ODPDS Professional Design Solutions - stepping into the future

All our web design projects are individually tailored to meet the clients online business needs. Communications are made directly with the client in a non-technical manner therefore providing a jargon-free design brief with which we can then set about producing a business website within a designated timescale.

Communications with the client remain constant throughout the duration of the project to ensure the smooth-running of the work in progress. We request that a deposit of the overall cost of the project be paid before any works are started and final payment is only made by the client when they are entirely happy with the finished project.

We provide a full after sales service for all works entered into.

ODPDS is happy to register a domain name(s) for a client - we will only register a domain name for a client if we are happy with and obtain all the necessary information from the client beforehand. We aim to ensure that all domain name(s) are registered to the correct individual and/or business - the registrant of a domain name has complete administrative & legal control over that particular domain name and hence website. It is essential, therefore that the correct details are initially provided by the client upon request of our services.

We therefore make sure the client is the absolute owner of that particular business that the domain name is associated with - we never register a domain name for a client under our own business name as some other web design companies do. This situation happens too often resulting in serious complications for the client who in essence doesn't own the domain name they think they do nor in essence the website that they've paid for, legal issues can then arise thereafter if this is the case. It is difficult to change the registrants details of a domain name after a domain name has been registered - ODPDS aims to get this right the first time round, we are after all aiming to look after our clients interests at all costs.

ODPDS can advise on the choosing of a specific domain name that will represent your business interests online and in essence help to capitilise on its marketing potential online both within the UK and on a global basis.

ODPDS contracts out to a third party company for website hosting. We have been using the same company since our inception and have a good rapport with this company who provide a first class service with very little if no down-time at all. They also offer a number of different hosting services that will suit both the pocket and needs of our clients.

ODPDS can offer an ideal starting package for an SME business website - get your business online today and start marketing yourself online.

ODPDS aims to design websites to W3C standards using some of the most advanced Internet technologies available and of which we are familiar with. We aim to continue our own knowledge and advancement within these areas with continued learning and research. We aim to intigrate the following into every web design project we undertake.

The gathering, structuring and presentaion of information in accordance with effective design principles. Information being presented textually, graphically and in the form of animations throughout the website.

The complete redesign of the website incorporating the successful design, organisation and navigation of information so that it is easy for the user to be able to find and manage the information contained within the website easily.

Attempting to make the website available to everyone, regardless of physical or technical readiness (ie. people with disabilities) to access and use the technology and the information products of every website project designed by ODPDS.

Making use of accessibility in the design of websites is mandatory under the Disability Discrimination Act [ disability.gov.uk ] [ Your rights & the Disability Discrimination Act ]

All ODPDS websites should be accessible to Internet users with the following most used web browsers at the present time. This information is based upon Internet users on Windows, Apple Macintosh, Apache, Unix and Linux computer operating systems.

ODPDS uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2) for design layout together with some tables. This makes the webpages more 'liquid' or 'fluid' in the design sense enabling them to 'fill' the screen of the web browser used.

From complex web server statistics an 800x600 screen resolution appears to be the standard platform that the majority of viewers use when accessing the web.

Instead of restricting viewers solely to a screen resolution of 800x600px or higher we have adopted this approach as so many Internet-enabled devices now use different screen resolutions on wide screen computer displays to view webpages generally.

We have based our new 'fluid' designs around this information and have used the 800x600px platform as the beginnings of our new online venture. We hope to make the website more accessible to viewers in the main by adopting this approach.