North Texas Web Design

Hello!  My name is Mike McLeland. I’m the owner of and principle web designer at DFW Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design.  DFW Web Design specializes in eCommerce websites.

eCommerce website designs are very different from other website designs.   They have only one objective – to get someone to make an online purchase.  DFW Web Design takes into consideration a number of design principles when building an eCommerce website.

While eCommerce websites are different than non-eCommerce websites, they still require simple and intuitive navigation?  They also need to take into consideration things like good color combinations, page width while creating a high degree of Google TRUST.  Lastly, and most importantly, they need to also compel visitors to stay on the website and browse your products.

Listed below are some critical elements DFW Web Design generally considers when building any eCommerce website.

• An eCommerce website should provide visitors with a pleasant experience during online shopping.
• An eCommerce website should be easy to use and provide easy to understand product information.
• An eCommerce website should provide sufficient information about who owns the website and why they can be trusted.
• An eCommerce website should provide shoppers a clear sense of trust and security when processing online credit card or PayPal payments

These principles are not new – but they’re more important than ever.  A good eCommerce website will lead the shopper to the correct page in one or two clicks at the most.

An effective eCommerce website is also all about the layout. One important aspect is where the shopper’s eyes go to first.  Most web research indicates the upper left portion of the web page is the most important, followed by the top/middle portion of the page.  By understanding how people look at a web page, your website effectively draws the shopper to the most important part of the web page.  An experienced web designer, like DFW Web Design, knows how to create an effective eCommerce design following these simple principles.

Lastly, most eCommerce websites have some sort of “store”.  At DFW Web Design, we typically use one of three “3rd party” shopping cart applications.  The shopping cart applications are licensed for use on a specific website for the life of the site.  There are no monthly or annual charges associated with using “third party” shopping carts, which over a long period of time can save the website owner lots of money.

If you’re looking to launch a new eCommerce website, or if your old eCommerce website is outdated and in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider DFW Web Design.

Hello!  My name is Mike McLeland and I’m the owner of and principle web designer at Plano Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design.

Did you know that 40% of all businesses don’t have a website (per Google)?  In today’s rapidly changing environment where Smart Phones, PDA’s and Notebooks are commonplace, who needs (or even uses) a Yellow Pages!

If you look at those businesses that do have a website, clearly 75% of these websites are exceptionally poor in quality, have exceptionally poor navigation, or text that has not been updated in years.  More importantly, these same websites, which are so critical to the success of the company they represent, do so without the benefit of basic web page optimization.

Today, all businesses must have a well designed and well optimized presence on the web, a website that is designed to have a high trust factor with Google.  If your business needs a new website, or a website makeover, listed below are the top 10 reasons you should consider Plano Web Design.

1. Plano Web Design offers true custom website designs.  We never use templates.
2. Plano Website Design offers very competitive pricing, often well below industry average pricing on true custom website designs.
3. Every page on every website Plano Web Design builds is fully optimized for the web.
4. Plano Web Design promises to provide the best customer service and customer experience to all our clients.
5. Plano Web Design offers very affordable web hosting.
6. Plano Website Design offers advanced Search Engine Optimization, which is an absolute MUST in today’s environment.  Our Advanced SEO is designed to quickly increase your presence with Google and the other major Search Engines.
7. Plano Website Design offers custom logo design.
8. Plano Web Design offers multiple solutions for eCommerce websites.
9. Plano Web Design offers custom database applications, including both Microsoft Access and SQL database designs, customized for your business application.
10. Plano Web Design offers mobile web sites that work with all major smart phones and tablets.

If your business needs a website, or your existing website is in need of a redo, trust Plano Web Design for all your web design needs.

Thanks for visiting Plano Web Design!

Hello … my name is Mike McLeland.  I’m the president and owner of Carrollton Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design.  In this BLOG post, I’m going to discuss Professional, Affordable Websites at Carrollton Web Design

At Carrollton Web Design, we utilize a simple to understand per-page pricing model, which begins with a standard price for the Home Page. I charge nothing for this initial design (some clients have told me I’m nuts for not charging for this initial design, but this practice has worked well for me so far). Once the Home Page design is approved, I’ll Invoice you 50% of the total expected website design. Payment is expected upon receipt of the Invoice.  The balance of the website is payable upon completion of the website.

So why should you consider Carrollton Web Design.  I hope to answer this important question in the following three paragraphs.

Our Per-Page pricing model includes:

• Fixed price for Home Page
• Reduced pricing for subsequent pages
• Fixed price for a fully installed and customized eCommerce Shopping Cart, complete with client training
• Fixed price for a fully installed and customized FAQ application
• Fixed pricing for Forms and Surveys
• Fixed pricing for Photo Gallery database applications, depending on client requirements
• Affordable pricing for a customized hosted WordPress BLOG
• Reduced pricing for Privacy, Terms and Copyright pages
• FREE custom Favicon if your logo permits

What we include in every website we create:

• Every site is coded using Windows asp code, written specifically for a Windows server
• Every site is truly custom – we never use “templates”
• Custom navigation schemes compliant with current W3C standards
• Server based STATS for all websites we host (FREE)
• Automatic copyright statement
• Every web page is optimized with appropriate keywords and keyword phrases
• Every site is tested against Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari at a minimum
• ALT tags and Title tags used on ALL images
• Every website comes with both sitemap.xml, ror.xml and robot.txt files
• Every website is submitted to the most popular Search Engines using WebCEO

Optional Services include:

• Affordable Search Engine Optimization, designed to improve your presence on the web
• Ongoing maintenance, as required, at an affordable hourly rate
• Fully customized eCommerce applications
• Custom database applications
• Web hosting on a Windows server
• Branded Email is available

If you are in need of a new website, or your current website is in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider Carrollton Web Design … and thanks for visiting Carrollton Web Design!

