PM Photo -
Website Design & Web Maintenance
FAQs
Why Does a Website Cost So Much?
There are many different aspects in designing a website
each requiring certain talents and training.
Designer: Develop the over-all look and feel of the site, pick the color scheme, pictures, graphics, and the basic design.
Layout Manager: Once the design concept has been established, the layout manager is responsible to making it work on each of the pages. This includes a good navigation system for the entire site.
Copy Writer: Writing good text is a key to good Search Engine placement as well as holding your viewer's interest.
Editor: Checking the text for content, grammar, spelling, and continuity. Eliminating redundant and superfluous text and making the written word flow.
Graphics Designer: Have the ability to edit photos and create custom graphics, such as logos or specialty drawings. Optimize the graphics for fast loading.
Technical Consultant: Make sure that the pages are written with the latest standards-compliant code, create the proper meta-tags, titles, and alternate text tags for every graphic, as well as to verify all scripting code and server-side code that is used within the site.
Quality Control Manager: Make sure that the web pages work in the various browsers such as FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari and insure that the site is user friendly.
Programmer: If your site requires e-commerce, special forms, or a data base, the webmaster needs to have some programming skills. Most of the time these items need a programming language not found in the web authoring software.
Analyst: Track the web site in the search engines and determine what can be done to improve the ranking.
