Web design Bradford portfolios

Hi, I’m Philip a web designer in Bradford and WordPress assistant. I’ve made a list to give you a better idea of what you’ll find if you search for Web design Bradford portfolios. There are a lot of web designers operating in Bradford, these pages are just some of the portfolio pages you can find on Google.

Chameleon Web Studios
Based in Bradford and Leeds, specialising in Web and Print Design. They offer a wide variety of products and services to help you promote your business.
http://www.chameleonwebstudios.co.uk/portfolio

Melting Clock Design
Based in Harden Bingley Melting Clock offer web and print design. They also convert static xhtml websites to WordPress sites that you can update yourself.
http://www.meltingclockdesign.co.uk/portfolio/

SwishPixel
Based in Shipley Swish Pixel base your site on one of two frameworks, the base package and the shop package. All of their websites use their own in house content management system. They provide sites ranging from brochure sites to e-commerce shops.
http://www.swishpixel.co.uk/work.php

Simon Atherley
Based in Baildon near Shipley. Simon has a fun site offering many services including programming, graphic design and even training services. However I’m not sure if Simon works with small businesses. I’d recommend a look at his services page for more information.
Portfolio pagehttp://www.simonatherley.co.uk/simons-sketch-pad/
Services page http://www.simonatherley.co.uk/services/

Saltaire Web Design
Based in Saltaire near Shipley they offer basic, deluxe and e-commerce packages and lots of options. They also list some package prices.
http://saltairewebdesign.co.uk/portfolio/

9thwave
Based in Shipley they offer websites, hosting and domains as well as graphic design, print, corporate identity and branding services.
http://www.9thwave.co.uk/Portfolio/

Ichicoo Design
Based in Bingley offering website, CMS and e-commerce services as well as email marketing and flash animations.
http://www.ichicoodesign.com/web-design-portfolio.html

this is chemistry
Based in Little Germany, Bradford offering web design, online marketing and SEO as well as direct marketing and branding services.
http://www.thisischemistry.co.uk/our-work/web-and-digital-main/

Websquare
Based in the Carlisle Business Centre Bradford offering website design and development, search engine optimisation, online marketing and e-commerce. They also offer custom Facebook, You Tube and Twitter pages.
http://www.websquare.co.uk/our-work/

websitedesignersbradford (WTS Internet)
Based in Stanningley (just outside Bradford). WTS offer packaged solutions, bespoke design, e-commerce solutions, SEO and content creation.
http://www.websitedesignersbradford.co.uk/portfolio.php

Born Ready Design
Based in Halifax near Bradford. Providing web design, e-commerce sites and mobile phone web design as well as web hosting, site maintenance and print services.
http://www.bornreadydesign.co.uk/design_work.html

Harrison Mann
Offering web design, social media, SEO, Pay Per Click advertising and logo design.
http://harrisonmann.co.uk/work/

I hope you found this list of web design Bradford portfolios useful

When looking through web designers portfolios remember, you want a site that gets results. Ask yourself would a site like this…

• Get my message across effectively.
• Be easy to use.
• Will it confuse or annoy my customers in any way.
• Will I get a good return on my investment?

If you want to search for designers portfolios yourself try this search string…
web design bradford inanchor:”portfolio”
And don’t forget to look at some free and premium WordPress theme archives. You can get securely coded good looking web designs for a sensible price, or even free. There are so many themes or designs out there that you’re almost sure to find one that suits you.
Smashing magazine 100 themes
Theme forest WordPress themes
Template Monster themes
StudioPress (my favourite WordPress quality themes)

Find a theme that is close to what you want and then pay someone to tweak it if you really must. But first ask yourself, do you really need a bespoke web design?

Many big names are now using off the peg websites. Not bespoke designs. Here are some reasons why.

• Quality. A web designer can make a whole career of just one web design or framework. Websites take time to make and keeping that code secure is important. If you buy a bespoke design you may need to check that there are no vulnerabilities discovered after you’ve been using the site and code for a period of time.
• Updates and security. If you bought the site as a one off deal with a web designer you may be faced with a new bill just to update the code and keep it secure at some point in the future.

A good way to avoid this is to use a framework like Genesis or Thesis as a foundation for your website.

The framework such as Genesis or Thesis provides almost all of the code to build your website. You then add a child theme that changes the colours and small design details. Using a framework to build your website is like having a mobile phone with different plastic covers that change the look and colour of the phone.

Because the framework does all of the heavy lifting of making your site function and the child theme is only used to change colours and minor layout options, keeping your site secure is much cheaper and easier. And you can usually change the look of your site with out loosing any of its functionality too, if you keep the same framework and just change the child theme.

If you use WordPress to build your site I highly recommend that you use a framework such as Genesis. It will save you time money and hassle.

This list of web design Bradford portfolios was made by Philip Gledhill, he’s a  web designer in Bradford and WordPress assistant He hopes you find them useful :-)