SS Explorer

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Introduction

Bringing our clients visions to life is what we’re all about.

Working across all creative sectors since
2008, Visions are passionate about delivering excellence through a ‘first time right’ approach, in order to help our clients reach their commercial potential.

Offering a range of creative services, our primary objective is to successfully align with our clients goals in order to create solutions that will exceed expectations and aid business growth.

The Team

Daniel Cordwell – MD

Having a degree in Graphic Design and over ten years experience in Marketing, I created Visions Design in 2010. Having a creative background but obsessed with anything digital. My philosophy is quite simple.

“Do something you Love, Work Hard and Love your Family”.

My greatest achievement to date has been the ownership of a £1 million marketing budget for a national client resulting in a hugely successful campaign.

As the MD and Founder of Visions Design,
I will head the project and remain a key point of contact throughout.

I will work with your internal teams and branding agency to develop the strategy, align our goals and ultimately ensure we deliver an outstanding project that raises your profile.

Julia Crossman – Head of Comms

Jules is an integral member of the team, bringing with her 9 years in the digital industry and exceptional skills in CX/UX, Account Management & Operations. Jules works closely on each project to ensure experience, communication and results are top notch.

Jade Hill – Account Manager

Jade will lead the project through initial briefing to final stages of completion. Experienced in both offline and online creative communications, Jade is a conscientious and meticulous account manager who will be on hand to support and guide the project, working closely with the design and development team to ensure the creative brief and client vision is met.

Alex Kitching – Project Manager

Alex works as the lead Project Manager. In the context of this project he will work alongside Jade to ensure that the project team are on target and in budget.

Michael Nowakowski – Head of Design

Michael is our lead designer and has high levels of creativity. Michael has been with us since the early days and is a key contributor to the success of the business.

Matt Hamer – Senior Web Developer

Matt is our senior developer and will be leading on this project. Dedicated and meticulous,
he is always looking into latest trends and bringing fresh ideas to his work.

Martyn Locker – Website Developer

Martyn is the newest member of our team. Dedicated to his craft, he is always on top of his game. Top notch code and pixel perfect build every time.

Eva Rey del Rio – Digital Marketing

Experienced in driving digital marketing projects, achieving goals set and meeting both client and business expectations, Eva is a key part of our team when it comes to overall management of SEO, PPC and social strategies.

Caroline Clark – Admin Assistant

Caroline will handle all the paperwork and billing on the account ensuring there are no bottlenecks.

Your Project

Overhaul of the Website

We have had our team look into the current SS Explorer and we agree that a complete overhaul is in order. With a strong focus on fundraising and tourism to restore the vessel and create an amazing tourist attraction. The new website would incorporate membership, merchandise, tourism/bookings, historical story telling about the ship, and assist with the recruitment of volunteers. We are also happy to utilise some of the images previously taken of the vessel for the website.

Logo

We like the look of the logo that was previously created for the SS Explorer and would look to slightly re-invent this to create a more modern and responsive logo.

 

Branding

Along with the logo, we would create a branding toolkit in order to evolve a continuous and structured brand across all online platforms.

Achieving Great Things For Your Brand

At Visions, we understand that branding isn’t just about choosing a logo or colour scheme, it is about developing your marketing tactics across all platforms in order to create lasting value.

Site Structure & UX

High organic search engine rankings are often the result of logical, well-structured site architecture.

Organising your sites content into the most logical structure possible will drive a positive experience.

Usability

Logical information architecture that is user friendly. This will enhance user experience and increase conversions.

Rankings

An intelligent structure will pass link equity to the most important pages on your site and therefore assist rankings.

Conversions

A well-thought out structure should walk the user through the conversion process, from information pages through to purchase. Throughout the design and build of your site we keep in mind how both users and search engines interact with your site.

For users, it’s about getting the most relevant content in front of them, in as few clicks as possible. The same approach can also benefit search engines; by flattening your site architecture you can make gains in indexation (more pages in a search engines index) that can lead to more organic traffic.

What Does Poor Site Architecture Look Like?

To navigate to the bottom layer, search engines and users are expected to venture down a six-click path. This depth is not ideal. Search engines will expect pages this deep to be unimportant and will therefore be less visible in search results, even for “long-tail” keywords. Users on the other hand will likely drop out before they make it to the bottom.

Creating a Flatter Site Architecture

Pages buried very deeply in the architecture will not receive enough link equity (both internally and externally) to be visibly in search engine rankings. By “flattening” the site architecture, you can promote content up the architecture and therefore improve its rank. As illustrated in the above diagram, a “flatter” site architecture. This greatly reduces the number of clicks to the very deepest level and improves the indexation of the site.