Hello, my name is Mike McLeland, and I’m the president and owner of Frisco Web Design.  Frisco Web Design operates as a dba of North Texas Web Design.

In this BLOG posting, I want to discuss what goes into effective website design. Whether you’re looking for your first website, or you’re considering a website re-design, you need to consider several major decisions.  Listed below are a few of the steps critical to web design used by Frisco Web Design.

What’s the Main Purpose of any Website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

• Are you trying to build a brand?
• Are you trying to sell a product over the web?
• Is your main goal simply advertising?
• Are you attempting to earn affiliate commissions for sales or leads?
• Is your main objective to provide customer service or support?

Once your website has been designed, you want it to be found on the Internet.  In order to do this, you can’t just sit back and wait for the phone to ring or the Contact Us forms to come rolling in.  I wish it worked this way, but it simply does not.  If you remember the movie Field of Dreams, the basic theme was “build it and they will come”.  This theme made for an interesting movie, but this theme does NOT work when building a website.  Frisco Web Design encourages website owners to consider some form of Advanced Search Engine Optimization, a professional approach to significantly increasing the relevance of your website on the Internet.

All websites designed by Frisco Web Design are designed to be Search Engine friendly.  There are several key rules to building an effective website that search engines love to visit and index.  Every page on your website should be optimized for the web, not just the Home page.  Listed below are the key guidelines followed by Frisco Web Design.

• Website title for each page
• Website description limited to no more than 250 words
• Effective use of H1 – H6 tags
• Appropriate use of ALT and Title tags for all images
• Avoidance of FLASH designs, which no search engine can read
• A quick and obvious Call to Action on the Home page
• Effective use of keywords and keyword phrases that are aligned with the text in the body of each page.

If you’re looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider Frisco Texas Web Design.

Hello!  My name is Mike McLeland and I’m the owner of Plano Web Design.  Plano Web Design operates as a dba of North Texas Web Design, a successful web design firm located in Plano, Texas.

In this BLOG posting, I discuss the top three items every website owner in Plano needs to be aware of:

• Website owners must take responsibility of your website by providing fresh content on a regular basis.
• Website owners must employ some form of sustained advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) program.
• Since the first two items are typically not something most website owners do easily, website owners should establish a relationship with a trusted web design firm, such as Plano Web Design and North Texas Web Design, who can assist them in meeting their website expectations.

Plano Web Design understands that you cannot simply launch a website and expect to ever be found on the Internet.  This may have worked satisfactorily many years ago (???), but it certainly doesn’t work this way anymore.

Websites compete with hundreds of other web based businesses.  Those websites that are successful do so by adding fresh content to their website as well as by investing in some form of sustained Local SEO, Advanced SEO, Google AdWords or some combination of these.

Savvy website owners understand the importance of the Social Media, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, BLOGs, etc.  The value of the Social Media to website relevance has never been greater.  Just think about the last time you needed to find a product or service.  Did you do so via a search of the web or the Yellow Pages?  Data confirms that almost nobody uses Yellow Pages anymore.  If you don’t have an effective web presence on the Internet, you’re not going to be found by people searching for whatever product or service you sell

Plano Web Design takes a great deal of pride in striving to stay current with the latest W3C standards.  Every new website we create is fully optimized for the web.  But as noted above, this is not enough anymore.  Successful websites employ one or more of the following:

• Routinely update the text on their websites to keep their website current.
• On a regular basis, post to their own hosted WordPress BLOG as well as Facebook and/or Twitter (a website owner who does not do this is at a HUGE disadvantage to all those sites who do employ this strategy).
• In addition to Press Releases, successful websites also focus on Article Marketing and Forum Marketing at least monthly.
• Lastly, working with a reputable SEO firm, employ a strategy where they focus on different keywords, either across large geographic area, or in the case of a local business, focus on keywords specific to radius of 5-25 miles from a business.

There are many, many more tactics used for successful SEO … the ones above represent just a few of the more important tactics from our perspective.

Regarding Search Engine Optimization, there are unfortunately lots and lots of fraudulent and deceptive SEO companies.  These same firms charge unreasonable amounts, and often are abandoned by clients for their failure to deliver what they promise.

Plano Web Design uses state of the art SEO practices at very reasonable prices … typically far below those firms that promise things they can’t ever deliver.

If your website is not producing the results you want, please consider calling Plano Web Design.  We promise to be fair, present you with straightforward answers to your questions, and promise to work closely with you to elevate your website on

Hi, my name is Mike McLeland.  I’m the president and owner of Allen Web Design.  Allen Web Design operates as a dba of North Texas Web Design and operates out of Plano, Texas.  We specialize in affordable custom website solutions, including traditional website designs, eCommerce solutions, catalog solutions, custom database applications and many more.  If you’re in need of a new website, or if your existing website is in need of a “re-do”, please give me a call or shoot me an email.

Whether you realize it or not, the rules around what makes a website successful on the Internet today change all the time.  Often, these changes are a direct result of innovations developed by Google or other Search Engines.

One of the most important things you can do to keep your website current is to ensure your website has fresh content on a regular basis.   There are a number of options that allow website owners to update their website content without assistance from me.

One of the main things that allows Allen Web Design to stand apart from other web design firms is our affordable, completely custom website designs that conform to all W3C requirements.  I believe that the key that sets Allen Web Design apart from other web design companies is our professional approach, the attention to detail and the many extras we include in every website we design and deliver.

Your website is a direct reflection of you and your business. Does your website project the image you want? Are you embarrassed about your current website design? Is your website attracting the clients your business wants and needs? If you answer NO to any of these questions, please consider contacting Allen Web Design. We promise to work closely with you as you strive to achieve your business goals and objectives.

Thanks for visiting Allen Web Design!

Does your website need a do-over?

