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There are many facets to web design and presentation ranks up there along with good content.
This page is intended for those folks that are just getting started about being serious about having a web presence.
Have a look around the page you are now viewing - you will notice a two-column design that is bordered with a dark perimeter - this can make your page 'pop out' to the viewer.
Graphics are designed to also 'pop out', but use of graphics should be kept to a minimum to ensure your page loads quickly - experienced web surfers have no patience with slow-loading pages and will leave your site unless you have your page load quickly.
Your choice of font is important - you can highlight important content and you can even
change its appearance. See more examples of designs below.
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For a page considered normal in size and complexity, Manitoulin Island Web Design
charges a basic $250.00 fee for full web design and quarterly maintenance for one year that allows you to make minor text changes that reflect seasonal changes. An appropriate fee will be applied for more frequent changes. A very basic personal web page can be done for less.
Your unique domain name will identify your business to potential customers. it will also provide you with an e-mail address that further promotes your business.
Picture the internet as a large city with each occupant having his own unique address. An individual residing at 1237 Main Street is easily distinguished from his counterpart at 1237 Oak Street.
Instead of an e-mail address such as Jake81B@hotmail.com, you will have an address unique to your domain. For instance, should your domain be " jakesplumbing.com " then you could secure an address such as info@jakesplumbing.com or jakesmith@jakesplumbing.com.
Not only does the above look more professional, it allows more familiarity with customers. They know exactly who they have dealt with.
We design web pages, which will help you reach thousands who frequent the world wide web.
Most businesses and organizations realize that a web presence is vital today. With a "counter" attached to your page, you will be amazed at the number of "hits" that a good site attracts.
Web pages have dramatically changed the flow of information, both personal (through e-mail) and that which concerns products and services.
Most people do not know where to begin, and they are concerned about unknown costs and maintenance. Frequently, clients will have something posted and then not know how to change or refresh information that is dated.
If you have thought about placing a site on the Internet, now is the time to give us a call. We will determine your needs within your budget.
A well-conceived and designed web presence will enhance your business or professional image and promote increased productivity.
Your web presence will enable you to create and maintain:
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A modern corporate image that promotes broad consumer awareness.
- Quick, responsive customer service.
- Huge potential market expansion, and exposure to a specific audience.
- Information distribution both locally and world-wide.
A well-designed web site will promote identity and image and provide clients with a quick, interactive, visual impression of your products and services.
A well-conceived web page should contain the following:
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Creation of an appealing web site
- Location of your web site on the INTERNET
- Registration of web site with search engines
- Press releases and announcements
- Producing on-line mail lists
- Posting, where appropriate, to targeted groups
- Invitations to promotions via e-mail
- Links to complimentary web sites
- Promotions
- Advertisements in traditional media outlets
Your internet presence will only levitate in cyberspace and be quickly forgotten unless the above principles are utilized.
Monthly updates coupled with ongoing promotion will dramatically improve any web site, thereby making it more profitable.
What you need to do:
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If you are located on or near Manitoulin call me at 282-2900
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or you can e-mail me directly at
pokokat@gmail.com - an alternate mailing address I use that deals with spam nicely.
I can recommend a web host that I'll put your website on. This is an additional cost to you and can be done on-line using your credit card or using a 1 800 number by phone.
My host of choice will set you up with a domain name at no extra cost.
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Screenshots Of Some Client Pages:
for a bigger pic.
Or visit Billings Township
The township's website was old and tired - a complete rewrite was needed. Site and design now being maintained by
Rusty Auxier
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for a bigger pic.
Or visit Kagawong Car Rally
Several enterpreneurs in Kagawong needed an internet presence for a car rally they were organizing in 2006. It looks like it will be an annual event. The event continues but the owners have not renewed their domain.
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for a bigger pic.
Or visit COWAC
My brother operates a 'not for profit' down in the Niagara Region involving the study of the United Nations. His website was old and outdated so I took over his site with a complete rewrite. This site will be shut down in the near future.
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for a bigger pic.
Or visit Synapse Magazine
Synapse Magazine is a spinoff from the COWAC site. The site was shut down by its owner.
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for a bigger pic.
Or visit Sedore Stoves
Scott Willis owns a company that builds a very unique stove. Not only does it burn wood, it utilizes several other materials that burn very cleanly in your stove with "no buildup" of creosote in your chimney.
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for a bigger pic.
Or visit Wahl Water Treatment
Jeff Wahl is in my house several times a year maintaining my water system. He saw my computer setup and asked me to build him a site.
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for a bigger pic.
Or visit CPandU Computers
Claude Proulx is the proprietor of this computer sales and service business located in Gore Bay. It's nice to know that there is someone local to take care of our computer needs.
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" in my dreams "
I would've had this company do a web page, but Marie wasn't too keen on it.
Go ahead and call me henpecked. You weren't the guy who had to sleep with her.
We could have wiped out the Nazis in eight weeks if only we had this guy in our IT department.
I asked him but he had the idea that I was connected to a porn site.
Tony Curtis was hot, but I would never had sung to the President if this guy was born twenty years earlier.
I bet I'd still be alive too!
Yes, it's true
I sleep very soundly and when I do I am prone to talking with dead people and sponges. Don't let that scare you away - you can depend on a well-designed website and it is guaranteed not to be spooky.
I'm just a cartoon character from
Day by Day but I know a whiner winner when I see one. Visit us on our web page.
And Please...
If it's past your bedtime and you can't sleep, please think of your good friends around the world who just may or may not be in bed.
Being Indispensable
Sometime, when you are feeling important,
Sometime, when your ego's in full bloom,
Sometime, when you take it for granted,
You're the only qualified one in the room...
Sometime, when you feel that your going,
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these few simple instructions
And see how it humbles your soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up tio your wrist,
Pull it out, and the hole that is remaining,
Is the measure of how you'll be missed!
You may splash all you please when you enter,
You can stir up the water galore ~
But stop and you'll find in a minute,
That it looks quite the same as before.
The moral of this quaint observation,
Is to do the very best that you can,
Be proud of yourself, but remember,
There is only one indispensable man.
This above Is Dedicatated To The Memory Of Correctional Sergeant Hal Burchfield
12/16/47 - 6/8/85
Killed In The Line Of Duty
San Quentin State Prison, California Department of Corrections
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