First impressions are as important online as they are offline. A key element that will let your visitors know that your organization is professional is the design of your site. Custom web design will set your web presence apart from the crowd.

Custom design means that the look and feel of the web site is built from the ground up to project the image the client wants. While it is possible to save money using pre-made templates, a serious business is almost always better off with a look that is both unique and tightly tailored to the requirements of the market. Custom web site design costs a bit more, but the result is something you’ll be living with for the long term. The design of the web site is the first impression many will have of your business or organization, and it’s the way you may be judged.

Web design can be simple or complex, but in either case it can be done well or very, very badly. Simple web sites may look easy to do, but keeping something clean and professional requires a solid grounding in graphic design principles, as well as experience in creating web sites Once upon a time, the internet was a place anyone could splash up a bunch of text and a few photos and look like a serious player. Now, users are more sophisticated, expectations have risen, and professional web site design has become the minimum standard.

Bedsiders.com has substantial experience in web site design. We have designed sites for clients in real estate, law, banking, and government. We have created web sites that appeal to college students, we have designed web sites that have reassured high-end financial backers. We have appealed to potential voters, donors, and customers. Our design can make the little person look big, the strait-laced company seem fun, and the struggling group seem confident. More importantly, we have given a sense of place, an atmosphere to businesses that are seen mostly online.

Creating a web site for a client from scratch involves a variety of skills and services, all of which we offer. We are at our best when everything is in our hands, but we have worked with clients who only wanted some of these services, using in-house or third-party vendors to accomplish the rest. Services involved in creation of a new web site include:

Web site Consultation/Strategic Development

-Information Architecture

-Content Development/Copy writing

-Graphic Design

-Logo Design

-Backend/Programming

-Search Engine Optimization

-Content Management

-Site Maintenance