SEO Web Design & Graphics Company

At Web Design by Steve you have all the options available for any type and any style of website.

The first condition of a successful website is to make good sense with your content. Viewers should immediately be able to recognize what your site is all about, and the structure should naturally lead your customer to a point-of-purchase, a sign-up or a contact-us.

Why Choose Web Design by Steve?

• FREE Website diagnosis to gain maximum search engine placement.
• Company branding: get the most out of your company's exposure.
• SEO, search engine optimization, for top placement with Google & Yahoo.
• Web redesign: update styling, remove table based design & replace with CSS, add SEO web design, and optimize load time.
• Copy and content writing designed with search spiders in mind, configured to keep your client's interest.
• Graphic Design: with or without a website, I can provide custom logo & graphic designs configured for natural identity. I also correlate your business cards, letterheads, and company sign designs.
• Internet marketing and website linking campaigns: get quality links from other websites.
• CMS (content management systems): make it easy for you to alter your website content without any HTML knowledge.
• CSS (cascading style sheets): these make your site load quickly & make it easy when updating or modifying your website. Browse thru CSS templates.
• Compliant and affordable XHTML custom web design: Discount web design, compliant with today's and tomorrow's major web browsers.

The challenge comes not from creating wild and exotic designs, a new script, or a flashy JavaScript action to work, but from using tried and proven methods to create a useable page that meets client needs, loads quickly and is intuitive for the visitor.

Although a company may be based in the high tech world, they understand that communication is much more important than bells and whistles. We create websites for impatient visitors. Sites that are also very easy to update and maintain, thanks to the CSS driven text menus.Listings can be changed with typing, not graphics. For most, this is very important, as your website can then be maintained by the back end.

Through the use of layers and opacity, we can create enticing designs for your web page, typically in the form of a montage. When we use layers, all the components of the image appear together, but they were originally shaped and manipulated by using layers. Layers are just like sheets of glass, one above another, onto which you can paste an image or text. When looking down from above, all of the layers appear in the image together. During the design phase, we modify and move each image independently of one another, allowing total control of your project. Multiple transparency effects also enhance the properties of layers.

And as we combine these images onto a web page, more layers can be used here, too. The details just for composing and combining website images can get very complex and detailed (not to menton flash movies and animations). At Web Design by Steve, we are very well trained to handle what ever it takes to bring the just-right image and copy compositions together.

Make a statement! Attract attention with customized fonts!

Now a days it just isn’t enough to use plain web-safe font styles when you need to empathize content on your web pages. The simple use of image-embedded text can draw your customers towards your point-of-purchase – it can promote great advantage for your promotions.

Be aware though, you MUST use conventional text to be visable to search engines. And there isn't too much to choose from. Here's some samples below. For a better view, see Font Tester.

Arial • Bookman Old Style • Comic Sans MS Courier • Georgia • Impact • Lucida Console • Palatino Linotype • Times New Roman • Trebuchet MS

 

When you click on the image displayed here, you’ll see a brief example of what can be done with conventional text when creativity is applied, but this example is very limited, as there is so much more that can be done to amplify your text.

WordPress: Not Just for Blogs Anymore - And it's Open Source

So you need a website, and you want to be able to update it and maybe down the line, create some new pages. And you don't want to hire a web designer every time you have this need. Enter the FREE Open Source WordPress platform ...

The WordPress platform is bar-none, the best tool for the non-techie website master. It comes with a back end office where you can create and edit all of your content with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website editor. You can easily add contact forms, ads from sponsors or affiliate programs, your favorite website links, and there's even an application (called a plugin) to optimize for search engines.

But WordPress doesn't stop there. There's over 7,500 plugins ranging from image galleries to eCommerce scripts.

WordPress is very easy to install on your server, and most popular web hosting companies offer a one-click installation. You don't even have to change file permissions, just click-and-go. Another valuable asset is the ease of changing your website design. Provided that a desired WordPress design (they call 'em themes) has the same relations thet you current theme does, to totally change the look of your website requires only uploading the theme, and pressing another button.

Here at Web Design by Steve, we can design, configure, and upload your WordPress content. And we'll walk you through the whole process, too!

If you’re like most humans, you just might need some help writing your web copy.

This part of your website should NOT be taken lightly.

• You want your viewers to understand how great it will be to use your products/service.
• You want them to see all that you have to offer.
• You want them to follow through to your point-of-contact – point-of-sale.
• You want your words to capture search engine spiders

I offer this service complimentary for your need – copy writing doesn’t pay very well. And although I do good copy writing, I have several associates who are much better at it than I am.

 

Actually, I really prefer for you to connect directly with one of them, get one-on-one communication, and save yourself from charges that I would need to collect.