Cornwell Internet is a website design consultancy, based in the City of Durham, specialising in personally designed sites for individuals and small organisations: authors, publishers, performers, visual artists and community groups.

Jean Rogers and Roger Cornwell have been designing websites since 1996 (and the World Wide Web has only been a reality since 1995). In that time we have designed and built over ninety sites of all shapes and sizes, from one page to hundreds, and from the very simple to the highly complex.

Celebrating ten years in the web design business for Cornwell Internet

In July 2008 we celebrated ten years since Roger went self-employed and started Cornwell Internet; we marked the occasion by inviting all our clients to join us for a party at Newcastle's Stephenson Works, the world's first purpose built locomotive works on Forth Banks, an important site in the new technology of its day!

Welcome to ...

... four websites recently implemented by Cornwell Internet:: Jenny Lewis - poet, singer-songwriter and teacher; No to Age Banding - how children choose the right books for their needs; Ramscombe Cottage - a new direction for an existing site; This Fatal Subject - three artists confront taboos about death

All our sites are designed individually, in consultation with the client. We believe web sites should be content-driven, displaying your message in a way that grabs the attention without being gimmicky. It's not a place to show off our skills, it's a place to show off yours.

We also offer a maintenance service, keeping your site fresh and up to date with all your news; and we will advise you about how to start small and expand your site as you go, if that is the most suitable solution for your project. Our customers seem to like the results: and so do their customers, the people who visit the sites we build.

Sheila Quigley has been checking the statistics package supplied with her web site:

Have you seen the huge chunk of hits from America, that's down to the thriller writers website, so answering my earlier question myself, Yes, having a website sells books.

Keep up the good work, guys,
best
sheila q xx

Thankyou for listing us on your website and correcting the contact details so quickly. We've had quite a few bookings through that already.

The New Rope String Band passed on this message from a satisfied customer.

Other comments from customers can be seen on our Portfolio page.

Business Link Accreditation

We are listed on the North East England Service Provider Register, with a five-star rating. This follows a process of accreditation by Business Link, involving taking references from our customers and our proving that we have appropriate professional indemnity and public liability insurance.

New on this site

We are delighted to find a home on our own site for the art works we commissioned in 2004 as part of our association with Durham Literature Festival. We were funded to commission work which would promote both Cornwell Internet and the Festival, and the result was a wonderful range of material, from a short story written in hyperfiction to a unique bookplate. Read more about the project - and the work it produced - here.

Accessible web sites

Cornwell Internet specialise in accessible web sites: sites that are easy on the eye but that also work for people with restricted vision who use voice only browsers. Not only is this good practice, and - since the since the Disability Discrimination Act - in many cases a legal obligation, it produces sites which are functional, and which score well with search engines.

In 2005, we won a Visionary Design Award for the website we run for Anne Fine, the second Children's Laureate (www.annefine.co.uk).

Anne Fine's website was the winner in the Children's Website category at the Visionary Design Awards 2004. Another of our sites - designed for Newcastle Quaker Meeting (www.quakers-in-newcastle.org.uk) - was shortlisted in the Voluntary Organisations category.

I'm thrilled that Cornwell Internet have made www.annefine.co.uk so "blind friendly" that it has won a national prize. We all want as many people as possible to have full and fast access to our websites. I'm grateful to Jean and Roger for taking this responsibility off my shoulders, and making it so easy for people who are blind or seriously visually-impaired. Many congratulations to them both.

Anne Fine

These Awards, organised by the National Library for the Blind, are given to sites making "outstanding efforts in ensuring their content is accessible to visually impaired people". The Awards were presented at a ceremony in London on Wednesday 24th November, hosted by Loyd Grossman and sponsored by Barclays.

Helen Brazier, NLB's Chief Executive, said: "These awards are incredibly important. We estimate that less than a third of all websites are accessible to visually impaired people and our challenge to web designers and publishers is to create sites which are attractive and informative, but also comply with the Disability Discrimination Act by being accessible too."

We are delighted with our success; to win in one category and have a second site shortlisted is a real feather in our cap. Our commitment to accessibility is a central element of our approach to website design; we do not regard design as an end in itself, we think its purpose is to convey information to anyone who visits a site. The award confirms that we are on the right track.