What we do - Karyx Interactive Design

Karyx are an ‘end-to-end’ design consultancy. The breadth and depth of our industry experience combined with a healthy dose of technical nous means that we have something to offer your business, at whatever stage you’ve reached.

Karyx provide integrated solutions for your project spanning concept and initial branding through to hosting and site promotion. Whether you are looking to resuscitate an existing site, re-brand your current online presence or enter the fray with an innovative new proposition, Karyx can help.

Plan
The initial stages of a project
Brand
Making your mark
Design
The 'look and feel'
Build
Putting it all together
Host
Stable and secure hosting
Maintain
Keeping up appearances
Promote
Moving onwards and upwards...

With Karyx everything is bespoke.

We don’t work to ‘standard’ templates or per-page layouts, ‘borrow’ images from the web or promise we can complete your site in 24 hours. What we do offer is a 100% client-focussed, tailored solution that cuts right to the heart of your business.

We like to work with our clients, forging open, collaborative working relationships that encourage creativity, innovation and communication. We guarantee personal service and always go the ‘extra mile’ to come in on time and smack on budget.
The majority of our business is through recommendations from satisfied clients.

9 out of 10 Karyx clients come back time and time again.

Karyx specialise in developing brands from conception to maturity.

We have experience in both on and offline media, old and new, meaning that we can design your brand, produce your stationery and printed promotional material following up with a carefully integrated online campaign and DVD backup.

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Hosting
> Domain transfer
> Domain management
> Domain registration
> Email set-up
> Integrated hosting and optimisation packages

Print
> Brand design and management
> Offline marketing (Stationery, Brochures etc.)
> Large scale printed material (show displays, signage etc.)

Online
> Interface Design
> Dynamic development (Flash)
> Dynamic development using Data Integration
> Community building, Personalisation, Mailing Lists, Registration, Message Boards, Chat
> Content Management Systems (CMS)
> Multimedia integration (including video and audio delivery)
> E-commerce integration

Offline media
> CD-ROM
> DVD-ROM
> Touch screen
> Kiosk development

Support & Maintenance
> Maintenance contracts
> Search Engine updating
> Bandwidth management
> Server uptime
> Server access for enterprise clients
> Web stats Reporting & Analysis

"It's not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Charles Darwin

Karyx are firm believers in thorough project planning, milestones, step-by-step budgets and accurate scheduling.

Getting the initial planning right means giving everyone the space to work together to create a better product.

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A brand is not just a logo (although we will make you one of those, too.)

Your brand defines your business and should be capable, in one simple step, of communicating a sense of business culture, ethos and style.

Karyx can help you to build your brand from initial concept to fully-fledged identity. We have particular experience in creating and developing brands for online medical ventures.

Karyx also have a solid grounding in offline print-based design and can create sophisticated promotional brochures, flyers and pamphlets along with elegant stationery that supports and enhances your brand.

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“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”

William Morris

Karyx design bespoke solutions for every client. We look at your business, your brand and the services we offer and carefully tailor each and every aspect to fit ‘just so’.

The look and feel of each project is integral to the success of the site. We work tightly with our clients to find the optimum solution for every business.

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Keeping up our standards

Karyx build flexible, accessible media that works for everyone.

We are standards based, which means that all our sites are tested against industry wide benchmarks to ensure they are viewable by as many users as possible, on as many platforms as possible.

The more users that can view your site, the more potential customers you have. It’s easy to see why standards make sense...

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The brand is honed, the site design perfected and the database populated.

Where next?

Karyx understand that good hosting is tough to find. A good host that understands your business like we do? Even tougher.

Karyx offer a range of hosting packages to suit all shapes and sizes with essential features like server-level anti-spam as standard. We provide flexible, secure and stable hosting at industry standard prices, giving low contention rates and excellent uptime.

Karyx hosting comes in three ‘flavours’ with all three offering exceptional value and quality whatever your hosting requirements.

A - £80 per year

Created with start-ups, non-data driven sites and low page counts in mind.

> 50MB of space
> 5 POP mail accounts with webmail
> FTP access
> Easy-to-use control panel
> Server Scripting (PHP / ASP* / CGI)

* Please call for more info on ASP hosting.

B - £150 per year

Perfect for businesses with an established web presence looking for room to expand.

> 300MB space
> 10 POP mail accounts with webmail
> 1 MySQL database
> FTP access
> Easy-to-use control panel
> Server Scripting (PHP / ASP* / CGI)

* Please call for more info on ASP hosting.

C - £250 per year

Designed for complex data-driven sites and community-based projects.

> 1GB space
> 20 POP mail accounts
> 1+ MySQL database
> Domain management support
> FTP access
> Easy-to-use control panel
> Server Scripting (PHP / ASP* / CGI)

* Please call for more info on ASP hosting.

Other hosting combinations can be arranged if required. For more details or to arrange hosting with Karyx, contact

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All Karyx hosting packages offer these key features as standard:

Server Level Anti-spam
Nigerian money scams, East European herbal Viagra and bank account ’phishing’ cons: Karyx are sick of spam and we would guess you probably are too. That’s why Karyx offer a robust server-level Anti-spam as standard on all our hosting accounts, large or small.

Web Based Control Panel
There are times when you just want to change a password, add an email account or make a little tweak here and there without calling someone up. Every Karyx hosting account has access to a flexible, easy-to-use control panel that lets you control your hosting with the click of your mouse.

Detailed Site Statistics
Download and view your site stats at any time giving you detailed visitor information, referrals and hits.

It's far too easy to let the grass grow under your feet...

The web moves quickly and keeping a site fresh and up-to-date is a real commitment.

Karyx offer complete site maintenance programmes and after-care with our simple and cost-effective SiteWide system. SiteWide covers those ‘little’ jobs such as domain registration, making minor changes to content and hosting server maintenance as well as the big stuff like search engine submissions and optimisation. Nice and easy.

So, no more hidden update charges and no hanging about whilst someone ‘books you in’. Karyx SiteWide means you can be sure we are working hard behind the scenes to make your site work hard for you.

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Site Set-up
> New domain registration or transfer of an existing domain to Karyx
> Full site content review
> Site optimisation for search submission
> Search Engine submission to all major search engines (and a few more besides)

Ongoing Maintenance (3 Month term)
> Fortnightly search engine check up (ensuring that your site stays high in the rankings)
> Fortnightly content update cycle (applying minor updates and changes to your site’s content)

Search engine optimisation. Black art or simple common sense?

A little of both really...

As part of our SiteWide programme, Karyx can implement a fully-featured search engine submission designed to push your business as far up the rankings of the major search engines as possible. We are constantly monitoring changes in search strategy and ranking implementation to be sure that we are always ready to use new techniques that could enhance the online visibility of your site.

We also know to play fair. Karyx don’t utilise the kind of underhand techniques such as invisible link farms that see a site rocket up the rankings and then drop like a stone a few weeks later.

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