Your Web site influences the perceptions people have about your organization. Navigational structures need to be intuitive, content must fascinate, and images and multimedia should be used to enhance the underlying message. Your Web site should be optimized for search engines. Newcomers must have a good impression in seconds that must then be maintained to keep their interest. Returning visitors should be able to locate concise and current information with confidence. Your Web site should present your offerings in a way that makes you feel warm inside. It should be an extension of your identity into the Internet.
Duckhouse Designs treats our customers' sites as investments, both for the customer and for us. We believe you should take the same approach. Take the time to come up with good content. Work with us to take your goals, desires, information, functional needs, style, and preferences and integrate them into a site design that speaks to the audience you need to reach.
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With great technology comes great capacity. Connection speeds are ever faster and Web sites are increasingly dynamic. Your Web site can do more than simply display information as an online brochure. It can be a dynamic application in itself – using available technology to tie each Web page to a database with your latest information or to a secure e-commerce connection. Such a Web application helps you and your customers. It helps you by enabling your staff to update your site from any computer with Internet access through administration forms, without any programming know-how. You, then, have the freedom to delegate this task to others or perform it quickly and easily yourself. Through your Web application you may choose to pull in valuable data from your site users, having it automatically submitted into a database which stores and sorts it for you. You can also receive payments more quickly and with less hassle through your application's secure site connections. And feedback on your products and services can be collected and analyzed more easily.
Your Web application benefits your customers. More complete and up-to-date information displays on your site. If appropriate, your customers will register online for your classes, subscribe to your newsletter, submit questions about your products, or purchase from your online store. They'll check on the status of their order, approve projects at various stages, and sign up for the latest events and opportunities.
Duckhouse Designs will work with you to find an appropriate Web host to handle the database most suited for you. For e-commerce, we will help you establish your own SSL (secure socket layer) with your host to customize your payment processing page and offer your own secure site connection. We will help you set up a gateway to your existing merchant account. If you don't have a merchant account, we'll help you get one. Or, if you choose, we will integrate your site with a third party payment service to accept online payments. Duckhouse Designs will make your Web site one of your most prized business tools.
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Your logo must speak to your audience and get to the heart of your organization's identity. A good logo design is the product of a good understanding of people, perceptions, culture, and art. Duckhouse Designs can provide you with a logo worthy of your name. We can design corporate identity pieces such as business cards, notecards and letterhead to showcase your new look. And, when finished, you'll have the vector-based files in your possession so that you can freely use your logo for all of your print and screen image needs.
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Duckhouse Designs uses the graphic design industry's best imaging software to produce conceptual images, collages for online or print use, and interior design layouts from customers' descriptions and images. Professionally rendered images can transform an abstract idea or concept into a tangible expression for presentation, planning, or marketing purposes. Duckhouse Designs can also correct old and damaged photos to look like new.
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