Web Development Adventures in Web Site Design
Web Design for Growing Businesses
Behind the scenes in web design and web development
Some notes about early projects and how they were developed.
Julie F Wilson Decatur Psychological Therepy and Counseling
Decatur
psychological therapy and counseling web site
The web site for Julie F Wilson's Atlanta area
decatur?psychological therapy and
counseling practice utilizes a custom
database-driven catalog of recommended reading titles for her
clients that links directly to amazon.com to make it easy for her clients
and readers to find the titles she has found most helpful for
them. plans are in the works to add a custom calendar to assist
clients in choosing time periods that are available to schedule
appointments.
http://juliefwilson.com
My Dolls Story Online Magazine
My Dolls Story Barbie, Fashion and Celebrity dolls online magazine web
site 
Starring Barbie,
fashion and celebrity dolls in life stories created by Atlanta
writer and photographer?Toni Burrough. In over 40 stories and 420
scenes of doll dioramas, this online doll magazine features the
finest collection of Barbie, fashion and celebrity doll dioramas
online.? This eZine site utilizes our my WebSuite content management
system to facilitate frequent updates and adding new stories
monthly.
Advantage I Realty
With their new web design, Atlanta's Advantage I Realty
began turning their properties over in weeks rather than months,
with a record-breaking year in sales.
Their site utilizes our CMS my WebSuite content management system which enables the site owners to upload photos to the site, enter listing information online, providing a new listing on their site in minutes.
Child Care Atlanta
The
Child Care Atlanta web design was the first
database web site design we developed.? The site has gone through
some changes over the years, but still runs on the original programming serving up child care information for Atlanta and throughout Georgia.?
One of the site's main attractions is the database driven bulletin board for finding
babysitters and nannies.
484music.com
484music.com music CD catalog site, enjoys a full content management system
web design set-up with multiple ways to search their
inventory.
The site employs an Amazon.com affilates membership and offers hundreds of world
music and world fusion CDs as well as links where visitors may sample selections
from the artists' repetoires to assist them in making their choices for great
music.
Recordings from all over the world are featured on the site, in multiple
categories that may be searched in the site's database-driven catalog.
484music.com hit #1 at Google and Yahoo in March 2002 for "circuit/dance cd" and later for "music CD".
http://www.484music.com
AntiquesAtlanta.net
There will always be a warm spot in our hearts for this site, one of our
first database web design sites that serves up the latest offerings
in antiques, art and collectibles.
The site features Items Wanted, links to antique and collectible
sources and authorities and has attracted 1000 visitors
weekly.
Antiques Atlanta for years enjoys a top 10 ranking with the 10
major search engines for "antiques atlanta".
http://www.antiquesatlanta.net
Web Design
We really haven't come up with a formula for web design for our clients in Atlanta
and nationwide that will suit each individual client. Typically we engage in an
initial phone meeting with our clients that generally lasts 40
minutes to an hour, but may last several hours,? to explore what
they wish to accomplish and determine the best way to achieve
that end.
While many of our clients live in Atlanta, we also have many that
live in states across the nation, so that phone meetings provide
the most concise way to deal with client's requirements and
expectations.
Identifying our client's unique qualities lends as much toward
the final design as our own sense of what's cool and effective in
the latest developments of web design.
You may have noticed that we've broken just about every rule of
thumb in web page design in the layout of our home page.?
There are many pictures on one page, the site's content can all
be found here, and there's not really much navigation to other
pages, but for this little off-beat custom design company, it was
just the ticket.
The site visitor gets a pretty good idea of our design sense, and
after all we don't wish or expect to engage every client in the
world, just the ones who think we're as cool as they are.
Identity
Your identity on the Internet
The strength of your Internet presence depends primarily on the
strengths of your web design team, and their capabilities in SEO, graphic arts,
web programming and the collective arts known as web development. The fact is, much like
anyone can play the piano, anyone can build a web page.?
To afford your business the presence you deserve, you will undoubtedly engage a professional who understands and can communicate your identity to your site visitors.
Technologies of Web Development
HTML technology
A very
significant consideration before one purchases a web site:
?
HTML technology. ?
Our work with search engine optimization includes the development
of HTML and? meta tags, a very significant part of your web
design. Without the significant development of HTML, the search
engines do not have the index of information contained in your
web site. ?
To succeed in your strategy, the development of HTML that search
engine spiders will find tasty provides a significant portion of
an intelligent web page design, as well as beautiful art and
graphics in the design of your web site.
We busy ourselves with all the details necessary to complete the
HTML work for your web design as well as other
considerations necessary in HTML technology which give you a
fighting chance on the Internet with your web site. ?
Many of our client's web sites have risen to earn positions
#1-10 in their categories in the principal search engines.?For
our clients the development of HTML and meta tags contribute a
strategy to be deployed to succeed with exposure in the principal
search engines.
check out this example:
go to Google.com and enter "cutting edge web design atlanta"?
to see search results for "cutting edge web design atlanta"
See what I mean? We thought it would be rather cool to get
into the top listings for this category, although not many
potential clients are going to locate their designers seeking
"cutting edge web design atlanta".
But other web designers will search that category, and we enjoy a
bit of fun now and then.
Dynamic Web Pages
We use
programming technologies such as the VBScript and PHP programming languages to provide solutions for our clients, and couple these with programming frameworks, such as CodeIgniter and Cake PHP.
We develop custom solutions for database driven web sites and? eCommerce electronic trade to enable you to reach
and serve your customers.
Programming technologies effectively treat your business clients
online with care, by providing you the movement of information
between people and you.
Programming Technologies
Data-management solutions start with the deployment of a
VBScript or PHP programming installation to handle information
input and retrieval, password protection for member's area information, managing
log in and log out, security concerns, image galleries, messaging, file
uploads and display, as well as eCommerce.
VBScript and PHP both provide the solution to present great
quantities of information or products to the visitors to your Web
Site as well as personalization for your customers in dynamic web
pages that update themselves as soon as new entries are
added.?
Typically PHP is employed for sites that will live on CentoOS/Red Hat
servers and VBScript for sites that will live on Windows
servers.
JavaScript Technology
As the Internet develops, so too does the art of web page
design.?
Javascript provides the solution for attractive effects and
personalization for your clientele as well as providing dynamic
content and navigation considerations for your web design. Also, JavaScript provides the interaction for your
business and your customers on the Internet.
Over the last few years a tremendous leap forward arrived in the form of
jQuery, a subset of the JavaScript libraries that enable web pages to do some
very nifty things without using a ton of code.
We specialize in jQuery deployment and use it to solve problems, including
displaying information after a user has made some of her selections, when we
want the information on the page to change without having to go to a new page.
Managed web development
In addition to the programming technologies of HTML, PHP,
VBScript and Javascript for the development of your basic needs
for data and information handling,? we offer complete Managed Web Development packages, including
programming and search engine optimization,
web hosting, web site maintenance, plus database backup and
maintenance to protect your investment against the involuntary
loss of information.
Contact us and we can discuss creating one of these custom packages to provide
your business with the web representation you need.
I welcome any further inquiries you have,
Stephen Mareches
Technical Product Manager
Sophia Solutions
Atlanta Georgia USA
contact us
August, 2005