Designing web sites is our passion and specialty. Bringing your new ideas to internet reality is what we strive to accomplish. If you are starting a new business and wish to market your products and services or if you have an idea to bring a new community together in the virtual world, we are the ones who will make it happen.
What we offer in our web design services:
- Domain name (Site name) registration. Choosing the right name for you site is important. As with designing an effective logo, your site name is an essential part of the branding process.
- Custom Site Logo Design. If you are just starting your new business or organization, we can help you begin the “branding” process. Having a memorable and representative logo will help communicate your identity, build customer awareness and begin the process of developing customer loyalty.
- Custom template/site appearance. As with logo design, building an appropriate site layout to present your content is important. It should make information very accessible and create a pleasing visitor experience. Many elements go into such design such as color schemes, content layout and navigation schemes. Because every site owner and every visitor community is different, it is important to develop an appropriate design.
- Content management systems (CMS). A Content Management System is web site software that allows site managers to create new content and manage it in a very simplified fashion. We provide a CMS with every site we develop. What does this mean for you? Once we design the site and customize the CMS, you can easily add or update your own content if you wish. Using a CMS also makes it very easy to add new site features as many CMS’s have “modules” that can be added very simply to activate these features. This is also very empowering because it is easy and less costly to upgrade sites based on new needs. We specialize in using the Joomla! and Wordpress content management systems.
- Custom web applications. Have a great idea for a web site and it has never been done before? Have you seen something similar but need it modified to suit your vision? We can make it happen! We do provide custom programming to produce dynamic web applications. We specialize in using PHP and MySQL to create new web functionality.
- Search engine optimization (SEO). If no one can find you, no one will come to your site. It is important to properly design a site so that if can be found efficiently by web surfers using search engines such as Google, Live Search, or Yahoo. More importantly, SEO must be done in an ethical way. There are some questionable tricks that can improve your search ranking, but in the end the search engines will detect these techniques and lower or search ranking or even de-list your site. We can help improve the chances of your visitors finding your site using in effective and ethical techniques.
- Site Traffic Statistics. If you are doing any type of advertising campaign for your site, you need to know if your valuable marketing dollars are going to good use. Carefully following the traffic on your site and how it affects your business is critical to making good decisions.
Online Advertising. Do you need to increase your business activity and want to advertise online? We can help you put together an effective strategy. Do you have a great idea for a site and want to make money off of advertisements on your site? We can make that happen too. - E-Commerce/Online Shopping Carts. Want to sell your products online? Want to provide online billing for your customers’ invoices? This is not a scary as you think! We can provide you with low-cost and secure online billing solutions for your web site.
- Site hosting. We can host your site and maintain it at very affordable prices, so you have more time to run your business. We also provide regular backups and disaster recovery should something go wrong.
- Custom email. Its great to have a site with your business or organization name, but it looks even better if you can send and receive emails from your own domain name, and not a free email account from Hotmail or Gmail. We can provide you with business email accounts to reinforce your online identity.
What makes us different:
- The way we work. Unlike other designers and developers, we take a different approach. We work with you to determine your style and how you work, and put together a development strategy based on you. We do not constrain ourselves to pre-defined processes, but we do to meet industry standards with the end product. This is important because in the end the site is yours, and should reflect your identity, not ours.
- Costs. We are not a large business, nor do we maintain elaborate facilities or participate in expensive marketing. This keeps our operating costs low, and more importantly, so are our fees. Because we operate simply and nimbly, we can provide the same quality services as others at lower costs.
- Open source. We strive to use open source software when appropriate to keep costs down. Many open source software packages are free of charge and through their development communities are free for support as well. This results in significant cost savings and rapid development times.
- The Content Management System. We provide a CMS with every web site we develop at no extra charge, even simple sites with only a few pages. This provides for efficient future growth and makes maintenance very simple.