Web Design & Development

When you think about creating a Website, you should follow sequential steps to insure your web site is planed successfully.

So you’re just creating a small business website that clients and employees will visit.

Remember a properly plan website will make sure everyone will be able to use it easily, and it serves it’s purpose!

Working with DTG Web Services, located in downtown Hartford, CT, can provide that type of web services.

Steps to Planning your Website

1. Creating goals for your website
2. Organizing the sites layout
3. Creating your design look
4. Designing the navigation structure
5. Planning and Collecting your Assets

Laying out your Website

Organizing the structure of your site carefully from the start will save you time. If you begin creating documents without thinking about where in your folder hierarchy they should go, you may end up with a huge mess of  folder & files, or  related file names & folders.

The usual way to set up a site is to create a project folder on your local hard disk that contains all the files for your local site, and to create and edit documents within that project folder. Publish or copy the files to a Web server when you are ready to publish your site for public viewing. This approach allows you to test changes in the local site before making them publicly viewable. Once finished, you can upload the local site files to the server and make updates as required.

Break down your site into categories and put related pages in the same folder. For example, your company portfolio, contact information, and products might all go in a folder, while your newsletter pages might go into a different folder. Using sub-folders by type will organize your site and make maintenance and navigation easier.

For example, it’s convenient to place all your images in one location, so that when you want to insert an image into a page, you know where to find it. Designers place all the non-HTML items on a site in a folder called assets.

Creating a website should begin with setting Steps that the website should must meet . Now what needs to be accomplish by building a Web site.

Write down the steps so that you recall them as you step through the design process. This help you target your Website to specific need.

DTG web services provides this type of design in all of there websites.

A Web site that generate leads will have a unique look and navigation scheme than a Website that provides information.

The structure of your website will impact your navigation and the media required (Pictures, Flash, Text, Images, Logo and so on). The websites look and feel has now been defines.

Designing your Websites Navigation

During the site design, think about the experience you want your visitors to have. Imagine how a visitor to your site will be able to move from one page to next.

Your navigation scheme should be consistent throughout your site. When you place a navigation bar on the top of your home page, keep it there for all the linked pages. Consider these points:

Visitors know where they are the site and how to return to the Home page.

Include features like search and indexes that make it easy for visitors to find what they are looking for.

Provide feedback features for visitors to contact the Webmaster with issues on the site, or to contact relevant people or departments with the company.

Things to Consider When Redesigning a Website

Although the details vary from business to business, there are a handful of issues that need to be addressed by any organization heading into a redesign.

• Purpose. Can you and everyone else who is involved in the project articulate the reasons why you are pursuing a redesign? If not, the redesign may be doomed from the start. Before you start kicking around ideas about architecture and features, both your business and your web design team have to be crystal clear about what you’re trying to accomplish.
• Messaging. Armed with clarity about the purpose for the project, the next step is to address the site’s messaging. Messaging affects more than just the site’s content. If thoroughly incorporated throughout the site, it also influences features and architecture as well as the overall feel of the site.
• Architecture. Speaking of architecture, is your current site architecture capable of delivering the desired outcomes? Probably not, especially if you’re embarking on a substantial redesign effort. Unless you’re absolutely sure you have the in-house resources for architectural redesign, you’ll need to hire a professional web designer. Walker Sands web design team has the experience and expertise to modify site architecture to reflect updated messaging, features and branding elements.
• Maintenance. One of the biggest mistakes you can make is to ignore site maintenance requirements in a redesign. If you can’t maintain the new site in-house, it isn’t the end of the world — but you’ll need to have outside maintenance resources in place before you launch the new site.

Don’t tackle a site redesign alone. DTG is a Hartford, CT web design and marketing company with a reputation for delivering first-rate redesign services for businesses of all shapes and sizes. If your organization is headed for a site redesign, give us a call and let our team help you design a site that meets your goals and performance specifications.

You have just 5 seconds to captivate your audience on a web page, this should be the last thing a small business owner has to worry about.

Idea Web Design and Internet Marketing recognizes how strong web design can bring new customers to a small business, and even help propel it toward bigger and better business.

That’s why Idea designs web sites specifically around your needs. Idea works with small businesses from the ground up in designing a web site that can compete with large corporations, looking at aesthetics, usability and search engine optimization.

• Competitive Analysis and Research
• Custom Designed User Interface
• Usability/Testing
• Professional Writing
• Search Engine Optimization
• Web Site Hosting
• Web Redesign
• On-Going Web Site Maintenance

DTG web services is a full-service Web development company, which means we offer much more than basic Web design. Clients select our company because of our unique ability to blend award-winning Web design with dynamic Web programming and powerful online marketing. Because of our unique ability to seamlessly integrate these services together, we achieve amazing results for our clients.

Web Designs that Give a Great First Impression

The aesthetic elements of a site are what give it a unique personality that impacts the user’s first (and most important) impression of the site. Aesthetics also play a major (and often overlooked) role in usability, as sites that are more attractive are perceived as being more usable (even when they are not).

Our process includes an intensive design goals meeting where our designers consult first hand with our clients. During this meeting, the designer learns more about the client’s specific design goals and offers recommendations for how to achieve them. We prepare a design goals summary for each client before we start on their design. By allowing the client to review a description of the designer’s vision before it’s executed, we are able to better meet their needs on the first design concept.

Once created, all of our designs are critiqued by several of our team of designers to ensure fresh vision, excellence and creativity.

We invite you to browse our portfolio to see the many examples of our award-winning Web design work. We also invite you to contact us to learn how we can put our Web design expertise to work for you.