Web Design Services for the UK, Ireland and Europe

Like many people, have you just got round to realising that you would like, or need, a Web site? Maybe you already have a Web site and it is out of date or is becoming very expensive to maintain. This is where Ballybar Solutions can help.

If you are concerned about local support, don't worry. With the rapid advance of broadband, Webs can be developed and maintained for anywhere in the world. Ballybar Solutions uses Hosting365 in Dublin to host all commercial sites and will continue to do so.

Ballybar Solutions can provide a complete Web service for personal sites, small business brochure sites and larger commercial sites:

• Web design to your requirements.
• Photography for any Web images, or conversion of your own images for the Web.
• Graphic Design.
• Web site developed using DreamWeaver, FrontPage, NVU or Web Standards. 
• Arrangement of Web hosting.
• Publishing the Web site.
• Training for you, or your staff, to maintain the Web site easily and effectively.

Macromedia DreamWeaver is the choice of most Web professionals, but for individuals and businesses Microsoft FrontPage is cheaper to buy, easier to learn and a little more expensive to have hosted. Look at the example sites from Live Webs in the side menu. Most of these were hand-coded using (X)HTML and CSS, which makes them fast and they look and feel like a DreamWeaver product. Above all, they are very simple and should not need very expensive maintenance. Increasingly, a free product called NVU will be used commercially and should be an attractive program for anyone wishing to maintain a Web site using a graphical program.

For further inspiration look at the Templates section. A number of different styles have been created, using this site as a basis. Any of these templates can be used, combined or modified for your site, with whatever colour scheme you would prefer. These templates have been constructed using Web Standards techniques and are hand coded. They are quick, simple and exhibit the best, modern Web development techniques.

For a company, Content Management is a better alternative that allows users to take back control of the Web from developers. Design, or get designed for you, one or two pages without any content and you can develop the site by adding content, adding or removing pages, generating automatic menus, having a secure members' area, incorporate search facilities and much more. Content management systems used to cost, and many still do, many thousands of Euro. You can now achieve the same for a few hundred Euro. Above all, the only skill you need is to be able to use a word processor like Microsoft Word. For more details, Click on the Cobra-cms links on the left.

Examples of Webs developed using Cobra can be seen by clicking on Live Cobra Webs on the side menu.

Ballybar Solutions can develop a Web based on any client requirement. Draft out what you require or show a site with a style that you like and a suitable site can be developed.