use this knowledge of your customers to create intuitive and user-friendly navigation throughout the site
- Focus upon usability and ease of access for all, especially those with accessibility requirements
- If your website has a specific user base, such as websites for charities, you might need to consider a custom UX around their needs
- Once you have designed your UX, conduct thoroguh usability testing
If any of these essential steps sound daunting, we are here to help. With our help, we can guide you through the opportunities, threats and challenges that design a suitable UX poses.
Responsive Web Design
In an ideal world, every web visitor would use a device of uniform size and shape, to make our lives as web designers easy.
Sadly, this isn't the case.
Your website needs to be responsive to any device, whatever the dimensions of the screen size.
We've had plenty of years of experience in how to test the responsiveness of your web design, as well as ways to best implement a responsive web design for your client sites. Let us know how we can help.
Design Implementation
As web designers, we've all had the same situation.
You've designed a beautiful mockup that the client loves, then it comes to actually building it, and the design just isn't playing ball...
Our team of website consultants have extensive experience in the actual implementation of web design. Whether you have a WordPress, Concrete CMS or even a custom coded site, we can help you to turn mockup designs into coded reality.
One of our key areas of consulting expertise is the implementation of frameworks designed to speed up your website. A beautiful website can't be to the detriment of page loading. A slow page puts off search engines and users alike.
Through the optimisation of images, minimising of CSS, implementing lazy load and changing your cache settings, our team of website consultants can help your web design to not only look good, but perform efficiently.
Web Accessibility
Everyone deserves to be able to access, understand and enjoy our website content.
As well as being a legal requirement for certain types of website, ensuring accessibility can help to improve sales, sign ups and traffic. It is estimated that 1 in 6 people have a disability, with these individuals holding $8 trillion in disposable income annually (Source). Ensuring everyone can access your website is not only the right thing to do, why would you want to exclude such a large potential customer base?
Our team of web consultants is well versed in ensuring accessibility. One of our consultants, Sam Cooper, authored a regularly-cited article in technology.org regarding the role of alt text on websites.
We use a Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool that can help to identify:
- Errors
- Contrast errors
- Alerts
- Features
- Structural Elements
Through the use of this tool, we can help to pinpoint the areas of your web design that do not comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Our philosophy to accessible web design is to facilitate end users by understanding the impact that web design might have on them.
Website Analytics Consulting
Need help understanding whether your website is performing as it should?
Our team can provide website analytics consulting designed to give you the skillset necessary to perform your own analysis.
Through the setting up of analytical tools such as Google Analytics or specialist third-party tools such as Semrush, we can give you the framework necessary to understand your website performance, as well as providing our own thoughts and suggestions.
The purpose of analytics consulting is to:
- Identify key areas for improvement
- Find the top performing areas of your website that can be maximised
- Discover opportunities and threats to your conversion rates
SEO Consultants for your Website
SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is a key marketing method for driving traffic to your website.
There are numerous best practices and methods that our SEO consultants will be able to suggest and help you to implement on your website.
Internet users are in a rush; they want to find an answer to their query as quickly as possible. Similarly, Google wants to display the most relevant search result for every possible query. Through an intricate understanding of this and the methods required to achieve SEO success, our consultants can help you to achieve the coveted positions at the top of the search engine results pages with succint, relevant content.
Our team of website development consultants
We have an amazing team of hard-working, dedicated and enthusiastic website consultants who live technology and strive to keep our and your clients happy.
Our core Leadership Team will ensure your project is delivered to the highest standard, delivering results for you and your organisation.
As website development consultants, we are used to often having to provide our expertise "white-labelled". That is to say, as an extension of your team rather than as third party specialists. Whatever the dynamic of website consultants you require, whether as team members or outside experts, we offer flexibility to get the job done properly.
Dave
Managing Director
David is founder and Managing Director of Made Simple Media Ltd. He has over fourteen years experience in web design and development and has over seven years experience in project and team management. Before starting Made Simple Media David worked for various other agencies, his last role was as Creative Director for an Automotive Website specialist company.
Emma
Director
Emma helps with the day-to-day running of the company and business development. Emma brings valuable managerial experience and a range of skills including customer service, sales and staff management. Emma is extremely practical and has an invaluable way of seeing things clearly and helping run the business with Dave.
Sam
Marketing Manager
Sam’s route into Digital Marketing began at UCL researching the Kremlin’s use of Social Media to manipulate Foreign Affairs, including the 2016 US Presidential Election. Sam took this intricate understanding of targeting, retargeting, influencing and converting to the business world instead.
Ollie
SEO Consultant
Following on from a Sports Science Data Analysis role at Birmingham City FC, Ollie joined our network as specialist in Search Engine Optimisation, helping businesses to increase their organic traffic through ranking higher on search engines. Ollie works closely with the creative team, strategists and web builders to craft and implement content-based digital strategies.
Alex
Senior Web Developer
Alex is an incredibly talented developer with over 10 years experience. Alex has previously worked in various programming languages and technologies like Java Servlets & JSP, .NET, Delphi, CBuilder, Cold Fusion, MS Access, Posgre SQL, Joomla CMS etc. and has even developed his own CMS a long time ago when WordPress and the other big CMS's were just starting!
Karthik
Senior Web Developer
Karthik has 9 years experience working with Concrete CMS and adds hugely valuable input into daily projects at Made Simple Media. He never rests until he has found the solution to a problem and is always determined to deliver amazing functionality to our clients.
Jodie
Copywriter
Jodie is a copywriter, who weaves words to help businesses get more brand awareness. By educating your audience on what you do, you will build better relationships with your target audience. creating captivating content that attracts your ideal customers/clients to your website. As a result, your traffic grows steadily, and more opportunities arise.
Website Consultation
Where better to start than with a thorough website consultation?
Whatever stage of website building you are at, a website consultation can help you to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that your website faces. This SWOT analysis is performed by a specialist website development consultant who is well-versed in the world of web design.
We offer a free, no-obligation 15 minute discovery call, as well as more in-depth specialist website consultations. Let us know in advance if there are any particular areas of website consulting you require, enabling us to provide the most relevant consultant to help with your requirements.
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Happy clients150+
Websites in our care9+
Years trading94%
Client retention
Dave was so patient and understanding when it came to explaining the process and how things work. I highly recommend MSM to anyone who needs that extra help understanding the fundamentals of website building.
Matt, Land Solutions (South) Ltd
I honestly could not of fell on my feet more with made simple media. Everything I asked for has been done, simplifying things i was unsure about and basically made what I had in my head become a reality. A big thing for me is the availability of being able to get in touch when needed to and this was no issue what so ever. I can’t thank you enough Dave
Bobby Lord, Independant Jewellery
Made Simple Media have made a number of websites for us and their work is always of a high standard. They are fast acting when we need help and I would happily recommend Made Simple Media to anyone looking for web development help.
Chris, Respirex International
We commissioned David at Made Simple Media to build our website for About Mortgages. David was responsive, incredibly patient, on budget and provided a great finished product that we're delighted with.
Paul, About Mortgages
We started working with David at Made Simple Media when we needed alterations and pages added to our website. He has advised us well on what we might like to add, has always been a pleasure to deal with, is reliable, and responds quickly. I would highly recommend working with David and MSM!
Ella, Park Avenue Recruitment
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