solomons design

Q: What's your name and position in the company?
A: Quentin Thomas - Its all mine!

Q: Describe your company in 5 words.
A: dazzling creative, enthusiastic, careful, cool

Q: What's your business philosophy?
A: keep overheads low, advertise well, get a decent brand and logo, and know your market - use the internet everyday, and keep using it

Q: Describe your office environment.
A: home based retro studio with a list of apple macs and other well designed apple equipment

Q: Describe how your team interact and work together.
A: I work well with my partner - my wife - we are the ultimate team, and bounce ideas off each other.

Q: What makes you different from other web design companies?
A: were new, highly customer focused and interested in small start-up business and almost any sector. We talk in plain english so that our clients understand the web completely

Q: How do you get the majority of your business?
A: Target business with poor or no websites and hook them by designing a splash page to show off our skills

Q: Describe how you manage projects from the initial client contact to completion and handover.
A: successfully - we hand hold all the way, liaise and talk on a regular basis, either on phone or email, if not face to face on some occasions

Q: What do you think is the most crucial element of creating a good client relationship?
A: honesty -nothing else matters

Q: How do you manage demanding clients?
A: skillfully - I am demanding too!

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: After seeing some ideas - you should hit it off - the relationship is going to be over a long period of time - hopefully several months and years, so we have all got to get on.

Q: Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
A: right here, doing this, but with a little more skill, and maybe 1 or 2 more team members

Q: Where do you see the web design industry in the future?
A: thriving- al though there will be more do it yourself web packages, google SEPO will become easier and not so much of a black art!

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

Q: How was your company name chosen?
A: My brother has a company called solomons - hes a good bloke, and there was gold in King Solomons Mines, as well as one of the most beautiful places on earth - The Solomon Islands!

Q: If you were to give your clients one tip on how to get the most from their website what would it be?
A: spend the money on monthly search engine optimisation and submission - and understand what this means and will do for your business.