BoiseIdaho.net Website Services
A professional web designer is someone who manages to ignore her personal likes and dislikes and creates the layout that satisfies and attracts the audience of the website and business. Web design principles are generally accepted. While some designs or styles may work for some projects, others may not. Your project's niche and goals are the factors upon which your website should be based, so don't disregard some basic concepts of marketing, psychology, art and search engine optimization.
"BoiseIdaho.net, under the direction of Nancy Barerra, has provided excellent service to me. When I launched my consulting practice, Nancy provided purposeful and resourceful direction in the development of my web site. I wrote the content, and Nancy edited and arranged the content in a user-friendly and attractive web design. She found appropriate graphics, and designed the site with colors and textures that provide a welcoming, calming environment for visitors. This is important, as my web site deals with the emotional issues of eldercare. Nancy has always addressed any questions and implemented requested changes in a very timely manner. She's been great to work with and I appreciate her expertise. I would not hesitate to recommend BoiseIdaho.net for web design and management." ~ Sincerely, Stephanie Bender-Kitz, Ph.D.; www.kitzworks.com |
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What Types Of Website Designers Are There?
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Website Designer - helps you to determine the page layout, graphics, text location and colors of your site, as well as the navigation and how pages will cross-link to one another. She may also do the actual computer programming and graphic art work for the site, or may hire out that work to a programming specialist. A Website Designer is the project manager for your site design.
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Website Programmer - takes the design from the Designer and creates the code to make the site run. She is also responsible for all the technical stuff that happens behind-the-scenes to make sure the site works properly for your visitors.
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Graphic Designer - creates the graphics for the site, including page layout, colors, etc. Think of this person as the "visual artist" for your site.
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Internet Marketing Consultant - helps you to determine how your website fits into your overall marketing strategy, and how to get more traffic and sales from your website.
- Multi-Media Providers - Are providers of multimedia design and production services for business websites and presentations. Multimedia designers offering custom logos and interactive CD-ROMs, DVDs, streaming media, video editing etc. We use professional multi-media applications like Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, Apple Final Cut Pro, and Adobe After Effects, or equivalent digital imaging, animation, digital video editing, and motion graphics tools. Our multi-media projects include story boarding, retouching, compositing, Flash animation and site design, basic Action-Scripting, video and sound editing principles, motion graphics production, and user interface design.
"Nancy,
I always recommend you and your web services to friends and businesses. And we have had results! I am always so pleased when they choose you!
I appreciate your expertise and knowledge about the web design that people respond to for my Real Estate business. I do not have time to spend, as you well know, on my web page. You are always good about offering special deals to upgrade when I need it.
Thanks, for being patient with me!" ~ Sincerely, Vicki Tollefson - REALTOR® |
Who Is A Good Designer And How Much Do They Charge?
Much of your choice of designers depends on whether you want to work locally with someone, or whether you are willing to work remotely with them over the phone. Here are some things to think and ask about when hiring a website designer:
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Pay attention to how much they ask you about YOUR BUSINESS. They should want to get to know you and your business intimately. How else can they design a site that reflects you and your business, unless they spend time to get to know you?
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Look at sites they've designed to see if you like their style. Is there a certain feel to ALL their sites, or are they flexible in their designs?
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Ask them if they did the actual graphic and layout design of the site, or if they just did the programming.
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If they don't do the graphic work themselves, can they recommend a graphic artist?
- Talk to some of their current and recent clients, to see how smooth the process was. You want someone who has good project management skills AND good communication skills. They have to listen to you, not just give advice.
- Ask them whether they will maintain your site after the initial design, and how much they'll charge for that. Some designers want to create new sites but don't want to maintain them. Someone like a virtual assistant (VA) may be able to maintain your site for a lower hourly fee, as long as the VA is skilled in website programming. The more bells and whistles and complicated programming in your site, the less likely that an average VA will be able to maintain it for you.
We at BoiseIdaho.net know that your website is crucial to the success of your business. By asking the right questions, you're more likely to pick a website designer who can do the work you want, is willing to really listen to you, can create a site that reflects you and your business, and keeps within your budget and timeframe. We hope that is us. For a free quote, click here.
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A Sample Of Our Skill Set & Media Production Tools:
NLE Editing
Compression Software
BLU-RAY & DVD Production
Web / HTML Production Tools
Vector Graphics & Photo Graphics
Interactive CDROM Development
Illustration & Page layout
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Video Special Effects
Vector Animation
Sound FX
Database Development Applications
Scripting Development Languages
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