Why We Started OSDD
The way we shop and find skilled professionals is rapidly changing, with 4.95 billion internet users and 1.8 billion websites already in existence, the question is; how do you set yourself apart from the competition?
The answer rests on the combination of user experience (UX) and design. Customers are quick to judge a website and a recent study found it only takes 50 milliseconds for your potential clients to gather their initial impression of your brand. We could scare you with statistics forever but the overarching message is that your internet presence is imperative to your success.
So what is the next step? You can build a website yourself, most of us are perfectly capable of using some of the user friendly point and click web building platforms like Squarespace these days. Alternatively if time or skill is lacking you can hire a professional web design company like Opal Sky Digital Designs to build your platform for you.
These options seem simple enough on the surface, if you’re good with technology building your own might not be so problematic – however it will require hours of comparing platforms, choosing templates, writing content, uploading and optimising images, not to mention the back end additions which aren’t quite so easy. A well performing website needs to account for analytics, SEO, coding, add-on’s, security, updates etc.
A lot of clients visit us after finding that all these different components prove too much stress whilst they try to juggle the many other jobs involved in starting a new business venture.
This is where Opal Sky Digital Designs come in, we identified this issue with the web design market very early on. Spending 5k and up for a website is perfectly reasonable if you are a limited company with multiple offices, profit and revenue and an existing client base to drive traffic for you but what about for new starters? You knew there were going to be start up costs but maybe you hadn’t anticipated thousands just for the website alone and we don’t believe you should have to!
We remember spending hours clock watching at a desk in a job we weren’t aligned to, dreaming up alternative paths we could take.
We remember having a dream but not really knowing where to begin if we wanted to actually make it happen. We want to help real people, we want to design a brand and website that truly represents you. We want your website to automatically fulfil your most important desires and to align with the creative vision that was previously just inside your beautiful mind! Colour, typography, shape and design have the power to transform your vision into a reality, they have the power to encapsulate your brand and set you apart from everyone else in your field.
We are all unique individuals with our own stories to tell and we want to help you tell yours.