Internal Linking

The higher the page is in your architecture, the stronger it will be. Linking from down in the architecture back up to pages higher in the hierarchy can help to prioritise the higher pages for more competitive terms. Breadcrumbs are a great way to link up the architecture, providing both more internal links and a way for search engine crawlers to navigate a website easily. Cross-linking from different categories is also a good way to promote stronger pages on your site. It can also help pass link equity across the site.

What does this mean for your site?

When designing and building your site, we keep in mind the best practices of site architecture from conception through to launch. Our platforms promote a “flat” site architecture. This, combined with the logical categorisation of your content means that your site has the most logical and usable structure possible. The impact this will have on your usability, search engine rankings and conversions will be significant.

Search function

Every page will offer a clear and obvious search function as well as free text searching to enable visitors to navigate effortlessly around the site. Results will be displayed by relevance and will offer close alternatives to accommodate mistypes.

Our Platform

The technology you use (open source or SaaS)

We will be building your new website on a platform used widely in our industry called WordPress. We buildnearly 80% of our websites using this platform and here are a few reasons why;

1. Ease of Use

WordPress is very easy to use and has an intuitive interface for administrators. Adding new pages, blog posts, images and other elements on a regular basis can be done both easily and quickly.

2. Manage Your Website from Any Computer

The WordPress admin system is browser-based meaning that you can log in from any Internet connected computer and manage your site.

3. No HTML Editing or FTP Software Required

WordPress is a self-contained system and does not require HTML editing software. You can create a new page or blog post, format text, upload images (and edit them), upload documents, video files, image galleries, etc. all without the need for additional HTML or FTP software.

4. Search Engines Love WordPress

The code behind WordPress is very clean and simple, making it easy for search engines to read and index a site’s content. In addition, each page, post, and image can have its own meta tag keywords, description, and title, and be optimized for specific keywords, allowing for very precise search engine optimisation.

5. You Have Control of Your Site

This means you could even make small changes yourself if you so wish. With WordPress, you have control of nearly every aspect of your site and can easily make those simple updates yourself. Your Questions

6. The Design is 100% Customizable

WordPress acts as the engine for your website. The look and feel of the site can be 100% customised so your brand can shine through on your site and provide a unique experience to your visitors.

7. A Blog is Built-in and Ready to Go

WordPress was originally created as a blogging platform, so news/blog are built-in and are easy to integrate.

8. Extra Functionality with Plugins

Makes it easy to add an event calendar, video gallery, Twitter Feed, Facebook, and more to your site.

9. Your Site Can Grow as Your Business Grows

WordPress sites are very scalable. You can have hundreds of thousands of pages or blog posts on your site and the performance of the site will not be compromised in the least.

10. Have Multiple Users

As an administrator of a WordPress site, you can set-up multiple users for the website and assign access levels and capabilities to each user.

Process and Timescales

The timescale for a site of this nature can take anywhere in the region of 4 – 8 weeks, depending on the turnaround time regarding review and feedback. We can work to more specific timings within reason.

1. Kick off Meeting

A kick off meeting to get to grips with the project and ensure full understanding of all requirements will be scheduled. From here a creative brief will be developed internally and sent to the design team.

2.Website Content

We will require skeleton content at this point, if not all. It is ideal for us to have an idea of what content will be involved throughout, in order to give us a steer on the development of design.

3.Design

Initial creatives will be developed and will be sent through for review before a full wireframe design roll out is created and signed off.

4.Build

Once the design has been signed off we will begin the development of the site. Once complete we will review and test internally, before sending over for full review.

5.Go Live

When everyone is happy and the site has been signed off, we will then schedule to go live. We have a dedicated go live checklist to ensure all boxes are ticked and no links are left unclicked! Once live, we will be on hand for any support in the event of any technical problems.

 

 

Trust us

A dedicated Account Manager will be on hand to support and drive your project at all times. It is important to us that all our clients expectations are met with the delivery of each successful project, but don’t just take our word for it, take a look at our reviews!

“Visions have helped create all my branding, business cards, website and emails. Can’t fault the service I have received. I highly recommend!”

~ Crossfire Close Protection

 

“Really good service. Designed and built the website I was after, understanding my requirements. Would definitely recommend Visions Design.”

~ Individual Living

 

“From the first point of call to completion the team listened to my needs and wants and worked with me. The end result has surpassed my expectations.”

~ Precision Orthopaedics

 

“The Visions team stood out from the crowd for us with their professional approach and genuine interest in our business. After our initial meeting we were under no doubt it was Visions that we wanted to work with.”

