WordPress Web Design for Depoy Studios in Phoenix

This photographer needed a website designed to match her brand. It needed a dark color, so as to emphasize the vivid color in the pictures. the website had to be built on a content management system that was both user friendly and easy to optimize for search engines. Having educated herself on the many CMS programs out there, Cristina Depoy and her business partner had come to the conclusion that WordPress was the platform she wanted to build on.

This was a wise choice, and we went in and set up features that were perfect for a photographer: we did custom galleries using nextgen gallery so that the photos displayed in very attractive, scrollable lightboxes. We made the blog functions integrate with the front page content, so new shoots would be front and center and ready for prospective clients to peruse. The website was using a lot of jquery, as well as html, CSS and PHP. It is a mobile responsive site, and adapts to the viewport in which it is being viewed. Being a arizona web designer and developer, I knew that we needed the site to load as quickly as possibly and have a UI that was clean and easy to use, so we created dropdown menus for the desktop site and a jquery menu for the mobile site.

SEO in AZ was also a big concern for this client. Being a local business, they needed to be found for their products and services, and they needed a strategy to grow their online presence. I assisted with basic search advice and coaching, setting up SEO plugins and instructing the team at Depoy Studios on their use, as well as working with the owners to come up with productive blog strategy focused on capturing long tail and high value search while still appearing natural and not spammy.

Designing and Crafting A Site For A Craftsman

Ted Miller is not your ordinary pool builder. He has been doing high end custom reflecting pools and negative edge pools for over a decade, and some of his work adorns the highest end home in Arizona. Likewise, he needed a website designer that could put together a site that he could:

• Manage the images on the site
• Manage the text on the website
• Not have to worry about hacking
• have automatic updates and backups

Anyone who knows my business can guess what I recommended for a website platform. You guessed it, WP to the rescue! As usual, I discussed the design before hand with Ted, he showed me some of what he liked graphically, I made a few recommendations, and I got to work on the graphics.

Ted’s site was unique in that he did not need SEO, his business is primarily word of mouth. Of course, we set all clients up with search engine friendly sites regardless of their requirements, it is simply built into the way in which I code things. This will be useful, as should this business later decide to move forward with Search Engine Optimization they will be prepared.

What is an example of a site that is not coded for SEO?

This would be themes or templates that do not allow plugins to function, or interfere with the function of the plugin. It would be any design or website layed out with tables instead of clean modern CSS. It would be any site that had been built so as to be very difficult to use on mobile devices. It could also include website coding that utilizes flash components, or has javascript integral to the navigation or usage of the website, as many computers may have javascript and jquery blocked, or plugin updates can interfere with jquery or javascripting functionalities.

In closing, sapphirepoolsaz.com is a great website, built on the WordPress system as a custom theme. Having a site built to spec is perfect for any company seeking strong brand identity, and for that reason we also did business cards for Mr. Miller.

Written By: Joshua Jacoby

My Favorite Web Designs
1006 N. 92nd Circle
Mesa, Arizona 85207
Office: 480-335-1330
Email: Josh@store.myfavoritewebdesigns.com

The Bornmann Law Group Web Design Project

The Bornmann Law Group WordPress website was designed by My Favorite Web Designs using HTML CSS and PHP to create a custom theme for this law group’s internet presence. Custom wordpress themes are terrific for developing small business web sites because they are easily managed by the employees of the business or by any web developer regardless of the language in which they specialize.

This business has several other web sites but needed a central web presence to tie together their search engine optimization efforts and their corporate branding. This was a terrific decision for their search engine optimization efforts by My Favorite Web Designs as it allowed us to reinforce their product offerings with dedicated niche websites.

Like many small business web sites there is a lot of focus on the business is services which are being offered. In addition we took time to concentrate on the staff pages and make them more social so as to make the business more relatable to their local customer base.

When designing a website for a lawyer we know that trust builders will be very important for their visitors. People hire lawyers because they have an important significant legal matter that they need resolved urgently and with a favorable outcome. They need to find people who they can trust enough to turn these affairs over to and be confident that they will be handled expeditiously and skillfully.

For this reason, it is important to prominently highlight the reviews of any business where trust is a dominant issue. While we can show off the reviews the client collects on their own website, there is large value in showcasing the reviews that appear on third-party websites, as these are often trusted more than the reviews that appear on one’s own website. It is also useful to show off trust building icons. A good example is the Better Business Bureau. Businesses which are accredited with the Better Business Bureau are allowed to use and display the BBB rating for their business on their website. While many newer consumers may not be as familiar with the BBB as the older generation, for many this is still to go to source for trusted reviews. Other examples for lawyers might be their AV rating from Martindale Hubbell or their AVVO rating.

We also know that professions which are licensed and regulated are often investigated through the agency that regulates them. For this reason in a website designed for contractor we always prominently display the contractor license number, and lawyers would do well to link to their lawyer profiles and State Bar license so people can easily research them and determine there are no skeletons hiding in closets.

