Website Design Cardiff. We Design with Standards
We design accessible, usable websites that comply with W3C standards.
Here at AmberCouch we’re bonkers about standards, best practices and semantic markup! But what does that mean for you? Well, it means you’re going to get a great looking website that is built on rock solid foundations. The bottom line is, your website is going to be visible to Google, it’s going to be compatible with all modern web browsers and it’s going to be usable and accessible to the widest possible audience. Basically it’s going to be the business!
css and xhtml coding
If you are a designer with good Photoshop or Illustrator skills but don’t know how to turn your designs into great websites we can help you. You supply the design and we create the xhtml and css code that turns your design into a functioning website.
If you’ve been using the ’save for web‘ function in your favourite image editor and then struggling to get your site listed in Google or you’re having a nightmare trying to keep all your layout tables where they are meant to be, then our psd to xhtml service is for you.
The ’save to web‘ function of all the popular image editors use old style, convention to create web pages with bloated table based layouts. Table based layout are notoriously difficult for Google to index, as well as being problematic for webmasters to maintain. When we convert a website design into a working website we always use modern web standards together with semantic markup to give your page meaning and let Google know what your page is about. We can also work from any image file, not just Photoshop or Illustrator so there’s no need to worry about compatibility.
Content Management Systems
And today’s buzz acronim is CMS. Everyone one wants an easy way to keep their website up to date and why not? Who wants to pay a web designer just to update one picture or spend time learning html just to add a new page to your website. A Content Management System means you can easily keep your website relevant and up to date without the cost of a designer or the need to learn complicated code. We recommend wordpress for all your CMS needs. No, it’s not just a great blogging tool, with a little help from us it’s a great CMS that is standards compliant and Google friendly. We can create great wordpress themes so your site will not only be easy to use but look great as well. If you just want to blog then visit the wordpress website but if you want a great looking website that can easily be updated with fresh content then use our contact form at the bottom of this page to send us an enquiry.
eCommerce
How do I sell online? Well, first off, contact AmberCouch. We recommend the all in one hosted ecommerce solution that is Shopify. Shopify is a great piece of software that just works. It’s SEO friendly, it comes with easy to use product management tools and just about everything you need to sell stuff online.
So why do you need AmberCouch? Well, to stand out from the crowd, of course. We can design great looking store fronts that will make your products sell and, as with all our web designs, our ecommerce sites are built to the web standards so they are going to be compatible, accessible, and usable.
Design for Print
We design and setup artwork for print. Anything you like, letterheads, business cards, comp slips, envelopes, posters and promotional postcards.
Maybe you have a company logo or stationery that is in need of a makeover? Or maybe you just need a poster or two for a festival, event or one off offer?
We also produce smaller items such as labels, badges or adverts for the paper or yellow pages. Let us help you get your business up to date and out there.
Promotional Postcards
Promotional postcards are an excellent way to promote any business, small company or individual. Everybody loves postcards. Artwork can be produced as a working postcard or as a double sided flyer. The examples above are for an array of different clients, it shows how versatile promo cards can be.
Printed Stationery
Everybody should have their own stationery, you can have a stationery set created from scratch, revamp an existing style or if you are looking to change suppliers, have your stationery re-created exactly.
All work will be designed and setup for print by us, everything is taken care of.
If you are looking for something a bit special then you can choose from a large range of stock, recycled, coloured, urban, textured or even plastics.
If you are interested in meeting up to discuss any of the above then please use the contact form below and get in touch!
Richard provided a very professional service, creating a workable website from my own design. He made the design work online and as it was intended. He also provided detailed information on how to implement the theme in Shopify. I was extremely satisfied and would highly recommend his services to anyone.
Julie-Anne Graham
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flickr feed
Here at AmberCouch, we love uploading photos to flickr so here’s a random stream of photographical consciousness.
Click an image to see more photos from our flickr photo stream.
AmberCouch News
- 22/05/09
Ducks ready to race….
- 18/05/09
Upgrading to MU shouldn’t have to be hard and probably isn’t if you do one thing at a time.
- 28/03/09
We don’t like spam but wordpress has a solution.
- 17/03/09
AmberCouch is expanding, well the website is…. a bit.
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