Creative Line Design

Q: What's your name and position in the company?
A: Kevin McElligott, Partner

Q: Describe your company in 5 words.
A: Professional creative graphic designers

Q: What's your business philosophy?
A: To produce the best possible job at the best possible price on time every time

Q: Describe your office environment.
A: idyllic country setting, calm, peaceful - great for concentration

Q: Describe how your team interact and work together.
A: We handle jobs as individuals but brainstorm to get a good variety of ideas

Q: What makes you different from other web design companies?
A: Our commitment to our work and our clients

Q: How do you get the majority of your business?
A: Word of mouth

Q: Describe how you manage projects from the initial client contact to completion and handover.
A: Jobs are handled methodically. From briefing they are entered into our online jobbing and time-keeping system so budget and deadlines are kept under control leaving us to concentrate on design.

Q: What do you think is the most crucial element of creating a good client relationship?
A: communication

Q: How do you manage demanding clients?
A: Every client should feel like they are your only client

Q: If a client was trying to decide between a shortlist of web design companies, how would you recommend they go about selecting the right one for them?
A: Discuss their requirements with each web design company. They will instinctively know which one suits them best after that.

Q: Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
A: Moving with the times and trends and still loving designing.

Q: Where do you see the web design industry in the future?
A: If I knew the answer to that I'd be a millionare

Q: What computers do you have use in your offices, PCs or Macs?
A: Mac

Q: How was your company name chosen?
A: When we started back in the seventies we produced concept designs through to keyline artwork (there were no PCs back then) so we used 'Creative' to cover the design side of our business and 'Line' to associate us with the artwork side.

Q: If you were to give your clients one tip on how to get the most from their website what would it be?
A: Don't just copy others. Decide what would be really useful to you and your clients and make sure you get it on your site.