Application and Web Development, Design and Hosting
Passionate about fast web sites
Building web sites is more than just a job for us, it is also a passion. We are constantly developing our own Content Management System to squeeze even more features and speed from it.
Every client who has transferred to us have seen significant increases in their search engine rankings by having one of the fastest Content Management Systems available, and advanced Search Engine Optimisation features built into the heart of their web site.
With an effective mobile first design strategy your site will please visitors across all devices, and effective Social Media linking makes it easy to share your content when desired.
Mobile Friendly
With over 50% of searches now being made on smart phones and tablets, the need for optimised sites has never been greater.
All of our sites are mobile friendly, while still being good to look at and functional.
We also ensure that as many best practices are followed surrounding accessibility for blind users and printing where needed.
Doubled referrals
Aspire 2 Garden Design’s work mainly came from recommendations. Their old web site was outdated and in recent years attracted only a small percentage of their business. They wanted to update their site to appeal to a new market.
After only two months business has more than doubled with my new web site, with enquiries pouring in. Thank you, Claytabase.
Having you build and host my new site was a great decision, I am really delighted with it.
Susan Healy - Owner Aspire2 Garden Design - Sept 2018
Speed Matters
Google has indicated site speed (and as a result, page speed) is one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank pages.
Page speed is also important to user experience, pages with a longer load time tend to have higher bounce rates and lower average time on page, some estimates say there is up to 1% loss for every 100ms delay in page load time.
Longer load times have also been shown to negatively affect conversions.
Claytabase web sites can be proven to be on average three times faster than most of our competitors.
Increase Bookings
Pen-Y-Bryn were struggling to work out why they had very few referrals via their web site.
We are very pleased with the service we have received from Claytabase who have upgraded our web site and improved its search-ability.
Since this work has been done we have seen growth for every month of this year already.
Thank you very much for an excellent personal service.
John & Sue Stenning - Owners Pen-Y-Bryn - Sept 2017
E-commerce
Hosted integration straight out of the box, with providers already covered including;
- SagePay
- WorldPay
- CardStream
- FirstPayments
It is a breeze to edit products and prices from the product management tools provided, and price changes can be set to update at a future date, meaning their is less rush to change them in one go.
Our e-commerce solution
The Stitching Elmers have been using the e-commerce features of Ousia CMS since 2016.
They have the ability to change prices and images from a simple user interface, saving them valuable time and money by keeping the admin in-house.
Ongoing support agreements mean we are on hand whenever they need us.
Isle of Wight web site portfolio highlights
- Ada Mediterranean Kitchen – Web site for one of the top-rated restaurants on the Isle of Wight, and based in Ryde. We wish we could take extra credit, but their food and service is great!
- The Stitching Elmers – Haberdashery shop also based in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. They offer some unique items not available elsewhere, and as such needed a web site with an online store.
- Art2Artz – Therapy through Art. They provided charitable services for people with a range of learning difficulties.
- Pen-Y-Bryn – Bed and breakfast based in Freshwater. We moved their web site to Ousia CMS (added speed) did some basic Search Engine Optimisation (content/link building) took them from page five to page one for some of the most competitive keywords in the area, with no advertising required.
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust – Various internal web data capture functions
- White Trash – Ryde based skateboard company who needed an online app to capture their user data.
London portfolio highlights
- Mervs Mobile Bar – Mobile Bar service covering the London area.
- Bromley Handyman – Handyman covering Bromley and South London, new site, updated and cleaner logos.
- Aspire2Garden Design – Covering the Croydon and the surrounding area.
- Institutional Protection Services – Customised Ousia CMS for managing internal data
- Big Mammas Restaurant – Croydon based diner
- Aperture Tour – South London based tourism company, offering photography tours to Turkey, with a site in English, German and Turkish
Application Development
- Blake Morgan LLP – Using a customised version of Ousia to manage data flow
- Family First Photography – Developing a new platform to help them run their business integrated into their web site.
Secure and reliable hosting
All of our sites are securely kept on Microsoft Azure servers, meaning we can pass on their 99.9% up time SLA.
Four levels of user permissions have been built into Content Management System, allowing you to control what is visible and to who, as well as allowing admin permissions to those you trust.
Content Management System
Mervs Mobile Bar service were one of our first clients.
I would just like to thank Claytabase for my amazing web site creation, their attention to detail has proven a real success.
The ability for me to edit my site myself on a simple interface with my own log on and password is beneficial.
I appreciate all the extra effort Claytabase has given for my web site.
Mervin Pereira - 2014
Logo Design and Branding
Very competitive pricing when bought in conjunction with our other services, we can offer a mid level branding service, and supply additional items including: business cards, mugs, t-shirts and flyers.
Claytabase have been great for me.
They helped with everything from setting up my web site and email, to creating content and gettting me online.
Even as a web novice it is quite easy to update my site
Glenn Howard - 2018
Application Development
We have undertaken projects for clients including the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.
Other projects that involved application development include ARC Europe, Blake Morgan LLP and at OCS Consulting for Unilever.
Responsive web site design with optimisation in mind
All of our sites are designed with the following features built into our platform as standard:
- HTML5 Compliant
- Secure (sounds obvious?)
- Editable by the owner
- Search Engine friendly – All edited content is optimised where possible, and best practice is actively encouraged through the use of templates.
- Responsive mobile first design
- Images optimised at import for minimal footprint
- Include text/CSS/JavaScript editors
- Have “Progressive Web App” features out of the box
- Have built in Google Analytics and a range of meta tags for Search Engines/Social Media sites
- Socially interactive – Unless specified, we add sharing features as default
- Make it easy to get in touch with the owner – Sounds obvious, but who wants to go through 5 pages for a contact number!
- Include automatically updated RSS, Sitemap files
- Google Translate available for quicker translation
These are all built into our Ousia CMS as standard and hosted on our cloud servers. We can do this in other systems, but it can take longer to develop.
Speed Comparison
We've analysed 15 of our local competitors in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight areas for both page speed load times and page speed tools optimisation techniques, and are the only site to always score above 90%, while also loading in under 4 seconds.
We also had considerably better scores on all fronts in comparison to the major players.
