Custom Website Design
Blue Gel Media specializes in custom website development and design. Our beautifully designed websites are cutting edge, highly flexible, expandable and come standard with a professional grade CMS (content management system) built into every project. No need to spend money on expensive web design programs to manage your site.
- Easy to Use: No previous skills are required to manage your custom CMS website. A system of tiered categories and WYSIWYG editors allow you to easily manager your content. If you can use a word processor then you are already half way there. Now you are the webmaster!
- Portable: Since our CMS systems are web based, you can run your business from anywhere in the world where you can find an Internet connection. Any computer, anywhere becomes your personal office. Add new web content from the coffee shop across town or process customer orders from your hotel in Paris.
- Expandable: Our modular based development allows your website to easily grow as your business grows. Add stunning media galleries, social networks, client accounts, e-commerce, and much more - seamlessly into your web site's design. By integrating these modular features directly into your content manager, we allow you to run all the features of your website from a single user account. We provide nearly a hundred different applications for you to choose from.
What Makes us Different?
- Skilled Designers - Using a skilled website designer is the key to a lasting impression. A lasting impression is the key to return business. At Blue Gel Media, our website designs are original and user friendly. That's because we can build your website from the ground up. We start the creative process by first listening to your goals and understanding the purpose of your website. Then we implement the latest technologies combined with real world experience to bring your site to life.
- Project Manager - Our customers tell us again and again, that the reason they enjoyed their development experience with us was that they spoke with a single project manger throughout the entire process. When your project is started you are assigned one (and only one) project manager whom you will work with throughout the entire development process. He/She will guide you through every step of the way from the initial contract > design > development > and final implementation. You will have a direct line phone number, email and IM with which to make contact.
- Web Optimization - Having a beautiful website is sometimes only half the battle. You still need your customers to find you. Blue Gel offers a comprehensive search engine optimization program to increase your search engine rankings and visibility within the major search engines. You found us didn't you?
- The Real Test - We all know seeing is believing, so please take a moment to visit our Project Portfolio. These actual projects will show you our capabilities and the high quality of our work. Whomever you choose to design your site, make sure to compare price AND quality, because we truly are hard to beat!
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Our Web Development Process
- Designing Strategy - To start the development of your website we first will work with you to determine the best graphical design and layout for the type of client you are targeting. Many factors including target demographics, type of product/services and content style play a role when deciding what design ("look & feel") we should implement on your site. A business targeting corporate lawyers is going to have a far different design strategy than someone who sells skateboard equipment. Different imagery, color schemes, layout techniques, and even fonts. Each design component plays a role in selling yourself to your customers.
- Development - Once it's time for the actual coding / building of the website's pages, we implement another advantage over other firms. We code with the search engines and future browsers in mind. In other words, using techniques which will be search engine friendly and browser friendly, we avoid constructing a website which will be non-functional a year from now. This may seem obvious, but a quick look around the web will show you that most developers don't follow this strategy. It's easy to find sites which fall apart from one browser to another or web sites that are ignored by search engines due to improper coding.
- Usability Testing - There's nothing great about a site that looks good but doesn't work at all! Some web designers do nothing more than check code for errors, and we do that too. But that is just the start. We rigorously check beyond the code to make sure that your visitors experience is uncomplicated and enjoyable. In other words we check for usability. It's more psychology than programming.
- The Result - Our attention to detail allows us to optimize the programming and design such that your website design not only does the basics... but also does what every successful business site MUST be able to do... convert visitors into customers.
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Q: What are your Prices? A: While prices can vary depending on a client's individual needs, you can get a good general idea by visiting our web design packages page. You may also submit a project quote by clicking the "Get a Quote" tab on the main menu. 
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