Additional ServicesWeb Design and DevelopmentSince 1997 we have been designing and building complete websites for clients. Before beginning any design, we help you to assess what type of format will best serve your purpose.In cases where a limited budget creates a hurdle, we can provide alternate options to enable you to provide "sweat equity" in your project or by building a basic starter website with future expansion built into it. Perhaps you are a programmer with a great java based, streaming stock back end, but just don't want to spend the time on what to you, is the mundane task of wrapping a website around it. We can do that. Website Forms Development and HostingOne of the most important security features of any website is to make certain that forms validate and respond to what a visitor enters into them, while at the same time, block automated submitters.Hidden email address email forms, forms spam blockers, secure certificate implementation, automated opt-in/opt-out's, database searches... we do them all. ConsultingOne of the best investments a website owner can make is to have a knowledgeable web developer go over the plans for a new site, or critique an existing one.The time to expose potential problems is before a single piece of code is written. Problems with navigation strategies can cause visitors to quickly jump to another website. Whether you are running a $300 informational site or a $250,000.00 ecommerce portal, poorly designed navigation relates to a loss of visitors, customers, and profits. We offer our services to help others to avoid the pitfalls that we made early on. Unless you have lived and breathed websites 10 or 12 hours a day for 7 or 8 years, it is easy to mess up bigtime, and very costly to fix after the fact. Some seemingly innocuous errors can even cause your website's rank to be penalized or dropped by search engines. Search Engine StrategiesThere is nothing more frustrating than finding that every other rinky dink website is showing up on the top 3 pages of searches, while your great site is lost down in the 30-umteenth section.We offer solid proven services to improve your website search engine ranking. Nope. We don't promise the top listing on the first page, because if we did we would be lying, but we can help you to get the highest rank possible for your type of website. There are no $350 a month gimmicks. Just plain web sense experience and solid search engine optimization practices. Web masteringThere often comes a time when managing a website can become overwhelming. The site has been growing and expanding, but it seems to be drawing less than when it first "went live". And frankly, you just don't have the time, or patience to track down the problem.Growth and expansion of your website may be the problem. Often, as websites grow organically, links are left out. Images may display on your computer, but are invisible to your visitors because someone forgot to upload the image to the server. (they display on yours, because they exist on your computer). A webmaster can quickly locate and fix existing problems and identify potential problems that can negatively affect your visitor's experience. Retaining a webmaster is like having a full time qualified IT manager, but only paying him when he is actually working. |