Hi!  My name is Mike McLeland and I own North Texas Web Design.  Dallas Web Design operates as a dba of North Texas Web Design.  Many clients who contact Dallas Web Design for a re-do of their website do so because of various reasons. The top three reasons are:

1. Their current website is NOT getting the traffic they want
2. Their current website looks OLD compared to many other websites
3. Their website simply does NOT project the image they want for their business

Listed below are the most common issues I normally see when discussing a website do-over with a new client:

1. The website is several years old (websites need to be updated periodically in order to stay current)
2. The website is very narrow in width (always a good indicator of age)
3. The website is not coded using current W3C standards
4. The website was coded using Microsoft Front Page – OUCH!
5. The website was built using one the many “templates” advertised on television, which almost always are missing key meta instructions important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
6. The website is missing necessary and very important elements which make a website conform to the latest W3C standards … to include elements very important for Search Engine Optimization
7. The website contains annoying visual elements, to include too much Flash, goofy image animations, automatic audio that cannot be turned off, inappropriate font sizes and/or colors that don’t work with the website … just to list a few
8. Website navigation is confusing and not at all intuitive for the average user
9. The website has poorly written content and does not conform to standards established by the W3C (and more importantly, considered key by Google)
10. Any combination of the above

Dallas Web Design will gladly discuss options to upgrade code to be more current and compliant with W3C standards.  Having said this, more often than not, we find it easier and far less expensive for our client to scratch the old code and just start over.

Whether looking to upgrade the code on your existing website or simply to start over, there are several key important things to consider when evaluating website design.

Understanding the main purpose of a website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

1. Are you trying to build a brand?
2. Are you trying to sell a product over the web?
3. Is your main goal simply advertising?
4. Are you attempting to earn affiliate commissions for sales or leads
5. Is your main objective to provide customer service or support

Create an Attractive Website

Why should a website look attractive?  Why should it look professional?  Your website is a reflection of you and your business.  You might compare it to a sign over your store in a mall.  If the lettering is crude or homemade looking, this is projected to your visitors.  Dallas Web Design works hard to achieve a clean, attractive and professional web design for all our clients.

Create a Search Engine Friendly Website

There are several key rules to building an effective website that search engines love to visit and index.  Every page on your website should be optimized for the web, not just the Home page.  Listed below are the key guidelines followed by North Texas Web Design.

1. Unique title for each page
2. Meta tag description limited to no more than 250 words
3. Effective use of H1 – H6 tags
4. A quick and effective Call to Action on the Home page
5. Effective use of keywords and keyword phrases that are aligned with the text in the body of each page.

If you are looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider Dallas Web Design.

Thanks for visiting North Texas Web Design!

eCommerce websites are typically very different from other website designs.   They have but one objective – to get someone to make an online purchase.  Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, takes into consideration a number of principles when starting and building an eCommerce website.

First, why are eCommerce websites different.  Don’t they still require simple and intuitive navigation?  Don’t they need to take into considerations good color combinations, just like any other website?  Don’t they also need to attractive – like any other website?  Sure they do.  Listed below are some critical elements Dallas Web Design generally considers when building any eCommerce website.

• An eCommerce website should provide visitors with a pleasant experience during online shopping.
• An eCommerce website should be easy to use and provide easy to understand product information.
• An eCommerce website should provide sufficient information about who owns the website and why they can be trusted.
• An eCommerce website should provide shoppers a clear sense of trust and security when processing online credit card or PayPal payments

No – these principles are not new.  But yes – they’re more important than ever.  A good eCommerce website will lead the shopper to the correct page in one or two clicks at the most.

An effective eCommerce website is also all about the layout. One important aspect is where the shopper’s eyes go to first.  Most web research indicates the upper left portion of the web page is the most important, followed by the top/middle portion of the page.  By understanding how people look at a web page, your website effectively draws the shopper to the most important part of the web page.  An experienced web designer, like Dallas Web Design, knows how to create an effective eCommerce design following these simple principles.

Lastly, most eCommerce websites have some sort of “store”.  At Dallas Web Design, we typically use one of three “third party” shopping cart applications.  The shopping cart applications are licensed for use on a specific website for the life of the site.  There are no monthly or annual charges associated with using “third party” shopping carts, which over a long period of time can save the website owner lots of money.

If you’re looking to launch a new eCommerce website, or if your old eCommerce website is outdated and in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider Dallas Web Design.

Is your business doing all that you want it to?  Do you have a website that isn’t producing sales and/or business leads, even though it may be well designed?  Is your business in a highly competitive environment, where your competitors consistently rank well above you in web searches?

If you answer any of the above questions with a YES, you should consider hiring Dallas Web Design to optimize your website.  Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, specializes in highly effective Search Engine Optimization for small and medium businesses in Dallas and throughout the greater North Texas area.

We posted an article on our website we believe everyone should read … please see our Search Engine Marketing article on our website.  As this article states, you just can’t build a website, then sit back and wait for business to show up at your doorstep.  It may have worked that way years ago, but it doesn’t today.  Said somewhat differently, “Build it and They Will Come” worked for Hollywood, but NOT for websites.

Search Engine Optimization starts with a complete analysis of your website, to include:

• Web page analysis
• Reputation analysis
• Bookmark analysis
• Proper use of meta tags, ALT tags and H1-H6 tags
• Potential keyword phrases for your busienss and industry

Once the analysis is completed, we will pursue an agreed upon plan that includes:

• Posting of weekly BLOG articles
• Directory submissions
• BLOG submissions
• Article submissions
• Back link submissions
• Bookmarking submissions
• And much, much more …

If you’re serious to about making your website produce for you, you should strongly consider Dallas Web Design.  Dallas Web Design is a professional and full service web development firm located in Plano, Texas.  We specialize in custom web design, to include eCommerce website and custom database applications.

At Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, we strive to provide the highest quality custom websites at an affordable price. We utilize a simple to understand per-page pricing model, which begins with a standard price for the Home Page. You pay nothing for this initial design. Once the Home Page design is approved, you’ll be invoiced 50% of the total web site design. Payment is expected upon receipt of the Invoice; the balance of the website is payable upon completion of the website.

