New Davenports Website: all your business needs under one roof

New Davenports Website
Accountancy, Web and Print and Design all in one place

For over ten years, Davenports has provided accountancy, web and print and design services to clients in Oxfordshire, London, Berkshire and across the UK.

However, until recently, the Davenports brand was fragmented over three separate websites.

We have now moved to a brand new website - www.davenportenterprises.co.uk - which brings together all of our services in one place.

In addition to being a central hub for information about Davenport’s accountancy, web and print and design services, the website also contains:

• SSL Secure financial forms (such as submit your P46 online and tax rebate services)
• Regularly updated news and case studies
• Live Chat to allow you to contact Davenports staff free of charge - helping you to keep your call costs down during the credit crunch. Davenports are always striving to find new ways of saving our customers money
• Special offers and free giveaways
• Online company formations
• …and lots more to come over the following weeks!

If you’ve wondered what Davenports can do for you in the past, head over to our new website at www.davenportenterprises.co.uk and find out now!

Davenport CMS
The power of Davenports on your own website

Davenport Web has recently developed a system called Davenport CMS. It allows any member of staff - even those without a technical background - to add news, content, images and text to a website.

We’re so pleased with it that we use it to power our own website!

Read more about the CMS system and what it can do for your company’s website then find out how we used it on our own website.

Company Formations
In a rush? Form a limited company in as little as four hours for as little as £27.99+VAT!

Our company formation system offers an all inclusive, easy to use, cost effective solution to forming a limited company in the UK. We send all your forms electronically to Companies House which means we can form your company within around five working hours, there are no paper forms to sign and you do not need a solicitor.

Form your limited company online now.

Chat to Davenports Online

Davenports now offers our customers the facility to chat to a member of our team live online. Simply click the Live Chat icon at the top of any Davenports page.

Best of all, all Live Chats are encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to ensure that any personal information you send to us during a chat can only be seen by yourself - see our security page for more information. (Please note that the chat system offers you the facility to send a transcript of your chat to an email address of your choice - this transcript will not be encrypted.)

So why not try it out today and give Davenports a call?

Take Control with Davenport CMS

It used to be that having a website presence was enough to differentiate your company from the bricks-and-mortar stores, and drive business your way. Many of these sites were developed ad-hoc using FrontPage, or with a little assistance from your brother’s auntie’s nephew.

Then came the trend for professionally-designed websites - often at a high cost. These websites would be updated infrequently - with a change of phone number or the occasional new product - mostly because any changes required going back to your web design company and paying… again.

These days, simply having a website is not enough. What differentiates businesses online now is content: content that is fresh, and content that is posted frequently. This particularly matters if you want to keep a loyal base of customers, or have your site rank highly in search engines.

But adding content is expensive or difficult, right?

Normally, yes. But a Davenport CMS installation makes this easy and free!

Davenport CMS is special software that sits on your website and makes it child’s play to add new content or edit existing, out of date information.

Davenport Web will design the look of your website, make it compatible with Davenport CMS and add as much initial content as you need. After that, it’s over to you.

At any time, you can log in and write a new page or post. You can add images, videos, sounds and links to other sites. And all of this is without any extra cost to you.

We’re so happy with Davenport CMS that we use it on our own websites, including this one! To show you how easy it is, here’s an image of me writing this very post:

Why not check out what Davenport CMS can do for you today?

Case Study: Davenports

Davenport Web has just finished redesigning our very own corporate website. Here, we examine why the change was needed, the design decisions behind the change, and the outcome.

We’ll also be talking about a lot of the services that Davenport Web provide, so if you see anything that you’d like to see on your own website, get in touch.

Davenports has always been proud to offer accountancy, web and print & design to our clients in one centralized location. However, the company’s website structure simply didn’t reflect this - www.davenportenterprises.co.uk was for accountancy, www.davenportwebsitedesign.co.uk was for web and www.davenportprintanddesign.co.uk was for print & design.

Having these three websites confused our customers and reduced web traffic going to each of these sites.

We decided to unify under the Davenports name under the www.davenportenterprises.co.uk domain name, which had the highest traffic ranking.

From there, we designed a navigation structure that would emphasise the fact that there are three main services the company provides - making it obvious for visitors that all three are provided, but also that you can mix and match between the three as you choose.

Because there are three companies, we decided to dedicate the homepage to news, split into six features from the three companies - two features each, plus an individual latest news box for each company along with a company-wide special offers box.

News is going to be published frequently, and it would be a nightmare to have to keep the features and news boxes up to date manually, so we decided to use Davenport CMS to manage all the content we’re going to be publishing.

By assigning news into categories - e.g. Accountancy Features, Web Features, etc. - the website takes care of the hard work of working out what to display where, allowing less-technical members of the Davenports team to publish content, and increasing the amount of communication we can have through the website.

After making the decision, we used the company’s brand guidelines to create a look and feel consistent with the company’s image, and then set up hosting and email to support the site.

The result is what you see here. Please do leave a comment to let us know what you think of the new site!