HYGEN Website Design is a professional website design and web development company providing a full range of web services including high-class website development, custom web programming from a simple web page to complex solutions, e-commerce solutions, CMS (Content Management Systems) and search engine friendly website design - SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

We aim to establish long-term customer relationships based on trust and a commitment to produce the best website designs and web developments. We understand that our success depends on our clients - that's why the success of your business is our highest priority. Whatever the project, large or small, we will continue working on it until you are completely satisfied and continue supporting it as long as you require.

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Web Design & Development Service Index

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• Niche Markets
• Global Focus
• Specialist Services
• Custom Standards Compliant Design
• PhotoShop Design → Web Design Conversion
• Web Design Upgrades & Conversions
• CMS Integration & Custom CMS Themes & Templates
• Internationalization: Multilingual Websites
• Flash Movie Design
• SEO Services
• Extra SEO Services
• Design & Development Fees

We Provide Specialist Services

Custom Standards Compliant Design

Web standards are agreed upon by groups such as the W3C to improve the quality, speed and accessibility (to name a few aims) of websites on the Internet. We are dedicated to developing & conforming the latest web standards. For more information on web standards, please read this article.

We provide 100% original, creative designs for your web projects. Our designs are hand coded without the use of cumbersome editors. Every line of code is double checked to make sure it is optimal. We design with the following priorities at all times...

• Accessibility: The web pages have to function regardless of the visitors web browser type, operating system etc. The designs must be usable by people with disabilities and flexible to change with users preferences (font sizes, colors etc).
• Light Weight: We code web designs to be light weight so that they load as fast as possible with as few images and javascript as possible. We code in the latest XHTML & CSS standards without the use of tables. We believe design is achived primarily through coding and not image editing. Our tests have shown on several re-makes of existing sites that we can decrease file sizes by 100% to 200%; improve loading speeds by 100% to 200% or more; decrease bandwidth and server loads by at least 150% to 250%. All of these improvements and the designs still look better than the origionals with improved response times and functionality.
• Useablity - User Experience: Most people surfing the net are impatient and click through dozens of sites before deciding to part with any money or do business in any way over the internet. We make sure that your sites visitors enjoy the time they spend on your site and are never harrassed by poor response times, poor navigation, poor layout or pop-up windows.

PhotoShop Design → Web Design Conversion

Graphic designers are not web designers. Design for printed media and for the web have very little in common. Web pages are coded using (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript and usualy a server side language such as PHP. Web pages often have to be connected to databases or content management systems. For this reason it is most often required to convert PhotoShop designs into web designs. We have a vast amount of experience in achieveing this using proven methods.

If you have a design stuck in layered image files, for example PhotoShop .psd files, then give us a call. We can get the look and feel professionally emulated into a fully functioning, standards compliant web design.

Web Design Upgrades & Conversions

It is often the case that existing websites need upgrades, either as a full re-design or in small stages to suit tight budgets. We specialize in upgrading web designs using the latest techniques, updating images and content, integrating or moving to new content management systems or versions and much more.

The most important, and popular aims for upgrading websites in order to meet new demands and beat competition are as follows...

Update The "Front End"

The "front end" is the Web GUI, the Graphical User Interface. Essentially it is what people actually see of the website, not the inner workings powering it.

• Improve navigation
• Add new features & content
• Meet accessibility standards
• Update markup language from HTML 4.x to XHTML
• Replace improper use of tables with div's and CSS
• Improve overall design and layout (look & feel)
• Add Flash animations and movies / audio
• Add / improve images and artwork
• Implemenet AJAX & JavaScript where necessary

Update The "Back End"

The "Back End" is usually a Web Application (computer program that runs over the internet, through a web browser, not on the desktop. Code is executed on the server, not the client machine) or CMS (content management system). Essentially the "Back End" is what makes the website work and not how it looks. Ideally the "Back End" and "Front End" should be 100% seperated, for ease of management and future updates. This is our speciality.

• Integrate to a CMS
• Upgrade existing CMS
• Add new features and online services, such as forums, polls and blogs
• Add new functionality and web applications, such as calculators and booking engines
• Update & improve back end code

CMS Integration & Custom CMS Themes & Templates

We have much experience working with the latest and greatest content management systems and tools, and have configured and integrated designs, blocks and modules time and time again to the satisfaction of our clients.

Contact us to discuss your requirements. We are happy to share our experience and help you in choosing and tuning the right CMS solution for your web projects.

Internationalization: Multilingual Websites

When you do business or present your business online, you are in a globaly open space where visitors, customers & clients can come from anywhere from anywhere in the world. If you intend to provide services locally, regionaly or glabally you will need to Internationalize in any case. Even within local markets, you may need to provide multi-lingual content.

We provide the following Internationalization services...

• Website Internationalization including language switching abilities, automatic country & language detection, multilingual Unicode support, and more.
• Content translation: English, Chinese (Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese & more), Malaysian, Indonesian, Thai
• Assistance in sourcing of any other language translations
• Local knowledge and assistance in South East Asia region for developing localized websites
• Web Server localization - Strategy planning and implementing local server mirrors in South East Asia or United Kingdom to better server local markets.

Flash Movie Design

Flash, used in moderate quantities is an acceptable and a welcome addition to most websites, from multinational corporations, to personal blogs. We can develop a wide range of Flash movies, from animated banners, Flash logos, Flash introductions (splash screens), Flash presentations and more.

100% Flash Sites

100% Flash sites are websites created entirely in Flash. Although we don't recommend "100% Flash sites", without the use of standard (X)HTML navigation, content and page layout, we can provide these services if requested. For a more detailed explanation please contact us.

SEO Services

The following SEO services are provided as part of every website package as standard.

• Analysis, review and assessment of targeted keywords for your content.
• Full technical optimization of site structure to insure search engine spiderability and increased content priority in search engine listings.
• Optimization of web page titles and (X)HTML meta tags.
• Optimization of content. Getting the most relevent content on each page and making it easily accessible in organized sections.
• Manual search engine submissions, which are normally regarded better than automated submissions.

Extra SEO Services

Link building is provided as an extra service and you can consider it an add on option when we are building your website. Link building is done according to your choice of keywords which you would like to rank well for in the search engines. Link building is critical for the online marketing of your website.

As an example, if you desire your website to be in the top 10 results for "UK Something"; "Something In The UK"; "Something London" and "Something Services In London" then we will target incoming links and match content so that searches for the phrases will display your website as well as possible in the search results.

For more information on our services, please contact us. Also you should check out our special offers.