Web Design In Glastonbury

Being located near Glastonbury, we can visit you and your staff at your place of work - be it an office, home, farm, warehouse, or any other location - and see first-hand what you do.

In this way we can most effectively understand how you'd like to supplement your services with a web presence, and how we can best present your company and services.

This also means that you can drop by our offices and meet the team in a friendly and informal environment, discuss your project with our designers and developers in-person, and receive personal training in the use of our commerce and content management systems.

We can also assist with configuring your laptops, desktops and mobile devices to use your new mail services and web management facilities.

About Glastonbury

Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset situated at a dry point on the Somerset Levels, 30 miles south of Bristol and 6 miles south west of Wells . The town has a population of approximately 9,000 people.

The town is known for its history, including Glastonbury Lake Village, Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset Rural Life Museum and Glastonbury Tor, the many myths and legends associated with the town, and the Glastonbury Festival which takes place in the nearby village of Pilton.

During the 7th millennium BC the sea level rose and flooded the valleys and low lying ground surrounding Glastonbury so the Mesolithic people occupied seasonal camps on the higher ground, indicated by scatters of flints.[6] The Neolithic people continued to exploit the reedswamps for their natural resources and started to construct wooden trackways. These included the Sweet Track, west of Glastonbury, which is one of the oldest engineered roads known and the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe. Tree-ring dating of the timbers has enabled very precise dating of the track, showing it was built in 3807 or 3806 BC. It has been claimed to be the oldest road in the world.

The track was discovered in the course of peat digging in 1970, and is named after its discoverer, Ray Sweet. It extended across the marsh between what was then an island at Westhay, and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick, a distance close to 2,000 metres (about 1.24 miles). The track is one of a network of tracks that once crossed the Somerset Levels.

Glastonbury today is a centre for religious tourism and pilgrimage. Diverse strains of mysticism and paganism co-exist alongside the followers of its Catholic heritage. As with many towns of similar size, the centre is not as thriving as it once was but Glastonbury supports a remarkable number of alternative shops. The outskirts of the town include a DIY shop and the slow redevelopment of a former sheepskin and slipper factory site, once owned by Morlands. Although the redevelopment has been slow, clearance of the site has begun with a dramatic change to its appearance.

Information & text gathered from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 1st, 2021, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury

Our Services

Thanks to a team of multi-skilled web developers, designers and multimedia editors, Webglu is able to offer a wide range of web and multimedia services in the Glastonbury area.

Web Site Design & Production

Our primary focus is the design, construction and maintenance of web sites and web applications.

All of our designs are bespoke to you and your company - we do not use templates or off-the-shelf designs. This allows us to tailor your site to your exact needs.

We can work with any size of project, from small 2-3 page promotional micro-sitesMicro SiteUsually consisting of a small number of pages, these sites are often used for promotional purposes, either to raise awareness of a new product or service, or as an ancillary to a much larger site, targeting a specific group of customers., to large database-driven corporate systems.

The majority of our web sites are integrated with our web-based content management system, which allows you to easily update your site without our intervention.

Outsourcing To Us

We have long-standing relationships with a number of design and marketing studios whom do not have their own in-house web expertise. We often build and implement designs produced by these studios, and offer technical consultation where required.

Graphic Design & Branding

Often as part of our web site design & development package, we will create a new brand for our clients, incorporating a full corporate identity (logo, colour scheme, livery & stationary).

Close ties with local print experts allow us to take care of all aspects of the printing process.

We can also offer branding and print marketing services independent of a web project.

Audio & Video Editing

As multimedia has become more prevalent in modern web sites, we have found the need to work with both video and audio material on a regular basis. We now have a great deal of experience in preparing such material for web use, and can offer video editing and post-production services to our clients.

Flash video integration has become very popular in particular, as it offers high-quality video streamingStreamingA method of delivering multimedia content, such as audio or video. Rather than downloading an entire video or audio file before beginning playback, a file may be streamed to the user, playing as it downloads. This can allow videos on sites like YouTube to begin playing almost instantly. video with no requirement for further browser plug ins or software downloads other than the Flash player.

Commerce & Sales Systems

Many companies are looking to online sales for a cheaper and lower-risk avenue for product and service sales.

In many instances we can utilise open-sourceOpen-SourceA classification of software. If an application or system is 'open-source', it means that the code and resources behind it is freely available to anyone whom wishes to use or modify it, for no fee. technology as the basis for your commerce project, keeping the cost to you low and the flexibility of your store high.

However, we are not bound to the use of off-the-shelf commerce solutions. We have created many bespoke sales systems for our clients, and can implement a number of payment gatewaysPayment GatewayOnline transaction services operated by banks and other third parties. Whenever a customer places an online order for a product or service, their card details and payment information are sent to and processed by a payment gateway. to suit your business.

Interactive Games Production

Using our experience with FlashFlashA popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages - Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various interactive components, integrate video, and to create web-based applications. technology, we have created many bespoke games and interactive entertainment products.

Online games are a great way to encourage new and repeat visitors to your site, and may be used for promotional or viral marketing purposes.

Games may also be used as a learning tool for younger audiences.

E-Mail & Digital Marketing

Digital direct marketing is a cost-effective and environmentally friendlier way of introducing new and existing clients to your latest products and services.

We have created a bespoke contact and mailer management system which allows you to control your e-mail content and recipient data.