We believe that it takes a truly integrated approach to all angles of your online business to deliver real customer-value driven results. For this reason we offer the full range of digital agency services, consulting, analysis and value management all in one place.
Essence provide design and development services based on insight. Our teams generate ideas based on a deep understanding of each proposition, then bring those ideas to life. We create branded experiences that engage their users and, in a nutshell, simply work.
Whether your intention is to deliver brand impact or sales conversion, our approach to web design focuses on ensuring your website meets your key objectives. Regardless of those overarching objectives, we typically deploy highly user centric techniques, focussing on ensuring that users with different needs and skills can seamlessly navigate your site. Our approach is borne out by results – two recent ecommerce redesign projects delivered a 96% and 78% increase in website conversion respectively.
These mini-applications are becoming an increasingly important extension of our clients' brands online. We are really proud of our work on Gadgets - why not add one or two Essence gadgets to your favourite gadget or widget platform?
Essence invest in R&D to keep ahead of the pace in the rapid world a technology. We are experts in Open Source technologies, and make extensive use of AJAX, know the major APIs and application frameworks like back of our hand. We do all of this with an extreme consciousness of SEO and accessibility, as well as the analytical needs of today's online businesses.The good news for our clients is that this knowledge saves them time and money.
Essence are particularly committed to developing using the Zend framework to build enterprise grade applications. Our proprietary Content Management and Ecommerce platforms build on this solid foundation.
Essence have built and currently host some of the biggest ecommerce websites around. We are used to specifying, deploying and managing complex clustered server configurations for the most bandwidth hungry clients.