The last component of the design for this client was the use of graphics. The client had read about HTML 5 and wanted the site to use cutting-edge technologies like that and CSS three. On the upside many of these elements were accessible and able to be used, but there were other components of these technologies that are not widely supported enough and would’ve caused cross browser compatibility issues. We ended up creating the design schematic in Photoshop and then re-creating it using a blend of traditional CSS and HTML combined with those elements of HTML 5 and 3 which were widely supported.

When choosing your design for your website be sure to consider what information about your company your clientele will be looking for or as this is the info that needs to be above the fold in the website you are building. Do not get overly impressed with displays of animated graphics or complicated designs, as these things do not necessarily lead to your client coming away with a favorable impression of you and your company.

Hess Flying School Website Project

This website was done for Mark Hess, a flight instructor in Mesa Arizona. Mark opened a business focused on teaching aspiring pilots, due to his own successes with flying and his love of the topic. He knew he would need a website to help promote his business, so Mark turned to My Favorite Web Designs to aid him in the creation of a beautiful E-commerce enabled website.

Our design requirements were fun – we wanted it to be clean, and easy to navigate, with a clean call to action. The website layout, done using wordpress, was to utilize a layout similar to a newspaper or magazine, and to have a consistent branding.

The WordPress Theme was also built for search optimization performed by My Favorite Web Designs. Our search engine marketing background makes Joshua Jacoby and My Favorite Web Designs the ideal candidate for websites that rank well on Google, Bing and Yahoo.

In closing, I really enjoyed building out such a clean look, and Mark is an absolute pleasure to work with. I did the site with a custom WP template, using PHP, HTML, Javascript and CSS, all done right here in our office in Mesa, Arizona.

Cadiente Plumbing Website Project

Service industry professionals need websites that are able to accommodate their new projects and showcase their new offerings. WordPress is an ideal medium to design such a site, as it has terrific SEO properties and lends itself extremely well to a search optimization program designed by My Favorite Web Designs.

The cost of development on WordPress sites is also much easier to bear than the overwhelming cost associated with some of the less friendly technologies, such as ASP and PHP.

This site also uses a lot of custom graphics, and the logo design was also done by My Favorite Web Design’s owner Joshua Jacoby. It also has videos produced for the site and discussing some of the key services, another boost for search engines.

Lastly, we use WP Super Cache and Better WP Security on all our sites, which I would highly recommend to anyone running a VPS or concerned with consistent site speed. The security plugin actually is 100% as useful as Super Cache, since it blocks attackers from using your site’s resources during probing attacks, which actually accounts for a lot of the site slowdown on the internet.

Great site, great working with Brett Cadiente, looking forward to plenty more collaboration and internet marketing work in the future.

Adrianna’s Cleaning Service

This Mesa cleaning business needed a website that showcased their commitment to their service and inspired confidence in their customers. It needed to have a feminine design, and be well suited for galleries, so that it could be configured to display pictures from the many AZ clients they service.

Internet marketing was also a concern. The website had to be search friendly and able to be easily expanded when needed. This means a content management system is needed, and there is no finer CMS on all the web than WordPress.

The site design created by My Favorite Web Designs uses elements of pink and blue, and has prominent contact forms and easy to read navigation, broken into two level. Many web designs use different types of navigation, including vertical, horizontal, two level, visual, etc… This website uses a split level nav, which is increasingly popular. this places all the about links smaller on the top right, and the service links large and right in the middle.

Anyway, The client was thrilled with her site, and it looks great, a terrific project to have been involved!

Elite Builders

Elite Builders is a custom home building company in Colorado that needed a website. The owner, Joshua Hector, is a friend of mine from my days as the marketing director of Capuzzo Construction, and he turned to me for a web design for his business by MFWD.

I designed the site in HTML & CSS, on a wordpress base of course. I used Jquery for the slideshows, and I employed javascript in elements from form verification to analytics tracking.

This wordpress theme is perfect for displaying nextgen gallery photo galleries, as you will see on almost every page.

I also was happy with how the logo turned out. The graphic design is such a big part of a really successful website, and I was very pleased with how it all came together. We are currently working on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for that project, stay tuned!

WordPress Website Design For Malibu Pool Service And Supply Company

This website was built in the same manner as many of my sites, with a few unique design tweaks. As My Favorite Web Designs was also hired to do search engine optimization for this site, I was able to incorporate my keyword choices into my CSS selectors and make sure we had no overlap in the site structure, set up analytics and webmaster tools, 404 monitoring and some other nifty WordPress capabilities we have used to great effect for our customers. I also did an almost pure CSS design, with the exception of the background.

The site is cross browser compatible and tested in IE, FF and Chrome. (did you know Chrome is the #1 browser now? Check it out at http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)

It is also hosted on our servers, which are optimized for WordPress websites. We run a secure, PCI compliant virtual private server, hardware admin by hostgator.

