The design portfolio is certainly visually impressive - launched client sites, (not just the usual scattering of demo sites and coming soons) - coming to you out of the West Midlands, UK, Web Sitedesign.net, offering web site design, e-commerce, web-based apps, branding, logos and crm software. Some of these sites, those in the e-commerce category in particular, are genuinely good, with effective layouts, competently built - and not too much Ajax sitting there amongst it all, my usual bete noire…

With seven years and more than 300 web projects down, it does take more than a snappy logo and a few bland and unlikely testimonials hanging there in quotes, to convince a client to buy the package nowadays - there’s competition about, not like the old days…

In terms of Sitedesign’s ecommerce solutions, they do seem to know how to chop up an osCommerce template pretty well - the one drawback with this ubiquitous software is that all the sites really do start to look the same after a while, to be able to bring some variety to this market is no bad thing at all.

So, as a UK-based development engineer, doing a lot of business with the US - it seems to have really taken off it the last 18 months or so - for UK sites looking to get out into international markets, though the dollar exchange rate is not so very wonderful at the moment, there’s skype to solve all the communication issues and as for the time difference, you really don’t notice it after a while - there’s no need for web design birmingham to involve Alabama any more…