Web Design

Web Design
& Website Design UK

Here at Creare, great web design comes as standard, however equally important is web optimisation, functionality and customer service. Rest assured all these qualities are reinforced at Creare. The Creare Group operate throughout the UK.

E-commerce Website Design

E-Commerce
Web Design Services

Creare offer complete e-commerce solutions. We understand the importance of usability for both the customer and the shop owner. As well as maintaining stock and processing orders, our e-commerce packages also come with website optimization & marketing.

Website Optimization

Website Optimization
& Internet Marketing

If you are looking to maximise your web-site's performance in search engines, Creare offer website optimization services to improve your organic rankings in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo & MSN.

Yellow Pages Advertising

Yellow Pages Advertising
& Graphic Design Services

Creare are also specialist Directory & Yellow Pages Advertising consultants. From design to submission, Creare can manage the entire process for you. Creare also offer complete graphic design solutions covering folder design, logo design, corporate identity design and advert design.

Welcome To Creare
Web Design & Website Marketing

Welcome to the Creare Group. We are a web design and internet marketing studio that specialises in; web design, website optimization, marketing and bespoke functionality.

When choosing a web design company, the design plays an important role in the success of your online presence. Here at Creare we traditionally employ graphic and web designers who together produce great designs that are technically sound. Equally important are factors that you should take into consideration. These consist of 4 following disciplines:

  1. Web Design - W3C complaint XHTML & CSS coding, and a keen focus on website usability.
  2. Marketing - An understanding of your online objectives and existing marketing concepts.
  3. Website Optimization - Search engine friendly website coding and maintenance of search engine rankings.
  4. Functionality - Bespoke Content Management Systems (CMS) developed to your exact requirements.

For more information about any of our services then please call our Lutterworth head office on 0800 01 999 06 or alternatively you can complete our online enquiry form.

Web Design
& Website Designer's Resources

Web Design / Website Design Encyclopaedia

Our extensive 'Web Design / Website Design Encyclopaedia', aims to archive an up-to-date catalogue of everything in the world of web design. From CSS to W3C Compliance, our web design encyclopaedia articles are written and maintained by the public, similar to the format on Wikipedia. You can read, edit and contribute new web design articles that span all aspects of web design.

Website Design Templates, Artwork & PDF Downloads

Our website design resources contain a rich variety of informative PDF's, vector artwork and website templates. All of our website design resources are free to download and are regularly updated by our in-house design team.

Web Designers - Tutorials, Scripts & Resources

For web designers looking to 'up their game' and find that elusive coding; our 'Web Designers Tutorials, Scripts and Resources' are written by our in-house web designers and are available for free download from our resource pages. All of our free scripts, tutorials and downloads are written by our in-house web designers at Creare and are not copied from other web sites on the internet.

Latest Web Design Video Blog

Add a Favicon to your site - June 19th, 2009

In Creare's third video blog, James demonstrates on his laptop how to install the .ICO plugin for Photoshop. After installation James goes on to show you how to make a Favicon in Photoshop and then load it onto your webpage.

In this web design video blog, we use for the first time, software that lets you watch what we are doing on our computer throughout the tutorial so that you can pause and play it if you are following along.

Please ask questions on our Blog Comments, and Nick & James will endeavor to answer them as soon as possible.

You can also view our previous website design video blogs by clicking on the thumbnails opposite.

Learn More About This Blog

Web Design - News


  1. Web Design News - Creare launch new web design
    An overview of the launch of our new website design. Our relaunch includes new pages such as web video, pricing and web design resources. This blog also takes a sneak preview at the new re-branding of Creare. Read More »
  2. Web Design News - The Web Revolution - June 12, 2009
    The Internet has become the undisputed home of freedom of expression. Whether you?re using the web for work, entertainment, voicing your opinions, Web design or any other of its wonderful multitude of uses, one thing?s for sure, if you are reading this, it has more than likely become a very large and important part of [...] Read More »
  3. Web Design News - Google One-Line Sitelinks - May 9, 2009
    Google has recently been trailing a new method for displaying site-links in its’ search results. Site-links are essentially a mini site-map for a search result in Google. Traditionally, site-links only appeared for the top result of a search if the top result was by far, the most suitable match. For example, if you search ‘Creare’, because [...] Read More »

Web Design Encyclopaedia

Website Design - Articles


  1. Website Design Article - Creares Website Design Video Blog - June 28, 2009
    A quick update about our website design video blog, and we also highlight the W3C compliant embedding code to put Youtube videos on your website. You can also find out the subject of our next two video blogs. Read More »
  2. Website Design Article - Evolution Of Web Design - June 3, 2009
    In this rapidly developing technological world, its evident, that the Internet and web design standards have come a long way in a very short space of time. The factors contributing to this suggest thus far, a pattern of evolution not revolution, as could be said for other industries. It is clear that the advancement of web [...] Read More »
  3. Website Design Article - The advantages of W3C compliance - May 1, 2009
    Having just finished doing some W3C Compliance fine tuning on a web site I recently finished, I thought I’d just write a quick blog about the importance of W3C compliance. In my opinion, making your web site W3C Complaince serves the following benefits: Increased cross-platform reliability. Increased ‘Crawlability’ by Search Engine Bots. Good working practice. Once explained, shows your clients [...] Read More »

