WEBSITE DESIGN

Website design is a combination of aesthetics and function. In our modern era most customers or viewers will only know the entity they interact with by their website. The website must show professionalism and design qualities to hold a first-time visitor's attention long enough to view its functionality. There must be a number of ways to get directly to the content; not every visitor will experience the site the same way. Though not visible, beneath the hood the website must be setup for 'first-level' search affinity.

Recent website projects including one in progress. CLICK IMAGES BELOW TO VISIT the websites here. Note that content data on several of these sites are no longer current and are shown for display only with the owner's consent and this disclaimer.

BLOGGING SITES

Blogs are a very important Internet search optimization tool and a relatively easy way to service a community. Most pages in a website change rarely compared to blogs that change every time a post is created. Information changes are the most important way to draw search engine agent software to a site. CLICK IMAGES BELOW TO VISIT SITE

These blogs range from personal article publishing to music, books, and tax advice.

SPECIAL FEATURE PAGES

I work with a number of excellent vendors and contractors who supply code templates or write code from scratch for needed projects. We can satisfy almost every need. CLICK SITE IMAGE TO VISIT.

Interactive maps can provide great information about a company and its affiliates, while custom built web applications can provide specific information about a company's products.

INTERNET OPTIMIZATION

Designing and publishing a beautiful and functional website is only the tip of the iceberg, in more ways than one. It's the part you see. While the number of websites is a moving target Google searches something like 200 million individual websites and well over a trillion web pages. So the important task is to make sure the website is seen and rises to the top of searches by the people you want to see it.

Search engines make it a point to keep secret the criteria used to determine which websites are at the top of their searche pages but there are some logical and important ways best practices. The most important is be real: the website must represent a real concept and the search agents have ways to test for this, including carefully checking third party links, traffic, keyword tracking. Know your key words and phrases and use them liberally on your site. While these are a given, technique is important to maximize the value of the site.

Following the rule that 20% of the effort will bring you 80% of the reward, legitimate sites in most markets can find themselves near the top of their search categories by setting their sites up correctly to begin with, monitoring and editing key words and phrases and taking steps that constantly add new information to their site.

This is a specialty of the house and it is part of the ongoing maintenance of website design and development projects. Included in most projects are hosting, Email setup and maintenance, DNS, and Domain Management services.