Media Criminals - A Website, Graphic and Internet Marketing Agency

Welcome to Media Criminals, a web design studio that provide accessible and standard compliant web design service. We provide affordable innovative website design services for small, medium and large size companies. We also offer Content management systems, Ecommerce solutions, Flash animation, Template design, Email marketing, Site analytics and Graphic design!

Cross – Browser XHTML and CSS

Media Criminals use solid and valid code that are excepted on all major modern browsers.

We fully optimize the code to load quicker and rank better for all search engines.All your viewers see your site as it should be seen, accurately and correctly.

So whether your chosen browser is Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. All your viewers see your site correctly.

We Love Designing

Media Criminals’ combined team have many years of experience, spanning over many design sectors and business categories. This is why we consider ourselves as pre-historic designers. With a modern and up-to-date view on design and technique for our customers.

Our primary role is creating a lasting visual statement for all areas of design and development. We actually enjoy what we do!

Straight Forward Answers

At Media Criminals we like to keep things simple, no jargon talk, just the straight facts about our services, your requirements and what we can do to help you and your business grow.

If you have a limited budget, a specific target audience or require some further information about Media Criminals or our design services please contact us on 0115 8475047 or email us using the contact form

Below you will find a sample selection of our clients that we have worked with over the past two years. All of the sites are built to industry standards by our team of web designers. Please click the thumbnails to find out more information.

Web Design Samples

Opposite are some examples of our website services. All of our websites comes complete with a bespoke design, contact enquiry form and sufficient pages that display your product and services.

Whether you’re looking for a simple website or a dynamic online shop, Media Criminals offer all our client’s affordable, high quality websites that will be uniqely designed for you and your business.

All Media Criminals websites are completed to the highest W3C standards.

Nelson Glass & Dishwashing

Online brochure website for a commercial glass and dishwashing company.

DJ Paul Lyman

A Content Management System website to display all events and promotional services of a DJ.

Stateside Clothing

An eCommerce system to sell sports and urban clothing online.

Media Criminals believe that design plays an important role in the success of internet presence, and here at Media Criminals we are a combination of graphic, web designers and web developers who combined, produce visually and technically secure sites.

Brief History of Web Design

Web site design has been around since the 90's. With the majority of sites are presented in HTML (HyperText Markup Language). HTML has evolved to its 5th version, and can now produce even better attractive and dynamic web sites.

Web Site Design & Web Development

The structure of web site design can be categorised in two main areas:

1. The Design

The main objective of a web site is to meet the requirements of the client. Usually this is designed to attract and convert internet users into customers, subscribers, donators and followers. The design itself is primarily assuring that the viewer has come to the right place, or that they have found what they are looking for. It is the responsibility of the web design company or sole web designer, to create and produce a suitable design that is relevant to the target market in both functionality and aeathetics. This is usually achieved through various mediums, programmes and software. This could include any combination of the following:

- Mock-Up / Hand Drawn Designs - Conceptual worked to produce layouts and visuals for the site design.
- Adobe Photoshop / Fireworks - Can be used to generate digital graphics and design elements of the site design.
- Adobe Flash - Can be used to produce animation, movement & interaction elements of the site web site.
- Adobe Dreamweaver - Is used to build the web site for the Internet.
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is used in connection with HTML to design and style the web site. CSS aid in advanced design features, reduce file sizes and creates a universal styling document.

2. The Development Stage

Upon completion of the website design stage, the web site will then move onto the development stage. Development is used to put a simple web page in HTML, convert complex designs into a 'Skin', Database driven and Content Management web site. Web Developers /Designers can use the following development languages to create a web site or continue website maintenance:

* HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is the basic language for presenting a website.
* XHTML - is the markup language with the same depth as HTML, but XHTML also conforms to XML syntax.
* XML - is a custom language for creating custom markup.
* RSS - Stands for 'Real Simple Syndication' and is a popular format for publishing frequently updated articles and stories like blogs.
* ASP.NET - Is the Windows Framework used for dynamic applications.
* PHP - Is a free (released under the PHP License) scripting language for constructing dynamic web sites.
* MySQL - Is an Open Source Database platform (available under terms of the GNU General Public License) and used in conjunction with PHP and other languages to store and retrieve data.
* AJAX - A coding nickname for the combination technique of XML and Javascript for making rich internet applications.

* Perl / CGI - A scripting language that was developed for NASA.
* Actionscript - is a scripting language primarily used within and to integrate Flash.

Open Source and 3rd Party Web Design Software

Media Criminals often use Open Source & 3rd party web design software. Open Source Software has usually been developed by teams of people and is usually distributed for free on the internet. Open Source software covers a variety of web applications including blogging, cms and e-commerce software. Media Criminals have experience with integrating and utilising such open source material such as the following:

- Wordpress - An Open Source blogging platform
- Magento / OsCommerce - These are a free E-Commerce shopping cart application that has all you need for selling online products.
- Paypal - A popular and safe method of sending and receiving money via the internet.

Web Site Accessibility

A lot of Internet Browsers and web site programming allow web sites to be constructed to allow users to:

- Increase the font size on your web site.
- Narrate the text on your web site.
- Navigate around the site with Back & Forward buttons.

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Pay-Per-Click Marketing	Analytics & Reporting	Social Networking	Affiliate Marketing	Email Marketing