Our Per-Page pricing model includes:

• Fixed price for Home Page
• Reduced pricing for subsequent pages
• Fixed price for a fully installed and customized e-Commerce Shopping Cart, complete with 3 hours of client training
• Fixed price for a fully installed and customized FAQ application
• Fixed pricing for Forms and Surveys
• Flexible pricing for Photo Gallery database applications, depending on client requirements
• Affordable pricing for your own FREE BLOG hosted on WordPress
• Reduced pricing for Privacy, Terms and Copyright pages
• FREE custom Favicon if your logo permits=

What we include in every website we create:

• Every site is coded using Windows asp code, written specifically for a Windows server
• Every site is truly custom – we never use “templates”
• Custom navigation schemes compliant with web 2.0
• Server based STATS for all websites we host (FREE)
• Automatic copyright statement
• Every web page is optimized with appropriate keywords and keyword phrases
• Every site is tested against Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari at a minimum
• ALT tags and Title tags used on ALL images
• Every website comes with both sitemap.xml, ror.xml and robot.txt files
• Every website is submitted to the most popular Search Engines using WebCEO
• Spry and/or CAPTCHA security is a FREE option

Optional Services include:

• Affordable Search Engine Optimization, designed to improve your presence on the web
• Ongoing maintenance, as required, at an affordable hourly rate
• Fully customized eCommerce applications
• Custom database applications
• Web hosting on a Windows server
• Branded Email is available

If you are in need of a new website, or your current website is in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider Dallas Web Design.

I’ll bet that just about everybody has seen the movie Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner.  In this movie, Ray, an Iowa farmer, hears a voice saying “build it and they will come”.  While this made for a very entertaining movie, nothing could be farther from the truth from a web design perspective.  In the five plus years that I’ve been involved in web design, the rules pertaining to increasing Page Rank and gaining visibility for your website on the first couple of pages with Google (or any other search engine) have changed at least five time.  Sadly, too many of my customers believe all they must do is launch a new website, then watch as it attracts visitors to their new website.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.

At Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, we believe most website owners should consider advanced Search Engine Marketing (SEM) once their new website is launched.  However, and unlike many other web design companies, Dallas Web Design doesn’t believe SEM should costs thousands of dollars monthly.  Depending on how much time you as the website owner are willing to put into SEM, your costs can be as little as a few hundred dollars a month, with strong and proven deliverables provided to you every month, demonstrating how SEM is working to promote your website.

Advanced Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – Listed below are some of the major elements of SEM as offered by Dallas Web Design:

• Complete website analysis, to include:
  • Page analysis
  • Reputation analysis
  • Bookmark analysis
• On-page optimization, to include:
  • Meta tag and ALT tag compliance
  • Optimized robots.txt
  • Use of sitemap.xml and ror.xml
  • Review of h1-h6 tags as it relates to keyword relevance
• Monthly Work Plan, to include:
• BLOG articles
• Weekly Meta-analysis
• Checking internal links
• Update Page Rank stats
• Update BLOG posting
• Directory submissions (250-300)
• Bookmarking submissions (50-75)
• Search engine submissions (50)
• BLOG posts (4)
• SMO on Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon …
• Article submission
• 3-way link exchange

If you’re interested in advanced SEM, Dallas Web Design will gladly provide you with a detailed plan designed to increase your Page Rank and visibility on the web.

eCommerce websites are typically very different from other website designs.   They have but one objective – to get someone to make an online purchase.  Carrollton Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, takes into consideration a number of principles when building an eCommerce website.

First, why are eCommerce websites different?  Don’t they still require simple and intuitive navigation?  Don’t they need to take into considerations good color combinations, just like any other website?  Don’t they also need to attractive – like any other website?

Sure they do!  Listed below are some critical elements Carrollton Web Design always considers when building any eCommerce website.

• An eCommerce website should provide visitors with a pleasant experience during online shopping.
• An eCommerce website should offer a clear and obvious Call To Action for all visitors.
• An eCommerce website should be easy to use and provide easy to understand product information.
• An eCommerce website should provide sufficient information about who owns the website and why they can be trusted.
• An eCommerce website should provide shoppers a clear sense of Trust and Security when processing online credit card or PayPal payments

No – these principles are not new. 

Yes – they’re more important than ever!

A good eCommerce website will lead the shopper to the correct page in one or two clicks at the most.

An effective eCommerce website is also all about the layout. One important aspect is where the shopper’s eyes go to first.  Most web research indicates the upper left portion of the web page is the most important, followed by the top/middle portion of the page.  By understanding how people look at a web page, your website effectively draws the shopper to the most important part of the web page.  An experienced web designer, like Carrollton Web Design, knows how to create an effective eCommerce design following these simple principles.

Lastly, most eCommerce websites have some sort of “store”.  At Carrollton Web Design, we typically use one of three “third party” shopping cart applications.  These shopping cart applications are licensed for use on a specific website for the life of the site.  There are no monthly or annual charges associated with using “third party” shopping carts, which over a long period of time can save the website owner lots of money.

If you’re looking to launch a new eCommerce website, or if you’re old eCommerce website is outdated and in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider Carrollton Web Design.

Is your current website out-of-date and/or needs a “new coat of paint”?  Is your current website not producing desired?  Did you know that 40% of all businesses don’t even have a website (according to Google)?  With Smart Phones, PDA’s, Notebooks and other similar smart portable devices more commonplace than ever, every business must have a website.  You don’t agree?  When was the last time you looked at the Yellow Pages?  Point made!

Of the 60% of those businesses who do have websites, 75% of them are obviously very old in design style as well as exceptionally poor in quality, with poor navigation, obvious template designs with missing robot instruction and/or way too much Flash (which neither Google or any other Search Engine can read).  In addition, many websites are missing even basic web page optimization.