Website Design Information & Resources

Web Designer's - Tips Tricks & Tutorials


  1. Website Designers Blog - Web Designers Domain Transfer Guide - June 26, 2009
    Download our free web designer's PDF flow-chart that details how to transfer both .co.uk and .com TLD's from the existing domain host to another of your choosing. Read More »
  2. Website Designers Blog - HTML List Styling Without CSS - April 30, 2009
    Having recently hand-coded a monster HTML Terms & Conditions page for one of my big clients, i’ve picked up a lot more knowledge when it comes to managing bullet points without the assistance of CSS. Firstly, it is best to look at the different types of Bullet points and how they can be manipulated in [...] Read More »
  3. Website Designers Blog - Advice On Buying Domain Names - April 29, 2009
    When starting a business, or taking your business online for the first time, choosing the correct domain name(s) is paramount. I have spoken to a lot of businesses about how frustrating it can be to be stuck with a domain name that is too established to overhaul. Choosing a domain name can have a massive [...] Read More »

Web Designer Tutorials, Scripts & Resources

Web Design History

Web site design has come a very long way since the Internet’s very first web site back in the early 1990’s. Like the Internet’s very first web sites, the majority of sites are presented in a computer language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language). HTML is currently in its’ 4th version, with the next major version, HTML 5 currently being rolled out. HTML 4 has been the core Internet Mark-Up language for nearly 10 years. Ever since the original conception of HTML, the Internet boom has spawned an array of hundreds if not thousands of other languages, software and mediums that are used in collaboration to produce modern, attractive and dynamic web sites.

Web Site Design & Web Development

In modern times, there are a whole host of features available to build a both stunning and interactive web site. The construction and completion of a web site can be categorised in two main areas:

1. The Design

The primary objective of a web site should be to meet the requirements of the client. In most cases this would be to attract then convert Internet users into customers, subscribers or in the case of charities, donators. The design of the web site is paramount to reassuring, educating and ultimately convincing the viewer that they have come to the right place, or that they have found what they are looking for. It is the responsibly of the web design company or sole designer, to produce a suitable design that is attractive to the target market, and doesn't deter people from exploring the web site. Designers often use a variety of techniques, programmes and software during the design of a web site. These may include any combination of the following:

2. The Development

Once the design of the web site is in place, either as a mock-up or coded HTML skeleton, the web site then requires developing. Development can be as basic as constructing the design as a web page in HTML, or it can be as complex as using the design to ‘skin’ a complex, Database driven web site. Development can be completed by the same designer, or in the case of bigger/complex projects, within a team of individuals who specialise in certain areas of construction. Web Developers or Web Designers can use any of the following to develop a web site to completion and the ongoing maintenance:

Open Source and 3rd Party Web Design Software

Creare also utilise Open Source & 3rd party web design software. Open Source is essentially software that is developed by teams of people and is distributed for free on the internet. Open Source software covers a variety of web design applications including blogging software and e-commerce software. To name a few of these applications, Creare are familiar with the following:

Web Site Accessibility

Another key consideration to think about when choosing a web design company is accessibility and usability. Modern Internet Browsers and web site programming allow web sites to be constructed to allow users to:

Whilst all of the above factors should be taken for granted when you choose a web design company, the unfortunate fact is that you can’t. Ensure that accessibility and ‘Cross Platform’ support is a key objective of your chosen web designers.

Web Design Compliance & Standards

W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) is the primary governing body for the web. W3C set out guidelines and offer verification tools to ensure that your web-site is built using Industry Standard coding. The W3C also govern a variety of other coding languages such as XML, SOAP and SSML to name a few. Web Designers who follow the guidelines set out by the W3C can expect their web sites to benefit from:

The 2 main W3C standards that we practice are XHTML and CSS. Click here to see if your web site has been constructed to the coding guidelines set out by the W3C or click here to verify this page that you are viewing.

Web Design & Marketing Consultants

Meet our senior web design and marketing consultants who operate nationally throughout England and South Wales.

Mike McKinlay

  1. Web Design
  2. Website Optimization
  3. Advert Design
  4. Folder Design

Gary Morgan
(Southern Wales & South West England)

  1. Local Area Numbers
  2. Web Design
  3. Business Marketing
  4. Directory Advertising
  5. Corporate Folder Design

Barney Koenig

  1. Directory Advertising
  2. Yell.com Advertising
  3. Website Design & SEO
  4. Company Branding
  5. Web Design

Dave Pearson

  1. Pay Per Click Marketing
  2. Google Adwords
  3. Organic Optimization
  4. Web Design

Colin Craig

  1. Dynamic Web Design
  2. Database Design
  3. CMS Systems
  4. MySQL & PHP