Services
Below are the services I offer as a freelance web designer and graphic design. With the knowledge I bring to get your business on the web to broaden your customer reach or have your current website redesign upgraded to current trends and standards to have a professional looking presents on the web and meet your current business and customer needs.
Website Design and Development
If your looking for WordPress design and development for your business or personal website, don’t go any further. I aim to help people use the potential of their websites, make profits and compete on the web. The WordPress platform has been around for years, is well established with a large community following, and support. WordPress frame work is used by millions of website owners on the web.
All of the WordPress websites and themes I create are custom made so no need to worry about having a “cookie cutter” website given to you. All of my projects are designed with focus on style, usability, W3C web standards, and basic SEO.
WordPress usage and popularity
WordPress runs 4.5% of the entire internet.
- 50-60% is WordPress’ share of the global CMS market – making it the most popular CMS of them all.
- New York Observer, New York Post, TED, Thought Catalog, Williams, USA Today, CNN, Fortune.com, TIME.com, National Post, Spotify, TechCrunch, CBS Local, NBC all use WordPress.
- 17 posts are published every second on WordPress sites around the world.
- 37 million global Google searches for “WordPress” are made per month.
Around 15,886,000 websites on the entire web use WordPress.
- 8% of the top 100 blogs according to Technorati are managed with WordPress.
- 2,645 of the top 10k websites on the web use WordPress.
- 22,111 of the top 100k websites use WordPress.
- 297,629 of the top 1M websites use WordPress.
WordPress as a CMS (47%) is nearly 12 times more popular than Drupal (4%) in India. In the US (2014 data), WordPress is preferred by 50% of the users, with Drupal scooping up 17% and Joomla getting 6.44%.
Graphic Design
Weather it’s a logo design for a business, product, or person it’s a very important part of who you are and branding purposes. Your site should be built around the color scheme and feel of your logo.
Don’t have a logo or want your current logo redone? I offer logo design services that come with 3 concepts and unlimited revisions so you are 100% satisfied.
Marketing Materials
If you need more than a logo then I can create a tailor made graphic design package specifically for your business ideas. I can create logos, brochures, flyers, menus, business cards, brochures, and much more. Please don’t’ hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions.
Items marked with “PDF” indicate they can be converted to PDF format for digital download for your website.
- Logo Design
- Brochures (PDF)
- Business Cards
- Postcards
- Flyers (PDF)
- Banners
- Menus (PDF)
Website Maintenance
The Internet is constantly changing and in order for your website to continue to render properly in new browsers, play well with new software, and remain secure from hackers, code must be updated regularly. Did you know that a new WordPress update is being released every 50 days on average?
I think that updating and backing-up your WordPress website or blog is like eating healthy or exercising regularly. It is vital to the health of your site:
- To remove website vulnerabilities and reduce security risks.
- To insure that your website works properly on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
- Because Search Engines value FRESH content.
- Because broken links and pages hurt your search placement.
- Avoid losing months and years of work
- Avoid lose of revenue
- Keep customer engagement positive and increase customer traffic
- Economical and convenient – instead of hiring a full-time IT person or expecting an existing employee to learn on your time.
- Your website maintains it quality with professional edits.
- Search Engines Emphasize Content Freshness in Ranking
- All plans include full monthly backup copy of your website files and database(s) (frequency depends on plan chosen)
- WordPress updates as they become available
- Monthly plugin updates when compatable versions available
- Product changes or additions
- Updates to calendar or upcoming events
- Post job opportunities
- Photos, graphics, graphs, and charts updated
- Text re-writes or edits
- Monthly detailed invoicing
- Communication by phone, e-mail, or video chat
- Friendly, personal service
Plan 1:
This plan covers 1 hour of time. This is for websites that don’t need much maintenance besides the occasional content update. This plan is best just for having your site files, data base(s) if any backed up and fixing any broken links or pages.
Plan 2:
This plan covers 4 hours of time. This plan is best for websites that will be needing small changes but on a consistent basis that consist of content updating/adding, pictures added, light graphic work. Monthly (once per month) backing up and updating of website files, data base(s), and plugins.
Plan 3:
This plan covers 10 hours of time. This plan is best for websites that will be needing large amount of changes on a consistent basis that consist of content updating/adding, pictures added, light graphic work, social media updating, . Monthly (twice per month) backing up and updating of website files, data base(s), and plugins.
Need extra Maintenance time option:
Main purpose for this is if your updates, graphic work exceeds the hours included in your current website maintenance plan. You can purchase more time by the hour.
Website Feature Add-ons
Are you getting all that you can out of your website? I can help you stay ahead of the competition, and make your website stand out from the crowd! Have you thought of all the features your website may need? Well I have listed some examples of must have features for websites depending on the industry you fall in. Also think about what the current website design trends are…. what you don’t keep up with that, well I do. To give you a quick example just about 99% of the websites you yourself visit everyday have a large banner at the top of the website that scrolls with targeted marketing info to capture customers attention to ether show want they offer, what the main sale is or any kind of information that visitors to there site may want to know right away. That trend has been tweaked to where instead of static images and text designers have video banners to convey brand or express what the companies website can help there visitors with.
Some of the add-on features you may need:
Advanced form, shopping cart/ eCommerce, event calendar, online food ordering, online booking / appointment setting, video feeds, simple / advanced photo gallery, music player / list, job application area or download. site visitors being able to upload files to you. So many options and things for every website owner needs to think about so there site will meet the needs of customers coming to your site.
Lets say your business is a salon. Here’s an example of some important features you should have on your site:
- Home page banner: Banner that scrolls to show current styles and brief info about what you offer or specials
- Appointment Calendar: Give your customers to ability to schedule there next visit with the stylist of there choice.
- Photo gallery- Advanced or simple photo gallery of styles you have done for clients or new trending styles.
- Blog- Share the latest news for trending hair styles or the latest hair care products you may sale in the store.
- Shopping cart- Give your customers the chance to order there favorite products from you
- Social Media intergration
Here’s an example of some add-on features for a restaurant or bar & grill.
- Event calendar: Have an event calendar so customers know whats happening at your location or if you have multiple locations with different events like live music, karaoke and so on.
- Online food ordering: Give your online customers the ability to order food directly from your website for pick up or delivery.
- Scrolling banner: A home page banner showing the latest dishes and deals you offer.
- Social Feed: Have your customers share with there social network what they are having at your business and the good time they are having and give them to opportunity to follow your social feeds.
You have a business and you want to reach a broader area of customers. Help them know what you are about and what you offer.
- Photo Gallery
- Advance form: Maybe you need more than just a contact form. You may need a survey form, or price quote form.
- Graphic Design: Have business cards, stationary, brochuers, or flyers created for your business and create your brand.
- Social Media integration
