Next Plateau is the design house for personalised service and support whether you are just starting our in business or are an established player.

We pride ourselves on creating functional and stylish websites that are brand oriented capturing the true essence of your business whilst incorporating all the latest web usability.

Our design style excels with visual effect to grab your audience’s attention, express your message in a clear and concise manner and ensure repeat visits to grow your business.

We create new sites from the ground up, offering the complete package of domain name registration, hosting, design, development, copywriting, editing, image re-touching, search engine optimisation and on-going maintenance and we can also take an existing site and give it an extreme or minor makeover.

We specialise in creating Custom Designed Websites which provide us and you with unlimited scope for expressing your vision.

We believe that Custom Design websites are the only way to freely express your individuality and therefore we do not offer Stock Standard Template Driven Content Managed sites.




Advantages of a Custom Designed Site:

• Cheaper Hosting
• Quicker to download on lower bandwidths
• Less Cost involved at startup and on-going (no training involved)
• Greater Flexibility
• Designed specifically to your needs | looks fantastic | personalised
• No computer knowledge required
• Regular updates with on-going maintenance made by a professional designer to your changing needs
• Higher level of virility by the major search engines so less advertising cost for you




Disadvantages of a Content Management Site (user updatable):

• Poor search engine optimsation effectiveness (poor coding produced). This makes your website less important
  with the search engines and will have a major impact on your sites visibility. This can then add significantly to
  the cost of marketing.
• Resource Hungry. Requiring more power, more memory and software maintenance. High probability of site
  failing if setting changes made by the user and therefore rendering the site not viable online.
• Costs of upgrade to content managed software
• More expensive hosting
• Client requires more than basic level of computer skills
• Time factor with client making all their own changes can result in less time to spend on growing your business
• Requires image editing skills in packages such as Photoshop or similar
• Restricted to the initial layout and updatable areas. You may need to introduce a web designer to add extra
  pages or change the content of your original pages.





:: Design & Development

We work directly with our clients to ascertain a complete understanding your business, the goals of your website and realising these with our technical and design expertise.

We make this easy for you by being the driver in prompting you for background details and creative ideas on the overall image and content required to ensure your vision is what is delivered in the finished product.

You will be kept up to date with the design and development of your site through the entire process with access to our online server.

Please see our full Design and Development Process




:: Domain Name Registration

Domain names are unique Internet addresses. You cannot have a website without a domain name, eg. www.nextplateau.net

We are able to help you select the most appropriate domain name for your business and its requirements. We can also help you decide which domain extension you need, such as .com or com.au

Next Plateau will also register the domain for you with competitive, low cost fees.




:: Website Hosting

People from all over the world are searching for information, products and services online 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With a premium website hosting solution, internet users will find you quickly and reliably.

Next Plateau can be your secure web hosts at super high speed for maximum online productivity.We offer yearly hosting packages that will more than accommodate for every size business and function.




:: Copywriting |Content Editing

Copy Writing is the process of professionally building the text component of a website in order to provide the internet web user with the best browsing experience throughout their online visit. Good copywriting is an essential part of any website. The content must suit the style and image of your business and the image you are wanting to project.

People typically scan websites for information, so excess words and flowery descriptions should be eliminated.

Your website needs content that is:

• Informative
• Relevant
• Interesting
• Current

Good copywriting is also crucial for search engine optimisation.

Effective descriptions and keywords help boost your website’s rankings in search engines.

In brief, website copywriting should achieve three things for your website:

1. High rankings in search engines
2. Conversion of website visits into sales
3. Repeat visits




:: Content Editing

Next Plateau can provide editorial advice and re-writing on the content you submit for your website. We realise that not everyone is a professional wordsmith and this is where our creative team can use their experience and expertise to professionally word and structure your content to:

• Incorporate key words for search engines
• Create short sentences and paragraphs
• Use sub-headings, bulleted points and numbered lists to separate text




:: Photo Retouching | Enhancements

Our design team is highly skilled in image manipulation work for the web and can assist you in providing almost any result for your photo/image modifications.

• Digital photo restoration of any complexity
• Background replacements
• Removal of any unwanted figures and objects
• Insertion of new objects into photos
• Artistic treatment of your photo/images




:: Search Engine Optimisation

Search engines are huge databases containing information from websites throughout the Internet. People can search the database by typing in 'keywords', which describe the information required. The search engine then retrieves a list of relevant websites. Research has shown that the majority of people (over 75%) surf the Net and find sites using search engines.

Search engine optimisation is designing, writing and programming your entire website so it ranks high in search engines. The aim is to have pages from your website appear near the top of search engine queries.

Next Plateau provides:

• Website page optimisation
• Submission to major free search engines
• Review of options for submission to search engines requiring payment
• Building links from other websites (which helps increase search engine rankings)