Malibu now has a professional website which can be easily expanded and is in the process of being optimized for search. It is blog ready, and can be customized any number of ways. It integrates picture gallery management and many types of search engine optimization provided by My Favorite Web Designs, all in all a pretty terrific start to a small business website design by My Favorite Web Designs.

This website was designed by My Favorite Web Designs for a direct tv retailer in Mesa, Arizona this business needed a website that was able to showcase its products and was search engine friendly.

The graphical aspect of the job was also quite demanding. the customer required that the graphics be at or near the level of the graphics found on the DirecTV website.

My Favorite Web Designs designed this site using the WordPress web publishing platform. WordPress was the perfect choice for this site as it has unparalleled content management capabilities. in fact, if configured properly, WordPress installations can make integrating e-commerce and search engine capabilities with content management systems a breeze.

Those this website was built almost a year and a half ago it still retains a strong search engine presence and has numerous integrated search capabilities. when this customer kicks off his next search engine campaign he will be strongly positioned to achieve dominate rankings in a very expedient fashion thanks to his previous investment in his search engine presence

Web Design And SEO For A Queen Creek Business

Malibu pool service is the local East Valley Arizona full service company. They do service and repair and they needed a website to tell the public about it.

to give a little back story on the company, I first started working with the owner, Kevin, about a year and a half ago while he was an employee with another company. We started out making a website for an entirely other company. During this time, Kevin became a free agent and decided to open up shop for himself. We offered to set him up during this initial phase while he was not cash flow rich, and very inexpensively set up Craigslist campaigns, graphics for flyers and a 1 page web presence, all of which contributed to the thriving company that they are today.

Malibu pools has also recently opened up a supply store in Queen Creek Arizona to compliment their service business. My favorite web designs was on hand to take pictures and video for their website and create a landing page for the store.

We are currently managing and SEO campaign for this company, and we are having enormous success in making their web presence a true force in Arizona pool service and repair.

Doing website design and search engine optimization for local businesses is a very rewarding task. You get to see how your professionalism in executing an Seo program for designing a terrific looking marketing piece can result in sales and an improved quality of life for your client. Our clients rely on their businesses for their livelihood, and to feed their families. When we do our job well, it means a lot to our clients, and that is very gratifying.

AZ Family Law Lawyer

This project was fun – My Favorite Web Designs designed slightly larger than usual, and used photos I have personally taken near my home in Mesa Arizona with my Nikon D5100. I incorporated a slideshow, added a sweet contact form over the slideshow and in the sidebar, all done with CSS, javascript, html and php. Check out the site at http://azfamilylawlawyer.com.

This is 1 of the first web sites that I ever did. It was made using HTML CSS JavaScript and PHP.

This was a cool project, it really was fun. We used pics from the houses he had built and used custom photo filters to make it look like a three dimensional sketch. We used that pic for the front page banner, and it made a great personalized banner for their Chandler AZ Website Design.

This was a local Arizona builder, so it was particularly important to convey an intimate feel and local flavor to the clients and visitors to the site. It was designed to be a personal website without the corporate feel.

This client was a chandler resident, but I was happy to travel out to his house to meet him for collaboration and brainstorming sessions along the way.

Mr Mcpeters is a terrific guy, and a cost conscious builder, terrific to have on your side. I appreciated his design input all along the way, and together we made a basic but beautiful site, an experience from which I grew my business and matured into a real Deal professional design studio.

If you need a website design company near Chandler Arizona, then My Favorite Web Designs is a terrific option for getting your website built and your Chandler AZ search optimization started.

This high end audio company needed a wordpress website in order that their dealers would have the ability to login to a dealer Administration area. This was particularly challenging as the company was managing 100 of dealers in almost every state.

originally, the company had built their website on the Joomla platform. Unfortunately as has been the case for many Joomla users, the interface proved too daunting and usability have been reduced to nothing.
and so, my favorite web designs was ultimately retained to convert the website from Joomla to WordPress.

Along the way, we ended up adding almost 40 new pages, an interactive map, the login area, and many interactive and media rich features, such as gallery and event pages. I stayed in touch with the company as they have been growing, and so far they are still using all the original programming that I did for them.

One of the biggest challenges was a custom dealer locator feature that was on their previous website and required specialized server configuration in order to operate on the new website, integrating it into the word press content management system. this was achieved by using an I-frame to bring the functionality into the wordPress container without disrupting any of the existing code. Im very proud of the work , design and development that has gone into this website , it was done earlier in my career and yet remains a great example of my early work.

when looking at this website you may notice minor inconsistencies from page to page. This was due to the website owner editing his website using the administration interface. The ambitious website owner strived to achieve custom layouts that typically require many years of experience in web design. he did achieve that goal using tables which resulted in slightly different formatting in the many browsers. However, it still came out great, and he was able to achieve his attention and continue producing pages for new products add new dealers years after we had launched his site.

