Our Website Design Standards

Our agency focuses on designing and creating accessible and usable websites. Usability is vital on the web. People will leave your website if it is difficult to use or if they can’t find what they are looking for quickly. Consistent navigation and proper information labeling will help you retain your website’s visitors.

With over twenty years experience in web and graphic design, we can create a high quality, captivating and functional website for you. Whether your website needs a completely new look, maintenance, search engine optimization or social media integration, we can create a solution that will fit your needs. We will build a speedy downloading site with an outstanding design that is accessible to as many people as possible and flexible in order for you to be able to add more content. The fusing of these elements is a delicate balance, vital in capturing and keeping visitors interest.

Standards-Based XHTML

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) publishes guidelines and recommendations for standards on the web in order for web designers and developers to create more accessible websites. The standards are agreed upon by the W3C member organizations around the world in order to accommodate the growing diversity of hardware, software and most importantly, people. Sites that are built to meet web standards will be more accessible and more usable by a greater audience.

Website designers, the website users, and the website owner benefit from web standards. Website development and management are easier for the web designer/developer. The website user’s experience is enriched and allows the site to be viewed by the greatest audience possible. The benefits are mostly seen by the website owner:

• Lower maintenance costs
• Faster download times and lower costs of bandwidth and hosting
• More accessible to a greater range of users, especially those with disabilities. Such as screen readers, mobile devices (smartphones like Blackberrys, iPhones and Android phones), older browsers and those with slower connections.
• Better search engine optimization
• More flexible to future technology
• Pages are far more print friendly
• Code can be understood by a wider range of developers so as to not be dependent on one developer
• Site-wide changes can be made quickly for layout and design