Website Features

Websites must be easy to read and easy to follow. Within the colour set chosen by the client, minim makes careful choice of text and background to ensure good contrast. Sparing use of background images is advised to avoid distraction.

All minim websites are designed using CSS stylesheets to ensure consistency, ease of editing, faster download and good accessibility. Scalable fonts ensure that the visually-impaired are able to change font size using their browser controls, and all images are provided with "alt tags" to provide text information.

Search Engine Optimisation is a vital aspect for any website, and minim will make relevant content recommendations and use appropriate "metatags" and site design to achieve a good profile with the search engines. This, together with submission to many search engines and directories, is all part of our service. Successful results are shown both by the high ranking of this site and by the feedback from clients

Websites can be designed to enable you to edit the content yourself without expert knowledge or expensive software. One-to-one training for local clients is available to ensure their ability to update the site.
However Minim's experience is that it is usually more cost-effective for the client to concentrate on the business and rely on minim's responsive service to carry out updates.

Depending upon your requirements, your website can incorporate a wide range of features and facilities, which minim will be happy to discuss with you, for example:

• Encryption of e-mail addresses to minimise SPAM
• Web-mail forms to gather information (with image verification if required)
• Use of "include" functions to minimise page filesize
• Database-driven sites with browser-based content management
• Online shopping sites (see e-commerce)
• Changing images, animations, etc.