All businesses today must have a well designed and well optimized presence on the web, a website that is designed to have a high trust factor with Google.  

Listed below are The Top 10 Reasons you should consider Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design:

1. Dallas Web Design offers true custom website designs.  We never use fill-in-the-blank templates.
2. Dallas Website Design offers below industry average / competitive pricing on true custom website designs.
3. Every page on every website Dallas Web Design creates is fully optimized for the web.
4. Dallas Web Design promises to provide the best customer service and customer experience to all our clients.
5. Dallas Web Design offers very affordable web hosting.
6. Dallas Website Design offers Local Search Engine Optimization for specific market SEO requirements.
7. Dallas Web Design offers Advanced Search Engine Optimization with proven results, at very competitive rates.  Our Advanced SEO is designed to quickly increase your presence with Google and the other major Search Engines.
8. Dallas Website Design offers custom logo design.
9. Dallas Web Design offers multiple solutions for eCommerce websites.
10. Dallas Web Design offers custom database applications, including MS SQL and Microsoft Access databases as well as custom CMS (Customer Management System) applications designed to your specific needs.

Website owners who want successful websites must:

1. Take responsibility for their website on a regular basis.
2. Employ some form of sustained SEO program, AdWords or both.
3. Since the first two items are typically not something most website owners do easily, establish a relationship with a trusted web design firm that can assist them in meeting their expectations.

In the opinion of Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, you cannot simply launch a website, especially one where the website has a lot of local competition, and expect to ever be found on the Internet.  If it ever worked this way, it certainly doesn’t anymore.

Websites compete with hundreds, possibly thousands, of other web based businesses.   Those websites that are most successful do so by investing in some form of sustained Local SEO, Advanced SEO, Google AdWords or some combination of these.

Successful website owners understand the phenomenon that’s occurred with the Social Media in recent years, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, BLOGs, etc.  Said differently, the value of the Social Media to website relevance has never been greater.

Too many website owners just expect their website to produce for them without appropriate attention to their site content and/or the html code used on their website as well as text changes that need to be made periodically due to evolution in web technology.  In the opinion of Dallas Web Design, code must be continually updated to stay current with the latest expectations from Google and other Search Engines.  The best example of this occurred when Google changed their algorithm in March, 2011.  Websites that were on previously on page one can’t be found today.  Other websites, once difficult to find, now are on page 1 or 2.  One of the keys to successful websites today involves the “TRUST” factor … something new Google has added to their algorithm.

Dallas Web Design also believes that all successful websites today have an “Internet presence” on more than just their website, e.g., many website owners’ posts on their Social Media pages weekly if not daily.  Doing so DRIVES business to their website.

Dallas Web Design takes a great deal of pride in striving to stay current with the latest W3C standards.  Every new website we create is fully optimized for the web.  But as noted above, this is not enough anymore.  Successful websites employ one or more of the following:

• Routinely update the text on their websites to keep their website      current.
• Routinely evaluate their website analytics to see which keyword      phrases are working well and which ones are not working at all, then make      appropriate changes.
• Weekly, if not daily, post to their own BLOG as well as Facebook      and/or Twitter (a website owner who does not do this is at a HUGE      disadvantage to all those sites who do employ this strategy).
• At least a couple of times each month, release “Press Releases”      (a cute word for Internet Advertising) with relevant text about their      business, specials they may have, products or services they offer, etc.
• In addition to Press Releases, highly successful websites also      focus on Article Marketing and Forum Marketing at least monthly.
• At least monthly (probably with the help of a SEO firm) posts      one-way links to appropriate websites and BLOGS.
• Lastly, working with a reputable SEO firm, employ a strategy      where they focus on different keywords, either across large geographic      area, or in the case of a local business, focus on keywords specific to      radius of 5-25 miles from a business.

There are many, many more tactics used for successful SEO … the ones above represent just a few of the more important tactics from our perspective.

Regarding Search Engine Optimization, there are unfortunately lots and lots of fraudulent and/or deceptive SEO companies.  These same firms charge unreasonable amounts, and often are abandoned by clients for their failure to deliver what they promise.  Dallas Web Design strives to offer industry leading SEO services as affordable pricing.

If your website is not producing the results you want, please consider calling Dallas Web Design.  We promise to be fair, present you with straightforward answers to your questions, and promise to work closely with you to elevate your website on the Internet.

Did you know that 40% of all businesses don’t have a website (per Google)?  In today’s rapidly changing environment where Smart Phones, PDA’s and Notebooks are commonplace, who needs (or even uses) a Yellow Pages!

Of the 60% of those businesses who do have websites, clearly 75% of these websites are exceptionally poor in quality, with poor navigation, too much Flash (which neither Google or any other Search Engine can read) and without even basic web page optimization.

Today, all businesses must have a well designed and well optimized presence on the web, a website that is designed to have a high trust factor with Google.  If your business needs a new website, or a website makeover, listed below are the top 10 reasons you should consider Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design.

1. Dallas Web Design offers true custom website designs.  We never use fill-in-the-blank templates.
2. Dallas Website Design offers below industry average pricing on true custom website designs.
3. Every page on every website Dallas Web Design builds is fully optimized for the web.
4. Dallas Web Design promises to provide the best customer service and customer experience to every client.
5. Dallas Web Design offers very affordable web hosting.
6. Dallas Website Design offers Local Search Engine Optimization for specific market SEO requirements.
7. Dallas Web Design offers Advanced Search Engine Optimization with proven results.  Our Advanced SEO is designed to quickly increase your presence with Google and the other major Search Engines.
8. Dallas Website Design offers custom logo design.
9. Dallas Web Design offers multiple options for eCommerce website.
10. Dallas Web Design offers custom database applications, including custom CMS (Customer Management System) applications designed to your specific needs.

