The development of your website should never be left to amateurs. We can professionally design and construct your web pages using raw html code, the building blocks of web pages. We can also create custom graphics, flash, and other elements as required, in addition to helping you maximize your copy, so that every word counts. Other developers generally resort to generating your web pages using software or page templates. This is easier for them, but your website may be slower due to the excess code generated, not to mention the lack of search-engine-friendliness. The search engines will come visiting your website, and if they find the page code to be bogging them down, your website may not get indexed at all. Sure, you may save a few bucks up front, but your website may not be of much use to you.

Basically, you want an attractive, professional-looking and fast-loading website that easily portrays your message in a way that illicits a response. It must be easy to find, and easy to navigate, and it should display nicely on various screen resolutions and with the different available browsers.

Again, I specialize in websites that automatically adjust to the visitor's screen width. This maximizes the experience for your visitors, keeping them on your website longer. It also portrays your business with a more professional first impression.

Yes, we regularly author webpages in Flash, and can utilize Flash in your website. No, I don't recommend a "Flash Intro" for your website, simply because they are generally very large files and people just won't wait for your intro to download. I also don't recommend a complete website authored in Flash, because the search engines cannot pick up on Flash content as easily as text.

What I do recommend is using Flash elements within your normal web pages. In other words, the page will be found by the search engines, and the Flash will add some pizazz, but not at the expense of slowing down your web page from loading.

I can create custom Flash "movies" on your website, which may utilize sound, moving graphics, slideshows, music, narration and more.

The graphics on your website will play a great role in how fast it will load up. There are still people out there on dial-up, and so your graphics must be optimized for fast load times and smaller bandwidth. There are a few common file formats for graphics, and it's important that a web designer know which one is more appropriate for a given use.

I have a great deal of experience as a graphic designer and can help make your website stand out from the rest through the use of custom website graphics that brand your website to your other promotional materials.

Costs for web design vary depending upon the content. As a rule of thumb, a basic five page website with no flash, rollovers, animated or custom graphic, will run about $600.00. Adding some pizazz to the same size website by adding some Flash, some roll-over effects on the navigation, and a few custom graphics, would increase the cost by about $250.00 more. Larger websites do cost more, as do multiple-language websites.

Costs are attributed to the experience of the website designer, the required software and skills, and the length of time required to develop the site. This is why less-experienced designers with fewer software skills can do less expensive work, but at the cost of turning out bland websites that may not rank in the search engines. In this business, you do tend to get what you pay for.