CTRLmedia - a creative north Manchester Multimedia Web Design and Graphic Design studio

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but an effective web site should follow the principles of good design.
CTRLmedia offers a full range of professional web services. Whether you are interested in a new web site, a web site redesign or implementing a full, e-commerce enabled solution, we can help you choose the right tools for your specific market. Web design is really to big of a name to really give you an idea of what we do because of the fact the web has changed so much since we started and continues to grow at an exponential rate. Due to this growth we have found that technology which was current 5 years ago is now all but redundant. We can only offer one point of advice, our team are fully aware with all current web trends and new technologies. Basically we want to say that if you have seen it somewhere else we can probably do it. Furthermore if you haven't seen it elsewhere but have an idea you would like to implement we are pretty sure we can do that to.

So what next

We feel that small and medium sized businesses typically don’t have the time or resources to dedicate to a complex web design project involving these types of media. We have the capability to manage and produce your projects no matter how simple or complex. CTRLmedia has the expertise that smaller companies need and larger companies expect.

Every one of our sites are tested against the W3C Markup Validation Service to check the validity and quality of the coding, why do we do this? Basically it confirms the integrity of the build and provides you with the knowledge that the site adheres to what it the common standard practices. WC3 describes in more detail below.

What is Markup Validation?

"Most pages on the World Wide Web are written in computer languages (such as HTML) that allow Web authors to structure text, add multimedia content, and specify what appearance, or style, the result should have.
As for every language, these have their own grammar, vocabulary and syntax, and every document written with these computer languages are supposed to follow these rules. The (X)HTML languages, for all versions up to XHTML 1.1, are using machine-readable grammars called DTDs, a mechanism inherited from SGML.
However, Just as texts in a natural language can include spelling or grammar errors, documents using Markup languages may (for various reasons) not be following these rules. The process of verifying whether a document actually follows the rules for the language(s) it uses is called validation, and the tool used for that is a validator. A document that passes this process with success is called valid.
With these concepts in mind, we can define "markup validation" as the process of checking a Web document against the grammar (generally a DTD) it claims to be using."

Since CTRLmedia started in 2005 our aim has been to provide our customers with great design. We are passionate about what we do and work with our clients to promote what is important to them. Whether it is to increase sales, promote brand awareness, launch new strategies or just to give your employees more confidence in your own brand, we strive to produce graphic or multimedia productions which work.