Tod Designs provides a web design consultancy which can provide a variety of options from a simple brochure web site, to a fully managed eCommerce solutions for your business.

We have many years experience writing software, for web page design we use HTML, Java Script, Perl and PHP languages with professional design software such as Actinic Designer to provide a complete service.

Our first web design, a simple multi screen web site, was produced over ten years ago, since then we have progressed to full ecommerce sites using Actinic as our solution and can now provide the full service from web design to hosting solutions and Search Engine Optimisation. One very successful project is our design for Fiddlesticks wool shop in Honiton Devon which now contains over 150 pages of different products. Recently voted by Simply Knitting magazine as 'A friendly online experience making your virtual experience as close to that of visiting a real shop as is humanly possible', our aim is to produce a web site that meets your requirements.

We can also provide copy for the site using professional copy writers who work to our instructions to provide targeted copy specific to the web page.

We can also provide custom reports for Actinic using Crystal Reports V8.5

A brochure web site is an advertising medium similar to a sales brochure but unlike the brochure you can make changes quickly and without having to reprint the document. There is no need for a distribution service as this is taken care of by the web, your brochure is available to any one searching the web providing that the search engines have details of the site.

This type of web site may have only one page or maybe several pages aimed at simply advertising your capabilities and providing contact information about you.

We supply eCommerce sites based on the Actinic design software and can provide the complete web site including provision of web hosting, Search Engine Optimisation, and site maintenance. One very successful project is our design for fiddlesticks wool shop in Honiton Devon with over 150 pages and after twelve months it now ranks in the top pages for its most important search phrases. This design is based around the Actinic ecommerce solution which provides all the necessary facilities to run the complete web operation including online ordering and collection of payment via secure credit card payments.

We are using the Actinic software to run this site even though we do not use it as an eCommerce site, Actnic can be used as a Content Management System as we do here to produce a site that can then be switched to full eCommerce with the minimum of extra work.

Tod Designs are an accredited Actinic Developer with experience in developing sites using either Actinic V8 or V9. We are also an active member of the Actinic Community with experience in solving problems and developing new methods to use the software. We have used several hosting companies and can advise on the best hosts for Actinic sites and also which to avoid.

We specialise in customised navigation using software that can read the Actinic database and generate the lists directly from your information. These lists are then styled with CSS files to provide the look you are looking for. We can provide multiple navigation menus which are automatically generated from the Actinic site so any changes you make to the site are automatically added to the navigation. So if you want an extra menu as an alphabetic list of your products as well as the normal navigation contact us for pricing.

We also supply a graphics plug in for Actinic to add special effects some of which are used on ths site. The tabbed system used here is a new plug in that we are working on which uses standard actinic fragments but provides a tabbed layout by incorporating a simple javascript into the design.

This is a full managed service which includes purchase of domain name ( if available), contracting site hosting, setting up the site with ecommerce facilities, providing full search engine optimisation covering a 12 month renweable contract.


So if you just want a simple web presence or require a complex ecommerce design built around a suitable shopping cart, contact us with your requirements. We understand both the software and the hardware underlying the web and can advise over the complete process.

Contact us by email for a full quotation to meet your specifc requirements.

Follow this link to a demonstration site showing some of the techniques that we use. This demonstration site uses Actinic eCommerce software with additional java script and CSS files to produce the menus that can be seen on this site.

This site will change from time to time as we test out other designs on a live web site.