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About Our Websites

If you’re on this page, we’ll assume you know you need a business website. Our sites are built with secure code, cleanly designed, search friendly, mobile responsive with AMP¹, (accelerated mobile pages), assistive and easy to update. We care about user experience, performance, security, accessibility, simplicity, clarity, and how they all play a role in helping you achieve your business goals. Your site will look and function beautifully on any device your customer or potential client is using.

We’re here to help you utilize technology to lighten your business burdens, keep your life light while providing your clients with seamless, assistive, and delightful online experiences.

Types of Websites

Informational

Quite literally, this type of website is meant to convey information, (sometimes referred to as a brochure-type site), to it’s users. Examples could include portfolios, restaurant sites, and all small business sites with interactivity limited to contact forms and clickable call/sms text links. Informational sites usually are created to serve users who want to know more about you, your business, or a project they’re interested in. They don’t necessarily stay on your site a long time and might not visit again unless you’re regularly adding fresh content related to their interests.

Periodical

Similar to informational sites, periodical sites typically involve regular updating, (hence the label “periodical”), such as podcast sites, magazines, newspapers, video programs, and blogs. Audiences for these sites tend to return periodically to listen to new podcasts, watch a new video, or read new articles. A site with a blog you’re regularly updating could be considered an informational/periodical site.

Transactional

As is obvious, this type of site includes eCommerce sites, as well as any type of site that exchanges information. Examples include payment portals, sites that allow booking such as a travel, bank and stock trading sites. These sites are accessed often and are usually integrated with a variety of additional platforms.

Social

Social sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest are able to be customized, (branded), to some degree and link back to your main website. Many already offer the ability to buy and sell, (social commerce), or send money in app. Social media continues to be a great way to build brand awareness and generate leads for your business and should be incorporated in any good marketing strategy.

The Web Design Process

First and foremost, this is your site and your story. We want you to be involved as we create your site. Your site will be the “face” your company presents to the world; reflecting your goals and ideals.

Beginning with the end in mind, these are the steps involved in the web design process:

Step 1 | Definition

Definition and scope of project – discuss your needs and goals, ensure all questions are asked and answered
We send a project proposal to you with all details and an estimated timeline/launch date.

Step 2 | Getting Started

We will send you a “Getting Started” page with what we need from you to, well, get started!
We will outline content and function of site.

Step 3 | Design & Development

Decide, determine, and design visual aspects (your logo, branding, graphics).
Once the site layout and design is approved, We will move forward with the designing of all pages, functionality and responsive code, making sure your site looks great and functions nicely across all devices and web browsers.
A large and time consuming part of website design is in the layout, structure and design of the site. We will create the framework of the website and will send the homepage and a sub-page for approval.

Step 4 | Revisions & Edits

Adjust and confirm project timeline as needed.
Once the site is ready for final review, you’ll be able to review each page and we can make detailed edits until the site is revised completely.

Step 5 | Cleaning Up

Once your site is ready to go live, all unnecessary plugins, pages, images and back-end files will be removed. The new site will be backed up and saved should it ever need to be restored.

Step 6 | Site Launch!

At this point in time, you will have a site that is not only creatively designed and visually appealing, but SEO friendly and functional as well.

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Why Choose Us?

What Makes Our Websites Different?

1) We build our sites structurally sound, (secure), from the ground up.

2) All websites are built SEO optimized.

3) All sites designed are responsive with AMP, (accelerated mobile pages; see example here), integrated with the option of adding progressive enhancements as intelligent. Stated simply, PWA’s are designed to give anyone browsing your website a delightful user experience regardless of which device they are using.

4) Built with WordPress, a content management system which makes adding and updating your own content and photos easy.

5) We encrypt ALL of our websites. Take note when someone offers to build a website for $300.00, what you’re NOT getting. Google doesn’t like to send searchers to unencrypted websites, and everyday an ever increasing amount of web browsers will not display an unencrypted site. NOTE: It doesn’t matter whether your site is an eCommerce site or a simple informational site. If it isn’t encrypted, eventually it will not show up in search and many browsers will refuse to display your website at all.

Google’s Chrome browser now marks all non-HTTPS sites as ‘not secure’

6) We design and provide a privacy policy that is GDPR, (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant.

7) We care about accessibility! We build our sites to incorporate basic accessibility features from the very beginning.

8) We give you the option of choosing us to host, maintain, and secure your site on a monthly basis.

9) We integrate Google Analytics and, if you’re a local business or brand, Google My Business, for no additional charge.

10) We set you up for digital marketing success by creating a MailChimp account for all of your future email marketing campaigns.

Bottom Line: It really is true; you get what you pay for!

What are PWA’s?

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PWA stands for "Progressive Web App". However, it is not an app in the traditional sense that we think of an app. It's a "blend" of different components specifically chosen for a particular site. Stated a different way,-- it's like a recipe. There are many different "ingredients" that are available to make your favorite cookies. However, it wouldn't make sense to use all the ingredients in your kitchen to make them. PWA's must be designed intelligently in order to be effective. There are three basic requirements for a website to technically be called a PWA.

1) Your website must be running under "https".

2) You have a Web App Manifest (simply put, this is a JSON file with information about your site).

3) You have "Service Workers"; an example/indicator would be web push notifications, caching strategies and offline fallback.

See how Forbes is re-defining modern web development with Progressive Web App technology here.

The video below shows how much difference implementing a service worker can make:

Bottom Line: Implemented properly, a good PWA "recipe" should make all user experiences/interactions on your website a five-star experience.

More questions? Visit our glossary page here.

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