A well designed web site is your corporate presence on the internet.
It must speak concisely about your business ... it is absolutely never a display of the web site developer's coding prowess.
A Stanford web site always puts your company's message where it belongs ... front and centre.
You are paying for a skillfully designed, highly functional and reliable marketing tool ... that's precisely what we deliver!
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"Web Sites -Design Considerations"
These are some of the web sites that we have designed and produced.
Each name is a link to the site.
Please feel free to browse these examples.
Frustrated by poor service and techie attitude from a dismal series of internet service vendors, Stanford formed a strategic partnership with a highly competent internet service provider.
Now we control the quality of internet services and can focus on our primary task - giving our clients the best possible bundle of marketing tools - both web and print based.
We offer four functional hosting packages designed to meet the needs of any business.
Optional full site servicing: Stanford will manage and revise or update all navigation, text, images, search tags, email accounts, etc.
For CMS web sites: the annual fee will be re-calculated based on the degree of shared site management.
In today's crowded internet environment it is hard work to make web sites sufficiently search friendly that they will consistently enjoy substantive levels of valid traffic.
Valid traffic is more than "hits" or "page views". For information type sites, it is actual enquiries through an online enquiry form. For e-Commerce web sites it is the flow of incoming enquiries and orders.
A web site is considered to be search friendly only if either of these two characteristics are increasing consistently.
Stanford builds basic search-friendly features into every site it designs. If conditions warrant more intensive search optimization, we may suggest an advanced optimization program.
For conditions where aggressive competition for position exists, Stanford will:
Advanced optimization projects require approximately one year to complete. Increased visits to the owner's web site will become apparent within the first quarter and will continue to improve over the duration of the project.
Content management systems (CMS) are computer applications used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text.
Specifically, a web content management system is intended to simplify the transfer of text and images to web sites, in particular allowing the site owner to submit such content without requiring any technical knowledge of the authoring software.
Currently, most CMS web sites are based on templates that put restrictions on the overall look and feel of the site's pages, often seriously damaging the effectiveness of the message that you are trying to convey to your potential customers.
As a result Stanford has created a library of its own custom CMS code modules.
Stanford's code modules permit our designers to achieve a unique and appropriate design for each individual client while still providing the tools needed to modify content.
We can readily customize the "tools" to just those that are needed, making the actual content management activity very, very easy for our clients to routinely perform.
Content management is often only useful for very specific sections of a web site - those that undergo frequent change. Pages that are not changing frequently, if at all, are best left unburdened by CMS code and as a result can load much more quickly.
Many of our clients prefer to depend on us for maintaining and updating design sensitive portions of their web sites, restricting their own access through CMS to those sections that feature relatively fast changing information.
Finally, our code modules are sufficiently flexible that a client can safely elect to have a web site designed and made operational without CMS. After gaining experience with the web site, the client can then elect to have any number of pages reset for CMS at a very nominal cost.
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