NTR Imagescapes, a web design firm serving Chicago and surrounding suburbs, designs and develops attractive websites that are professional and fully functional. Our primary concern when designing a new website is to make sure that it functions and looks the same in all current browsers, is SEO friendly, and works on all mobile devices. To ensure these standards are met, we hand-code each website from scratch, and optimize all content for the specific keywords and phrases that our client's consultation determines. In other words, the website we deliver to you is completely unique to your business and needs, and doesn't contain any unnecessary - SEO unfriendly - markup that template designs are known for.
A successful website needs to have an attractive design, versatile applications and effective content. But most importantly, it needs to have functionality that most users can employ on their computers. You'll never develop a site that looks the same to everyone, but you can come close - and that is our goal. This starts with table-less layouts, awareness of common screen resolutions, knowledge of application shortcomings, and browser compatability.
After our consultation with the customer, we come up with a plan to implement the web applications they want, help them write effective content, and then install any back-end programming and perform the SEO. Below are a variety of methods and application descriptions we can employ for your website.
Portfolio and Afiliate websites are for customers just wishing for a footprint on the web and a vehicle to present their businesses and/or product. Typically these sites are about 5 - 10 pages and give information about the customer's business or product, showcase some pictures in a limited image gallery, and have a contact page with contact form. Sites such as these may seem basic but they feature all the SEO of any other site we develop, giving our client the opportunity to be known to thousands of potential customers across the web while not spending a fortune.
Social networking sites are the most common applications for database designed websites. A database allows for the convenient storage of information which can be dynamically displayed on various web pages through the use of a programming language like PHP. In addition, a database designed site can allow an administrator and/or users the ability to login and access a secure section of the site where various, predetermined privileges can be accessed and executed.
Other applications oriented around a database are for user uploadable image galleries where the uploader/user may want to tag each picture with a title, description, credit, date taken, etc...E-Commerce sites always utilize a database to store the product info, as do blogs. NTR Imagescapes Web Design can handle all of these applications and even more!
NTR Imagescapes treats Flash like a delicious, yet somewhat unhealthy dessert; it's great in moderation, but too much of it can make you sick. First off, Flash isn't search engine friendly - simply put, search engines don't recognize Flash. Secondly, it isn't very mobile device friendly, as most mobile devices still don't allow Flash to even be viewed. But all this doesn't mean we won't use it. If you have an idea for a Flash animation or movie, then let us know and we'll take care of it - after giving you the pros and cons of course.
Luckily, there's a cool scripting language known as jQuery which along with JavaScript, can duplicate almost every form of Flash navigation, image viewers and slideshows. And best of all, this is SEO friendly and mobile devices can display it.
Image galleries can add a lot to your website, especially when they are done the way we do them. And for a dynamic twist, throw in a database and the possibilities become practically endless.
Few things are as rewarding as making money off of your own website. With our e-commerce applications, we can set up your website to begin selling products and services immediately through PayPal. And for more robust applications, where maintaining your own brand throughout the checkout process is needed, we can set up a variety of payment gateways such as Authorize.Net.
Our e-commerce designs even extend to membership systems, where users need to pay a monthly fee to access the content of your website. Please inquire for much further info regarding the multitude of e-commerce possibilities.
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