Grass Media Web Design

Making Websites since 2001

Years in business

Current clients

Websites built

430

Herne Bay web design by Grass Media

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We’ve been making websites for our own needs since the dawn of the world wide web in 1989. Since 2001 we’ve been making websites for paying customers. We’ve lost count of the actual number of sites we’ve made but we do know that we’ve built around 422 client sites.

We’re a small, lean and agile business. Because of that we are able to offer excellent websites at affordable prices. Many of our customers are local businesses in and around Herne Bay, Kent. But, we also have some clients as far afield as Dubai!

Our expertise and experience spans not only web design but also product marketing, strategic marketing, business consultancy and online strategies which we can bring to bear for you.

We have a very keen sense of responsibility. We offer a level of support, advice and consultancy that you’d usually expect only from much larger and more expensive agencies.

Don’t take our word for it. Feel free to talk to any of our customers and we’re confident they’ll back up that statement.

Whether you need a simple brochure page for your plumbing business or an online shop on the global high street, we can do it all.

To see the full extent of what we do and see the answers to questions we’re often asked, click on the tabs below.

Herne Bay Web Design

Affordable websites for businesses of all sizes in Kent and the South East

Web Design - we make effective websites at affordable prices

We can make everything from a single page “brochure” site up to an ecommerce site selling thousands of products globally and we can do any or all of that at prices you might find hard to believe and with a level of support rarely found elsewhere. We’re not big but we are smart 🙂

Logo design

It’s not our main line of work but we do have the skills to create basic logos which is especially helpful for our smaller clients and those on a tight budget. For larger graphic arts requirements, we partner with The Studio in Herne Bay.

Copywriting & photography

It’s far harder than you might imagine to write about your own business and that’s why we offer a professional copywriting service. From a brief overview of your business, we can create world class text content or build upon what you already have.

Domain management

We can be a one stop shop for all your web requirements from advising and suggesting suitable to domain name to procuring them on your behalf and then managing renewals etc. for you. Talk to us before choosing a domain name – there may be factors to consider which can impact on the effectiveness of your website.

Hosting

Your website needs a home and that home is a server based out there somewhere on the internet. We lease three dedicated servers and have a fourth dedicated to backups and testing. All of our servers are based in the UK and are GDPR compliant.

Provide secure email accounts

If you need an email address or addresses to go with your new website, we can provide 25Gb secure mailboxes accessible from any web browser, email client or mobile device.

Manage our client sites

The job doesn’t end once we’ve made and launched your website. We continually monitor your site and apply security patches, updates and SEO enhancements as required. Every website we make includes maintenance element which means that should you require text, pricing, image or content updates and changes, we just do it. No extra cost.

Offer flexible pricing including PAYG

As a small business ourselves, we know that money is often tight and budgets limited or non-existent. That’s why we offer flexible billing – prefer a PAYG monthly payment? No problem. No extra cost.

Search engine optimisation

No matter your line of business, ranking well in the search engines is going to be important. We include basic SEO tuning, monitoring and analytics (the ability to see who is visiting your website) as standard on all the websites we make. For businesses where grate search engine rankings is business critical, we are able to offer an extended SEO option.

Social media integration

If you have a Facebook business page (and why wouldn’t you?) we are able to link your page to your website and provide share buttons, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn, on all website content to maximise your social media impact.

Other things we're rather good at

Systems integration

Of course, we make great websites but behind the scenes, we excel at making things work together – things that maybe were never intended to do so. We do that to make your business processes simpler and more efficient. For example, let’s say you receive a new order on your website and you need that order to trigger a chain of events, for example, sending an email to a supplier, updating your customer records, adding the entry to a spreadsheet or cause a light to flash in your home (yes, we can do that too!) we can handle all of that automatically, elegantly and reliably so you don’t have to.

Forms & form management

Over the years we’ve become experts in form design. Forms are the lifeblood of many websites, allowing your customers to interact with your business. It may be a simple satisfaction form or it might be a complex, multi-page form with conditional logic. We can advise and build the most complex of forms and then include the contents directly into your website or any other online system. Talk to us.