Web Development

[ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]As a result, our solutions integrate with the ever-growing landscape of social networking tools and embrace the interactive. Our websites deliver an outstanding online presence and achieve proven commercial results.

We always use the most appropriate technology for every project we work on. However, as we’ve worked extensively on them for many years, we’re renowned for our expertise in WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Magento platforms. Choosing the right platform depends on a variety of factors: existing site, multilingual, multi-domain, eCommerce store, content-driven, user content, and other factors.

At Shepherd, we work with our clients’ core requirements and provide our experience in platforms to provide a suitable recommendation on the platform that will best fulfill the clients’ needs now and will scale with the client as they grow.[/ld_fancy_heading]

[ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]Understanding the Problem[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]Our aim is to solve the problem, be it a more user-friendly site experience, a smoother product workflow, better performance, or increasing conversions.

To do this we start our projects off with a technical analysis and discovery phase. We liaise with key stakeholders, business analysts, end-users, existing teams, and operations.

We review the existing workflow, assets, and code to produce our recommendations. We use a mixture of the traditional waterfall or agile development methods depending on the needs of the client, the size of the project, and the project delivery date.[/ld_fancy_heading]

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[ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]Performance is Everything[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]It’s something we factor into everything we design, create, develop, animate, write, and produce. Because if we can’t noticeably improve the performance of your digital presence, then we are not doing our job.

We work closely with our in-house conversion optimisation team to improve conversion. Our designers create a visually appealing, relevant look and feel, and our conversion optimisation experts test, analyze, and refine every page to ensure it performs just as beautifully. From a design perspective, performance is seamlessly incorporated into every digital project we work on for the simple reason that every asset your browser downloads to display has a weight to it. In other words, the lighter, cleaner, and more agile we can make your website or app, the better its performance will be.

So our creative experts continually review and refine what we need to display on each web page in the design and development process to create a fast, relevant, and enjoyable user experience. One that will load quickly, respond instantly, and let the viewer do – and access – everything they want the second they want it.

Because when users can do this, they’ll stay longer, enjoy the experience more, and are more likely to purchase. They’ll come back more often, too, and share this positive experience with others.[/ld_fancy_heading]

[vc_single_image image=”5594″][ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]Google Pagespeed[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]Google PageSpeed is a basic site performance checker, that will test a supplied page against a list of predefined performance issues. This can be useful to quickly discover common problems such as CSS and Javascript that have not been minified, or images that have not been optimised.[/ld_fancy_heading]

[vc_single_image image=”5595″][ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]Pingdom[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]Pingdom is a performance monitoring tool that provides data on how your website is performing in the wild. By tracking server response time and real user experiences, Pingdom gives you the data you need to assess potential weak points in your infrastructure’s delivery.[/ld_fancy_heading]

[vc_single_image image=”5596″][ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]Mobile Development[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]Your customers expect a consistent brand experience across all platforms. Whether you’re looking to build a native or browser-based app, or whether you’re looking to streamline your website’s mobile layouts, we enhance your mobile offering with tailored user journeys and device-centric functionality. The Concept offers iOS and Android development and brings a best-practice approach to web and app development across all platforms.[/ld_fancy_heading]

[vc_single_image image=”5597″][ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]Responsive Websites[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]We specialise in responsive web design, a powerful approach to building mobile-friendly websites, which tailors display for current and future devices. Responsive web design means that your website adapts to any device, screen size or resolution, ensuring your users have the best possible browsing experience and it’s never been more important.[/ld_fancy_heading]

[ld_fancy_heading tag=”h6″ transform=”text-uppercase” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” fs=”text_small:13px” ls=”text_small:0.1em” margin=”bottom_small:1em”]One Website for All Devices[/ld_fancy_heading][ld_fancy_heading tag=”p” use_custom_fonts_title=”true” padding=”right_large:14%25″]The internet is becoming increasingly mobile, and new browsing devices are appearing at an unprecedented rate. However, it’s expensive to deliver and maintain multiple sites for different devices, and this often means that the consistency of a brand’s website experience across mobile, tablet, and desktop can be poor.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. We’ve developed many websites that use a responsive, fluid design methodology to create one website for all devices.

The introduction of “CSS3 media queries” has changed the way we both design and develop websites. Now, we only need one site which can adapt to any device – whether that’s a desktop computer, smartphone, tablet, or even ultra netbooks like Apple’s Macbook Air. Try resizing your browser to see how your own website reacts.[/ld_fancy_heading]