Why do I need a website?

A custom website is vital to every business in today's market. It adds legitimacy to a brick and mortar business, gives the exposure you seek and creates a touch base for your clients, artists and photographers have a gallery showcase, personal services have a wonderful show card online brochure to describe their services. As people migrate toward online Yellow Pages and search engines to locate businesses and services no business can be without a website.

If you have an online brochure the cost savings from printing is substantial.

With the cost of phone directory advertising rising and sold on a per month basis, adding to that reaching wider areas result in the need to advertisement in yet more books=more costs, a website is not only cost effective, more informative, global in breadth and allows a one on one communication with each visitor.

Why not let my daughter/friend design my website?

It's tempting to have a friend or relative create your web design - for little or no money. Areas to consider: Are they willing to go through all the efforts to create the desired website? Can you continue to ask them to change things without fear of offending them? Are they available each time you need changes?
Is web design a hobby for them? Do they follow the W3 standards?

I am committed to making my clients happy, not only with the end resulting website, but the process of creating the website. I know the time and care it takes to achieve this goal. I work until the client is happy, no matter how many times we alter something in the web design. That's part of the process to excellence for each custom designed website.

Why a Custom Website?
Template websites offer the cheapest website. A custom web design streamlines every piece to be visually pleasing, make navigation natural, easy and useful for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and add the code (hidden) to aid search engines to understand what your site is about. Images need to be optimized to avoid slow loading pages - no one waits much beyond 3 seconds for a page to load. Even the structure of the entire site can aid in SEO. A website without all these elements working together will not produce the results you are seeking. I include SEO with each custom web design.

Can I hire you though I don't live near you?

My clients live as far away as Wisconsin & New York. Email and phone makes this simple. As I build each website my client and I view it together on a private site and chat by phone.

How long does it take?

The home page of any website is the keystone. We work together to achieve this. Once that is decided and approved by you and I have all the content from you (images and copy) the site takes approximately 30 days for a 10 page site.

I will upload to a private site which you access via password and view your site as it grows.

What is Search Engine Optimization?

Search engines (Google & Yahoo) use 'robots' to cull keywords from websites to return them in a search. These tags are 'code' not visible on the web page,
but need to be researched, well thought out and properly coded
throughout your website to work with your page content/copy and even the structure of the website itself, all to aid search engines.

Web design usually does not include SEO (search engine optimization). Read more at wikipedia. But it is crucial to the success of each business website and this is included in every website design, large or small.

What are you fees?

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Why should I refresh or re-do my website?

I will evaluate your current website for no fee. I will list suggestions and improvements. My concerns are download times, graphic image sizes, optimization for search engines, ease of navigating through your site and, of course the design layout, both visual and functionality. The internet changes and things which were once the trend are replaced with better ways.

Where do we start?

Email or phone me.
Find websites you do like. Collect the logo, photos and content
for your site and list any ideas you have. I strive to make this simple
for you and fun to watch grow.

I don't have a logo?
I can create a custom logo for your business.
For more information visit my Graphic Design page.

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