We offer a variety of Web Development services for both the internet and intranets. These services are broadly split into the following categories:

• assessment
• design
• development
• marketing
• other
• hosting
• training

Web Assessment

Before starting the plunge into the internet or when reassessing current internet commitments, it is important as in any other business decision that the expense can be justified. There may be many questions. What sort of site do I need? Do I need a domain name? What is a domain name? How large a site do I need? Will an internet site target our current clients, or our future clients? What about email? What about mailing lists? Can I sell things on my site? Can I provide brochures for visitors? What about security? How do I get people to my site? How do I encourage people to return to the site? And finally can we afford all this?

The internet can be a confusing place. This is where we can help you!

Before undertaking any internet development services, we first like to sit down with our client and find out what they want, need and expect from our services. This allows us to lay out all the possible options, and provide a plan for current and potential future development. By taking this approach it allows your commitment to grow to match business growth or your requirements, without the requirement in the future to 'start again'. This means - YES we can build a 'one-page site', but also help you plan for your future requirements.

We believe in tailoring solutions to your unique requirements, your budget, and your time requirements.

Web Design

Building a web site is about more than just taking some images, placing them with some text, and publishing it all on the internet. Although from the look of some web sites you may disagree. The web today reflects on a organisations whole identity. Potential clients may look to the web to find out about an organisation, and may be left with that first impression. Current clients may look to a web site for information on a companies products or services. For this reason a poorly designed web site can potentially damage an organisation, where as a well presnted web site can further promote a company. This is why design is so important.

A site should never be a 're-hash' of a successful company brochure. Remeber the internet allows you have have an interactive experience, and has differnet underlying rules relating to visitors attention span and downloading speeds. So we take adavantage of this by creating smaller, more quick loading pages, that allow users to 'click' to further detail if desired (maybe even a downloadable brochure), or move more quickly onto other areas of your site. The last thing you want is a user waiting for a page to load, get bored, and go to another site.

Establishing a site look and feel is important so that visitors know when they are in and when they have left the site. Easy to use navigation is also very important in designing, so that as your site grows visitors don't get lost!

Our consultants will design your site to your specifications or suggest ideas that will give your site an unique feel which reflects your organisations own individuality. Whether it be through page layouts, colour schemes, or original or supplied artwork.

We will provide you with a professional designed site, that won't cost the earth.

Web Development

Once your web site is designed you will require it to be built. Are there any important points when building a web site? First and most important, it does not matter how 'pretty' a site is, it must have good content! Development starts by having you provide the information to be contained on the site. We then have one of our experienced consultants proof the materials and give suggestions of how the material can be presented.

Next step is to provide the look and feel for the pages of the site and ensure ease of navigation around the site. This is the basic layout of pages on the site.

Original artwork is an important aspect of the site. There is no point your site looking like your competitors because you used the same clip art library. Artwork can range from icons, buttons, to screen borders and product diagrams or images. We can also provide you with animated images, which can act as attention grabber, or can be used to explain processes. We use graphic designers and artists to provide you with unique images.

There are now a number of ways of building the actual web pages. They can be simple static pages, where the content is always stays the same (HTML), or dynamic pages where the content can change (for example ASP or Java). Dynamic pages can be based on user input or time of visitors. We can integrate databases into your site to provide search capabilities. Basic databases for retrieval of information can be quite economical.

View our other services below for some other types of services we can develop.

Web Marketing

You might ask, what is the point of having a Web Site if no one visits? Good question! When we start a web development we usually first assess your needs (as was described above). At this time we assess who will be the target audience of your web site. It may be current clients, it may be potential new clients, specific internet users, or it may be targeted at the world at large. From this information we can assess what kinds of marketing are desireable for your site.

Starting at a simple level, if your site contains information on your organisation which you believe your customer base, or potential new customers should be aware of, include your web address in all your advertising and company materials (including brochures, business cards and letterheads). This will ensure your first group of visitors.

Remember advertising space can be very expensive, so why not use your web site as "second level" advertising. For example in an ad you may only be able to mention the main features of a new product, why not have the rest of the information in a special promotional web page. We can also track the number of visitors to the page to assess the advertising.

We provide services to improve your rankings in internet search engines. This service can involve targeting specific keyword combinations on specific search engines, or can be of a more general nature. Most sites we develop we include a basic submission to the major Australian and international search engines. In our basic web development service we do take some measures to improve search engine rankings. This will put you on your way to some kind of ranking.

We provide services in analysising statistics of visitors to your site. Most of our web hosting packages come with free statistics.

We can also give you advice on other forms of internet advertising (for example banner advertising and directory services).

Other Services

We can also provide you with a variety of other web related services. They include:

• Email
• Mailing Lists
• Site Statistics
• Advice on selecting domain names
• Online Databases
• Online Stores
• Secure transaction pages
• Secure web or FTP areas

Web Hosting

We provide a range of web hosting options. Find out more information about our web hosting. We can also provide you advice on selecting the type of domain to purchase, domain registration and registration rules.

Training Services

Our group provides a range of training and courseware solutions, including the internet (from email and using a browser, to site development). To find out more information about training and courseware solutions, visit Camets Education.

For further information on Camets Computing, our Web Development Services, our Internet Solutions, or if you have any enquiry please contact us.