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Website Design And SEO – Fort Collins, CO

Website design and SEO from Altitude Data Web Design, Ft. Collins, CO., is targeted at businesses and individuals who are looking for a practical Internet solution. Our website designs are intuitive, clean, fast loading, standards compliant and viewable on all web browsers and operating systems. Whether you are looking for a small simple website just to try launching your product or service on the Web, or you need a more complex and robust website solution such as eCommerce or online marketing, we can develop a solution for you. Basic SEO is always included in our design packages. Additionally, please read the "Standards Compliant Web Design" section below and learn why this is critical to your sites success and why you should choose a developer that writes standards compliant code. After all, you wouldn't want to buy a home that didn't meet standards, would you?

Our custom web designs are billed at just $40.00 per hour. That's about half of what the non-standards designers charge, yet they will tell you that compliance to web standards will cost you more and it's not really that important. Don't believe them. I just spoke with an individual in Loveland who used one of these non-standards design firms and she was in a quandary. Several of the pages didn't display properly in various web browsers and her online sales figures weren't matching her bank deposits. She had a major event coming up in a couple of months and was looking for someone to fix it. I checked the site and found there were anywhere from 336 to 562 errors per page. Over 16 pages, that totaled over 6,500 errors that needed to be corrected and finding and correcting someone else's mistakes takes a lot longer than correcting your own.

Another option we offer is pre-designed site templates. With these templates you can select the site you like before you even start to design it. No more waiting to see the final result, you can see it before we start. We also have access to over 100,000 stock business images for you to choose from and all of them are very affordable. Just supply us your content and any images unique to your business, such as logos, slogans, etc., and we can have you up and running in no time. Check out our Website Hosting solutions too! Give us a try and let us earn your trust.

Web Design Begins With You at Altitude Data

We rely heavily on input from our clients when putting together a website design, after all who knows your business better than you do. Once we arrive at a design decision, then we do what we do best, developing the website that will give you a commanding web presence and help take your business to the next level. After all, isn't that what it is all about? Together we can find a right-fit solution that's win-win for all concerned.

Why is SEO important? Bobbie Carlyle has brought in over $250,000 just from her website alone and a search on Google for any of her pieces along with her name ranks #1 or #2 out of 1000's of results. When we started a few years ago, her site could not even be found in Google results at all. Check out some of our other work below, some of which were designed with a lot of feedback from our clients. Bobbie Carlyle's Gallery and the Ascension Ministries Website is currently under construction. We have also just put up a small gallery for several James Muir Sculptures that are for sale, and you can check out our newest site which offers Piano Lessons in Loveland, Leslie at Lotus Place.

Web Site Design Element Examples

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Our websites use the "Form Follows Function" rule

All of our web site designs follow form follows function rule, and ease of navigation is one of the most crutial areas of concern. How many times have you visited a site trying to find where to order a product or locate something of interest and have had to click four or five different links before you got there? Frustrating isn't it? Our web designs incorporate "One Click Navigation", and on large sites, never more than two. This makes it easy for the user to find what they are looking for and take care of the business they came there to do.

Our web site designs can easily accomodate the use of Flash / Shockwave when necessary or when requested by the client, but we always try to keep it relative and to a minimum. Most of our customers view a website as a tool, not a toy. Our layouts are simple and clean with minimal graphics which speeds up download times dramatically. After all, do you really want your users or customers waiting 30-45 seconds for your pages to download? Web sites should be designed so they can easily be found, allowing you to get what you came to do done as quickly and efficiently as possible. This brings us to the next consideration when launching a web site, SEO – Search Engine Optimization

Extensive Testing on all major Web Browsers

All of our designs are tested on all major platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix. Since there are a number of web browsers available for each operating system, we believe we should ensure that your site will display correctly in each one. While Internet Explorer and Firefox are still the two major browsers, some people prefer others such as Opera, Safari, Flock (a new social networking browser) and Google Chrome (rapidly gaining popularity). Some hardcore Linux and Unix users still use some of the native browsers such as Epiphany and Galeon. Interoperability is required for any website that wants to be taken seriously. Altitude Data ensures your site will view the same no matter which browser a person chooses. Below is a list of all the web browsers we test on.

Windows

• Internet Explorer 6
• Internet Explorer 7
• Internet Explorer 8
• Google Chrome 5.0      
• Flock      

• Firefox 3.0
• Firefox 3.6
• Opera 9.0
• Safari 4.0
• SeaMonkey

Mac

• Safari 4.0            
• Firefox 3.0              
• Firefox 3.6      
• Google Chrome 5.0      
• Flock            

• Opera 10
• Camino 2.0
• Sunrise 2.0
• SeaMonkey
• OmniWeb

Linux / Unix

• Firefox 3.0                
• Firefox 3.6
• Google Chrome 5.0      
• Galeon            

• Opera 10
• Epiphany
• SeaMonkey
• Flock

Standards Compliant Web Design

On the Web, being up-to-date with the latest technologies is a difficult exercise: choosing the wrong tool or architecture can lead to losses in money, time, or customers.

By using standards compliant web designs, your Web site's foundation is built upon technologies that have been developed and tested by leading experts in the Web community. For example, the W3C Process ensures that a technology reaching its last state of development has been implemented into several compatible products. With almost 500 companies and organizations from the IT world contributing R&D efforts to the production of W3C standards, these standards are truly the leading edge of the Web.

More and more, the Web will be the central key for your knowledge management with initiatives such as the Semantic Web. Hence your site must have very strong requirements, and compliance to standards must be part of them to guarantee the general quality. There are tools available to check that the final product complies with these standards. Please feel free to check out any site you wish using the W3C HTML and CSS Validator available in the right column of this site under "Web Standards". You can also check out our site as well.