Services
Dental Web Design:
Dental Media adopts a fully consultative approach to ensure that the client’s web site fully meets expectations and best represents the practice identity. However, we are fully aware that dentists and practice managers are busy people and we endeavour to make the site development and launch as easy as possible – you can have as much or as little input as time allows and you can be confident that expertise at Dental Media is always behind you.
- beautiful, bespoke dental web design
- cost effective
- search engine optimised
- not just 9 to 5!
- state-of-the-art hosting in the UK
- full e-mail services
- comprehensive spam protection
- no unnecessary, costly add-ons
We design all of our dental web sites to be:
- Accessible and fully compliant with DDA legal requirements
- Search engine friendly by use of modern css based, “table-less” design
- Beautiful and complementary to your practice identity
- Highly functional to best represent your professional interests
- Easy to use and interactive for your users
Our usual work flow is as follows:
- Full discussion to establish your requirements
- Completion (by the client) of a simple form to identify your design preferences e.g. colour schemes, other sites you may like, static or dynamic imagery (e.g. use of flash movies) etc
- Budget quotation for the site design
- On acceptance of the quotation, Dental Media produce site “mock-up” images to determine the web site styling. We have access to many suitable images and can make these available for your use.
- On acceptance of the web site styling, Dental Media build the site and publishes it to test web space – the client can view the progression of the site on the test space but this remains hidden from the general public.
- Client submits web site content (note that we can assist with this where appropriate and make recommendations for inclusion of suitable key text for search engine optimisation)
- Dental Media completes the site design following an iterative feedback process with the client.
- Dental Media optimises the site meta tags (for search engine optimisation) and publishes the web site.
- Dental Media sets up the client’s e-mail accounts and provides access to the users control panel (the control panel has full e-mail and web mail facilities plus web site “hit” statistics)
- Dental Media monitors the performance of the web site for the first two months and makes any small changes to text content free of charge.
Management
Dental Media are always available to look after amendments and additions to your web site. However, unlike other design companies, we do not believe in charging a monthly “management fee” for services that you will likely not need. We do not need to charge for services like “e-mail management”, site performance reports or back-ups because these items are all managed automatically and available to you in real-time via your hosting control panel.
Consequently you only pay for the services you need at an agreed, cost competitive hourly rate. This way, Dental Media guarantee that your ongoing cost of ownership for your web site will be as low as possible.
We will keep an eye on the performance of your site and make any recommendations we feel necessary to ensure that your site stays fresh, easily accessible and appropriately positioned in the search engines.
Hosting
Designing and publishing a beautiful and highly functional web site is not the only part of internet marketing success. Dental Media understand the key importance of selecting the highest quality hosting services to ensure that your site stays visible with maximum uptime and availability.
Our business class servers are based in one of the UK’s premier hosting centres to ensure fast loading, reliable web sites. We charge a cost effective yearly hosting fee which includes full e-mail and web mail facilities, dedicated user control panel with comprehensive “hit” statistics and free data back-ups.
In short, you can be absolutely confident that your web site will be well looked after to ensure maximum up-time, speed and visibility.
Internet Marketing
Dental Media also provides search engine optimisation services to help move your sites up the search rankings. This can be considered to be in three main parts:
- “On site” optimisation – this is where the designer ensures that the site is coded correctly using latest techniques and incorporating relevant key text for your desired search terms.
- “Off site” optimisation – this is where the designer and client work together to seek out relevant back-links to the site. One of the key factors search engines use to rank a site is to assess its popularity by calculating its profile of back-links.
- “Pay-per-click” – natural listing of web sites can take time and this is where a client may choose to employ paid listings or “pay-per-click” in the early months after a web site’s launch. Dental Media can set up and manage PPC campaigns on behalf of a client.
Dental Media are experts in all aspects of search engine ranking and our search leading sites pay testament to this.
Additional Services
Dental Media are also experts in ecommerce solutions for example if you wish to sell dental products or services over the internet.
We also partner with providers of business cards and corporate stationary designed to be in keeping with your web site and corporate identity.