Website Designed For Commercial Contractor

NCIC is a coatings contractor in Arizona that does industrial and commercial coatings for mines and other structures that need coating or reinforcement. They need it is simple website that could showcase there construction talents and show some pictures of the coatings project that they have done we design this website using PHP CSS HTML. It uses the wordpress content management system, jquery slideshow and nextgen gallery to manage and display images.

This website is also hosted by my favorite web designs and optimized for speed using WP super cache and other Google recommended optimization techniques.

This website was designed for a small business in Mesa Arizona that specializes in taking care of a loved ones final resting place. The business was just launching and needed a brand and an internet presence.

We designed the website in WordPress so that it would be scaleable for expansion later on. It also allowed us to install tools on his website for advertising his specials, such as an RSS feed and a sitemap that updates itself regularly.

The customer requested that the design resemble a heavenly appearance, so as to import to the viewer a sense of calm and to remind the user of the passing onto a better place. We created the clouds in the background using photoshop cs5, then simply adding the framework on top of that.

We design in plain HTML, then convert to wordpress for use as a template. This has the benefit of being portable. Should the client need to change servers or setup his same look on another domain, all he needs to do is upload the file for the theme. WordPress even has the amazing ability to allow you to upload your theme as a zip file.

ClinicaReal in Arizona

ClinicaReal is a local Arizona chiropractic office run by doctor Keith stone. Doctor Stone has been a chiropractor in Arizona for over 20 years. Their business had an outdated website that needed to be revamped for search friendliness and easy transition between the Spanish and English versions of the website.

Creating a bilingual website in WordPress poses several unique challenges. You need to do a separate WordPress installation. This is important for separating your site maps, creating unique SEO characteristics, and directing users to interfaces entirely in their own language.

It is also important to include their YouTube videos and other existing promotional materials, as well as doing redirects for all their old website pages when creating the new website and replacing the old website.

We are now working with ClinicaReal to establish their social media profiles and build a SEO marketing strategy. We take great pride in maintaining strong relationships with all of our local Arizona clients and particularly love our neighbors here in Mesa AZ.

Energy Roofers – A Northern Arizona Roofing Company

Energy roofers is a roofing contractor in northern Arizona that does residential and commercial roofing. They needed a website to showcase their work and bring in new clients from the web.

Many contractors need a website which they can add new projects and new photographs easily and without outside assistance.

contractors also need a website to show their reviews and to link to their social media. Today’s contractor, in order to compete, need to use every tool at his disposal . Many contractors are in integrating facebook, Google Plus, houzz and other social media into every project, posting photos and rich media as a go.

this word wordpress design features a easy estimate form as well as a sidebar contact form in order to encourage conversion. It also features trust building elements such as links to Better Business Bureau and the Arizona Registrar of contractors.

The search engine optimization we have done for this website has yielded fantastic results. In addition to dominant rankings in their hometown of Camp Verde, we have also achieved dominant rankings in Sedona, Flagstaff, and many other portions of Northern Arizona.

This is 1 of the first website ever built using jQuery PHP in HTML it actually does not use the wordpress content management system, though if I were to design it again today it would.

it does employ some search engine characteristics including accessibility tags and title tags for images and links

It also has very cool jquery slideshow that shows off many of the builders recent construction project it even animates the slideshow to make the progression of the images that much more interesting.

This website was built for thin blue line car service, an Arizona car service. This company started from scratch with a brand new domain we advised them purchase, and brand new social media accounts including a brand new Facebook.

this is 1 of the sites that I did a custom photo shoot for in order to enhance the attractiveness of his website. The photoshoot was very successful and yielded some fantastic photographs. There is nothing that helps a local business get new clients like pictures of their premises to help a client feel a connection to the company.

Google also seems to like high quality in high definition photographs and graphics on web sites. This is evidenced by the fact that this website, with the help of our SEO program has shot to the top of the search engine rankings in a very short span of time. These pictures are useful not just in creating the site itself but also in promoting the business on social media. On social media every article need the picture as a preview of the Articles content. In fact , A bad article with a good picture may get more coverage then a great article with no visual appeal.

This website was actually one of my favorite web sites to design and build as we were able to use my photography and a beautiful color scheme with grunge touches. I was also able to integrate the contact form into the header. The layout is clean and crisp, drawing attention just where the attention should be.

We did a photoshoot for the lawyer at his office in Chandler Arizona. The office space was perfect for getting shots of the attorney in his working environment. Using these photos in the design can really make a difference between a cold indifferent template website and a warm friendly personalized local business website.

The website uses CSS 3, HTML, PHP, the wordpress platform, and a little bit of JavaScript. It is currently only styled for desktop computers, but displays well on tablets and mobile devices. It is also coded using modern conventions so that it can be set for specific styles on separate style sheets for separate devices, which makes it a great property to have for all of today’s devices and for all of the devices of tomorrow.

