Web Design Lancaster

Many people want a website for their business, all too many people end up with a website that simply does not work for them.  Adding new content has to be done by your designer and therefore costs, that is of course, if you can get hold of your designer.  Web design need not be difficult, time consuming or stressful, let us take the hassle out of your online presence and deliver you a website to be proud of.

Are you ready to take your web presence to the next level?

Web design by Lancaster based company Dean Marshall Consultancy, world class experts in many aspects of web design and development.  In particular we specialise in Content Management Systems (CMS) -  allowing Lancaster, Blackpool, Preston, Lancashire and Manchester business owners like yourselves to manage your own website, giving you much greater freedom and control over how your website performs.  Of course, we don't just build your website and leave you to it - we are always there should you need a helping hand!

Web Design Lancaster - Lancashire - Manchester

Web design company based in Lancaster, consisting of a small team of developers, SEO specialist, project managers and administrative staff.  We are based in CityLab - the glass fronted building with animated lights - in Dalton Square.

Web Design for Lancashire and Manchester Businesses

Much of our web design work to date has not been related to our Lancaster location -  our clients include large businesses, public sector organisations and government departments, in UK cities such as London, Cambridge, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Preston, Manchester. This work has enabled us to further develop our capabilities, working with a wide range of organisations and people.

Web design need not be done locally, but of course a strong client relationship is essential for both parties to get/give the best service possible. We regularly visit clients in Chelmsford, Oxford, London city center, Manchester and Preston.

We would enjoy the chance to utilise these skills for the benefit of organisations like yours within the Lancaster, Lancashire and Manchester areas. We can help improve your search engine rankings thus bringing your business to a wider audience of potential new customers.

Web Design for Lancaster, Lancashire and Manchester

Why Trust Dean Marshall Consultancy

We are internationally renowned Joomla specialists, currently the world's leading Content Management System (CMS). We will build you a system that lets you manage your own website easily and effectively.

Our clients value our web design expertise and professionalism in the Joomla Content Management System.

We work with leading organisations and businesses throughout the UK and beyond.  We've successfully landed one of Britain's and the worlds largest religious organisations the Baptist Union of Great Britain, DMC were brought on board as specialist Joomla support providers, our brief was to be on hand whenever needed to give instant technical assistance but mainly to work through the clients specifications and produce a phased work plan that had hard yet achievable targets.

Baptist Union of Great Britain Website

The Baptist Union of Great Britain's media team were going to be adding the content, DMC were to install and configure all components, with unique PHP programming and development.  We have built and customised one of the most advanced VirtueMart stores on the planet.  We have not had time to bundle together or document these advances but they include:

• VirtueMart Purchase Order System - available to UK shipping addresses only
• Automatic shipping rate - depending on country/location UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Europe
• Unique VirtueMart emails - for customers and admin dependent on order type
• Shopper groups with automated discounts - Staff, promotion, trade shows, wholesale, etc
• Free shipping - implemented a bespoke free shipping system
• Custom bulk import - MySQL import of over 1000 products

International Cocoa Organization Website

We are currently building a new website for the International Cocoa Organization ( yes with a z ), the ICCO is a United Nations Council with Subsidiary Bodies responsible for all aspects of cocoa growing and monitoring of pricing. This very prestigious web design contract came about because their new media manager worked with us on his previous employers website, the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe SCAE. Once the new site goes live several members of the ICCO media team will receive Joomla training.

Specialty Coffee Association of Europe Website

SCAE came to us after major issues with their developers came to light, the site was developed in such a way that sessions never expire, all core working systems had been hacked to the point that every page had a load time of over 80 seconds. Even though SCAE had been locked out of their own site DMC took a copy and got to work on fixing and securing the their Joomla powered website.

We have since pushed the site on further with four membership directories, our own hosted banner add campaign displays, email marketing campaign and regional coordinators hosted online election campaigns. SCAE have also taken out a Joomla support contract.

Computer Services Group Website

Computer Services Group work in one of the most competitive industries in the Great Britain. Business accounting software is obviously a major part of any company, but with advancements in technology seemingly on a daily basis offering faster, better, more streamlined services, this is a sector that in economic times like these people turn to for expansion or more so survival. One of CSGs competitors has recently gained £27million of venture capital investment, this shows just how competitive this sector is.

Computer Services Group had previously had a bad experience with their last website and designers. They received bad advice and shocking development work, they had six sites built into one which means six times the database queries, six times the number of menus, etc, etc. Dean Marshall Consultancy built a new Joomla website from scratch with simple clear navigation and high quality content, we've integrated a beautiful design with the correct add-ons for the client, so they can maintain their own site. CSG have a Joomla support contract with an offset SEO allowance.

Bridge and Wickers Website

Bridge and Wickers are award winning, bespoke package holiday providers. They recently contacted DMC because their dedicated server kept going down for several hours at a time. Being truly Joomla specialist DMC knew what could be causing this straight away and within the first three days had solved and stopped all the issues. This is a really important issue, if Google try to spider your site and it is down seven out of ten times as is possible with constant outages, your site will be completely delisted by Google and all other search engines have a similar rule.  The Joomla site had several main issues with ten or so smaller ones, ranging from a corrupt third party SEF component to an excessively large .htaccess file full of bad redirects from previous developers.

Dean Marshall Consultancy are now pushing the site forward with modifications to streamline the work flow for the media team at Bridge and Wickers, saving time and money for the client. DMC are also on hand for any queries/questions/issues that need sorting and need sorting NOW! from web design to video implementation. Bridge and Wickers have taken out a Joomla support contract.

Joomla CMS Web Design Lancaster - Manchester

Why Choose Dean Marshall Consultancy

Our Joomla Specialists are headed by Dean Marshall who is widely recognised as a leading Joomla CMS expert and web developer.

Dean has worked with Content Management Systems for over seven years, since 2004.  He first discovered Mambo the previous incarnation of Joomla in 2003, but continued working on flat HTML sites until he had chance to have a proper play around with Mambo. Dean built his first Mambo site in early 2004 for himself and has kept working exclusively on CMS websites ever since.

In early 2008 Dean the sole trader started Dean Marshall Consultancy, now a five strong team including three Joomla developers, an SEO / CRO specialist and an administrative/HR officer. The team together are not surviving the economic down turn, but thriving and our web design services are available to you.

Joomla Web Design Specialists

Joomla is the worlds leading Content Management System powering nearly 3% of all websites globally.  Joomla.org has a huge community of help available on its forum, where the Web Design Lancaster team regularly help novice, moderate and experienced users alike.

See this thread on joomla.org:- http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=621060

We offer a full range of web design services including:

• Bespoke site development
• SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
• Website speed optimisation
• Security reviews and upgrades
• Joomla website issues fixed
• Major functional enhancements to existing sites
• Flexible, effective Joomla CMS training tailored to your needs
• Website promotion - on and off site
• CRO - Conversion Rate Optimisation
• Upgrades and migration including Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7 migration