ExpressionEngine Web Development
Totally flexible matching Your Unique Brand
Create a Website that reflects your USP
From the ideation stage through to completion of the site, we will guide you all the way.
Why ExpressionEngine?
ExpessionEngine CMS enables you to have a site that totally unique, completely flexible and most importantly scalable. You are not forced to shoehorn your content into pre-defined cookie-cutter templates that don't fit with your brand or functionality. You can design exactly to your requirements rather than choosing from an array of templates that all look the same.
ExpressionEngine is ideal for growing businesses and agencies, especially if you don't want to have to throw away your site and start again because the template is no longer maintained or the functionality does not cope with changes to your business.
We have over 25 years' experience in web design and building successful websites; 14 years of which building ExpressionEngine websites. We'll be with you every step of the way. Tell us exactly what you need and we can create a website that's unique to you. Contact us now to find out more.
- Increase Sales
- Grow your business
- Get ahead of your competition
Here's an example of just one client that we helped to get ahead of their competition:
We began working for Rubik’s Brand during November 2014. Whilst creating a new website for them we also did some work fixing some critical problems with their old site.
- Sales March 2015 compared to March 2014 percent increase in sales is 280.85%.
- The sales for February 2016 increased by 456.61% - an increase of approx $40K.
- Increase in visitors by 21.96% over the year = 4455618 to 5434230 unique visitors
- Mobile (sessions) increased by 69.13% over the period
This a screen shot showing the change over the period
We started by fixing the issues that they had with their current site and then worked with them to redesign the site completely which resulted in a marked improvement of their overall offering as you can see in the stats above.
They were so pleased with our work that they recommended us to their educational programme: "You CAN do the Cube". Here is more information on our ExpressionEngine site and bespoke Lending Library.
Customer Loyalty
Some of our clients have been with us for over 15 years.
Why?
Because they trust that we always have their best interests at heart. We don't build what you want, we build what you need! You can trust us to give you the best advice on what is the best value for money for your individual business.
Open for Business
Using the ExpressionEngine content management system, we can design something just for you. No themes, no restrictions, just a blank slate for you to express anything you want. This is the great thing about ExpressionEngine, it doesn't force you in one direction or restrict your creativity.
Why we use ExpressionEngine
- Custom field management
- Freedom for designers/developers
- Built-in security
- Flexible template system
- CMS scalability for growing needs
ExpressionEngine gives you control and enables you to create a truly professional site.
Say you want to build in a rental system to your website, we can do it. The London Drum Company's site has inventory management and a fully searchable equipment hire catalogue. This has made hiring out any type of percussion instrument so much smoother. Really the limitations are your imagination not the CMS!
User Experience
Your designer and developer can completely control the User Experience and accessibility markup (WCAG 2.1). You are able to provide the best visitor experience bearing in mind any visual or aural requirements that they have.
SEO
You are in control of your markup so when anything changes, your site can be on top of the game. We use meta tags, semantic markup and structured data to aid crawlers such as Google find your site and rank it well.
Cyber Secure
ExpressionEngine has frequent updates, a configurable permission system and reduced reliance on plug-ins.
Integrations
This is the beauty of different systems talking to each other! It prevents double entry keying in of information and it helps to prevent mistakes. Sometimes the functionality of one system does not cover everything that you need it to do, in fact it is rare when it does. So you need your website to be able to hook into that system and automate the process.
Here are some examples of the types of systems that you might need to integrate:
Marketing Tools
MailChimp / Postmark / Campaign monitor/ Constant Contact
Integrating with these types of system will allow customers to sign up to your newsletter directly from your site. You can add a checkbox to sign up for a newsletter to your contact form or you can add a quick and simple sign up to your newsletter itself.
CRM Systems
Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, SharpSpring, OnePageCRM
Connect ExpressionEngines membership module to your CRM to increase efficiency. When a visitor contacts you on your website, send their details immediately to your CRM and add them to your sales pipeline. You'll be impressed with how much time it will save you.
Event Booking
We can integrate Calendly to allow clients to book directly from your website; no back-and-forth emails that make booking a meeting a job in itself.
Live Chat
There are so many chatbots out there but as we are developers, integrating them is simple. With AI chatbots, you can automate a lot of your customer enquiries so that customers can find out key information at any time of day or night.
Databases
Got data on another system? No problem, we can take away the pain of double-keying data into two disparate systems. No more exporting data in CSV format and then having to fiddle about with it so that you can import it elsewhere.
We've done this for a number of customers including Vamos Theatre, Orange Bikes, Rubik's Brand and Custom Riders to name a few. We specialise in mySQL, mariaDB and Postgres.
We can build you exactly what you want just get in touch. We have our own designer who can help you with everything from your logo and branding right through to the layout of each page.
Design & Branding Services
We start with a conversation about you and your business to understand your value proposition and your customer needs. From there we produce designs for you to see before we begin the build.
ExpressionEngine is a blank canvas and we can create anything on it. We will guide you and help you to choose something that works functionally, beautifully and wonderfully discoverable by search engines and AI search tools.
How and Why knew what they wanted with their brand. Being writers and artists, the look and flexibility of the site was of utmost importance. They took their design one step further with pull quotes and Capitalisation in the text itself making the site stand out from their competitors.
Branding
We can design everything from scratch if needed or work with your existing brand
- Logos
- Banners
- Images
- Print (flyers, business cards, pop-up banners, etc.)
Image optimisation
If you don't feel confident with getting those images right, have no fear, we can cover everything. We will choose the optimal image format, compression and even set you up with a CDN to speed up page load if required.
ExpressionEngine Upgrades
Need help upgrading your ExpressionEngine site? Look no further, we are very experienced in upgrading ExpressionEngine (EECMS) sites. The current version of ExpressionEngine CMS is version 7 and we can help with upgrades of sites from ExpressionEngine version 2 upwards.
Why upgrade?
Although ExpressionEngine is one of the most secure CMS applications, hackers are always looking for potential vulnerabilities. But you can stay safe if you keep your software up to date. The Developers of ExpressionEngine are on top of the latest exploits and are keeping ahead of those who wish you ill. Let's face it, hacking is like any crime, the easier your site is to attack, the more likely that hackers will be drawn to it. Protect yourself and your business by being Cyber Secure.
It also makes sense to keep updated so that any compatibility issues with add-ons are address easily. We build add-ons, so you don't need to worry if an add-on you bought 10 years ago is no longer supported; we've got your back.
Unlike some agencies, we always work on a development server, upgrading and testing all updates before putting them live so you don't need to worry about an update suddenly bringing your business to a halt!
Find out more about our Upgrades and Maintenance services.
Add-on Development
- Need an add-on for ExpressionEngine (EECMS) but can't quite find the right thing? We can build it.
- Have an add-on that is no longer supported that is stopping you from upgrading ExpressionEngine (EECMS)? Look no further, we can get it working for you.
Support
Let us take the strain out of managing your site while you get on with managing your business. We’ve been doing this for years and we know what to look out for and what works best. We'll keep an eye on things and notify you if something needs addressing. Anything from website analytics to user support.
Here are some of the things that are covered in our maintenance contract:
- Site upgrades
- Adjustments and changes to the site
- Troubleshooting if something goes wrong
- SEO advice and guidance
- Additional CMS training and help
- Security
- Help registering your domain name
- DNS support
- Help setting up Google account
- Help setting up Google search console
- Help setting up Bing search indexing