Budget My Build

Budget my build is a website 4 people looking to get cost on their upcoming construction projects. It gives users the ability to login and to register for the site. This is a tremendous way to build a community of users

The site integrates social media very heavily as it does the aim to be community based. The very essence of web 2.0 is interaction. This website promotes interaction between builders and homeowners or potential homeowners who need their services.

the value of such a site could be tremendous. It has the potential to become a major social force that could scale from a few users to several 1000 within a short space of time. Fortunately, WordPress can be deployed for vast and often unpredictable traffic loads and potential needs both on the application integration side of development, and for the many search engine optimization needs a company may develop as it grows.

Americare Hospice

This is a project done for a local Mesa Arizona business. We love doing projects for local small businesses since we see these website design customers over and over again and out about around town.

This hospice needed a website that could convey a comforting message and a confident one to their potential audience and their loved ones they also needed venue to communicate to their Catholic audience which they were able to do.

Today Americare Hospice takes full advantage of their content management system to expand their content their reach and their search engine presence.

I know I can’t say enough about wordpress, but it truly is named very well since I believe that it is to the Internet what the printing press was to the publishing industry. It really empowers site owners to take charge of their internet presence.

DiMino Enterprises in Las Vegas Nevada

Rock n Roll legend Frank Dimimo needed a website and we were more than happy to oblige. We were given the order to make it fresh and funky, use our imagination, which I love to do!

The Bridge Church in Gilbert Arizona

This was the Chandler Arizona Baptist Church that needed a website designed to showcase their church and the work that they do in the community. It was a simple WordPress site, with a few special grouches.

It used a query slideshow across the main banner as well as a page dedicated to their podcasts. The site used color that were requested during a one on one sit down design meet with the church. It Ellis the wordless nay stem as do many of my sites, and it was turned over to the church to content manage upon the completion of the website.

One great advantage of working with my favorite web designs is that we help you to learn and and manage the wordpress system we set up for you. I personally spend time with clients at every meet going over how to use the controls on the back end of the site.

That is, after all, one of the greatest things about the wordpress content management system. There is universally available support for learning any aspect of the wordpress system. You can find videos on how to do everything from the basics to the most advanced tasks. There are hundreds of forums, thousands of tutorials and a vibrant driving community of WordPress lovers running their web sites exclusively on that platform.

If you need a website designed for your Chandler Arizona business, My Favorite Web Designs is an excellent option for site optimized for search, created with mobile in mind and perfect for conveying your brands message in the way that you want your brand represented.

Woodland Custom Beam Company

Woodland custom beam company required an AZ website design that allowed them to prominently showcase their product, educate the consumer on what the product was and how it was made, and allow the consumer to purchase a sample of the product at the end. Because it required a purchase of the website visitors, the nature of this website is essentially an e-commerce website. It is not exactly like all other e-commerce websites because all that is ordered online is the sample. If the client likes the sample the order for the job is submitted through contact with the owner of the business and not through the online store.

The store needed to be able to show the many different products, explain the details of those products and allow visitors to easily purchase their samples of those products, while understanding that they were purchasing samples and not in fact purchasing entire beams for their home.

This is often the job of the site designer, to analyze the purpose of the site and recommend a user interface that leads to the person performing some action were purchasing some product. If we get lost in that purpose we can often find ourselves with designs that incorporate far more information than your visitor wants, resulting in a cluttered user interface that is difficult to navigate and repulsive to clients who are looking to quickly move towards conversion.

Search engine optimization was also a huge consideration for this website. Their product was very squarely in a specialized niche, and the potential for sales online was pretty significant. Because their product was hard to find and specialized, the bulk of that type of home decor was searched for and purchased online.

We created a search engine friendly e-commerce store that very successfully accomplished the objectives of the website and has been supplying the owners of the Woodland custom beam company with a stream of new customers for many years.

The Bornmann Law Group

This website design was done for a Mesa, Arizona roofing contractor by My Favorite Web Designs. Unfortunately, the contractor ended up going with a different site, but I think this was clearly a superior design. check it out and decide for yourself!

The original was done in wordpress, and had account logins and a content management system for customer facing account pages, as well as a login system that redirected the customer directly to the page they needed to go to. The estimate form was even put online, which was a good idea, but I think may have been more data than an online form could make easy, it required almost 150 fields per 4 seperate estimates!

Buckeye Real Estate

Website Designed For Gunderson, Denton & Peterson of Mesa, Arizona

Gunderson, Denton & Peterson is a law firm in Mesa, Arizona handling legal issues such as immigration, business, litigation, franchise, estate and many other areas of law. The Firm has 6 lawyers, whom are all featured with bio pages on the website.

In addition to the website design by My Favorite Web Designs, we also provide the internet marketing for GDP. We built their site on a WordPress platform, and have used this to their advantage, helping build them as a dominant website in the legal arena. My Favorite Web Designs employ many different WordPress search engine optimization technologies, here are just a few interesting ones:

• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin(YARRP)
• SEO Ultimate
• Breadcrumbs By Yoast
• XML Sitemaps
• Better XML Sitemaps
• XML Video Sitemaps
• Google Analytics For WordPress
• Broken Link Checker

As with all awesome technology, finding out it exists is the first step, becoming intimate with its use and deployment is the next. These and all plugins are only as useful as the developer working with them. A good developer and search engine optimization professional from My Favorite Web Designs should view the plugins only as automating things he could do himself, their should be very little mystery.

