Over
11 billion people search the web for services and products on a monthly
basis. If your business is not on the web, you are probably losing money!
In the 21st century, mom, dad and even the dog have their own site! More than ever, your business needs a professional web presence that can be found in the search engines!
Whether you know a lot or a little about the web, Blu Dove Designs will help you through the entire process from start to finish and never leave you in the dark. We will explain as much or as little about the process as you want to know. We'll even train you on your site after it's complete so that you can get the most out of it!
We have several options to suit almost every budget, all discussed below. We can help you decide the best fit for you during our initial consulation. Or maybe you already know what you're looking for and we can simply help you get started.
Custom Web Site Design
Instant Web Sites
Custom Blogs
e-Commerce
Photo Galleries
Embedded Video
Custom Web Site
Design, starts at $1500 and includes SEO
Our custom designed web sites are built from the ground up from scratch
using your ideas + our creativity and expertise + design software.
We adhere to certain standards for ALL of our web sites enabling us
to guarantee that the end product will be something you will be satisfied
with. Your business is unique and we treat our web designs as such so
that you are getting a truly unique product.
We
use the latest technologies to assemble your web site including Adobe
Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, Acrobat Professional, Joomla, Wordpress
and Flash and may sometimes develop our ideas loosely around a template
if it must work within a specified program such a shopping cart software.
There are times we may also implement 3rd party software (calendar, map or database software) if your needs and budget necessitate going this route. We believe in giving the best to our clients and consider it a privilege to develop your web site.
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Instant
web sites, $949
Our instant web sites are designed for those who are on a tight
budget (under $1000) and a quick turn-around time
(under a week).
Instant Web Sites enable you to sign up, order, select your domain, pay for and set up your own web site in less than 30 minutes for a one-time set-up fee plus $50 per month hosting.
The steps are simple:
1) Click the button to be connected to our sister company, Illumastar
Consulting
2) Fill out the requested information and choose your domain
3) Select a template from 100s of industry standard choices
4) Purchase site *First 14 days are free to try it out! with no obligation
5) Fill in your pages with your content & images
At any time, you can contact customer service (listed on the web site) for assistance.
There is an option after you've set things up to upgrade to a custom design package. Those design services will be provided through our sister company Illumastar Consulting and our partnership with maWebCenters.
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Custom
Blogs, starts at $800
Social networking is one of the most powerful networking and business
building tools. Facebook,
LinkedIn, Twitter
and Plaxo are among
some of the favorites along with personal / business blogging. With
so many people online, it’s the best way to stay connected, especially
across the 1000s of miles! Yes, even we have our profile set up on these
networks.
Blogs (short for Web-Log) allow organizations, businesses and individuals to set up a personal or corporate dialogue online, to share company news & events, photos, videos, survey your target audience and more. It is a great way to encourage and receive feedback and collaboration.
Blu Dove Designs uses the Wordpress Platform for our blogs. It is one of the most user-friendly and popular tools on the market, not to mention it's free. We can either custom design the entire look and feel or simply modify an existing theme / template with your very own banner image. It can be used as a content management system or for blogging, news and posting photos.
We will install it on our servers with the custom or modified theme, desired additional features (they call them plugins) and get it ready to go for you. Once we give you the admin login and a little bit of training, you can be off and running.
We
can set up a blog in as little as 24 hours, or as long as 2 weeks -
depending on the complexity of design, amount of additional plugins
to install and set up and the end goals.
Examples of sites & blogs we have created include: CCC Gainesville, Cyndi The Builder, Progressive Restaurants, and Stephanie Sarkis.
Interesting
Facts about blogs
Social
Networking Stats
E-Commerce
/ online shopping carts, starts at $2899
U.S.
retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2008, adjusted for
seasonal variation, was $31.9 billion. That's an astonishing number
despite the state of our economy. The truth is that if you're not online,
you're probably losing sales.
Electronic commerce; consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet. Contemporary e-commerce involves everything from ordering "digital" content for immediate online consumption, to ordering conventional goods and services, to "meta" services to facilitate other types of electronic commerce.
On the consumer level, e-commerce is mostly conducted on the World Wide Web. An individual can go online to purchase anything from books or groceries, to expensive items like real estate, cars and television sets.
Read the latest ecommerce stats, published by the US Census Bureau
photo
galleries, starts at $600
We have several programs & formats that we use for our photo galleries
that are all user friendly and easy to update with additional images.
Each gallery has its strengths and weaknesses and integrate differently
within different web sites. Some must have software installed on the
client computer and others are web-based.
The gallery chosen depends on the client, the end user and the purpose of the gallery. Galleries can be customized to match the look and feel of the rest of the web site
embedded
video / streaming video, costs vary
YouTube
is continually rising in popularity - 2.983 billion viewers and growing
(according to ComScore.com), along with the desire for viewer interactivity.
YouTube is a popular video hosting solution because it becomes a nice
little “commercial” that other people can embed in their
blogs, facebook accounts and other social networking sites, therefore
increasing your exposure to a wider audience.
Running video on a web site can increase your bandwidth significantly. For a professional look, we recommend loading your video on a site that supports the increased bandwith and then embedding the video, such as www.bitsontherun.com.
In order to determine the best solution for you, we will discuss your options with you at our initial consultation and it will be based on several factors including number of videos, size, estimated number of visitors and whether or not you are planning to add more videos later.