Armitage Online Solutions

Creative web design for businesses and brands

Website Design Cumbria

Website Design

We maintain a varied website portfolio, working with clients from a broad range of sectors. Our goal is to produce creative design that will solve a business problem. So whether you're looking to make money or save money, your objectives are always in our focus.

Working with us is a simple partnership. Our first goal is to listen to your needs, those of your audience and sometimes play devils advocate. We want to be sure your approach or business idea can be a success. Once we've discussed ideas and potential pitfalls, we need to finalise a brief. This is where we - between us -  decide what the site should do and how it will achieve its objectives. We need to plan for the 'what if...?' and the 'when we grow...' to ensure both a visually attractive and practical site for users and you as the site owner.

Find out more about our approach to building websites here.

Progressive Enhancement

No, this isn't what some of those junk emails are claiming to offer!  Progressive enhancement means that your site will be fully supported by all the most recent browsers (such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 9) in an approach that uses web technologies in a layered fashion. This allows everyone to access the same basic content and functionality of a web page, while those with more advanced browser software can experience an enhanced version of the page.

Technology

Our standard approach is to build websites using HTML5 and CSS3, making use of jQuery and other Javascript libraries to support newer functionality in older browsers. Our technical programming takes advantage of powerful open source technologies (PHP and MySQL databases) you're not bound by restrictive proprietary code or costly licences.