- — currently determined by confirmation of email address plus company registration details
Industry Intro
Website design & development has consistently been one of the world's fastest growing industries since the 1990s. A non-stop boom in communication technology.
Web designers range from top-end, bespoke, content-managed, search-marketed, database-powered, multilingual, cross-domain giants; to students and hobbyists with an artistic talent for digital graphics design or a mathematical nack for PHP programming; to traditional strategic marcomms agencies with a foothold in online initiatives. On average, web designers tend to have more popular websites than other types of agencies; not just because they know more about internet marketing, but also because it is common practice to link from their clients' sites to their own.
Top level web design conforms to W3C accessibility recommendations, without impeding web users with popup windows and unskippable movies, and can be well interpreted and commended by web search engines like Yahoo and Google. Basic websites are coded in HTML; while advanced functionality can be achieved with technologies like Flash, Java and JavaScript on the client-side, and programming languages like PHP, ASP and JSP on the server-side. Powerful server-side programming languages can easily interpret and manipulate databases automatically; from simple formats like CSV and plain text files, to specialised database platforms like MySQL and MS Access.
Bold graphics, swift animations, whitty stories and slick taglines can line up a web designer with a lot of new business and many happy customers. Twinned with magazine-sponsored awards and ample customer testimonials, new clients often think they're ahead of the game.
But what's going on behind the scenes? What do search engines see? What do disabled web users think? How deep sinks the excellence? How safe is your new brand when under unexpected scrutiny?
The statistics on this page, and on the company profile pages, are by no means foolproof measurements of quality and integrity; but they're generally accepted in global webmaster communities as being noteworthy performance indicators.
Daniel Land
Birmingham Web Development Partnership
Web Designers in Birmingham (UK)
3i Media
Fairgate House, 205 Kings Road, Tyseley, Birmingham, B11 2AA
T: 0121 448 2491 or 0870 803 2498
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4Mation IT
Office 6, Holbeche House, 437 Shirley Road, Acocks Green, Birmingham, B27 7NX
T: 0121 448 9297 or 0121 777 4454
F: 0871 277 1513
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Bluemilkshake
2nd Floor Offices, 51-53 Alcester Road South, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7JQ
T: 0121 288 4096 or 07846 272 280
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Bowler Hat Internet Services
Studio 209B, The Big Peg, 120 Vyse Street, The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B18 6NF
T: 0121 448 8970 or 0121 314 2001
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Calloway Green
Creative Industries Centre, Wolverhampton Science Park, Glaisher Drive, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 9TG
T: 0845 0573420
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Cinnox Consult
Unit 422, 4th Floor, The Greenhouse, The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
T: 0207 193 5232 or 0845 224 7814
F: 0845 299 1224
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E-Foreknowledge
17-21 Vaughton Street South, Birmingham, B12 0YN
T: 0121 448 9299 or 0871 226 2130
F: 0871 226 2131
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Essential Logic
Studios 419-420, The Greenhouse, The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AA
T: 0845 130 5877 or 0121 224 7870
F: 0121 224 7871
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Evolvenet
410a Moseley Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B12 9AT
T: 0121 440 8519 or 0870 803 2529
F: 0870 803 2529
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Fluid7
Suite 1, 20 Chelmarsh, Endeavour Court, Radford, Coventry, West Midlands, CV6 3LB
T: 02476 599 277
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W: fluid7.com
GloDerWorks
Unit 3, 27 Lisle Avenue, Kidderminster, Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, DY11 7DF
T: 01562 631 430 or 07976 802 487
F: 01562 748 383
Iconet
Bromsgrove
Unit D1, Swallow Court, Saxon Business Park, Hanbury Road, Stoke Prior, Bromsgrove, B60 4AD
T: 01527 837 873 or 01527 758 341 or 01527 758 338
Alvechurch
Clergy House, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7SA
T: 01527 758 343
Redditch
Royal House, Market Place, Redditch, B98 8AA
T: 01527 758 333
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W: iconet.co.uk
Iconic Websites
Iconic Websites, 2nd Floor, 3 Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2JB
T: 0121 698 2021
F: 0121 698 8600
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LAS Design
14 Lichfield Street, Gresham Chambers, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1DG
T: 0845 260 9779 or 01902 715 045
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NetSource Solutions
9 Gate Lane, Boldmere, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B73 5TR
T: 0121 321 3600
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Onlineworx
1 Victoria Street, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, CV31 3PU
T: 01926 888 348 or 0161 443 1000
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Print Xpress
1217-1219 Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, B28 9AD
T: 0121 702 2225
F: 0121 702 2226
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R2 Web Design
The Design Centre, 28 Lincoln Road, Olton, Solihull, West Midlands, B27 6PA
T: 0121 708 0488
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SGUD
Unit 1, Bank House, 35-41 Bott Lane, Walsall, Staffordshire, WS1 2JQ
T: 01922 630473
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W: sgud.co.uk
Shhaz Web Designs
Shhaz Web Designs, 47 Formans Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, B11 3AR
T: 0121 778 5008 or 0800 953 0158 or 0776 330 2428
F: 0121 251 8731
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VeriLan Technologies
Unit 10, Business Innovation Centre, Harry Weston Road, Coventry, CV3 2TX
T: 0845 644 2352
F: 0845 644 2353
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Web Space Invaders
Unit 36, The Rubicon Centre, Broad Ground Road, Lakeside, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 8YP
T: 01527 510 333 or 08703 831 233
F: 01527 525 942
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