We offer informational, E-Commerce and PHP/MySQL database driven sites using strictly HTML and CSS designs. No more tables and cells that add additional markup and bloat to your website.

We can help you promote your small business online or personal website using SEO techniques that are proven to be effective in listing your site in Google and other search engines. Also providing one-on-one consultation to create the design that is most beneficial and suitable for you and your needs.

Your website will built and tested across multiple platforms including today’s most popular browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera and others. It will also be validated for HTML Transitional or Strict document types as well as CSS 3.0 standards for optimal accessibility.

If you have an existing website but just need it modified, we can handle that too. Several of our customers have started out that way and before long, the old site is up to date and looking brand new.

Creative talent to appeal to your sense of style, training and knowledge of current web development standards and practices, and friendly personal service all combined helps Put Ideas into Reality!

Some designers get too caught up in the presentation, flashy animations and cool graphics and let the usability go by the wayside. On the other hand, those designers who focus only on how effective the accessibility is may let the visual appeal fall short.

The primary thing to remember is that the design, as a whole, is about what you are trying to communicate. If you want to design a new website that works perfectly well but looks bad, most people will not want to stay on your site too long. Likewise, if your website is a beautiful piece of art but is not easy to use, people may not want to figure it out and once again leave.

It is a problem all designers face when contemplating the design of a website. Keep in mind that both elements: usability and presentation, should work together as one unit so that visitors like the design but are also drawn to the content you are providing. Furthermore, it is an important fact that your navigation be intuitive so that users can find information and move about your site easily.

One final point to consider is the “consistency” of the website. It can be very distracting and often confusing if there are too many differences between your home page and other pages of your website. If there are differences, there should be a cohesive style that holds all the pages together.

As a designer, I am aware that the best practice in designing a website is by using CSS to separate the HTML markup (how it is laid out) from the content of your web pages. By doing so, you provide a much cleaner and often smaller amount of data that has to be read by the search engines to index your website. Effectively promoting better search engine results. Which after all is a key in a good website.

The problem is that there are sometimes different results that the bugs in various browsers can cause no matter how well your CSS is written and no matter how clean the HTML code is.

At Web Considerations, your website will be tested against all of the major and most popular web browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer (currently version 6, 7 and 8). We want you to get the most benefit from your new design and since there are so many different browsers, we want to ensure that you get the maximum exposure with little to difference in how the site will look or function.

If you would like to know more about our testing practices before committing to getting a new website, feel free to contact us, it would be great to hear from you.

As a website designer that happens to also offer website hosting, I often get inquiries involving the cost of a complete website package solution.

Many times, the questions come from individuals or start up companies that are looking for a website and a place to host it but are limited by a very small budget. As a small business owner myself, I completely understand and sympathize with those wanting to get started but don’t have a lot of money for marketing – especially in today’s economy.

Website Special Offer

With that in mind, I am offering a special design package that includes everything you need to get your website online and very quickly. The special website design and website hosting offer includes…

• A three page website (using a pre-designed template)
• One secure contact form page
• 5 email addresses
• 350 MB Web Space
• 2000 MB Transfer
• 3 MySQL Databases

This package is ideal for start up websites and can always be built on later as your business or need grow. Additional solutions can be added to your site at any time as your budget allows. Getting your business online is the most important thing. It gets your name out there so your clients can find out more about the products and services you offer.

Contact us today and let’s get your site going.

The first thing I did was to buy Dreamweaver and a 2 day class. It was a great introduction but as in most short class room shops I have attended, you go over way too much material in the short amount of time there is. You stay so focused on the outline and project steps, you don’t grasp the concept. At least I didn’t at first.

The next thing I remember was that I bought a few website templates. My thinking was that if I saw how a site was put together, I could break it down and get a greater understanding of design. It was a major step and it did teach me a lot but it was fairly short lived. The more I started learning, the more I realized that a lot of templates that you buy are still using tables and cells as opposed to straight CSS. I learned that tables and cells are not the best method for design so I pressed on.

I then purchased some CSS workshops that included a finished product complete with all the images, style sheets and HTML. It further provided a step by step guide with explanation of not only how to complete a particular design technique but it also explained why it was being done and the purposes behind it. I loved it! That was probably the 2nd most valuable tool I have come across so far to teach good solid web design.

I then got into a book buying phase. I probably have at least 6 different books on CSS alone as well as many other books on topics including JavaScript, PHP, ASP, Flash, Joomla and MySQL just to name a few. A good book is a perfect tool to learn a topic… the problem is that it takes a considerable amount of time to really read and study the book. I don’t know about you but time is not something I have a lot of between my full time job, church and other activities. However, if I want to learn something, I have found a great book can teach me so much more than most online courses I have taken.

Finally, I would have to say the best teacher is plain and simple hands on training. I have learned if I want to do something… I just start doing it. If it screws up, I just start over; it doesn’t have to be perfect the first time. Don’t be afraid to try something. Join some blogs and forums and ask a lot of questions. Get a second hosting account and use it as a test bed. I have a couple of accounts on my own hosting service that I use strictly for testing. If someone happens across that particular site on the internet… it doesn’t matter what kind of shape it is in. After all… it’s a test bed.

Hands down, hands on at your pace is the best teacher.

Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS) is recognized as the recommended way to maintain the presentational level of a website document.

The main and utmost important benefit of using CSS over presentational markup imbedded in HTML is that all styling can be kept separated from the content of the document. You can create a single CSS file and attach it to your web pages for easy maintenance.

For instance, if you had a website that consisted of 1000 pages and you wanted to change the text color of your <H1> tag, you could easily update all 1000 pages instantly by modifying one CSS file. If your presentational markup was imbedded into each HTML web page, you would have to edit 1000 pages if your website look was to remain consistent throughout the entire site.

Simply attaching one or even a few external CSS files to your web document offers a great number of benefits. It would be difficult to overstate just how beneficial using CCS is but in the simplest of terms: it is obviously much more efficient editing (or maintaining) one file instead of 100, 1000, or 10,000 HTML documents.

Sometimes with smaller sites, some designers may not recognize the benefit but I highly recommend getting into the practice on sites of any size. I can speak for experience… it save huge amounts of time.