A great example was a site I did a few years back using the magic fields plugin. Great plugin. but I did not pay attention to the fact that it was storing data in a different database table, which made calling the info more complex and slower. I was newer going in, but by understanding the mechanism at work I could have saved myself a lot of grief.

This web design and seo project was performed for a Glendale, Arizona AC contractor by My Favorite Web designs. I designed everything personally including the logo and the slideshow, and built out the website in wordpress.

For anyone with any lingering doubts about the effectiveness of the wordpress as an SEO platform, I submit for you that after 6 short months of SEO we have temperature masters top 3 for a variety of keywords, from Glendale AC contractors to Phoenix heat pumps, resulting in very nice traffic for our client.

To estimate the value of your My Favorite Web Designs SEO program, look at PPC. We helped this company with PPC, and they got up close to $12 a click in the middle of the summer. We now average 30 unique visitors to this lovely wordpress website, each and every week. If we went super conservative and estimated each click at $7, we still end up providing over $800 worth of value, and that number increases each and every month.

Our company does not do a lot of advertising – we prefer to put extra time into our SEO customers, and let their business results and products speak for themselves.

Another WordPress website by Joshua Jacoby, owner of My Favorite Web Designs. A professional wordpress designer knows the value of an easy content management system, and this Arizona web designer is no exception.

Featuring dynamic updating testimonials, smooth slider for the front page, it has elements of Jquery, HTML, PHP and more. If anyone needs a good Arizona WordPress Website Design And Development professional, please contact me for a free quote.

Website design for this client was a slam dunk – they used easy color, black and blue. In addition, the company had a very clear content plan. Many times, web design best practices tells us to wireframe, or represent what content goes on what URLs, and where these things would link – the wireframe maps out the flow. This client did not need a wireframe, they had their content mapped out into a good user interface.

I did discuss with this client the naming of the links on their site. Some of the links were named with words that did not mean anything, which is defined as mystery meat navigation, because the client has no way of knowing what the link they are clicking is about. This is in violation of web design best practices, but in my experience you can educate clients on what best practice is, but it is not OK for me to browbeat them into accepting those recommendations. On the flipside, some design or SEO issues can cause penalties, and I am much more aggressive in educating clients on any activities that might end up getting their site a penalty and downgrade in search engine rankings.

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This website had an interesting need that required thinking outside the box in order to solve. The website was a standard wordpress build but the client had a very unique request. They had a movie they wanted to play on a loop, but they wanted the first part to play the first time and not the subsequent times. Now, it is easy enough to start a video part of the way in and have it loop from there but having a video play in this fashion is not a traditional request.

I searched high and low for a way to do it using existing video embed technology but it was to no avail. The solution lay in a hybridization of technologies, a unique mix of animated gifs, jquery, and you tube embed customization. This ended up taking me way outside the realm of wordpress design but it is a great example of the way in which web designers must also be problem solvers for a variety of technical issues.

The specific solution was to overlay the video with the animated gif. Then I used jquery to fade in the gif, so that the full video actually played and yet the gif obscured it as it faded in and appeared to loop the video, an illusion.

Of course, it is wise to use jquery sparingly since it can conflict across certain libraries in wordpress. You should get in the habit of running your jquery in no conflict mode, it is just good practice.

I recently designed and donated a website for a two year old girl who is battling cancer. If you would like to donate towards her medical fund, you can do so through the website or her parents have set up a trust fund at Wells Fargo bank called the “Abigail Goss Medical Trust”. All of the donations made are used to help Abigail fight cancer.

Update

Sadly, Abigail passed away, it is truly heartbreaking. Her family is so strong, they make the world move forward for Abigail’s siblings, but the pain of losing a child is more than any of us could imagine…

A cool website design, done for a private detective in Scottsdale, Arizona who does surveillance and other investigation activities. Uses pretty standard features, including the cool custom background, a widgetized sidebar, social media links, and the content boxes are made using CSS3, which just started becoming OK to do, now that over 96% of regular internet users use a browser that support this.

When implementing CSS3 features such as this, we need to use a concept called “Graceful Degradation”. This typically means that as tags are no longer supported by browsers, other fail safes kick in to maintain the integrity of the design. This is true here as well, it is designed so that if those 4% of older browsers whom do not support CSS3 arrive at your site, it will still displays well.

The Law Offices of Fife & Cesta

This Mesa Arizona Bankruptcy Attorney contacted My Favorite Web Designs for help with their SEO. One thing I noticed when working with their site was that the WordPress theme was circa 2006, and not compatible with most of today’s awesome WordPress plugins. We built a brand new design, from scratch. The lawyers and I went back and forth until we had the design perfect, at which point I built it out into a working Custom WordPress theme, replete with standards compliant CSS, HTML, Jquery slideshow and a smooth CMS for all of it.