~ Bathtime Bliss

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Costings

Each client will pay 50% in full before we schedule the work (unless stated differently elsewhere). Once the quote has been agreed and the invoice has been paid in full we will begin all work.

We will closely monitor all work and update you with any changes or issues. Once the agreed work has been completed we will notify you and allow for a single set of related amends (unless stated differently elsewhere).

Once the project is finished and signed off each client will be invoiced for the remaining 50%.

Please adhere to the invoice payment terms provided. Queries or disputes regarding the invoice must be made prior to the due date. Any disputes after the due date will be at the discretion of Visions Design Ltd.

Acceptance of this quotation confirms adherence to our terms and conditions.

Website Design & Development

£3,200

 

 

Logo re-creation & Branding

£400.00

Branding

Your brand is where it all starts.

Every successful brand needs to be responsive. The user journey at every stage should reflect the brand from the visual through to the textural. The core values should resonate at any point during a customer’s journey no matter what medium they are using.

When designing the logo we ask ourselves lots of questions. If you want to buy something off the shelf that potentially looks like lots of other businesses then you get what you pay for.

A logo should be built to last. You should invest time, energy and effort in getting this executed in the best way possible, to reflect the business. It has to be responsive and versatile so it scales across various platforms but still looks great and readable. It needs to have clean and proportional lines.

Logo and Branding Package

  • Six logo concepts
  • Three colour schemes
  • Bespoke logo iconography
  • Social media logo graphics
  • Branded collateral
  • Brand guidelines
  • Website favicon
  • Web and print ready files supplied

Website

Each client will pay 50% in full before we schedule the work (unless stated differently elsewhere). Once the quote has been agreed and the invoice has been paid in full we will begin all work.

We will closely monitor all work and update you with any changes or issues. Once the agreed work has been completed we will notify you and allow for a single set of related amends (unless stated differently elsewhere).

Once the project is finished and signed off each client will be invoiced for the remaining 50%.

Please adhere to the invoice payment terms provided. Queries or disputes regarding the invoice must be made prior to the due date. Any disputes after the due date will be at the discretion of Visions Design Ltd.

Acceptance of this quotation confirms adherence to our terms and conditions.

Website Design

  • Research and development of new website and brand design
  • User friendly and responsive designs for desktop and mobile
  • Website structure and wireframe design to include all customer facing pages, interfaces and content based on client approval
  • X2 rounds of client amends
  • Professional copyrighting service

Website Development

  • Development of style sets and interfaces
  • Creation of all pages and content blocks based on approved sitemap
  • Full optimisation for desktop and mobile
  • Social media integration
  • Content population from new or existing approved content
  • CMS Integration; latest Content Management System to be installed with custom admin

Testing and Deployment

  • Thorough testing of site across all browsers and devices
  • Final corrections
  • Migration and redirection of all existing URLs and search engine data
  • Manage and deploy to live site

Hosting Maintenance & Support

To support the website moving forward we offer 3 different support options depending upon the complexity of the project this can vary.

All services are subject to an active Direct Debit. Payment is required in advance of the service being provided. Hours cannot be accumulated over a period of months.

*subject to individual availability

Maintenance Care Plan Package

  • Security monitoring, scans and malware checks
  • Proactive WordPress plug-in updates
  • Proactive software updates
  • Creating and storing back-ups
  • Optimising performance
  • Fixing broken links

£95 per/month

Care and Support Package

  • Security monitoring, scans and malware checks
  • Proactive WordPress plug-in updates
  • Proactive WordPress updates
  • Creating and storing back-ups
  • Optimising performance
  • Fixing broken links
  • Our hour allocated for updates per month

£165 per/month

Maintenance Care Plan Package

  • 10GB storage
  • Includes WordPress theme and plugin updates
  • Security monitoring, scans and malware checks
  • SSL Certificates
  • Daily file and database backups
  • Staging area for updates
  • 9am-5pm email and telephone support (Mon-Fri)
  • Two hours allocated for updates per month
  • Discounted rate of £50 per hour for any additional work required – normally £60 per hour

£195 per/month

 

Other Yearly Costs Include;

SSL, 12 Month SSL Certificate

  • Secure your website with strong encryption
  • Secure browsing via https browser padlock
  • 128/256bit encryption

£100 p/a

Storage

  • 12 months storage on our secure server

£200 p/a

 

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the conversation...

Thanks for reading our functionality breakdown. We hope we’ve answered any questions you may have had, however if there’s anything we’ve missed or something that’s not quite clear then please feel free to give us a call for more information.

Visions Design
9 Church Road
Lymm
WA13 0QG

01925 75 9669
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