Design Considerations
The design of a website is critical to it's success. The site
should be designed to allow the viewer to easily find the information
he or she is looking for and to move from place to place within
the site without getting lost. If the website is difficult to
navigate the viewer may just give up. There are few things more
frustrating than to search page after page and never find what
you were looking for. We keep this principle in mind with every
website we design. Ease of use is one of our major goals when
designing a website.
The next consideration is the amount of time the pages take to
load. Graphics and animation make the Web what it is. However,
to much of a good thing isn't good at all; and what works fine
on print and in magazines can be death to a website. Many people
are still using 28.8 modems to browse the Web. It is important
to keep this in mind since a 28.8 modem will take quite a while
to load a page loaded down with graphics. How do feel when you
sit minute after minute waiting for a page to load? This doesn't
mean that a page has to be devoid of graphics to be effective.
We simply try to keep the image sizes as small as possible to
allow the fastest transfers without forsaking the quality of the
image. This is a challenge at times but it can be done and it
is important to the overall effectiveness of the site.
Even with a well structured website, if the content (the reason
people are visiting the site in the first place) doesn't provide
the information the person is looking for you are not getting
the results you want. The information contained in any website
should be useful, and instructive for the visitor. They should
be able to get the same information that they would get by talking
with you directly.
We take all the factors into consideration when designing a site.
We will work with you to determine yours needs and objectives,
help you organize and edit the data, and put it all together to
give you a site that will be informative, productive and esthetically
interesting.
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Using Your Design
If you have a design already in mind, either laid out in
detail or just scratched out on a piece of paper we can do it
for you. All we will need are the plans and materials you have
and we will put them together for you. In fact, the more information
you have the better. If you already have graphics you want to
use great. If you have the written content on disk that is even
better. To tell you the truth, it is much easier for us if you
know exactly what you want ahead of time. Before the job is finished
it will be uploaded and you will have the opportunity to look
it over and see if there any changes or adjustments you would
like made. It is your site and you have the control over it's
content and how it will look.
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Using Our Design
If you don't have a clue as to what you want to do, that's
ok, we're able to come up with a design you'll like. We try to
make every site unique in some way. If a site has some element
that perhaps hasn't been done before it leaves an immediate impression
and holds the visitor's attention.
At top of this section you will find examples of sites we have
built and maybe get some ideas as to what you might like. If you
have seen another site somewhere and think you would like something
similar we can do that too. You might want to look at our "prefab"
designs. These templates are pre-designed
with only your content needed to finish the site.
Whatever your needs, we will talk with you and try to get a feel
for what you want to do, offer suggestions and then use those
ideas to come up with a site that suits you needs.
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