Internet Site Consultation, Design, Construction, Promotion and Search Engine Optimization

Your site may be an ehnancement to a real world business or you may be an Internet-only enterprise. From hosting to promotion and e-commerce, your web presence is in capable hands with GW Designs.

Web Design:
We take into account the nature of your business when designing the site. As you go through our client's sites you will notice an emphasis given to color and color combinations. This is always done in harmony with the desired "branding" effect that you want to achieve. Please notice the high pallette colors of this site versus the subtle hues of Mallon Fine Art. The latter is an example of a client that gave me an already designed logo which I used as the basis for the layout and color scheme of the site. For sites where cutting edge effects are desired, we utilize Flash.

Dual Site:
HTML / Flash site. This is a single site that can be viewed either way. Obviously it more than doubles the cost of a regular HTML site. The payback can be in the impression made. This can lend credibility to your institution as well as deliver an elegant and professional presentation of your product or service.

Search Engine Optimization and Keyword Study:
Using your business idea, we study its viability for the web. The best way to explain how important this step is is to relate and experience we had with a client here in Costa Rica. The client had a love for waterfalls and had started a "Waterfall Tours" company. We did a study on the keywords "waterfall" and "waterfall tours". It turns out that almost nobody searches those terms. We could have readily achieved a number one ranking in the search engines for those terms, but since no one searches them, they would not be a good basis for an internet business. So we did some related searches and modified the business to capture some serious traffic from the search engines.


Promotion:
In our agreement you have the option of using us to promote your site to the various search engines. Please note that I am not here saying, "submit". To "promote" is to do what is necessary to get you in the first page of returns for the major search engines.

Consultation:
We will consult by e-mail, or by appointment on ICQ, or by phone at a time that is convenient for you. We will determine through the consultation what your objective is for your web site and make recommendations based on this step of the process.

Hosting:
We offer full featured hosting for whatever sized site you may have. Windows servers, or Red Hat Linux. Extensive e-mail addresses, catch-all e-mail address. But really, the best part of our hosting service is, we take care of it all. You don't have to do anything. Most of our clients don't even know what "hosting" means. They just know that they have a site that does everytning that they want it to, and if they grow, so does the service.


Bi-lingual
We will produce entire sites in Spanish and or English. Additionally we have arrangements to offer other languages as well.


Real world publications
For print artwork we apply the same design principles that can be seen on our sites. We will provide the printer of your choice with printable artwork for logos, business cards, brochures, posters.