SERVICES
One of my goals is to make your web experience pleasant, easy, affordable, and enjoyable. To ensure that this happens here are some of the professional web site design services that I offer:
Planning and Development
Design
Constructing Your Website
Hosting
Marketing
Probably the most important step in creating a successful website, this first stage involves defining the purpose and goals of the site, identifying your key audience, creating an attractive and easy to use navigational structure, and determining the look and feel of the site. At this point, you may also wish to consider your choice of domain name, who your main online competitors may be, your corporate identity, and practical matters such as who provides any photos and text.
All
these issues and more can be discussed during your FREE consultations,
and the answers to these questions will be our guide through the web construction
process.
Once the scope of the project has been determined I will then be able
to provide you with a more accurate quote for your website.
At this stage our aim is to visually represent the thoughts and ideas discussed in the planning stage using colour, style, web graphics and web layouts. To an extent, what we come up with may depend on a number of factors such as existing printed materials, your corporate logo (if you have one), the first impression you want to give visitors, or simply the feel and style that best suits your personality or your business.
Alternatively, you may have had inspiration from a website you have seen which conveys the kind of style you want.
Once we agree on the design parameters, I will then create a custom template or shell design of the home page which you can review and comment on. If this meets your approval, we can then move on to the next step...
The construction phase encompasses the merging of your copy and image content with the approved design template. As work progresses you will be given every opportunity to view your newly-created pages. The first pages to be constructed after the home page are your top-tiered link pages. These are the core pages of your website and the ones most likely to be visited first.
As more and more pages are completed, you can review them to ensure we're heading in the direction you envisaged.All pages are considered temporary until you have given your final stamp of approval. Before "officially" launching the site, I will do a thorough testing of your links and check spelling, browser compatibility and load times. Once all the necessary checks have been completed we can then decide where your site is going to live.
Once you've built your website, it's going to need somewhere to live, so as an added benefit to clients I now offer web hosting, using a Virtual Server from Arsys.es, one of Spain's largest webhosting companies. For just 15€ per month (min. 12 months) every client receives a range of services including:
• web hosting (up to 20Mb of space)
• site maintenance
• up to 5 email accounts
• access to statistics
Through Arsys.es, I can also register a domain name on your behalf from as little as $29.
Once the issue of hosting your site has been resolved, we need to ensure that it is visible to search engines.
SUBMITTING YOUR SITE TO SEARCH ENGINES
Having completed
and housed your site, we need to make sure that it is accessible to the
outside world. As the task of submitting domain names to search engines
can be very specialised, I use the services of professionals at Arsys.es.
This service, available for 90€ a year, includes an evaluation of
the website, the creation of Meta Tags (code), and maintenance of the
site in more than 1000 search engines.
The process is very simple. All you have to do is provide the following details:
- a long
description (not more than 200 characters, including spaces) with a
general explanation of the contents of your website
- a descriptive
phrase which summarises the above in one line of text
- 10 key words, in order of importance and separated by spaces, that may be used by users looking for your site
And that's it! If there is any other information you think you might need, or if you have now decided you want to go ahead and start creating your website, just get in touch with me.