Web design - our philosophy.
The world of the Internet and website design is a rapidly evolving beast. Almost daily users are bombarded with a host of new tools, 'plug-ins', viewers and utilities.
Clip art and animated graphics are available to excess (553,000 pages of clip art images were found on our most recent trawl of the web!)
In considering web site design, however, we must ask just what we really want.
The latest 'plug-ins' and utilities may produce spectacular results for some surfers, but face many, many, more with annoying messages such as "download WonderwebX V4.1 NOW"
Similarly clip art and animated graphics have their place, but can easily be overdone.
We can design a page that is as simple or as complex as required, but we must continue to ask ourselves what the purpose of that page is.
The messages and information on a page are key, pages that take too long to load, or have too many spinning, bouncing, dissolving, changing, messages, buttons or pictures will only serve to distract, discourage, or dissuade viewers.
How would we design a site for you?
The answer to this is simple, we don't know! - yet.
Every web site, just like every business is unique, we will work with you to identify what you want from your site. Let us find out about your needs, preferences, and requirements. Then let us use our experience to produce a site that matches your needs, stakes your claim on a small part of a large web, and leaves you free to get on with the business of running your business!
This site is owned and maintained by Glenn Bruce, a Registered Member of the United Kingdom Web Design Association.
Trading as OpenCastMind (not-for-profit websites) & gb42.com (commercial sites)
We abide to the Code of Conduct of the United KingdomWeb Design Association, & hold full Public Liability Insurance.E & O E
Based in rural Somerset, England, OpenCastMind.org.uk (gb42.com) offers local small businesses
the opportunity to have their own web presence through quality, inexpensive,
web pages tailored to their individual needs.
The Complete Website Package
We specialise in a ‘total’ package system, with the sites we build being designed, published, hosted and maintained by ourselves.
Our intention is to allow our clients to have the web presence they need, without adding to their workload. We will make your website a reality for you, without the need for you to become involved in the technicalities!
Our standard rates are genuinely competitive. However,
if your business is based in Somerset we offer packages
at a very substantial discount!
Please Click Here to learn more.
Small solutions on a large web.
Professional Search Engine Submission
Do you already have your own website?
Can potential customers find it?
We offer a professional, effective, guaranteed, search engine submission service.
Half Price Websites for Somerset based small businesses & sole traders.
See Special offer tag further down this page!
Carbon Neutral
This website, like all those managed by ourselves, is run on a carbon neutral basis, with steps taken to reduce our energy consumption, and deciduous tree planting commissioned to more than compensate for our ‘carbon footprint’
Why have you own website?
In the UK today (well October 2005 - the last time the Government counted!) over 64% of adults regularly access the internet. However, with only around 25% of businesses utilising the Internet to publicise their services, now is the time to get your business online!
The internet continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. More and more individuals, and companies, now rely on the internet as their primary search method when looking for goods or services.
Being a twenty-four hour a day media your web site will allow potential customers to learn more about you - at a time that suits them.
What’s in a name?
Website packages from us include a unique domain name, registered specifically for you.
If you already own a domain name we can arrange to have this forwarded to your new website.
