Web Design
We will give your ethical organisation an effective web presence for an extremely reasonable price, with discounts available for campaigns, communities and not-for-profit organisations, and to all those who choose Hats Off Internet for their web hosting as well.
To discuss your requirements and get a quote, please contact us.
We have experience in designing websites within a number of different frameworks, but we recommend Joomla!, which is an open source (that is, written for community and not for profit) Content Management System (CMS).
Joomla is easily extensible and we have experience of designing Joomla sites which have included:
- Blogs
- Forums
- Chatrooms
- Directories
- Document repositories
- Image and multimedia galleries
- E-commerce and shopping cart systems
- Reservation and booking systems
- Banner advertising systems.
The "engine" behind the site you are reading now is Joomla; for an example of a very fully-featured site we have designed take a look at the Idle Foundation; it is a community site with a membership facility giving access to a discussion forum and chatroom with additional features such as private messaging and a repository of user-submitted weblinks.
Joomla is an attractive and powerful website engine which is widely used for thousands of sites from small personal blogs to small business pages, right the way up to corporate presences and complex e-commerce applications. The best bit is, it is free and open source and so we will not charge you anything for it (in fact our web hosting packages come with the option to install it automatically, and it is freely downloadable from the web as well).
We will only charge you for the work involved in making your site unique, developing its own "look and feel" and tweaking it to behave exactly as you require - and that is how we are able to offer extremely reasonable prices for web design.
Given that Joomla! is developed and maintained on an entirely voluntary basis, however, we do suggest that if you have a Joomla! based website you consider making a donation to its developers at joomla.org.
If you would like to discuss your web design requirements, in Joomla or otherwise, please do not hesitate to get in touch.



