Oracle Catering Services is a catering consultancy business based in Pagham and run by Chichester businessman Garry Wilberforce.

This website displays Garry’s business services but is also a great resource for wannabe chefs with a whole host of recipes and culinary tips and tricks.

If you like the look of this clean and contemporary website and you think that your business could benefit from a fresh website, then contact Access – by Design to discuss what we can offer you.

The Rent a Friend site is at pains to point out that it isn’t a dating site and that friends are for platonic purposes only.

Maybe I’m old-fashioned (my colleagues already laugh at my addiction to a pen and paper whilst they tap away on their keyboards) but I’m a little apprehensive at this next step in the dominance of the internet in daily life. Rent a Friend will soon replace the need to actually pluck up the courage to make new acquaintances, just like MSN has replaced my daughter’s need to physically go out and meet her friends after school.

But on the other hand I quite fancy going to see a film at the cinema tonight and I’ve got no-one to go with – let me just log on…

By Luce Wright

Neville Stein

Managing Director, Ovation Business Consultants

Roger Ellis
Director, Future Fisheries

We don’t mean that will pop your website url into some random, automated accessibility test and provide you with a simultaneously vague, yet cryptic list concerning such oddities as mark-up and user-agents. We mean that you website will be tested by (gasp) a REAL person who  then provide you with simple and effective ways to improve any problem areas your site may have.

This is offer is NOT for Access-by Design clients (who ought to already be pretty accessible unless our company needs a serious name change) but for ANY businesses and individual with a website. We are not offering this to filch other designers clients, get you onto our mailing list or find some dodgy way of making you pay us some money for ‘extras’.  This is something we do all year round (usually for £50) but if you have read anything on this website, you will know that we care and hope for a FULLY ACCESSIBLE internet one day. This little gift might help a few more website do that…

We GUARANTEE we can improve accessibility on your website!

Our Accessibility audits;

• Are quality assured by trained, certified professionals.
• follow their code(s) of conduct set out by The Guild of Accessible Web Designers to whom Access – By Design are proud to belong
• follow stringent worldwide accessibility guidelines and international web standards, many of which have been in place for over eight years .
• use some automated testing but are primarily manual checks  ALWAYS carried out by an real person as auditor.
• Audits are either carried out by or secondarily checked by a REAL disabled person  who either uses assistive technologies to view the website or who have a disability that significantly affects their use of computers and browsing the internet

• This audit is often all a small to medium website needs to significantly improve the access on their website.
• The audit is usually up to 500 words which outlines the major areas with accessibility issues and also your accessibility strengths.
• Unlike most audits we also look at your website capability to perform on the newest technologies such as PDAs, mobile phones and internet enabled TV and Games Consoles.
• These Overview Audits are created for you to pass on to your web designer or implement yourself.

PLEASE NOTE:

• We do not make any changes to your website for you.
• Please advise us whether the improvements will be carried out by a trained web practitioner or a talented amateur web designer so that the wording of the audit can be delivered appropriately.

This offer is only valid up until 31st December 2009! Contact us today on 01243 514454.

• More details about our accessibility audits can be found via this link →
  

Using our in-house, broadcast quality studio your business can commission him to write a jingle, a theme or the perfect music for your new product showreel.

Because everything is in-house – from composition, to recording, to finished media, you will be amazed at how affordable this service is for every sized business, community group, charity or even local school.

Want something really big? How about an orchestra?  Access – by Design works with L.B.W. – an international group of professionals wh0 just happen to have an orchestra to hand!

As you can see – nothing is too big or too small for music at Access – by Design. Whether you are just looking for background music for an online corporate video or you are a theatre looking for an orchestrated score  at half the normal fee for your next production we REALLY can do anything…

Call us on the studio number for more details or an informal chat…01243 514567

Web accessibility is no longer just for ‘disabled websites’.  If you have a website, you MUST try and adhere to basic web accessibility guidelines and web standards* . The ‘disabled pound’ is worth £80 billion – your business simply cannot afford to discriminate online – even if you were not aware you were!

We can audit your website for you.

• Access – By Design accessibility audits are quality assured by trained, certified professionals.
• Access – By Design are proud to belong to The Guild of Accessible Web Designers and follow their code(s) of conduct.
• Access audits follow stringent worldwide accessibility guidelines and international web standards, many of which have been in place for over eight years .
• Audits do use some automated testing but manual checks are ALWAYS carried out by an real person as auditor.
• Audits are either carried out by or secondarily checked by a REAL disabled person  who either uses assistive technologies to view the website or who have a disability that significantly affects their use of computers and browsing the internet

We offer two kinds of audit:

• The Overview Audit.

