A web site that looks good, 
is probably a bad web site. 
"Randy Kowal"

RELATIONSHIP PROCESS

Step 1 - Are You Onboard
Step 2 - Am I Onboard
Step 3 - Onboard Philosophy
Step 4 - Design & Hosting
Step 5 - Contact Onboard

Hey - Have you heard it all and want to see what I offer that is unique?

Step 6 - Something Unique To Us

Onboard philosophy

These are just some of the items that are important to me. Has your designer talked to you about them? We don't and won't just take your brochures and make a web page. We take the time to do it right. It takes commitment know-how and web savvy-ness to create a superior web site that's designed for one purpose only - assist your customers and never - ever cause them frustration or fail in meeting their needs. AND It need not even cost any more. 

Some designers may resort to creating increasingly more "artsy" graphics to eat up billable time and hide the fact that the web site simply has no useful purpose. 

Please take the time and review the information and make the decision to contact me if my philosophy is a match for your organization.

 Your Needs

Nothing is more important than your specific needs. We take the time to talk with you and determine what needs are to be met and how to best achieve them. 

 Involved Principals

From start to finish I personally work with you to get the most from your budget. Your needs are of the utmost importance to us, work is not delegated to others.

 First Impressions

Appearance is the second thing people notice (speed is number one). We make sure your identity shines through.

 Smart Navigation

Intuitive and easy navigation means customers find what they want and won't get lost.
 Trackable Customer Use

We provide monthly statistics on which web pages are viewed, when and by whom. We catalogue the search term used to find your web site and from which search engine they arrived. Hits by day, by hour we track it all and provide it to you every month.

 Email Free Forms

We provide easy to complete forms that don't require your customers to use their email accounts. This increase the chances of customer contact and feedback, and permits contact from visitors who are reluctant/can't use business email accounts or who use public terminals to reach you.

  Secure Hosting

Our hosting is secure - very secure. State of the art facilities and systems make sure that your web site is safe and secure at all times.

 100% Uptime 

Our service agreement guarantees 100% uptime. What good is a web site if it's not available?

 Smart Graphic Use

We sweat over ever image and use design techniques to maximize load speed and effectiveness We make sure that all graphics have a purpose. 

 Open Standards/Control

We use open standards in all that we do. Propriety systems tie your hands and can force you down roads you may not want to go - be it one month from now or one year from now. I guarantee your long-term control of your web site - 

 Content

For the same reason your reading this marketing material, your customers will want to visit and visit again your web site. It's content that invites people to become involved. Copying brochures into digital form for the web is not good enough.

 Cross Platform Stability

Your web site must be compatible with your user's browser and system settings. We make sure it is so you don't shut out customers right from the get go.

 Xpert Domain Selection

We can help you pick a domain name that works for your company. It's a decision you will be left with forever and it makes sense to get it right from day one.

Pre- Design Mockups

We provide a minimum of three site mock-ups for review with you based on our initial discussions. This enables us to review colour schemes, navigational systems and get the overall look and feel the way you want it. Mock-ups can be created more quickly than through traditional web design techniques and are another one of our advantages.

Downloadable Files

Brochures in PDF format. AutoCAD files. Whatever you have lets make it easily downloadable in universally accessible formats.

  Search Engine Placement

What good is a web site if now one can find you? We spend hours every week just keeping up with the newest techniques to make sure that you come up in the top search engines. This requires careful and methodical web design strategies that are truly an emerging form of art.

Your Eyes Only Areas

Our clients get a password-protected area on their web site. Many clients use it for a protected start page with resources for staff right at hand that's protected from the prying eyes of the competition.

Easy to Print Pages

It's so easy, but its badly neglected. Visitors want to be able to print out your web pages for future reference. Why make them print out pages that don't fit on the paper? We make sure that when your customer prints out a web page they are not aggravated with only part of the web page coming out of the printer.

Go ahead and print us out!

Trackable Web Campaigns

We supply alternate landing pages you can use on promotional material to track how many visits to your web site are the result of a new promotional campaign. Verifiable results so you can fine-tune future promotional efforts.

Speed / Cookies / Pop Ups

You won’t find filler in our web sites. No splash pages, no bandwidth hogging flash animations and no bloat to slow things down.  Our web pages load fast to keep your customer from moving on

  I'd like to go on and take a look at  some of your designs. Visit Yahho.ca's or continue searching with google.ca


An Example Of 
Superior Web Design?

Most web site designers pay little attention to the fact that users print out web pages for later reference. Designers are often caught up in making the site look rather nice than paying attention to it's functionality.

Don't believe me - try out these web sites where printing, you would think, would be a high priority. Print them out and see what happens.

www.durhamc.on.ca
www.nike.com

It doesn't have to be this way, frame use, oversized web pages poor layout techniques are the culprit. It basically boils down to poor web design techniques. 

All the web pages I create print effortlessly. Try it - print me out and you'll see.

Unlike most sites - I even make sure that you don't get a final page with nothing on it. What could be more frustrating for a user than that. 

It's the simple things and attention to detail that sometimes mean the most to your web site users.