Web development
At Open Web Systems we have been designing websites since the 1990s!
Whether you need a simple one-page website, or bespoke development involving custom plugins and API integrations, we can help.
Design
We will work with you to understand your unique requirements and – more importantly – the genuine needs of your clients. Once we have a brief we set to work developing strong designs which work to promote your brand.
Deploy
When you’re happy with the appearance and functionality of your site we will deploy your site to your chosen web server. Or we can host your site on our servers, which are powered by 100% renewable energy, and provide ongoing support.
Optimise
We know from experience that you can’t just deploy a website and expect a queue of customers! We can work with you to advise, or manage a solid SEO strategy which will drive traffic to your site and to optimise your site for growth.
Case studies
Sunny Money - website rescue
Having helped set up Solar-Aid.org back in 2006 and worked on their web site and marketing for many years, when their sunnymoney.org website crashed they knew who to call!
We rescued the content and set up a new theme on a new WordPress in just a couple of days and have hosted them for many years.
“Open Web Systems, provides top quality hosting service for WordPress sites. We know our website is in safe hands!”
Haley Withers, Digital Communications Manager, Solar Aid
Highlands Rewilding - SEO
When Highlands Rewilding were gearing up for a crowdfunding campaign they wanted to improve their reach and search visibility.
We ran a search engine optimisation (SEO) campaign which got them onto page 1 of Google for several search terms and significantly increased site traffic, as well supporting them with PPC campaigns.
“Open Web Systems were instrumental in the success of Highlands Rewilding’s crowdfund campaign, boosting our online presence and driving traffic to our website through their SEO campaign. As a company founded to combat climate change and scale nature recovery, we were delighted to work with Open Web Systems who take sustainability very seriously, with their services 100% powered by zero carbon energy.”
Frances Mills, Head of Marketing and Media, Highlands Rewilding
Leading Minds - Brand redesign
Tonya Hoffman works with high performers and change makers to create sustained success. We’ve supported Tonya with branding, website and graphic design for many years – including rescuing her website from a nasty hack. After we redesigned her site one of her contacts told her:
“Your website is awesome! Modern, massively compelling and instantly demonstrates that you are in a league of your own.”
Communications Director, Fortnums
Vattenfall - web development
Vattenfall IDNO provides electrical grid connections for large, commercial projects to help accelerate the electrification of the UK. We developed their website to match their corporate brand guidelines, secure positions on page 1 of Google for their target key-phrases, and continue to support them with marketing and content creation.
Smart Home Energy - WordPress
Smart Home Energy provides independent news, views and reviews about smart home energy saving products and technology to help you save money and cut carbon. We manage their WordPress and have helped them get onto page 1 of Google for several key phrases.
“Open Web Systems have provided us with excellent, reliable web development, hosting and support – highly recommended”
Marketing Manager, Smart Home Energy
Murmurations - protocol design
The Murmurations protocol is an open source data sharing project which makes distributed data interoperable. We designed and developed the Murmurations protocol to encourage collaboration between platforms and across networks. Murmurations solves the problems of closed, siloed working by providing an open source field library, data sharing specification, and index an API to track changes in the network. Working with our partners we have developed two WordPress plugins for Murmurations to support collaborative mapping.
YEN - Custom Drupal development
The Yield Enhancement Network (YEN) connects agricultural organisations and farmers who are striving to improve crop performance.
We developed their site using Drupal to provide a custom Members’ area featuring specific content based on Members interests, and custom forms for data entry. Together with our partners, we developed a custom API integration to enable farmers to benchmark their crop yields against other farm data from the YEN network.
“Open Web Systems was instrumental in providing the initial solution to develop our web portal on the Drupal platform for helping to host various research, communication and data collection work. We are delighted to have OWS as our partner and very pleased with their excellent and reliable support.”
Program Manager, Yield Enhancement Network
Meet.coop - logo and web design
The Online Meeting Cooperative provides online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure – as an alternative to Zoom.
Working in collaboration with a collective of other co-ops we helped set up meet.coop, designed their logo and helped build their WordPress.
Friends of Canonbury Square
Canonbury Square neighbours launched Friends of Canonbury Square in 2018 to put the sparkle back in the Square.
We helped them update their WordPress website and remain available for updates and to ensure it remains secure.
Breadsticks Foundation - WordPress hosting
The Breadsticks Foundation makes grants to UK, African and Asian charities involved in improving the provision of healthcare and education.
We are proud to have supported Breadsticks with WordPress development and WordPress hosting for many years.
Economic Rebellion - WordPress
Extinction Rebellion has been instrumental in raising the profile of the climate crisis. Economic Rebellion is about deploying the same passion, creativity and decentralised organising to leverage our most powerful tool for change: MONEY.
We developed Economic Rebellion to inform people about mutual credit.
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