Manchester based web design freelance agency

dotjuice website design

Manchester based website design and IT business solutions

Professional Website Design

If you aren’t satisfied with your current website for your business, then look no further. We are a professional and very capable web design agency that offers truly bespoke WordPress website tailored around your needs. Not a single one of our websites was built using off the shelf themes, as we’d rather utilise a combination of hand coded functions and/or premium plugins to build fast and functional websites from the ground up. 

We can take care of the whole process from start to finish, including hosting and implementing other cloud based software to help stream line your business workflows. Contact us for a no obligation survey of your IT infrastructure to help your business make the most of technologies which are currently available. 

Recent Web design projects

Beautiful and functional web design

Our Services

Custom WordPress development

Bespoke Website Design

100% bespoke website site design and development. Although the websites we produce has WordPress at it’s core, each website is carefully crafted to meet the needs of your organisation or business. We don’t rely on bloated pre build themes and build each site from scratch using very light weight frameworks to ensure optimal website speed and SEO performance. 

It doesn’t matter if you require a single page site or 100’s of pages, we’ll be able to develop a design and framework that will showcase your products and services in the most effective way possible. 

Modern Minimalist

Branding and Design

We offer branding and design services to get your business off the ground or to rebrand completely. All logos are designed to last a lifetime and we consider different use cases like Social Media and Packaging or Printed media like business cards.

  • Your company brand is vital and the messaging surrounding what you do and the values you hold to is a very personal matter. 
  • We can assist you with branded clothing like t-shirts, hoodies, or small gift items to give away to your customers. 
  • Business cards and letterheads can also be incorporated into our workflow to ensure you get a package with everything you might require to stand out above the rest of your competition. 
  • All original artwork produced can be downloaded from our cloud (link will be provided upon completion) 
  • We take font choice and typography seriously and will limit your website to a maximum of 3 fonts to ensure best speed results.
Fast, Fully Managed VPS hosting

Hosting services

Has your website outgrown the limitations of your shared hosting package? Are you nervous about not doing regular backups and overall website security? 

  • Fully managed VPS hosting options are available to host your website. 
  • Server locations can be in most counties of your choice. USA, UK, Germany etc. 
  • Daily backups are performed and should you wish to move your site, we can compress it and make it available for download from our cloud infrastructure.
  • We utilize the latest server technologies and all sites are in their own Docker containers ensuring security and safety. 
  • VPS (Virtual Private Servers) offer greater CPU and memory resources than typically shared hosting accounts which will be a HUGE benefit to website speed.
IT business solutions

IT infrastucture design and implementation

We can perform an audit of your current IT infrastructure to help find problems with regards to file storage, backups, networking security firewalls and virtual private networking. We solve these problems with enterprise grade open source software which are cloud hosted or can be hosted on site to allow a more secure network, with better document access and collaboration for staff. Some of the technologies we employ.

  • Nextcloud – file storage and document sharing and collaboration
    • Shared calendars and contacts which can be access from phones, tablets and laptops
    • Notes, PDF creation with built in Open Office editor to compose Word, Excel, PDF forms and presentations.
    • Access off site data stores via S3 FTPS etc. 
  • Adguard server for a more controlled internet experience (White list and black list websites that are allowed or not) 
  • Wireguard – VPN to allow remote working or further secure cloud services like Nextcloud and only allow access through private network. 
  • TrueNAS – Enterprise storage 
  • Many other Linux based open source solutions
  • Physical Network point and switch installation. 
Industry leading

e-Commerce Systems

We utilize industry-leading e-Commerce systems like WooCommerce which are used widely on the internet to help you sell your products or services.

  • Product creation and setup
  • Payment gateway integration for Google Pay, Apple Pay, Stripe or Paypal. 
  • Custom filtering and attributes for your products.
  • Integration to Google Analytics for reporting and analysing user behaviour.
  • Product photography can be included in the scope of your project (Product dependant on size) 

WEB SITE FEATURES

How we approach website design projects

website design process

Rest assured that each project we take on will be meticulously planned and tailored to your unique needs. We don’t like using out of the box themes and invested a lot of time and resources into professional third party tools to make our workflows and your web site as cutting edge as possible. We follow a standard development process for the most part and will in some cases skip some steps depending on the complexity of each project.

1. Consultation

In this phase, we'll ask loads of questions to understand your brand and business. We'll talk about colours and website functionality.

2. Wireframing

This step isn't always necessary but is useful in some cases when specialist page layouts are required.

3. Design

At this point, your website front end is being designed. Complex application functions might not all work at this stage.

4. Develop

In most cases, this happens alongside the design process, but in some cases further programming might be required.

5. Content creation

At this point, your website should be mostly finished and needs to be populated with the correct copy and content.

6. Testing

We test your website speed and optimize any settings to ensure it looks and performs well.

website cost considerations

Use our project planner to help you prepare a brief and develop an idea of the costs involved in getting a website.

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