Is your web designer a "geek"

Does your website designer only answer the telephone after 11.30am?

Web design geeks are nocturnal creatures. The majority of their work gets done between the hours of 11pm and 4am when other members of their species are on-line for chats about the latest Google algorithm (aka playing Tomb Raider). All this means that early morning telephone conferences are out – at least if you want a better response to your timeline requests than “nneeeugh!”

Is your website designer evangelical in his love of Firefox and irrational in his hatred of Internet Explorer?

Web design geeks believe firmly that Microsoft is the spawn of the devil. Alleged crimes include developing a browser with the sort of security holes that Arnold Schwarzenneger could get through, usurping poor old Apple and, in all likelihood, being responsible for climate change too. Be gentle with them, web design geeks have an innate sense of injustice and would almost certainly place money on the Liberal Democrats winning a general election.

Does your website designer love acronyms?

PHP, AJAX, SQL, CGI, HTML, XML, CSS - the list goes on and on and to be honest they all have their place in the web designer's arsenal. Really though, are you that interested? As long as your site works, attracts business and presents you in the best possible light, what goes on under the engine is not something you should have to worry about. It's rather like an airline pilot describing Bernoulli's Principle of Pressure, as long as your flight gets you where you want to be with all your body parts in place, you don't need to know how it happens.

Does your website designer exist on a diet of coke and chocolate?

Vegetables and fruit simply don't exist in the diet of geek web designers. All geeks long to return to their halcyon days spent getting to grips with C+ in their teenage bedroom, existing only on a packet of Hob Nobs. Unfortunately, real life insists that these same geeks must earn a living so they assert their individuality by stubbornly refusing to eat healthily. Oh, and they haven't worked out how to turn the oven on yet.

Fab Web Design are different....

We talk business, not geek. Our years of marketing experience mean that won't be dazzled by the latest technical gizmo if we don't think it will add real value to your bottom line. We promise not to bore you with the nuts and bolts of our business, but want to listen to the nuts and bolts of yours. Put simply, you can trust us to get the job done. Oh, and we promise not to be grumpy in the mornings.