This audit is often all a small to medium website needs to significantly improve the access on their website.  The audit is usually up to 500 words which outlines the major areas with accessibility issues and also your accessibility strengths.  Unlike most audits we also look at your website capability to perform on the newest technologies such as PDAs, mobile phones and HD TV. These Overview Audits are created for you to pass on to your web designer or implement yourself.  We do not make any changes to your website for you. Please advise us whether the improvements will be carried out by a trained web practitioner or a talented amateur web designer so that the wording of the audit can be delivered appropriately.

The current price (2010) for an Overview Audit is £50

• Access – by Design Full Audit.

This is a full investigation of your website with a complete check across all three main accessibility priority areas with practical and realistic advice on how issues can be fixed or accessible alternatives provided . Unlike most audits we also look at your website capability to perform on the newest technologies such as PDAs, mobile phones and HD TV. We do not make any changes to your website for you but we are explicit (even to code line number) as to where the issue is and accessible web techniques to use instead. Please advise us whether the improvements will be carried out by a trained web practitioner or a talented amateur web designer so that the wording of the audit can be delivered appropriately.

The current price (2010) for a Full Audit is £350**.

*These are NOT the same thing and do not ensure accessibility or web compliance in their own right.

** Sites over 25 pages will incur an additional fee in negotiation with the client.

• How do we give you CONTROL?

By being innovators of what are called ‘Dynamic ‘websites. Forget HTML and tables!

• What does that mean?

We design you a great contemporary website. Then, because it is ‘Dynamic’ we can train YOU how to run it yourself with NO web design or prior technical knowledge needed and NO need for software or courses – only an internet connection.

• Why does that help my business?

Managing your website helps you beat the “credit crunch” by removing large website maintenance fees.

NO more waiting for busy designers to update your site at extra cost.

ADD new pages and images to your site as quickly as sending an email.

Jump into easy E-Commerce – fast and secure!

Link up to your Facebook page or Ebay shop and see how quickly your company grows.

• Why are we called ACCESS – by design? Isn’t all web design the same?
  

Sadly not all web design is GOOD design – no matter how pretty it may look. Whist looking for a way to make websites disability-friendly, we realised that accessible design helped EVERYONE. Now we are industry leaders!

Dynamic web design techniques allow our websites to work on anything:- PCs, Apple Macs, laptops, netbooks, mobile phones, iphones, Blackberrys and PDAs, all the way up to HD TVs!

• Why does it matter that my website works on all those things?

Our websites also work with all of the popular browsers because you don’t know what people will be using to look at your website. Believe us, if it doesn’t work for them, they won’t be back in the future! We work to global web standards and are top-level ‘disability friendly’ too!

• What about Google and other search engines?

We have fantastic search engine results for our clients, our unique dynamic SEO techniques mean that all of your pages are working for you round the clock to bring in traffic to your website. ALL our clients score over 80% in an international, independent SEO ranking.

• Won’t all this make my website slow?

If we hosted our websites the way most web design companies do, yes.  Your website would be slow because your website would be sharing the server with hundreds (if not thousands) of other websites.  Access – by Design is different. We invested in  our  own dedicated server, which is actually in Maidenhead, sitting right on the ‘electronic backbone ‘of the country for super-fast connection speed and response time. We only host for our clients and we don’t share with anyone! Think of it like taking a toll road –   you pay a little  to be on it but you get  the ability to go as fast as you like and you get to jump the traffic jams too.

Because we own our server, you also get a phenomenal amount of information about your site visitors’ statistics, tracking everyone who visits your website – even down to what they typed into the search engine that led them to you. Our servers are monitored  by real people, 24 hours a day and we get hourly reports  here in the Chichester office to check speed, security and status. Your website is also backed up every day, every week and every month so you have the added security that your information is in safe hands.

• Doesn’t all this mean Access – by Design sites are expensive?

We promise you will be amazed at how reasonable our quotes are and also how much you get for your money. We don’t ‘do’ hidden charges. By removing maintenance fees and ongoing costs most companies find they save hundreds of pounds a year by switching to Access – by Design.  Our hosting fee  is a little bit higher than some (think of the toll road example above) but when you see what benefit hosting on a dedicated server brings, you’ll wish you had made the change years ago.

• What about ethical buying?

We are please to say we don’t cut our costs or your quality by outsourcing our coding to Eastern Europe or Asia. We strongly advise businesses to avoid design houses who do. At Access-by Design you have your own personal designer whom you can phone, email and meet in person at our office.

We will work with you to create a contemporary, flexible website that presents you to the world wide web in your best light! Talk to us today on 01243 514454.

Access by Design – proud to do things differently!