When building the skin, I use the minimal amount of code, and keep 95% of my code as external CSS, which makes the design easier for search engines to read. I use Jquery animations instead of Flash for tons of stuff as well, such as the slideshow on this website, which makes for better SEO and better performance. I also design the content sections into hierarchy for search performance, which I do naturally. For instance, My Favorite Web Designs website is split into services and portfolio, both of which have separate Web Design and SEO sections. The Portfolio section will ultimately flow to the appropriate landing pages within the services categories, achieving my desired flow. Along the same lines, this website is arranged hierarchically, as you can see.

I did this website for the Founder of the Asperger Parent Network, who is just a lovely person and really a force for good in the community. We needed a platform that was content managed, a website that we could add events to without the help of a web designer, A really solid basis to grow a community. We wanted a blog, and the ability to add videos or any other type of media. Of course, a custom WordPress theme was able to accomplish all those needs, look great and has the potential to be built on as much as needed.

Our design used a lot of the elements left over from the original web designer, Linda Lewis. Linda was the designer for APN for many years, until she passed away last year. Everyone had really great things to say about here, and I was thrilled to be able to create a website design that really built on her original creative work, it seemed fitting.

Website Designed For Insurance Broker In Scottsdale / Phoenix

Designing a website for an insurance agent has many of the same requirements as creating a web presence for any other type of company. Insurance agents to educate their clientele about their products, much the same as a car mechanic might educate a client about their repair. For this reason, it is useful for websites to have a blog where the owners of the business can place valuable information about their subject. In this instance the insurance broker elected to blog heavily, and we arranged his website so that his blogs would play a prominent role in the marketing.

Even though the Scottsdale insurance company is a small business with one agent, they needed a web presence that was professional and often well-designed enough that they would be able to convert customers who had high and/or large-volume business which they needed insured. The design components are critical when trying to create an ambience for a company. Cheap or flashy design and send a very negative signal potential buyers about the quality of your product or service, and can often come across pushy or cheap. A clean AZ web design was needed, but with enough flair to match the logo and create a branded presence.

We went with the green and black as the colors, partly because the client was Irish and the green suited his design taste. We design the website using HTML, CSS, PHP and other web programming languages. Even though the design was highly customized we still managed to create a WordPress theme that was very lightweight and easy for search engines to crawl. Part of the key to designing a website that meets these criteria is considering the amount of JavaScript or custom PHP code that you use in building your website. While there are many cool things you can do with JavaScript if you are able to accomplish a similar feet using CSS you will end up creating a website that is lighter weight and more cross device compatible. It is also wise to avoid too much custom code as JavaScript is a common culprit when conflicts arise between themes and plug-ins.

The design was a huge success and achieved its objective of attracting high-end clientele. Search engine optimization campaign that was conducted was also highly successful and resulted in multiple first page and first position rankings for this website that in turn resulted in sales and conversions for our client, a success for any SEO company in Mesa Arizona.

The cost of creating a website like this was not as dramatic as you may think. In this instance owner of the business was very involved in creating the content for his website, and this meant that we were able to cost-effectively create blog posts and landing pages for the search engine optimization program, a huge advantage. Even though the cost was not huge by working collaboratively in the design and content creation process with our client we were able to come up with a web presence for his business that is truly able to convert the target demographic.

This blog was a standard, free WordPress theme that my client set up for his blog. He liked the typography, which is still there, and not my design. However, he disliked everything else, many of the hard coded page elements need to be adjusted, and before long we were designing and developing a custom WordPress CMS website theme.

This client is local to Scottsdale Arizona, and I am of course in Mesa, East Mesa. So, we usually meet up for design meetings and website consultations at a Dunkin Donuts halfway between us on Thomas and Hayden, which is the reason I got into this field in the first places. The website itself is pretty straightforward. The writer does articles that are occasionally syndicated or republished by major sports networks , more frequently as his influence rises. This in turn drives large amounts of website traffic – hence the ads on the site. The writer makes his profit via the advertisements and through sales of T-shirts on website ecommerce store, designed by yours truly using WP E-Commerce 3.7

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WordPress Website Designed For Arizona Draftsman

Helping Your SEO WordPress Websites

JADrafting.com is a custom WordPress website designed for John Anthony Drafting and Design. This Scottsdale Arizona Designer needed a website that could make the right impression for his clientele. John is a perfectionist, and his website needed to reflect the fastidious manner in which he did his own designs. John decided to contract My Favorite Web Designs of Mesa, Arizona to help him with a design.

I knew he would need an area to showcase his designs on the website, so we added a gallery section. There would also need to be someway for customers to contact John, so we added a contact form. Live chat will be coming soon, a great way to connect with customers via your website. There is also a fully widgetized sidebar, perfect for adding and removing elements at will.

