Website Design and Development

“Our website is how we get lots of new referrals.”
"My website makes a lot of money for my business."
"With our website we save a lot of money."
"It's easy to provide new information to customers and potential customers with my website."

If you can't agree with any of the above statements, your website isn't helping your business. A website is much more than an electronic business card, and you owe it to yourself to explore the ways that it can help your business grow. Pinpointing where the problems lie can sometimes be tricky, but it's easy to get the most out of your website when you hire the right web developers.

Whether you're just looking to make updates, or start a website from scratch, we can help. We have experience in all areas of website design and development, and can create a customized solution that will help you achieve your goals. Below is a list of the services we can provide;

» Website Design: Your website design should instantly say something about your business, be esthetically pleasing, easy to navigate, intuitive, and compliment your existing company branding. Our website design services take all this into account and include a pleasing design, as well as attention to the other details that encompass truly effective web design.

» Graphic Design: If you are unsatisfied with, or don't have an existing company identity package (logo, letterhead, business cards, etc.), we can provide this for you. Graphic design services also include things like creating ads, web banners, or even t-shirts to compliment your website design. This is particularly indispensable for small and new businesses, as good graphic design can help your organization appear very professional and will lend credibility.

» Search Engine Optimization and Marketing: A thorough analyzation of your website, your competition, and search trends for your specific products or services will tell us exactly how to increase your traffic and bring in new, targeted visitors. Even a website that is doing "well" can become "great" with proper SEO. This includes keyword research, and implementation of these keywords and phrases into strategic places on your website. We also assemble aggressive online marketing plans to maximize your advertising budget.
All SEO and marketing services are ethical, and adhere to current search engine guidelines and good netiquette. We stay current on SEO standards and techniques with almost daily research, which helps us guarantee your website excellent search engine ranking.

» E-commerce: We can help you discover which methods of payment acceptance are right for your business, and which shopping cart system will best fit your needs. There are many options available, including stores that even computer novices can maintain, to packages that allow you to easily leave the task of updating to us. As we are familiar with all aspects of e-commerce development, you won't have to worry about common annoyances such as poor search engine placement, lack of upgradability, or missing out on the features you really wanted. Whether you're selling 2 or 2,000 products, we can create an online store especially for you.

» Programming: One of the reasons the Internet is such a unique medium is because websites can provide dynamic content. We program using the non proprietary languages of PHP, Perl, and JavaScript, to allow your website to do just about anything you can dream up; shopping carts, collect customer data via forms, image galleries, content management, displaying "random" or "daily" information, mailing lists, affiliate programs, or just about anything else you could want.

» Photography: Our digital photography services deliver unique, high quality photos for web and print projects. This includes portrait, product, landscape, action, wildlife/companion animal, still life, and artistic/abstract photography. Photos are taken with a sharp, 3 megapixel Nikon Coolpics digital camera, and are deliverable via the Internet, burned onto CD, or printed like pictures from traditional film cameras. This service also saves you time and money, as you're not waiting for film to be developed or paying for prints that you don't need. Since scanned photos loose some of their original quality (or require touch up work), digital pictures are the smart choice for all web projects. Clients are free to reuse these images for all future projects.

» Photo Editing: When combined with our photography services, photo editing provides you with perfect pictures every time. This is helpful for small touch ups, as well larger renovations- we can tastefully blur out excessive background details, change the color of a product, or completely remove a person from a picture. Also useful for esthetic details that may be bothersome, such as stray hairs, smudged makeup, skin imperfections, wrinkles, or a little bit of slip showing. Although we think you're all beautiful as-is, we do offer "digital facelifts" that believably take off 10 years or 10 pounds. Many clients use this service for announcement photos for graduations, weddings, or even "glamour shots" that didn't turn out just right. (To respect our clients' privacy, additional samples are available by e-mail, and are not posted on our website. Serious inquiries only, please.)

» Website Setup or Transfer: Businesses new to the Internet (or Internet start ups) can rely on us to get their website going with the least amount of cost and fuss. We can also show existing websites that aren't satisfied with their current service providers (web host, web developer, domain registrar, etc.) what is necessary to transfer to newer and better service providers. We've spent years looking for the most reliable, inexpensive, and all around best business partners, and we pass that knowledge onto out clients.

» Website Hosting: Most websites (such as ones not using e-commerce) should not be paying more than $6.95 a month for web hosting. Unfortunately, all of our clients have come from web hosts that were charging them much more for resources they weren't even using! We can easily transfer your website to Host Gator with no downtime, and often with no charge for the transfer of your website files.

» Content Management: Websites are very useful for providing up-to-date information, which is why content management scripts and services are so helpful. Clients who wish to update their own website, but aren't familiar with web development, can use a novice-friendly content management script to update their own information. Based upon individual needs, we suggest, install, and teach clients how to use their new CM system to save time and money.

» Updates: For clients who just don't have the time or interest, we offer website updating services. Just e-mail us with the changes or updates and we'll add them to your website ASAP. If updates are frequent, this service can be purchased as part of a custom tailored package, or for more sporadic updates, clients can save money by paying per update. Many small updates are even free of charge for existing clients.