SJF Media Solutions

SJF Media Solutions run by Stuart Fraser has been operating as a company since January 09, previously Stuart was employed as the UK based "e-Business Developer" for a well known multi national company.
This covered all aspects of electronic delivery from Graphic design to web application programming in Dot Net.
We have also been involved in private web and multimedia projects since the mid 1990's as a former partner in a multimedia business's producing digital business cards and CD Rom productions

SJF Media Solutions develops bespoke web sites. Your web design project will be unique and the designs tailored to your particular field of operations or interests. We always try to provide a more accurate estimate during the planning phase, and because we design custom web design solutions this usually in our experience means modifying our original web design proposal in response to evolving change. Obviously, the more web design changes you request, the longer the web design assignment will take.

Unlike many web design companies, we do not as a rule offer any hosting, although we do guide you through the whole process of setting up a domain name and hosting with well proven market leaders in both cost and performance. This means that once you have paid for your web project and we have published it to your host, the web site, domain names and hosting is controlled by you. You only need to give us ftp access to your hosting account and control panel so we can administer your site, email accounts and any databases for you..
WHY do we do this?

• As a small company we cannot possibly compete with the major hosting companies on either costs or services
• I know it is unlikely, but in the event of any disagreements you can move to another designer without SJF media Solutions having to allow or provide access or raw files.. just drop us an courtesy email or letter to say you have moved as a client.
• We do not have any maintenance charges, you can buy any site maintenance if or when actually needed

You can send us text and images for your web or design project in a variety of ways:

• You can type your text direct in an email or in a Word document and send as an attachment.
• You can write it on a piece of paper (provided we can read it?), but bear in mind that having to re-type everything is time consuming.
• Either email Photos/Images as attachments if they don't exceed about 5Mb, or burn/save them to a cd or pen drive and put it in the post.
• We can of course create any artwork and images for you but there may be a cost involved.. please check with us
• If you need to buy images then there are many providers of royalty free stock images and we can help with the choice

Included in our web design proposal is submission to over 200 major search engines including Google, Yahoo etc. Once your site is submitted it can take 90 days for results to appear

However, please be aware that there is no magic bullet as regards search engine ranking. It depends on many factors? some design based by us and others external to your site. One of the most important is the number of reciprocal links in and out of your site and your reciprocal sites, to simplify!, the more people hitting your site the greater your ranking will be.

It might be a good time to explain about the options available for your web site.
The two main types are:
1. Traditional static sites
2. CMS - Content Managed Site (self managing)

Traditional web sites are made up of a series of static non dynamic pages. Each page on your site is a physical entity whose menu systems, images, hyperlinks, text and other features have been manually inserted by the web designer.
Editing these static pages requires you open the page in a dedicated web editing software programme then physically make any changes and re-save it.
Or more commonly, the changes are made in a master web site held on the designers workstation, then tested before being re-submitted to the web server to overwrite the live page.

CMS Sites need an infrastructure that contain thousands of files and scripts that work with a database (usually) to present a feature-rich web-site.
Normally, CMS sites are designed and initially created by developers as set up is time-consuming requiring the large infrastructure to be installed, databases to be set up, and templates must be programmed and styled before any pages and content can be created.

We also offer as standard a simpler CMS option on our static websites for users that only need the option of updating the content on a page or a small section of a page on an irregular basis

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