Website Design
Ferguson Photography and Design offers full website design, hosting, and search engine optimization services. We will design a brand new web site for your business, or redesign and modernize your existing website. We offer standards compliant web sites, flash (animations) and e-commerce web site design. Web sites designed for optimal search engine (Google) rankings. We will host your web site, or work with your current provider.
If you are in business, you need a website! The web should be both your most effective and your least expensive advertising. Compare what your business spends on Yellow Pages or local advertising to the low cost of running a web site. Consider the many people using web searches (Google searches) as their primary method of finding local businesses. A website is business advertising at its best.
Ferguson Photography and Design is located in Simi Valley (northwest Los Angeles). We welcome web design projects from Southern California, or anywhere else! Please contact us at 805-577-6914 or use our .
- Planning A Site
- Types of Sites
- Search Engine Optimization
- Statistics
- Names and URL
- Hosting Options
- Client Sites
Planning A New Website, or a Site Update
Getting started on a website can seem intimidating. New concepts, new technologies, hosting, search engine optimizing. Read here
for a common sense guide to both getting started and finishing your web project with a minimum of problems. Get your business
the website it needs!
More on Planning a Website
Types of Sites
The type and size of a website your business needs is unique. This is not a "one size fits all" situation. Read here
for information on the types, styles and add-ons the will help your website reach, entertain and engage your customers.
More on Types of Sites Available
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Most businesses are concerned with being "discovered" by new customers on the web. How you build your site and what
information you put on the site will greatly influence your website and its ranking by Google and other search engines. It is
far better to be on the first page of your customer's Google search, compared to the tenth page! A bit of planning will go a
long way in optimizing your website content for best search engine placement. Information on where your site be should be "submitted" and
what "invisible" files
will help your search rankings.
More on Search Engine Optimization
Statistics
A bit
of background on how your customers will be viewing your web site. How wide a site should you have, how image intensive, what
browsers does your site need to be tested on? Read here of up to date info.
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Names and Addresses (URL)
If you are building
a new site, you will need an "address" such as www.yourname.com. This name must be registered and must be unique. No-one
else anywhere on the www can have your address. Learn how to request your new website address.
More on Getting a Name and URL
Hosting Options
All websites must be "hosted" (stored) on a computer server set up to "broadcast" your website to the entire
world wide web. How much space, how much bandwidth and what specific computer services your site needs will determine what hosting
plan is right for you. We'll arrange a host system for you or (in most cases) work with your existing website host.
More on Hosting Options
Client Sites
See some examples of sites we have created for our customers. Examples from one page "business card" websites to multi-page informational
websites to educational websites to business e-commerce websites.
