We have various options for non-profit organisations in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire that would allow you to have a high quality website with a content management system so you can update your web design and content without needing to get involved with the HTML or other coding on the site.

Apart from web design we can also discuss how best to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to get people involved and talking about your group or society. We would love to hear from anyone interested in getting their local community group online especially in the Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire area.

We provide a complete web design service covering all the latest accessibility requirements and search engine optimisation techniques. Best Served Cold offers a complete managed hosting service with monthly updates to your site included in the price.

Just because we are a small company doesn’t mean that we provide only small websites. We are willing to talk to any company regardless of size in Cambridgeshire about their web design needs. But we won’t push for unnecessary extras for your site.

At Best Served Cold we pride ourselves on being honest and giving good quality advice on the best way forward with your website. We want your site to succeed.

Our aim is to be the best web design company in the Cambridgeshire area.

Based in North Hertfordshire we are ideally placed to meet clients from London or Cambridge and more locally in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. We have dealt successfully with clients from all around the UK.

Although Best Served Cold is still a small company, we don’t think that should mean our websites are small. We aim to design high quality sites and deliver cost effective service to all our clients. From small, local businesses to national companies we will deliver the same level of service.

We build sites to full accessibility standards and work to ensure every website is designed and coded to a high level. All sites are coded with search engine optimisation in mind to make sure they have the best chance of being found and indexed by search engines quickly and efficiently.

If you’d like to find out more, we have a rate card for our standard work.

Our website design clients range from small start-up companies to large organisations and everything in between. With our combined experience in graphic design, website development, e-commerce systems and content management utilities, you can be confident that whatever your project demands, we can deliver. Browse our case studies and when you are convinced of our abilities, you may request your no cost, no obligation quote via our secure contact form.

We have designed and built sites covering a wide range of businesses and used our online marketing knowledge to promote these sites in the UK, Ireland and the USA.

Very simply: Best Served Cold can provide a complete solution for any business web site.

Another factor best served cold take into consideration is how accessible the site is. This ensures that the site is readable by screen readers and other tools that aid the visually impaired and other users. The idea behind fully accessible websites is that anyone is able to read, understand and use the website regardless of ability. The more accessible your site is the more professional it looks and the happier the search engines are to scan and rank it above your competitors.

Of course, these are only a few of the many factors taken into consideration by best served cold whilst designing your site; rest assured that our designers take every endeavour to maintain a relevant and up to date knowledge of current internet trends. This allows us to keep your site at the forefront of web technology if maintained in house by us.

Over the last three years Best Served Cold has worked with companies of varying sizes, from startups to established businesses, to produce a range of websites. We offer advice on anything web related from Search Engine Marketing and Optimisation to Accessilbility and the best way to get a Blog noticed!

We pride ourselves on producing high quality websites that fully conform to the highest web standards. Our sites are accessible and search engine friendly, making sure that all our sites have the best possible chance of succeeding where so many others fail.

If you have any questions about Best Served Cold or what we can do for your company website, please just ask!

If you are looking for a web designer in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire we are very well placed to cater for your needs.

We also work with a number of experienced freelancers who specialise in different areas of website production to make sure our clients get the best advice and the most up to date knowledge and skills for their website.

Since 2003 best served cold have developed a diverse range of unique site designs and systems. To find out more, please look through our case studies.

There are two parts to most websites: the human interface, usually visual, that allows users to read content, view pictures and navigate around the internet. The second part is the back-end coding, used by the computer or other interface to allow the site to be shown and used in the correct way.

Let’s start with the look and feel of a website. Most web designers use a graphics programme to begin the design process – although there are plenty who still use paper and pencils to sketch out ideas. The first designs become templates to refer back to for colour schemes, layout and fonts. Once a design is finalised the process turns to a mixture of coding and graphics.

To code the layout of a website you need to tell a browser how to present the information using a language called HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Over the last few years another language has evolved to make the process of coding easier called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Using CSS and HTML it is possible to seperate the content of a site from the layout and so make sites easier and quicker for browsers to read and display.

Most sites are built from the Homepage inwards – completing the first page is a big step and will often provide the basic code and images for the rest of the website. For most modern websites the act of design and coding the first templates is often undertaken almost silmultaneously. This makes sure that there is a consistent feel throughout the website with colour schemes, fonts and layout staying the same as you progress, much like a magazine.

One of the difficulties of designing a website is the range of systems and formats a site can be viewed in. There are several different browsers and computer systems that show websites slightly differently – not all users have the same screen resolution or fonts. There is also the problem of content as most websites use a similar template throughout the site no matter the amount of content on any given page. This is most evident on sites with hundreds or even thousands of pages where the content is pulled into templates from a database. Any web designer has to contend with these issues during the design process and then again when coding the template.

The second part of a website is the backend – most often on big sites a database with content and information. The design and programming of this part of a site is often produced by a different person to the layout. One of the main advantages of backend coding is that this side of a website is mostly produced using code that sits on a server and isn’t affected by the system of the end user.

Once a site has been designed and coded it just remains for it to be uploaded to a host server to be viewed online over the internet.