Professional Web Design

code authoring and web graphics

Clean Web Design

My websites are designed with your target audience in mind, using a layout and navigation that attracts the visitor’s attention and keeps them at your site. The sites are devoid of clutter with easy to read layouts, and use graphics that are updated and fashionable enhancing your professional image.

The graphics are designed using the latest version of the powerful and flexible Adobe Creative Suite, which includes such applications as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, and Fireworks. The code is edited manually, and powered by the Dreamweaver application found in the Adobe Creative Suite. The manual editing of the code ensures that code is light weight, helping the pages to load as quickly as possible; as well as being compliant to the most current standards.

Quality to Meet Your Needs...

Your website undergoes several quality checks before it's launch to ensure that your visitors will have a rich browsing experience. This ranges from the very basics of spell checking, to code validation and browser compatibility tests. This rigorous compliance to design standards ensures that your website will be free of errors that may damage your reputation, and drive customers away from your business. It also ensures that all visitors to your site will see your website displayed on their monitor the way you intended it to be displayed, no matter which browser they may be using.

Compliance to design standards ensures that your website is will be as visible as possible to all of the various modern search engines. This optimization gives you a better chance at getting "clicks" when potential customers search for information specific to your particular industry, products, and services.

Accessibility

Internet Explorer is no longer the only game in town. In fact, IE is quickly losing its foothold as the most popular browser in use. My websites are designed so that all of the major web browsers in use today will load the pages fast, and display the content as intended without errors. Every site is tested in Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera.

Personal Touch

Many times people want a website that resembles a site that they really like, or even a combination of sites. This is not a problem, and is often the easiest way to answer the question about the style you desire. However, this is not the only approach. If you have a specific style in mind, we can work together to create the site you want.

Feedback In Design

During the design process, your website goes through a review process. After the initial layout is constructed, you are given the opportunity to see a sample. At that time, you can offer any feedback to help ensure that the styling suits your taste.

Throughout the design, this review process continues as necessary until final approval is given, at which time your website goes live. This approach gives you total control of your site from start to finish!

Maintenance

For those who have an existing website that merely needs periodic updates, I can work with you with or without redesigning the existing layout.

Web Design For The Smaller Budget

micro business & home based business

Your Business...

Your business is being operated out of your garage, or in a spare room in your home. If you have a "brick and mortar" business, you are leasing less than 5,000 sq ft of space. Maybe your vehicle is your office, and the bookkeeping is done on a laptop on the kitchen table. Your business has 5 full time employees or less; and you may never have more than 5 full time employees...even if your company expands to the greatest extent which your business plan allows.

Your Frustration...

Every web designer you've spoke with has given you a quote that is simply out of your budget, even when you tell them that all you want is a couple of pages to describe your business and give potential customers your contact information.

You want your website to reflect the professional image of your business. You want to use up to date graphics, styling, and user interface effects. You want to clearly communicate the message your business sends out to attract and retain customers.

The Solution...

Years of direct experience working in manufacturing environments has tuned my mind towards efficiency. When I became a web designer, I developed techniques that allow me to create simple and elegant layouts tailored to your specifications in short period of time. The code complies to current standards in web design, ensuring a safe and error-free browsing experience for your visitors.

The result is a completely customized website that allows your visitors to have a rich browsing experience. Adjustments can be made with ease upon request, allowing updates to be made quickly to your website.

The Compromise...

People looking for an inexpensive site still receive the same quality design features as any other site. The layout is stylish and incorporates any existing logo or color scheme, the code is compliant with industry standards, cross-browser compatibility test are performed, and the site owner is able to give feedback and request changes during the design process. The site is designed in such a way that allows for growth in the future, making upgrading the site easy and painless. So what is compromised?

Inexpensive sites are designed with fewer graphics and effects, smaller image galleries, and with less assistance in writing the content of the site. For most people who are looking for an inexpensive site, they don't want or need these things in the first place. For those wanting an inexpensive site, it’s simple to see the compromise...there isn't one.

Website Redesign

give your existing site a breath of fresh air

If your website looks bad, has broken links or outdated content, it’s time to make those much needed updates. Fashion changes with time, and what used to be considered good-looking few years ago is not necessarily perceived the same today. This is coupled with the changes in how browsers interpret code; which has allowed designers to make dramatic changes in the general style and layout of modern websites.

Do you have an existing website, but it's outdated and needs a "fresh coat of paint"? Is the content outdated and inaccurate giving your customers misleading information? Whatever your needs for redesigning your site, you will receive the same level of expert service as those who are looking for a website designed from scratch.

Personal Websites

tell the world your story

Do you have an interesting story to tell that you would like to share with the world as a biography or autobiography? Does your garage band need a website to showcase your talents? Is it time to get started on that blog you've been thinking about? Or maybe you want to put your family tree online with the ability to include links to stories about your ancestors (what a great centerpiece for a family reunion!).