eSlice design your website in partnership with you, complementing your experience and understanding of your business with our IT experience and electronic marketing knowledge to give you exactly the web presence you need to support your goals.
eSlice can assist at every stage from conception, to implementation, to monitoring and maintenance. We understand the importance and differences of each of these stages and can guide your organisation around the potential pitfalls.
Start Ups
If your organisation has never had its own site before there are many decisions to make beyond who to design your website. eSlice can guide you through the setup making clear your options and the strengths and weaknesses of different packages to ensure your budget gives you the best web presence it can buy.
Maintenance
One of the great strengths of websites is the ability to ensure to that the information you present to your customers is always up to date. While printed information needs some preplanning, with eSlice you can ensure that up to date prices, dates, specifications and all the other details are always available. By taking up maintenance contracts with eSlice you can ensure that your web site has a structured and cost effective plan in place to ensure that your site is an asset to you and your customers not just today but for the life of the business.
Web Access Initiative
The World Wide Web Consortium (the governing body for the standards the Internet is built on) launched the Web Access Initiative (WAI) a set of guidelines on how to make web pages that are universally accessible. By following the guidelines designers can create pages whose essential information can be read on any web browsing device.
This has two important ramifications for organisations with a web presence. Firstly, that users with any device: older versions of web browsers, PDAs, internet ready mobile phones - in fact any device with access to the internet - will be able to get the core of the information from your website even if their device is not capable of interpreting all of the formatting and visual elements on the page. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, those with disabilities who use assistive technologies to use the functionality of web pages will be able to do so with the minimum of complications.
From October 2004 the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 was extended to websites and the law now mandates that websites must be accessible to those with disabilities just as physical premises should be. The Internet is often a lifeline to tens of thousands of people with visual, motor neural, learning or other disabilities and yet a surprisingly large proportion of web sites exclude these users solely through inadequate design.
By building web sites that conform to the WAI, organisations can communicate to all the visitors to their site and project a more professional image to affected users. eSlice specialise in making your pages WAI conformant and accessible.