Are you tired and confused by all the high-priced website design firms advertising in Dallas. Dallas Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, specializes in helping small business owners throughout Dallas meet their many website needs.

As you’ve no doubt discovered by now, most web design firms charge too much for their services. And worse yet, too many websites we see designed by our so called “competitors” simply lack in essential coding required to achieve good Search Engine visibility.  Whether this is an error of omission, or they simply don’t do it because it takes more time, we don’t know.  We at Dallas Web Design don’t believe in shortcuts, and we strive to ensure every website we build conforms to the very latest W3C design standards.

Understanding the main purpose of a website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

• Are you trying to build a brand?
• Do your customers ask you for your website, but you don’t have one?
• Or worse yet, is your website not a good reflection of you or your business?
• Are you trying to sell a product over the web and you need an eCommerce solution?
• Or is your main goal simply advertising over the web?

Selecting a web designer

Once you understand the goals of your website, your next step is probably to find a professional web designer.  Listed below are some of the more common attributes Dallas Web Design can offer you.

• Excellent/current knowledge of HTML skills and web design expertise
• Good graphic design skills
• Simple and intuitive web navigation
• True “custom” website designs (we never use templates)
• A passion for providing Great Customer Service
• State-of-the-art Search Engine Optimization once your new website is launched
• Reasonable and affordable pricing

What is important to most Users?

What do users find important on a website?  Dallas Web Design believes we have a good grasp of this question, which we summarize below:

• Users want Quality and Creditability?  High quality content rather than a very busy page with too much text is very important to most users.
• For the most part, users don’t read – they scan.  Don’t believe this – why are most web pages viewed in only a second or two, then users move on. Text is certainly important from an SEO perspective, but a bad web design usually contains excessive text – text that most users never read.
• Web users insist on easy to grasp navigation.  Navigation that’s not crystal clear will result in a fast exit from your website.
• Balance!  A good web page is a balance between text and graphics, symmetry and rhythm.
• Dallas Web Design strives to achieve high user Creditability via easy to grasp navigation and an appropriate balance between text, graphics and colors.

Dallas Web Design works hard to achieve a clean, attractive and professional web design for all our clients.  If you are looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider Dallas Web Design.

Whether you’re looking for your first website, or you’ve come to the realization that your current website is either outdated or is not a good reflection of your business, you can trust North Texas Web Design with all your web design requirements.  North Texas Web Design is located in west Plano and specializes in custom website creation in Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, Denton and Grayson county.  Why is this important?  While we can effectively design websites for anyone, almost all our clients want a “local web designer”, someone they know is local; someone they know they can meet with face-to-face whenever they need.

Understanding the main purpose of a website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

• Are you trying to build a brand?
• Do your customers ask you for your website, but you don’t have one?
• Or worse yet, your website is not a good reflection of you or your business?
• Are you trying to sell a product over the web and you need an eCommerce website?
• Or is your main goal simply advertising over the web?

Selecting a web designer

Once you understand the goals of your website, your next step is probably to find a professional web designer.  Listed below are some of the more common attributes North Texas Web Design can offer you.

• Excellent/current knowledge of HTML skills and web design expertise
• Good graphic design skills
• Simple and intuitive web navigation
• True “custom” website designs (we never use templates)
• A passion for providing Great Customer Service
• State-of-the-art Search Engine Optimization once your new website is launched

Create an Attractive Website

Why should a website look attractive?  Why should it look professional?

• Your website is a reflection of you and your business.
• Your website should be easy to understand for visitors.
• Your website should offer easy to understand and intuitive page navigation.

North Texas Web Design works hard to achieve a clean, attractive and professional web design for all our clients.

Create a Search Engine Friendly Website

There are several key rules to building an effective website that search engines love to visit and index.  Every page on your website should be optimized for the web, not just the Home page.  Listed below are the key guidelines followed by North Texas Web Design.

• Unique title for each page
• Unique meta tag description limited to no more than 250 words
• Effective use of H1 – H6 tags
• A quick and effective Call to Action on the Home page
• Effective use of keywords and keyword phrases that are aligned with the text in the body of each page.

If you are looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider North Texas Web Design.

Clients of North Texas Web Design

North Texas Web Design is proud to serve all of North Texas. However, we’re especially proud of our efforts to serve cities and towns of Collin County, Denton County and Grayson County. These include:

• Allen Web Design
• Plano Web Design
• Frisco Web Design
• McKinney Web Design
• Denton Web Design
• Coppell Web Design
• Flower Mound Web Design
• Gainesville Web Design
• Grapevine Web Design
• Greenville Web Design
• Lake Dallas Web Design
• Las Colinas Web Design
• Lewisville Web Design
• Prosper Web Design
• Rockwall Web Design
• The Colony Web Design
• Trophy Club Web Design
• And more …

Does your website need a do-over?

Many clients who contact North Texas Web Design for a re-do of their website do so because of several reasons. The top three reasons are:

1. They’re current website is NOT getting the traffic they want
2. They’re current website looks OLD compared to many other websites they normally look at
3. They’re website simply does NOT project the image they want for their business

Listed below are the most common issues we normally see when discussing a website do-over with a new client :

1. The website is several years old
2. The website is very narrow in width – always a good indicator of age
3. The website is not coded using current W3C standards
4. The website was coded using Microsoft Front Page – OUCH!
5. The website was built using one the many “templates” advertised on television, which almost always are missing key meta instructions important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
6. The website is missing necessary and very important elements which make a website conform to the latest W3C standards … to include elements very important for Search Engine Optimization
7. The website contains annoying visual elements, to include too much Flash, goofy image animations, automatic audio that cannot be turned off, inappropriate font sizes and/or colors that don’t work with the website … just to list a few
8. Website navigation is confusing and not at all intuitive for the average user
9. The website has poorly written content and does not conform to standards established by the W3C (and more importantly, considered key by Google)
10. Any combination of the above

While North Texas Web Design will gladly discuss options to upgrade code to be more current and compliant with W3C standards, more often than not, we find it easier and far less expensive for our client to scratch the old code and just start over.

