Why hire us to make your small business website?

We can help you to develop an effective web presence that provides the following benefits for your organization:

1. Intelligent Growth

A sleekly designed and simple site will outperform one that has unnecessary bells and whistles every time. If you're operating on a tight budget, then this is especially important, because you need every cost advantage you can nudge out of it,  both in the short and long term. It doesn't mean being cheap. It just means that we only add on more expensive features if there is a genuine need for them.

The RIGHT website can help your organization to experience intelligent growth. We can help you to isolate your goals for your website, and then design a site that is specifically structured to realize those goals.

2. The Basics

A website should contain the following features at a minimum, and we include these on every site we make:

• A home page that clearly introduces your organization, and which has logical links to other items of interest.
• Standard site pages which give background, site policies, contact info, and other expected info. plus extra valuable content that will draw visitors to your site.
• News areas where you can post news of upcoming events, reports on previous events and include other items of interest to your visitors.
• Common-sense SEO global sitewide metatagging

3. Cost containment:

Small business and organizations need to be frugal. This is not to be confused with being cheap:  A cheap person goes for the lowest price, even if it means getting a shoddy product.  A frugal person chooses wise solutions for lowering cost, and avoids elements which add cost but no necessary benefit. We help you to get a frugal site - not a cheap one. Here’s how:

Biling is done by the task, not by the hour.

When you pay by the hour for web design,  it’s pretty hard to know what your final cost will be. This is a worrisome proposition for a small business or organization! You are at the mercy of your designer to bill fairly,  and it’s easy to get overcharged. That’s why we bill by the task instead.

We're pretty good at estimating average times for things, so when we give you a price quote it is based on our estimation of the average time it takes to do the tasks involved.  If it takes longer,  we don't charge you more. If something takes a little more effort than we thought, we'll just deal with it.  Of course, if you add on more tasks, we have to charge you more, but the price for the items we quoted you won't change.

Your site is developed and paid for in stages

Each stage of your site design and development is composed of a set of tasks. This means that you know ahead of time what you’re getting at each stage of development and how much is due for that portion of the work. Your risk stays low, and you can spread out your payments a little to keep your costs down.

Your site only gives you what you need right now, but has capacity for growth

When we design your site, we only give you what you need right now. However,  we design with your long term needs in mind, so that your site will accommodate any future requirements easily.

Basic SEO is built in from the beginning

Since we teach you how to optimize your site as it is built, you don't have to pay for that separately, or come back later and redo major site areas to make them better. On most sites, this alone can save you hundreds of dollars and untold hours of time.

Patient, Friendly Instruction

I understand that your organization is small, and does not have people on board with specialized skills in the range of specialties that a larger organization would have. I expect to have to answer a lot of questions, and help your staff members learn how to do a high-quality job.

Fortunately, I am very experienced at working with people who need patient instruction. I am able to help you to know what to write, and how to write it. I can help you if you need me to do so. You'll get a task list so that you know what you need to be doing, and if you get lost, I'll help you know how to get the job done.

We make sure that YOU stay in control of the process by giving you all the tools you need to make good choices.

How we guarantee your satisfaction:

Our entire development process has been established with your satisfaction in mind, and is NOT like that of most web designers.

When you have purchased services and the contract is digitally signed, you pay a retainer. That retainer is fully refundable if you are not satisfied with the work we do for you – of course, if you request a refund, you cannot use any of the work that you did not pay for.

But - if you feel at some point that it is just not working, you can request a refund on the part of the work that you are not satisfied with, and you are not ever stuck with something inferior. When the phase is completed, and you approve the work, the retainer converts to a regular payment, and is no longer refundable.

This unique development process leaves you in control of the evolution of the site.