Loungemedia

Loungemedia specializes in content management systems. This allows site owners and staff to simply update the website from their browser, no technical knowledge required. Content management systems can be customized to your specification, typical features a CMS might include:

• ability to create/edit web pages
• monitor stats (page views, user trends, referral links etc)
• manage users allow other users/staff access to private areas of the site

Loungemedia development is usually programmed using xhtml, php and MySQL. These are recognized industry standards that will work on just about any web server. However we can also develop in .net if you prefer to host on Microsoft servers.

If you don”t have specific needs rather than building a custom CMS a better solution might be adapting one of the free systems available such as drupal or joomla. But is should be noted that although the systems are free modifying them to portray you own look and feel can be time consuming.

You tell us what you want and we will make it happen. If the brief has limitations we will highlight these and make appropriate recommendations.

We also provide services to convert designs to functional xhtml websites.

Our motto for web design is keep it simple, its easy to carried away with design but its been proven that viewers are more likely to be irritated that impressed by fancy intros when they are trying to get to the actual content. There is also a strong push for websites to be W3C compliant, which means sites should work well in all devices as well as be more accessible.

We have a lot of designers who we can call upon to create the look and feel to match your brand.

Lounge Media has a proven track record in sustaining page 1 rankings in google and other popular search engines.

Some typical elements of our SEO services are:

• Review your site
• Analyse and update keywords and Key phrases
• Clean up code (bad code, bad practices etc)
• Make recommendations on website content & design.
• Manually submit your site to top Search Engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, DMOZ, Altavista etc.
• Provide a current report
• Create, update site map
• Link building

Some jobs that might fall into this category:

• Updating an event for a static website
• Making your website pages printer friendly
• Making your website more accessible
• Repair browser compatibility issues

If your site requires regular updates or changes we would recommend adding some functionality to either make it dynamic or build a content management system (an admin area where you can login from your office via your web browser and upload the new content.

Got a great looking website but it looks rubbish on mobiles and PDAs?

Loungemedia can build a new version of your website that will only show up on mobile phones and other mobile devices. This is typically a basic version or your website, which will load quicker with simple intuitive navigation menus.