Web Design for Small & Mid-Sized Businesses
You're not in the cookie cutter business. Why should your website come from one?
David redesigned a tired, outdated school district site into a well organized, easily navigated, and easily maintained web site. He was fantastic in making the changeover.
--Dan Garvin, Piedmont USD
Website designers, particularly in a tech-savvy town like Portland, are a dime a dozen. Good ones, however, are more like a Silver Dollar a dozen. Be sure you're comfortable with the aesthetic sensibility of your designer or designers before you hire him, her, or them. A quality designer does not simply come up with a template and replace one client's information with another.
99% of small business web sites today fall into two distinct categories:
- Sites that look like they were designed by a high-school kid back in 1997. They might bring some traffic from the search engines (because of their simple coding techniques), but their dated look is a bit embarrassing for their owners.
- Sites that look terrific, incorporate a large amount of graphics and Flash, but don't show up for any keywords or phrases their customers or clients might be typing into the search engines.
If your current site falls into either category (or if your business doesn't yet have a website), you've come to the right place.
I know how far web site design has come in the last 12 years -- I WAS that high school kid designing sites way back in 1997. With the advent of more flexible coding techniques such as CSS, PHP, and AJAX, web site designers today have more freedom than ever. Your site should take advantage of this new creative freedom.
Below are brief descriptions of the web site design services I provide.
New Website Design
It's tough to spend money on marketing when your business is just getting off the ground, but an attractive, functional website is one of the most critical components to building a successful company, even if you're an "offline" business. I'll provide you with a number of design options for you to tweak and choose, and I'll give you realistic sense of what to expect in terms of new business from search engine optimization as well.
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Existing Website Design / Redesign
This is where the bulk of my work to date has come -- companies who either aren't happy with the current look and feel of their site, or who haven't seen a significant return on the investment they made in their online presence. Web site redesign can involve anything from a complete overhaul to a tweak of your current look and feel.
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+ Learn More About What's Involved in a Typical Website Design Project »
Existing Website Search Engine Optimization
If you ARE happy with the way your web site looks but don't seem to be getting any customers from it, you may want to consider Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Local SEO, and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). I'll review your site's structure and content, and will tailor your website to include proper keyword targeting toward a specific internet marketing strategy (that we'll discuss beforehand, of course). I'll also help you investigate inbound linking strategies and assist in developing additional content if I feel these options can provide a significant boost to your business.
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