...Web site design is the artistic element of Web site development. Developing an attractive, user-friendly and easily navigated Web site is critical to its success once they arrive at your site.

One thing most people have over looked is that web design is an integral part of advertising your business, personal passion or whatever. Never before in history have you been able to promote your services or products to everyone in the world 24/7 at an affordable price. When you think about it, it is almost mind boggling. A well designed web presence can help your company grow to heights you had only imagined, whereas a poorly designed site.....

Web site design is the artistic element of Web site development. Developing an attractive, user-friendly and easily navigated Web site is critical to its success once they arrive at your site.

Remember when your mother told you to make a good first impression? Research shows you have eight seconds --- or less! --- to make that positive first impression and reassure your visitor they are on a site that will provide the information for which they are looking for.

Usability also comes into play in the Web site design phase. Have you ever been on a Web site and found it difficult to find your way around? Strange little pictures for buttons that do not give you a clue what you would find if you clicked on them? We promise you will not find that kind of artistic clutter used on your site. Clear and concise text-based navigation is not only easier for your site visitor, it improves search engine ranking as well.

At LHD we pride ourselves in giving the client a professionally designed web site that is both easily navigated and attractive and will be a pleasant experience to any visitor. We do all this with the clients budget in mind and very rarely exceed that budget.

Your Website Layout - Pages You  May Want to Include

Is Your Site Working For You?

Does it rank well in search engine results, attracting new prospects looking for your product or services?

Does it portray your business in a professional and credible manner?

Is it easy to use? Can visitors find the information they are looking for?  Quickly? Can they perform keyword searches to find exactly what they want?

Most importantly, does it meet your goals for generating sales leads or converting online shoppers into buyers?

* Banner design
* Brochure design
* Flyer design
* Stationery design
* Business Card design
* Letterhead design
* Newsletter design
* Postcard design
* Calendars
* Logo design

Graphic design is the art of visualizing an idea onto  paper. It should correctly portray your business and must speak to the target audience clearly to create interest  and excitement.

I provide a range of creative graphic design solutions for online and traditional business uses. I can plan, design  and build almost any type of media product to suit your needs. I will work with you to  design and build a professional image that best represents your company and  products.

Let LHD be your printing consultant. I do not provide printing  services, but I have partnered with printers to provide you with the  best quality and still affordable. Have a favourite printer? No problem! I'll work with whoever you choose!

Web hosting is very important once you have completed your web site. What is hosting?

A web host is a company that has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7. These computers are called servers and they are assigned IP numbers in order that they may be found by other computers hooked up to the internet. It is on these servers that all your web files are stored, be they HTML files (web pages), graphic files, CSS files, Javascripts or whatever.

Basically what happens is when you type a web address into the address bar of your browser and then hit Go, your browser sends out a request to 'get' that web page. The request travels across the internet to the appropriate web server and attempts to locate the web page on that server. If the request is successful (web page exists) then that web page will load (or download) into your web browser.

These web hosting servers that store and serve up web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure and maintain and thus web hosting providers that own these servers typically charge you a monthly or yearly fee to, at the very least:

• Allow you to save your web files to their  web server (called uploading
• Perpetually be ready to serve them up to  the internet (make available for downloading)

Web hosting has become a very competitive business and, in order to entice more customers to sign up with them, web hosts now offer all kinds of bells and whistles to the deals or web hosting packages they make available.

I will host your site with the following features listed in the link below. An email account can also be set, up if you do not have one already. Contact me for more information.

All of the Web Hosting Plans come with your own  Website Control Panel (Cpanel) that allows you to easily administer your web site, with a vast assortment of powerful features!

Instructions for each feature is built right in.  Just click the "Documentation" link on your Cpanel screen.

For a full list of features, and to order hosting Click Here
For a full list of scripts and features available Click Here

DATABASE DRIVEN WEB PAGES
 

One of the most common types of dynamic web pages is the database driven type. This means that you have a web page that grabs information from a database (the web page is connected to the database by programming,) and inserts that information into the web page each time it is loaded.

If the information stored in the database changes, the web page connected to the database will also change accordingly (and automatically,) without human intervention.
 

 This is commonly seen on online banking sites where you can log in (by entering your user name and password) and check out your bank  account balance. Your bank account information is stored in a database  and has been connected to the web page with programming thus enabling you to see your  banking information.

Imagine if the web page holding your banking information had to be built traditionally (that is by hand,) every time your bank balance changed! Even a thousand monkeys working 24/7 drinking 5 cups of coffee a day, would not be able to keep up!

Graphic Illustrations or Digital Art as it is commonly known is the manipulation of photographs using computer software such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 or Adobe Illustrator. There are many more applications out there but these 2 are the industry standard for image manipulation.

Graphic Illustrations have a wide variety of uses, from print media to televisions ads or included in web design, the applications are boundless.

Below are some examples of the digital work I have done.

Lions Head Designs setup and configuration of shopping carts work for you; this will save you time and effort. As a result, you have a complete and ready-to-sell online store with a custom look, which matches and fits into  your web site.

E-commerce requires a few items to fully function;

* a web hosting package with a website
* a shopping cart of some kind
* a dedicated IP address
* a secure socket certificate (SSL)
* a credit card processor (usually provided by a 3rd party)
* a bank account of some kind
 

The order of the above steps is not important.

Choose from a variety of solutions for your  business; from adding "buy now" buttons or a shopping cart with more features. Lions Head Designs can create your E-commerce site with the following;

* Bean Stream
* First Gate
* ZenCart
* Kurant
* Mal's E-commerce
* PayPal .us
* PayPal .de