Having and maintaining a small business website is vital to your overall business success.
You need a way for patrons and clients to find you so they can engage with your business/blog.
Here are some examples of brand new websites/blogs that I have made for clients.
In all of these, the client didn't take all my suggestions and so appear as the client wanted them to be.
This client contacted me to design and develop a website for his small acting business.
Prior to starting work, the client had the professional images for the website, and he wrote the starting point of the copy for the site.
I created his logo and took his words and expanded them to explain his business, using a bit of holiday magic sprinkled in.
I designed the site with many of his photos to show people his custom made costume options, his helper Mrs. Claus and how a virtual visit with Santa can work.
We also explained how to sign up for a visit and how the personalization of a visit happens.
This client contacted me to build a website for his networking group. They had decided they wanted to build an online presence to attract potential new members and visitors.
He had a logo already designed, some images of the group in various events, and each member of the group contributed a headshot, business contact information, and some text describing their business to put on the individual member's pages.
This group is a quarterly maintainance client, where I update the membership list and images for my hourly rate.
This client contacted me when he was in the final stages of starting his own business.
Prior to starting work, the client had his logo and the image for the Home page. In keeping with his personality, he knew that he wanted the website to be clean, very consise, professional looking and sleek. He also wanted to use the colors red, white and blue prominently as he is an American veteran and is very patriotic.
We designed the site together to show off the complex services that his business offers, a bit about him with personal and work history, and a very large section for accolades he has received for work he has completed in the past.
In the end, the rights to the site were transferred to the client with Red Balloon Web Design left on the account to be able to modify the site when asked.
This client has become a yearly maintenance client. I look at the backend of his site twice monthly and update the coding so that the front end looks as it was designed to, and occasionally I will update content or images when asked.
This client came to me with his ideas for a website that would encompass many different purposes. We talked about what different audiences he wanted to target and made a plan for pages to address those concerns. I made a few logo templates and he chose one, and it was incorporated into the site. I also helped him choose his domain name. The client is a memorable individual with a complicated last name, so we kept his first name and the music level he sings at, so that it was a catchy, easy to remember and access domain. It fits great!
He wants his studio to serve a variety of purposes, so I worked to make the ambience of the site be professional, calm, and unique with an overall theme of “a young man, busy with many things he wants to share with others”. These things were accomplished by the site color palette, and simple photos and conversational text.
Since his website is music focused and the client has an active concert schedule, lesson schedule and changing repertoire list , I created an easily edited gig list, a video library of his performances, and embedded his current resume and rep list, to be accessed by people who are interested in this information but easily passed by if that isn't your purpose on his site.
This client was so pleased with the site, he cried when he saw it live on his phone the first time. He is a regular customer now, coming to me for periodic updates of his site.
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