Whether looking to upgrade the code on your existing website or simply to start over, there are several key important things to consider when evaluating website design.

Understanding the main purpose of a website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

1. Are you trying to build a brand?
2. Are you trying to sell a product over the web?
3. Is your main goal simply advertising?
4. Are you attempting to earn affiliate commissions for sales or leads
5. Is your main objective to provide customer service or support

Create an Attractive Website

Why should a website look attractive?  Why should it look professional?  Your website is a reflection of you and your business.  You might compare it to a sign over your store in a mall.  If the lettering is crude or homemade looking, this is projected to your visitors.  North Texas Web Design works hard to achieve a clean, attractive and professional web design for all our clients.

Create a Search Engine Friendly Website

There are several key rules to building an effective website that search engines love to visit and index.  Every page on your website should be optimized for the web, not just the Home page.  Listed below are the key guidelines followed by North Texas Web Design.

1. Unique title for each page
2. Meta tag description limited to no more than 250 words
3. Effective use of H1 – H6 tags
4. A quick and effective Call to Action on the Home page
5. Effective use of keywords and keyword phrases that are aligned with the text in the body of each page.

If you are looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider North Texas Web Design.

Does your website need a make-over?

Whether you’re looking for your first website, or you realize your current website is in need of a significant “make-over”, you face several major decisions.  You’re not in the business, so you don’t know who to go to.  You want someone local, because the last web designer was in TimBukToo and you could never reach them.  Listed below are the steps considered critical to web design by North Texas Web Design.

Understanding the main purpose of a website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

• Are you trying to build a brand?
• Are you trying to sell a product over the web?
• Is your main goal simply advertising?
• Are you attempting to earn affiliate commissions for sales or leads
• Is your main objective to provide customer service or support

Selecting a web designer

Once you understand the goals of your website, your next step is probably to find a professional web designer.  Listed below are some of the more common attributes North Texas Web Design can offer you.

• Knowledgeable HTML skills and expertise
• Good graphic design skills
• Simple and intuitive web navigation
• A passion for providing Great Customer Service
• State-of-the-art Search Engine Optimization once your new website is launched

Create an Attractive Website

Why should a website look attractive?  Why should it look professional?  Your website is a reflection of you and your business.  You might compare it to a sign over your store in a mall.  If the lettering is crude or homemade looking, this is projected to your visitors.  North Texas Web Design works hard to achieve a clean, attractive and professional web design for all our clients.

Create a Search Engine Friendly Website

There are several key rules to building an effective website that search engines love to visit and index.  Every page on your website should be optimized for the web, not just the Home page.  Listed below are the key guidelines followed by North Texas Web Design.

• Unique title for each page
• Meta tag description limited to no more than 250 words
• Effective use of H1 – H6 tags
• A quick and effective Call to Action on the Home page
• Effective use of keywords and keyword phrases that are aligned with the text in the body of each page.

If you are looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider North Texas Web Design.

Timing

The Fall is a great time of year to review your current website so you can address any changes that are needed prior to the new business year.  Is your current website little more than a “template” based website you saw advertised on television … and looks it!  When you compare your website to your competition, are you embarrassed?  When you go to your website, is website navigation difficult to figure out?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then it’s time you called North Texas Website Designs.  We promise to answer your questions and if appropriate, give you a very competitive quote to address your website needs.

Clients of North Texas Web Design

North Texas Web Design is proud to serve all of North Texas. However, we’re especially proud of our efforts to serve cities and towns of Collin County, Denton County and Grayson County. These include:

• Allen Web Design
• Plano Web Design
• Frisco Web Design
• McKinney Web Design
• Denton Web Design
• Coppell Web Design
• Flower Mound Web Design
• Gainesville Web Design
• Grapevine Web Design
• Greenville Web Design
• Lake Dallas Web Design
• Las Colinas Web Design
• Lewisville Web Design
• Prosper Web Design
• Rockwall Web Design
• The Colony Web Design
• Trophy Club Web Design
• And more …

Plano Website Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, offers complete eCommerce solutions.  Included in our basic eCommerce website designs is a custom Home page, custom About Us page and one of several 3rd party Shopping Cart applications.  All eCommerce solutions Plano Website Design offers come with complete with three hours of user training.  Noted below is very important information for potential eCommerce websites:

• eCommerce websites are typically different from other website designs.   They have but one objective – to get someone to make an online purchase.  Plano Website Design takes into consideration a number of principles when starting and building an eCommerce website.
• eCommerce websites are different than non-eCommerce website, yet they still require simple and intuitive navigation?  They need to take into considerations good color combinations, just like any other website?  They also need to attractive – like any other website
• An eCommerce website should provide visitors with a pleasant experience during online shopping.
• An eCommerce website should be easy to use and provide easy to understand product information.
• An eCommerce website should provide sufficient information about who owns the website and why they can be trusted.
• An eCommerce website should provide shoppers a clear sense of trust and security when processing online credit card or PayPal payments

Plano Website Design strives to meet all the above on every eCommerce website we design. If you need a custom eCommerce solution, give Plano Website Design a call.  We can meet all your requirements at an affordable price.

Plano Website Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, offers custom, professional and affordable website design services throughout Collin County, including Plano, Texas. We specialize in small businesses and offer true custom website designs.  We never use templates or take any shortcuts in striving to meet our clients expectations.

Plano Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, specializes in custom database applications. Could your small business benefit from a custom database application, designed to work as an integral part of your website? Are you tracking data and results using time consuming Excel spreadsheets?  Plano Website Design offers custom database applications, including both Microsoft Access and SQL, designed to meet your specific business requirements.

Need a custom database application to go with your custom website … try Plano Website Design.

