Website design and development services

We never use third party 'themes', we only offer bespoke design and development.

Old-fashioned, handcrafted websites

We believe that a website can only truly become successful if it accurately portrays the distinctive nature of the company or organisation it represents.

And as every project is unique, we always start from scratch with no third party web-templates, large dependency frameworks or drag and drop web-building plugins – just good old-fashioned handcrafted websites.

Affordable, bespoke websites

Suspire Media was established in 2001, with its primary aim of providing affordable, high quality, bespoke web design services to London based non-profit organisations, charities and small business.

We continue to work primarily in the London area, however, we now also supply web design services to individuals & companies from all over the UK and beyond.

Masthead section screenshot. — Microsites.

Campaigns, Appeals, Conference and Annual Report Microsites

A campaign microsite is a carefully crafted, single-page website that is used as a stand-alone promotional tool. They are accessed from either a parent website or found via their own domain name. Campaign microsite are a highly cost-effective way to launch a new online appeal or campaign.

Read detailed overview or Visit our dedicated site

Drag and drop content types screenshot — Arrange the page 'content types' via drag and drop.

Practically zero maintenance, Content Management Systems

Being able to keep your website up-to-date with fresh content such as copy, news, files and photos is essential. But what if you want to do more?

What if you need to make structural changes to your website like adjusting page layout, adding or removing content columns or repositioning site elements?

Three phones detailing website screenshots. — Mobile screenshots.

Responsive design

As your website visitors will not necessarily choose to browse your site using a desktop computer we only build websites using responsive design techniques.

Responsive design is a set of development techniques that when deployed will enable an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices.

Keyboard navigation screenshot — Keyboard navigation.

Improving accessibility and the quality of interaction with user experience (UX) design

Your website not only needs to be visually pleasing, it must also have a clear, easy-to-use interface that's a pleasure to navigate and use.

With careful planning, we will ensure that your business goals are achieved within budget and the quality of interaction between your visitors and your website will be of the highest standard.

Donation panel screenshot — Donation, Fundraising and Campaign Tools.

Donation, Fundraising and Campaign Tools for Charities

Create and manage online donations pages from within your CMS. Tweak suggested donations and build fundraising campaigns that include donation progress bars, photos, email marketing and multimedia. Donations can be made via PayPal or Just Giving.

Charities

White cat with one blue eye and one green eye. — As every project is unique, we always start from scratch. We keep things simple and convert challenges into solutions.
Photo: courtesy of Blair Vermette.

SEO and Social Media

Phone screenshot - showing Google search. — Get your website listed on the primary search engines.

Getting your website listed on the Internet, rocket science or a mysterious dark-art?

It does not require a degree in rocket science or even knowledge of some mysterious, dark-art to get your website listed on the primary search engines.

Matomo screenshot — Matomo, an alternative analytics platform

Matomo, a cookie free alternative to Google Analytics

We are currently recommending Matomo Analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics. Matomo is an open-source web analytics platform that mirrors a range of benefits offered by its counterpart.

Matomo offers both commercial subscription plans and a free version that requires server installation (a service we can provide). In contrast, the commercial version operates entirely in the cloud. What distinguishes Matomo is its intuitive interface, the easy learning curve, and its notable absence of intrusive cookie pop-up's on your website.

Learn more about Matomo

Social Media

Social Media platforms like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook are more than just passive micro-photo/blogging systems – they are potentially very powerful tools that can help you promote your business or services on-line.