Website creation is our specialty. We can create an attractive, effectively optimised website for your small business.
People sometimes ask what the name "TOUCHER" has to do with Creating Websites. Actually I play lawn bowls and when I was starting out I decided to use "Toucher" as it is a lawn bowls term used when referring to a bowl that has touched the jack.
It also clearly illustrates my prime objective in website design, which is to create websites that "reach out and touch" your prospective client base.
THE GREENHORN DAYS
Toucher Web Design was first created in 2001 when I got started in freelance website
design
after a long career in Electronic Engineering and IT. My first website was created for a Computerized Maintenance Management business venture with which I was involved
a few years ago.
Having an engineering and computing background I had decided that I could probably create the site that was required for this business myself.
I read a bit, bought the required software and quickly got to work creating the website. It turned out fine and soon after it was launched it started to attract significant traffic and generate business. Then disaster struck! Because of an unwitting mistake I had made, the site disappeared from Google's rankings overnight along with 75% of my business.
I realised then that I had to study not only Website Creation and Design but Website Promotion and
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in a more organised and formal way. I did this for a couple of years as time permitted and during this period created a few sites for people who had requested them.
Generally these sites became quite successful and I was satisfied that I had developed significant web design and SEO knowledge. At this point I decided to make the move into the freelance web design business.
GROWTH
Since then the business has gone from strength to strength. Our websites continue to do well because of the SEO techniques we use, which are best demonstrated by the fact that you found this site and
are reading this now. This is significant as we are in competition with all the other other web designers for this high position. However we have also realised that this business is extremely complex.
It is very difficult for any single person to become expert in graphic design, marketing, website creation, SEO, ecommerce, communication, database design, etc. To this end I have forged alliances with other freelance designers and creators with different specialties and together we can provide all of these skills. This allows us to offer the services of a major web design agency for the cost of freelance web design.
At Toucher Web Design we realise that most of our potential clients need guidance through this complex web design and creation process.
The vast majority of them
are not IT specialists so they want to be told in plain language exactly what they have to do to to create the websites they need for their businesses.
We make it our objective to take the time to provide full assistance to all our enquirers.
We aim to be patient, helpful and understanding throughout the process of specifying your website requirements and actually creating your website.
We offer help and guidance with all aspects of the process from the initial enquiry until site launch. Free web design consultancy is provided even before you have decided to
use our services. Advice is free!
If you need further reassurance about this feel free to contact any of our previous clients who are listed on our website portfolio pages.

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