- Web Design
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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.
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Your Website Layout - Pages You May Want to Include
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Splash Page
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Testimonials
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Photo Albums
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Home
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Resume
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Brochures / Catalog
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About / History
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Clients
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Downloads
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Announcements
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Special Offers
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Site Map
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Links
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Gallery
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Contact Us
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Pricing
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Services
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- Web Redesign
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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?
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If you cannot answer YES! To each of these questions, its time for a Web site redesign by Lions Head Designs.
Web Site Redesign - Unique Challenges
Besides the typical concerns over design, usability and search engine optimization, a redesign presents additional challenges. How will your new site handle returning visitors who have bookmarked your site? What will search engines find when they come back around to index your site?
If not handled properly, both will receive the business-stopping 404 Page Not Found error message.
Seamlessly redirecting visitors and search engines to the correct new pages is easily accomplished. At the very least, a custom 404 page should be provided that gives returning visitors a clear path to your new content. Easy? Yes! Overlooked? Often!
Trust your Web redesign to professionals experienced in the intricacies and challenges of Web site redesigns. Contact Us today for a free estimate.
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- Graphic Design
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* Banner design * Brochure design * Flyer design * Stationery design * Business Card design * Letterhead design * Newsletter design * Postcard design * Calendars * Logo design
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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!
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Pricing _____________________________________
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Before you hire us (or any other design company), you should determine your company's attitude, vision and goal. Your logo should reflect these elements. Look for logos that you like and don't like and try to identify the elements of each.
Simple Logos: $240 One or two color samples, typically 150x150 or smaller. Useful for personal web sites, or smaller corporate sites.
Business logos: $470 Full color logo for your business. Used on company web sites, business cards, and letterheads.
Premium logos: $810 Professional logo consistent with your company's brand, image and market positioning. Used on corporate web site, business cards, letterheads and marketing collaterals.
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- Hosting
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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.
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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.
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For a full list of features, and to order hosting Click Here For a full list of scripts and features available Click Here
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- Database Sites
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!
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- Illustrations
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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.
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- E-Commerce
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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.
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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
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- Pricing
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Content / HTML
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Web site maintenance
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$15/hour | $40/month | $480/year
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Excel Worksheets
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$100.00/You provide items and prices, 10 sheets $300.00/You provide information and we create sheets
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Add PayPal buttons
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$10 each
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Redesign a site
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Request a quote
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Custom Forms
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$35 and up
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Convert PDF’s
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$10 each
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Create PDF’s
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$5 each
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Blog installation and setup
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$250 and up
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Forum installation and setup
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$350 and up
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Additional Web Pages
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$50 / page
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Graphics / Illustrations / Flash Animation
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Change graphics
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$10 per page
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Create graphics
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$20/hour standalone projects Included in web design packages
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Add videos / MP3’s
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$2 each
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Logos
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$200 each
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Business card design
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$75
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Flyer design
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$75
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Letterhead design
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$30
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Image editing
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$20/hour
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Add photo gallery
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$100
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Image mapping
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$50
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Static banners (Any size)
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$40/each
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Basic Web Design
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A basic web site will consist of a Homepage, About Us, 1- 5 pages regarding your company or special interest, and a Contact page.
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$750.00
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Intermediate Web Design
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A medium size web site will consist of a Homepage, 5 - 10 pages regarding your company or special interest and a Contact page with a form
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$925.00
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Professional / Ecommerce
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A professional or E-Commerce site will consist of a Homepage, up to 15 pages depending on amount of items being sold or a database driven site for your company and Contact page with a form
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$1075.00
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