How To Configure Your URLs With WordPress

Achieving Search Engine Success With WP Plugin SEO Ultimate

We add posts and pages for our clients, and of course we love doing SEO for our WordPress sites when our clients wish to contract us to do so. We make WordPress sites that are optimized for SEO from the ground up. One of the rules for achieving good rankings is to keep your sites footprint lightweight. For this reason, many flash websites are not practical.

Using SEO ultimate takes the SEO management to the next level. You can see all your titles for all your pages in one big editable list. This is one of the best ways I have ever seen to view the files hierarchy as concepts. You can see how things logically would be children or parents of other items, and use WP page tree view to rearrange your pages into a sensible, logical hierarchy.

Natural Choice Clinic in Mesa Arizona. This website was designed using wordpress as a CMS. The doctor need an area in the website design to post her content and articles, so I created a special side menu where she could upload her work. I also added a google map, and some SEO features. WordPress websites are fantastic because they have humongous SEO potential, and can be modified almost endlessly for optimal SEO results. There is also some evidence Google favors these websites, though it likely is because the website is designed in a cohesive an intelligent architecture by using the WordPress permalink structure, and utilizing tags, categories, tags and other taxonomies to form a website with a perfect hierarchal structure.

The Website graphics were partially done when I received it, but I converted to wordpress, sliced the PSD with CSS to create the custom WordPress template, and then implemented it into a wordpress install. It has some really nice features, including an automatically configured program which tracks dozens of keywords in the search engines, and updates their position every few days, keeping an automatic graph. Pretty neat!

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Website Designed for East Coast Messenger Company

Website designed here in Mesa Arizona for an east coast customer. The design uses jquery and the scrollto plugin, which is very cool. If you would like to see it in action, go to wdsnj.com and check it out. The front website page contains all the content, but the sections are divided into paginated scrolling sections with unique URLs.

The design is simple but very professional, the customer was happy with the website and has been using it successfully for their business.

This website was designed for a mechanic shop in Scottsdale, Arizona. The owners needed a site that could achieve several objectives: first, the website design needed to be attractive, and engender trust from the customers. The website also needed to be search friendly, which meant we would need to make it come up in the search engine rankings easily.

I also designed a testimonials page, so that customers could leave reviews about the service they had received. The website is designed on a WordPress core, which meant that it was using one of the most popular and powerful content management systems on the market. It also features a custom contact form that was designed using WordPress native abilities and contact form 7. This Arizona website uses Jquery, PHP, MySQL, CSS and HTML to achieve its rocking abilities.

This website was built using a lightweight custom PHP template system. It includes integration with the flex MLS, including custom PHP forms created for quick search functionality, as well as custom graphics and design through out. The website was integrated with social media as well, and has a custom Facebook logo just for the business.

“My husband Rob and I proudly recommend Josh Jacoby for his web design services. He recently created a custom logo, business card design, and and website from scratch (480realtors.com) for our growing real estate business. He contributed creative ideas from both a design and marketing perspective. Josh captured our brand image, created a site we are proud of and we are thrilled with the end result. It was a pleasure to work with him. – Dani Mattisinko”

Mesa Arizona Business Launches WordPress Website Design

Website Designed For A For Fire Protection Company Using Custom WordPress CMS

Arizona Website Designer Joshua Jacoby Presents Allied Fire Co

Website built for a Fire Protection Contractor in east Mesa, Arizona. This website uses a custom wordpress theme for content management, and has original graphic design by Joshua Jacoby of My Favorite Web Designs. The web design also features a front page slideshow, as well as custom wordpress contact forms designed using html, CSS and PHP.

Owner Jim Schueller recently told me they had received many compliments on the Mesa Arizona website design, and the custom contact form was generating leads for them as well. They have gone on to participate in our monthly search engine marketing program with very great success.

Using WordPress Contact Forms To Make Your Site Convert

Worpress has several different options for contact forms. There is the premium wordpress plugin, gravity forms, which has a a good reputation, and is supposedly quite extensible, though I have yet to work with it.

There is also one of the best contact form plugins available for any content managed website anywhere. It is WordPress Contact Forms 7. One of my specialties is designing custom contact forms using WPCF7. This allows us to place contact forms in inventive places on the website, and in customized CSS layouts, so we are able to attract viewers to the form.

You can also hook up a Database to a contact form with the WPCF7 DB plugin. This plugin also allows you to export data to spreadsheet. You can then do things like test 3 different form placements, and use the excel sheet to tablulate monthly results, picking the best one. You can intelligently dial in your website conversion metrics.

One Last Word On Making The WordPress Contact Form Sell

Successful WordPress Web Designing Tips

Be sure to have your form fields not all be required. This makes a submit harder, and denies you data. Do not use a Captcha unless absolutely vitally necessary, it will also lower conversion. Use watermarks to help label fields – this is visually concise, from a design standpoint.