Website designed for an artist In Surprise, Arizona by My Favorite Web Designs

This website is designed for an artist located in surprise, Arizona. She needed a website that had content management functionality so that she would be able to update her gallery as she completed new works of art. Being an older lady it was important to my client that the system easy to use and that we provide support to show her how to use it.

I knew right away that WordPress was an ideal system for this surprise web design client to manage her gallery, as the ease-of-use and ample available documentation made this an ideal platform to the site’s development. We often have clients that want to manage their websites whether it be editing their own text, blogging, or even creating landing pages and other content for their website. One of the advantages to using My Favorite Web Designs in the creation and maintenance of your web presence is that we provide support to companies and individuals in the form of training so that they are able to take full advantage of the content management functionalities inherent in the WordPress system.

We provided the client with a instructional video that went over the basics of managing her portfolio. This was the perfect medium for this visual artist to consume this information and she was able to duplicate it and to this day performs her own editing. My Favorite Web Designs is able to provide this type of support to any client looking to manage their own website and do their own editing.

The website design employs a customized WordPress theme that is lightweight and built using CSS HTML and PHP to form a efficient base for the site with a small footprint. It is important that the site you get built for your company is created using standards compliant code with no excessive or unnecessary parts. We also form the foundation for our website without using JavaScript as JavaScript is not always supported on mobile devices and does not always work well with all types of browsers on all computers.

Another advantage to a clean coded theme without JavaScript is that it can be updated whenever our client wishes without fear of plug in conflicts with theme coding. Many premade themes are reliant on JavaScript and if the plug-ins for WordPress core are updated without the theme being updated the JavaScript compatibility falls apart and the site renders incorrectly, degrading user experience. For this reason My Favorite Web Designs recommends building websites that are not overly reliant on JavaScript or other more exotic forms of code for their implementation and basic functionalities.

In closing, whether you be an artist in need of a website or a small business looking to establish or improve their web presence, My Favorite Web Designs is an affordable and rewarding choice for your next project. We have the technical aptitude and programming experience to create success for our clients that can translate into conversions and visitors on the web. Our sites are well positioned for search engine optimization in Arizona, and due to their ease-of-use and terrific user experiences can be taken to the top of search rankings with the help of a skilled search marketing professional. If you are considering web marketing or redoing your website please contact Joshua Jacoby the owner of My Favorite Web Designs for a quote on your website whether you are located in surprise Arizona or any other part of AZ.

Phoenix Business Website Design And SEO Project

This website was designed and coded by hand by Joshua Jacoby, the owner of My Favorite Web Designs, a specialist in websites developed for mobile friendliness and user experience. Created for the owner of a small business in Phoenix Arizona this website is lightweight and efficient, using no more HTML than was absolutely necessary and compliant standard modern CSS3 coding. Websites that have cleanly coded back ends are able to be consumed more efficiently by Google search engines.

The job of a search engine robot is not an easy one. The crawler must spider through pages on websites one after another with the goal of indexing the entire Internet. Imagine the processing power that an enterprise like this required! In order to keep their overhead lower and to make this task more feasible Google requires sites be easy to crawl and light weight so that they do not consume more processing power on the part of the search engine giant that is absolutely required.

Another advantage of this website is its mobile responsive design. Websites that are able to respond to the viewport on which they are being displayed have a huge advantage in user experience. Google likes to display search results that people want to see, and for this reason sites that display well on viewports of varying sizes are boosted more prominently in the search engine rankings. This is just one of the many reasons that any Phoenix Arizona web designer who is working on a website needs to consider the way that it will conform when placed into a smaller viewport.

Many programmers, designers and developers to their mobile websites in different ways. Some use mobile redirect to redirect their users to a different website when they detect a user agent of a mobile device browser. Other web designers use a combination of JavaScript and PHP to serve one set of style files and image files for mobile and another set of style and image files for nonmobile. Neither of these instances is really ideal as it is serving different content to mobile users than is available to desktop browsers which results in the visitors to the website not having access to all the content. We use mobile responsive with CSS breakpoints, which is the recommended method from Google.

On this website we optimized the website for search using the Yoast WordPress SEO plug-in, which does actually have quite a few features that other SEO plug-ins lack. We previously used SEO to ultimate for our optimization by in recent years the Yoast WordPress plug-in has pulled ahead in its development that now offers features such as JSON-LD and other schema.org enhancements that are very useful.

We also incorporated a blog into this Phoenix business website so that the owner would be able to continue creating and disseminating his content via the WordPress content management system. This is an important feature for any business site to have so that the owners and brand managers can continue to push out their message on a continual basis to the public.

A WordPress Website Designed And Developed With Woocommerce E-commerce Platform For a Gilbert Business

Doing website design for companies that have e-commerce integrated into their website requires more consideration than simply designing a portfolio type site for a small business or promotional site for a new company that is forming. When designing for e-commerce, considerations such as placement of login and logout features and trust building elements should be a part of your initial design criteria.

In addition to building an easy to use navigation structure onto the site that is being designed, the Gilbert website designer must also look at placement for a secondary navigation and think about what navigation might be placed in the footer of the site. The user interface must encourage conversion, which in this case is purchases of the products being offered on the site. In some instances you may want to add products to a cart, and other instances you may want to simply have buy now buttons placed next to products which take the consumer directly to the checkout process.

Woocommerce is an excellent platform for developing an e-commerce store as it is very full-featured and extensible. Woocommerce can be configured to use many different types of currency as the default currency for the store and shipping can be set up internationally using many different arrangements, such as one price for all items in the car together or per item pricing for items in the card. Woocommerce is also compatible with a large number of gateways, in this scenario we configured the QuickBooks payment gateway to work with the store so that the purchases could populate directly to a QuickBooks online set up and recurring billing could be implemented via the QuickBooks online.

Woocommerce is also excellent for search engine optimization. Any site can be optimized so that it is easily consumed search engines when it is running Woocommerce. We integrated the Yoast SEO plug-in, which works well with Woo. It allows us to customize titles and meta-descriptions on a per page basis as well as specify social media profiles and other information directly in a way that is palatable to search engines for improving search engine ranking in Arizona.

This site meets all the criteria that we look for an e-commerce site. It uses a 2048 bit SSL certificate, which stands for secure socket layer, and is a type of encryption that ensures the credit card information being transmitted is unable to be deciphered by hackers or other malicious third parties. If you need a website that is secure and able to process transactions while at the same time being Seo friendly and mobile optimized, then this is a great example of the type of product My Favorite Web Designs can produce for your company.