Sketchanet is a visual platform for easily creating your own websites and blogs, with optional ecommerce. We also design and build websites using the platform on the behalf of our clients.
We've been serving the Hythe & Waterside area of Southampton and the New Forest since 2005. Below are just a handful of the sites we've built for local businesses:
Truffles Traditional Sweet Shop, Lymington
Sargent's Traditional Butchers, Dibden Purlieu
OYSTER FINACIAL PLANNING, HYTHE
Fibre Mechanics, A Yacht builders based in Lymington
PWP ARCHITECTS, HAVANT
Waterfront House, Holiday Home in Hythe
MAPLES BOOK KEEPING, HYTHE
Who ARE WE?
One of the questions you might have before cosying up to a proprietary web building platform, is who are the people behind this system and what is their track record? This is a sensible question to ask – you want to be sure they'll still be around in 2, 3, 5, even 10 years down the line...
Sketchanet started life as a small digital agency in 2005. The internet was still fairly new to the masses and there was a lot of room for creativity in the website building space. The Web Well (Sketchanet's predecessor), got heavily stuck into building websites that were visually captivating, immersive, and engaging. They quickly built up a roster of clients including Secret Garden Party, The Groucho Club, Club at The Ivy, and the Birley Group restaurants including Annabel's Nightclub. Further forays into the festival space included clients Bestival and Camp Bestival.
Full featured CMS systems (Content Management Systems) were in their infancy throughout this period and The Web Well team built systems from scratch to precisely meet client requirements. Sketchanet has been developed by a great technical team with a solid track record. The company has been bootstrapped from the start, growing organically. This means we are free of commitment to investors. Instead, we are able to respond to the requirements of our customers, and provide ongoing development of a great platform that goes from strength to strength into the future. The internet is a place where technology changes fast, and where the web goes, Sketchanet stays at the forefront. And hence, so does your website.
We still work with clients across the globe, but have never forgotten our local roots. Our most enjoyable projects are for local companies and small businesses in the Hythe and New Forest area. Our long standing web design heritage is combined with the personableness of 'keeping things local', and we would be delighted to answer any queries you may have for your website needs. Get in touch today by Email: support@sketchanet.com or calling: 020 3397 8996.
The Sketchanet Platform
Sketchanet is a powerful, cloud-based visual Content Management System (CMS) for creating fully responsive websites and blogs, with optional ecommerce. You can control every aspect of your site - with absolutely no coding necessary.
Our strength is that Sketchanet is built on components put into a super flexible grid layout that you control. You are never stuck with a template, instead you can mould your layout and design to fit your content.
"The best thing about Sketchanet is that it is extremely flexible. It's very easy to add new page layouts, or get really creative with designing a whole new section of your website without writing any code - including responsive design, which is absolutely essential. I've worked with lots of web platforms and none of them compare with the level of control they give you over your site"
Simon Joyner
Adverts for the major CMS and website builders such as Wordpress and Wix are now ubiquitous across social media and even television. You may well be tempted to build your own site with them when starting up a new business... It's got to be easy to build an affordable, professional and beautiful looking website, right!? That's what the ads say, anyway!
Many of these web builders offer a variety of stylish website templates. The attraction is the low price or the possibility to get started without having to hire a designer.
The weak point emerges when you download the theme and find out that it doesn't suit your brand identity quite as well as you imagined it would. When you insert your own media, the template doesn’t look so “premium” and stylish as it used to in the preview (template designers spend hours sourcing pictures from photo libraries that match each other perfectly).
Later, when you decide to customize the bought theme, you have to hire a developer, even if you tried to avoid it in the very beginning. Our CMS is centred around a layout engine, not a template based platform.
We urge you to give Sketchanet a go today with our completly free trial.
Web Design Service
If you've struggled with any of the major website builders such as Wordpress, Ionos and Wix (and a lot of our clients say they have) we urge you to give Sketchanet a go today with our completly free trial. However, if you're simply not technically minded, don't have the time or inclination to build your own site (you're running a business, after all) or you require a professional, slick site designed by experts, we recommend our Design Service.
"Drystan and his team have provided a great experience from beginning until launch, taking our vision and direction to another level using their expertise to create a professional website that is fresh, informative, practical and easy to navigate. Their impressive editing software allows us to keep our website up to date ourselves, yet they are also hand to assist us along the way."
Donna & Michael Osman
Oyster Financial Planning Ltd.
Sketchanet Design provides design and build services that support websites on the Sketchanet platform (see the examples at the top of the page). Please don't hesitate to give us a call on 020 3397 8996.
