Johannes Jensson, CEO of award-winning international web design firm Melcomedia, specialises in creating state-of-the-art, stunning, visual interfaces for websites. The designs are innovative, creative and embrace the latest in technological advances.

"A Company’s website is often the first-and last port of call for customers," said Johannes. "When we design a website we look at it from the customer’s point of view.

A good website needs to have a fine balance between design, contents, originality and performance - Is it visually stimulating? Will it capture the customer’s imagination? Will the website deliver what the customer is looking for? Will the customer revisit and recommend the website to others?

In essence, if the website is not visually appealing and if it does not provide what the customer wants/needs, it is not going anywhere. It is dead in the water – as simple as that!
To achieve our goals we a need good, easy to use graphics application to create our designs and this is where Ulead’s PhotoImpact 8 comes in on its own. PhotoImpact provides us with a complete graphics web toolkit with which we can design our web page layout, web artwork and create interactive buttons, rollovers and/or pop-up menus."

As an efficient, project-based company founded on a set of customer-oriented values, Melcomedia embraces professional workmanship which delivers on quality, impact and value to their clients.

Melcomedia offers a comprehensive range of services including photography, information architecture, site navigation, website design, user testing, programming and search engine optimisation together with domain registration, hosting and maintenance agreements.

Melcomedia’s clients are diverse. Award-winning websites include the charity: Meningitis Research Foundation - www.munromadness.org.uk; Air na Creagan Mountaineering Club - www.craggy.org.uk; Progress Driver Training - www.make-progress.co.uk; Amateur Boxing Club - www.garnockboxing.com, other interesting designs include: Icelandic Massage Therapy - www.heilsunudd.com and an online art gallery by a visually impaired artist -www.artcreation.co.uk

Each of these websites has been designed using PhotoImpact 8. Good results speak for themselves.

Added Johannes: "Ulead’s PhotoImpact 8 is great for its powerful image and photo editing capabilities while PhotoImpact WYSIWYG impresses us in terms of integrating graphic and web page design into one easy-to-use package. It also allows the graphic designer to slice large graphic files and define hot spots effortlessly onscreen.

Where in the past we used to spend a whole day designing, for example a complicated 3D image with other graphic design applications – with PhotoImpact we can do it in minutes. As far as we are concerned PhotoImpact 8 gives us all the tools we need to produce
award-winning professional quality results - it’s one of the best application on the market and certainly provides the best value for money by far."

PhotoImpact has been totally integrated into the design process. Melcomedia’s designers, who are now into their fourth version of PhotoImpact, use the application in conjunction with Wacom Graphic Tablet to create logos, artwork and to edit photos.

The fast-growing Ayrshire firm are already designing websites for broadband and on-line video productions dealing with small and international businesses. - Interested? Then see for yourself at www.melcomedia.com.