Simply building a new website is not enough anymore if you really want your website found on Google and the other major search engines. Plano Website Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, is proud to offer the following services as part of our mission to deliver everything our clients may want relative to website design, website hosting, Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing.

• Creation of a WordPress BLOG (just like you’re reading now)
• Creation of a Facebook page
• Creation of a Twitter account
• Setting up Google Analytics
• Registering your site on critical directories to include (just to mention a few):
• Google
• Yelp
• Yahoo
• MatchPoint
• HotFrog
• YellowBot
• MojoPages

Plano Website Design specializes in local Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing throughout Collin County, to include Plano. We want to be your first and only choice when it comes to creating and maintaining your website. Please visit Plano Website Design for more information, or contact us at 214-534-6830. We look forward to talking with you.

At McKinney Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, we strive to provide the highest quality custom websites at an affordable price. We utilize a simple to understand per-page pricing model, which begins with a standard price for the Home Page. You pay nothing for this initial design. Once the Home Page design is approved, you will be invoiced 50% of the total web site design (payment is expected upon receipt of the Invoice); the balance of the website is payable upon completion of the website.

The Home page, including all the files developed for the Home Page, become the template for the other pages. The price for subsequent pages is therefore much less than the Home Page price.

Our Per-Page pricing model includes:

• Fixed price for Home Page
• Reduced pricing for subsequent pages
• Fixed price for a fully installed and customized e-Commerce Shopping Cart, complete with 3 hours of client training
• Fixed price for a fully installed and customized FAQ application
• Fixed pricing for Forms and Surveys
• Flexible pricing for Photo Gallery database applications, depending on client requirements
• Very affordable pricing for your own FREE BLOG hosted on WordPress
• Reduced pricing for Privacy, Terms and Copyright pages
• FREE custom Favicon if your logo permits

What we include in every website we create:

• Every site is coded using Windows asp code, written specifically for a Windows server
• Every site is truly custom – we never use “templates”
• Custom navigation schemes compliant with web 2.0
• Server based STATS for all websites we host (FREE)
• Automatic copyright statement
• Every web page is optimized with appropriate keywords and keyword phrases
• Every site is tested against Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari at a minimum
• ALT tags and Title tags used on ALL images
• Every website comes with both sitemap.xml, ror.xml and robot.txt files
• Every website is submitted to the most popular Search Engines using WebCEO
• Spry and/or CAPTCHA security is a FREE option

Optional Services include:

• Web hosting on a Windows server
• Branded Email is available
• Custom graphics based on an hourly rate
• Special applications, such as a custom database application
• Custom graphics and logo designs
• Advanced Search Engine Marketing

If you are in need of a new website, or your current website is in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider McKinney Web Design.

eCommerce websites are typically very different from other website designs.   They have but one objective – to get someone to make an online purchase.  Allen Web Design takes into consideration a number of principles when starting and building an eCommerce website.

eCommerce websites are different than non-eCommerce website, yet they still require simple and intuitive navigation?  They need to take into considerations good color combinations, just like any other website?  They also need to attractive – like any other website?

Listed below are some critical elements Allen Web Design generally considers when building any eCommerce website.

• An eCommerce website should provide visitors with a pleasant experience during online shopping.
• An eCommerce website should be easy to use and provide easy to understand product information.
• An eCommerce website should provide sufficient information about who owns the website and why they can be trusted.
• An eCommerce website should provide shoppers a clear sense of trust and security when processing online credit card or PayPal payments

These principles are not new – but they’re more important than ever.  A good eCommerce website will lead the shopper to the correct page in one or two clicks at the most.

An effective eCommerce website is also all about the layout. One important aspect is where the shopper’s eyes go to first.  Most web research indicates the upper left portion of the web page is the most important, followed by the top/middle portion of the page.  By understanding how people look at a web page, your website effectively draws the shopper to the most important part of the web page.  An experienced web designer, like Allen Web Design, knows how to create an effective eCommerce design following these simple principles.

Lastly, most eCommerce websites have some sort of “store”.  At Allen Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design, we typically use one of three “third party” shopping cart applications.  The shopping cart applications are licensed for use on a specific website for the life of the site.  There are no monthly or annual charges associated with using “third party” shopping carts, which over a long period of time can save the website owner lots of money.

If you’re looking to launch a new eCommerce website, or if your old eCommerce website is outdated and in need of a “new coat of paint”, please consider Allen Web Design.

Whether you’re looking for your first website, or your considering a website re-design, you need to consider several major decisions.  Listed below are a few of the the steps critical to web design used by Frisco Web Design, a dba of North Texas Web Design.

The main purpose of any website

In order to build an effective website, you must first understand the business or organization’s needs.  Listed below are just a few of the more important questions you should consider:

• Are you trying to build a brand?
• Are you trying to sell a product over the web?
• Is your main goal simply advertising?
• Are you attempting to earn affiliate commissions for sales or leads
• Is your main objective to provide customer service or support

Effective Website Navigation

Simple and intuitive web navigation is critical to every website design.  Web navigation that is difficult for visitors to understand will see them leave your website very quickly.  Effective web navigation guidelines used by Frisco Web Design includes:

• Vertical (left or right side) menu
• Tabs – typically near the top of every page
• Search feature – important if the site has a large or complex database application
• Bottom links – typically found in the footer
• Site map – shows the website structure and has links to all pages

Search Engine Friendly Websites

There are several key rules to building an effective website that search engines love to visit and index.  Every page on your website should be optimized for the web, not just the Home page.  Listed below are the key guidelines followed by Frisco Web Design.

• Unique title for each page
• Meta tag description limited to no more than 250 words
• Effective use of H1 – H6 tags
• A quick and obvious Call to Action on the Home page
• Effective use of keywords and keyword phrases that are aligned with the text in the body of each page.

If you are looking to build a new website, or your existing website is in dire need of a “new coat of paint”, we invite you to consider Frisco Texas Web Design.