Your company's website may be often the only way your clients meet you, so it needs to make a great first impression. It isn't unreasonable to build a website with the care and attention you would give toward building your retail storefront or office.
So now you need a web designer. While we provide web design, we've chosen to use the term "Web Development" to define our services. What's the difference, and why does it matter?
A typical web designer will design a theme or template that includes your navigation and page layout. Then, they insert pages detailing your products and services. If you stop at that point, you'll have a nice website, capable of providing your customers with information about your products and services, and typically your contact information if they want to reach you. You're done with the site then, right?
Unfortunately, in today's economy, the answer is usually no. This formula for success used to work before the dot-com bomb in 2000. Today, your competition is fierce, and the average customer is more savvy and discriminating.
That's where a web developer comes in. We approach the building of a website from not only a design and graphical perspective, but in each web development project we work on, we provide:
- Simple, yet easy to use navigation design crafted by a user interface specialist
- Page layout and design with emphasis on search engine performance and standards compliance, without sacrificing appearance
- Scalable design, using technologies like Ruby on Rails and PHP, to make future changes easy, either for us (which saves you money), or for yourself if you choose
- Interactive features, using the power of frameworks like Ruby on Rails and technologies like AJAX to provide a rich experience for your users.
Rich, interactive features like site customization for your users, shopping cart and e-commerce functions, discussion forums, community features, and more will drive more customers to your site, encourage them to use it more, and help increase your return on your Internet investment.
Perhaps most importantly though, through the abilities of our programming team (and the great tools we use like Ruby on Rails), we will rarely have to tell you, "No, it can't be done". Want to track your visitors every move, and get daily reports e-mailed to you? Want to create an in-site search engine for your customers, and track what they're searching for? Want to find out where your visitors are coming from, what pages they're visiting the most? It's all possible, and more, when you use the combined forces of a web design team, Internet marketing specialist, and web developer.
You might think that such a comprehensive approach to building a website is expensive. On the contrary, our fees are very competitive. We also offer innovative and flexible payment options.
How do we start?
By listening. This is the first step in preparing a plan and quotation for you. We want to know about your business, who you're trying to reach, about your products and services, and most of all, what you want to accomplish. With this, we can craft a proposal that is suited to exactly your needs.
To get started fill out this brief form. We can then arrange a free consultation with a web developer, not a salesperson. We'll be glad to help determine your needs, and answer any questions you might have.
You can view our portfolio, view a list of the most frequently asked questions, or contact us for more information.