Toucher Web Design Portfolio and Testimonials - Page Two

Sean Sweeney is a busy wedding photographer based in Hertfordshire, UK. Sean specialises in weddings photos done in his particular style that leads to an intimate and unique portrayal of those special moments. Like most photographers he needed a website to display his work, his portfolio and his wedding photography prices.

"A big thank you to Bryan for all his work and help. I never quite got round to arranging a website, being somewhat cautious of the skills involved in making one. What can I say? A pleasure to deal with, helpful and efficient, and always quick to respond to any questions or queries. I'd definitely recommend his services to anyone thinking of making a website, good value, extremely knowledgeable and with an obvious passion for the work he does. The finished site was exactly what I wanted, and delivered very quickly. I look forward to using his services again.

Sean J Sweeney, Photographer"
http://www.sjs-photos.co.uk
(Included in Web Design Portfolio April 2010)

First Class Mortgage Advice offer independent mortgage advice for first time buyers, home movers and remortgage customers. Specialist mortgage advice includes buy to let mortgages, poor credit mortgages, capital raising mortgages and self certification mortgages. Mortgage advice is available for the whole of the UK but local to Edinburgh, the Lothian's and Fife.

"Since first contact we found Bryan to be helpful, knowledgeable and jargon free. The service was fast, the quality and professional design allows us to comfortably recommend Toucher Web Design. We are more than happy to engage Bryan's services in the future. 
All in all a job well done!!!"

Paul Homan (Proprietor)
Included in Web Design Portfolio, September 2009

Some Information on the Importance of Testimonials

Search Engine Optimisation

In our first web design portfolio page we discussed writing copy for the search engines using the example "Create a website". On this page we are looking at the phrase "Web Design Portfolio".By inserting the note about when the sites were completed at the bottom of each entry I was able to introduce several additional instances of the key phrase in a valid and natural way. I also added the phrase "Web Designer's Portfolio" to try to attract people searching for this phrase. Realistically this is not going to happen to any great extent because of the competition amongst website designers but I have used it to illustrate the point.

Checking Web Designers Work

Web design is a very transparent business. Whatever web designers you are considering you should be able to check their previous work before accepting their quotation. This is unlike many services where all you have is the word of mouth information. People searching for Web designers generally do so on the Internet so these web designers must be able to attract clients through their own websites and also by their portfolios of previous clients.

You should use this to your advantage, Ensure that the previous work of the designers you are considering is of the standard you require. If the designer does not display a web design portfolio, ask yourself why?

Mortgage Connections is an established mortgage broker's company based in Falkirk, Stirlingshire.

"Although the company has had a web site for 8 years I am a complete novice and need all the help I can get. During the 8 years I have used 3 web design companies and spoken to many more, but Bryan is the first person to listen to what I want from my web site and taken the time to explain it all in layman’s language.

The result is I have what I wanted. I have no hesitation in recommending Bryan to anyone."

George Barrowman Managing Director
http://www.mortgageconnectionsdirect.co.uk
Included in the Web Design Portfolio June 2007

This is the website of Liz Mente Bishop, a children's author. Liz wrote the children's book "Nicodemus and the Flight of the Argus", which is a children's fantasy adventure story set on the Greek Island of Mykonos.

"Dear Bryan and Jimmy,

Well guys, where do I start, other than this is my preferred method of communication (in case you hadn't noticed I am a complete technophobe!). The trouble is I can't delete and rewrite. Words cannot describe how grateful I am to you both. Bryan you are without doubt the most patient person on the planet and Jimmy, I have never met anyone who works as hard as you. except me - ha ha. You are the only person working at midnight and all day too. I hope your other clients realise how hard you work and how passionate you are about your job.

Between you, you have made me feel like your only client, you have never made me feel stupid about my lack of of knowledge and have always been conscientious, considerate, efficient and prompt throughout the whole service you have provided. All the information you have supplied has been accurate and helpful. I feel exceedingly lucky to have found you and have had so many complimentary comments about the website. I would not hesitate to recommend you to other people. I look forward to a long and fruitful business relationship.

Please feel free to use any of my remarks as testimonials. I hope they are helpful to you. Take care and thanks for everything.
Liz"
http://www.nicodemus.uk.com/
Included in Web Design Portfolio, October 2009

Steve McKenna of SMK Photographics is a wedding photographer in Glasgow. He required a website to display his wedding photography service. Steve also required two galleries to illustrate his work in both weddings and portraiture.

"Bryan, many thanks for the great job you have done on our web site, the new site is looking good and can now be found in the search engines. The response we have had in such a short time has been great. The new site was built in under one week with your expertise and the results are brilliant. Once again many thanks and would have no hesitation to recommend your services to others."

Steve McKenna of SMK Photographics
Included in the Web Design Portfolio January 2007

Check the Small Print

You will probably look at a few different web designers before deciding who should create your website. If you are comparing quotations you should ensure that you are comparing like for like. Some web designers may offer just the finished site. Others, like Toucher Web Design, will offer you a complete package including site design, graphics, submission of your site to the major search engines and search engine optimisation.

Part of this search engine optimisation effort is covered in this portfolio where links to your site from mine ensure that Google and the others are able to find your new site.

Website Compliance

It is becoming more important to ensure that your site complies with current website design standards. Unlike most technologies web design and web browsers are very forgiving.

A website can have several faults built in that are not evident while you are viewing it. This is particularly true of Internet Explorer, which allows many design faults to go undetected and displays the faulty sites with no problems being apparent.

These faults can however cause problems in other ways, "behind the scenes". The "Internet robots" that the search engines send to your site to check your content can often be confused when they find these faults and non compliances. At worst this can mean that your site will not be indexed by the search engines and hence it will not feature in their results.

The recognised authority for this is a non profit organisation called the "World Wide Web Consortium" and otherwise known as W3C. All new sites that I produce are built and validated to the required standards.

The ALEXANDRIA BURNS CLUB is a club that celebrates the life, works and heritage of Scotland's national bard, ROBERT BURNS. This site was built not only for members of the club but as a ROBERT BURNS POETRY RESOURCE that will be of interest to all Burns enthusiasts, in Scotland, the UK and Worldwide.

"Bryan,
I have now had an opportunity to have a look at the website. Congratulations on a superb job, I will take a little time over the next couple of weeks to suggest any amendments and give you some more information."
Fergus McLellan
(Alexandria Burns Club Committee, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire)
Included in Web Design Portfolio December 2004