Posted on June 12, 2012August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

The Importance of Arizona Website Design and Search Engine Optimization

Businesses based in Arizona are likely looking towards the internet as the source of their future advertising campaigns. At the core of any such campaign will be a well-crafted website that potential customers will find in the search engine rankings. Bland and dull websites won’t cut it for this mission which is why hiring a qualified Mesa web designer is a must.

Without the right web design, the website will have very little value. Proper web design serves a number of purposes. It can ensure the clarity of the design which would eliminate any confusion regarding what the website is about and what business it is promoting. It will be easy to navigate meaning visitors can jump from page to page without any hassles. If the purpose of the site is to promote buying online then the design will make doing so quite easy. Arizona based businesses will also find a geographic specific component to the website to be a great help as well.

In order to achieve such results, the talents of a qualified Arizona web designer is a must. A designer that possesses skill and talent will be able to ensure all the much needed elements to make the look of the website a success will be in place.

Arizona Search Engine Optimization

It does beat mentioning that no matter how well designed a website might be, the site will be of little value unless its rankings in the search engines are increased. The higher a website is placed in the search engines then the more traffic it will receive thanks to organic visitor flow. Such a process is not one that is achieved at random as there are many specific steps that have to be undertaken for Mesa search engine optimization to work. Hiring a quality SEO company will increase the likelihood such an outcome is possible.

For Arizona companies, it will be necessary that a localized geographic search engine optimization campaign was launched. This way, the specific targeted visitor flow will venture to the website bringing forth a more significant percentage of visitors that would become paying customers.

With the right Arizona SEO company and web designer, all these results are possible which is why any business in Arizona hoping to increase its internet marketing success is well advised to hire such services.

Web Design and SEO By My Favorite Web Designs

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

Posted on April 19, 2012August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

Professional Arizona Web Development and Search Engine Optimization

Professional Arizona Web Development and Search Engine Optimization

While anyone can know and understand HTML and ama coding, a professional graphic designer is necessary to build your website or blog site at it’s full potential, offering a tasteful looking, quality website Design, that is easy to navigate for yourself and your clients, as well as being a great help in promoting and marketing your business, as we not only build your website from scratch, but we offer professionally written content, using Arizona search engine optimization to help market your Website and business!

When considering having a Custom Designed Website built for your business, it is important to the integrity of your business, that you get the job done right! Your business’ image through your website can directly attribute to the livelihood of your business’ appearance and finances! Almost everything today can be found when searching on the internet, and search engines are used millions of times daily to located local businesses, services, and other useful information, so choosing a Professional wordpress design is the first and likely the most important step in your business marketing strategy!

Mesa wordpress development and navigation functions can be confusing and frustrating without the proper layout design and understanding of visual effects. My Favorite Web Designs is proud to be able to build a unique and customized website that fit your unique desires, that is easy for you to learn to use, all while showcasing your business and the services offered by your company as well! The sites are created specifically with SEO tools built in, as well as SEO throughout the content of your site, allowing it to display properly in all major browsers and search engines!

Contacting My Favorite Web Design located in Mesa, Arizona is an intelligent business decision for any business owner or blogger, and provides each and every client with professional, educated and experienced website development and marketing unique to your business and niche! Let us help you help your business by designing you a professionally designed website today!

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My Favorite Web Designs
By Joshua Jacoby
1006 N. 92nd Circle
Mesa, AZ 85207
480-335-1330
josh@store.myfavoritewebdesigns.com

Posted on November 22, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

ART ADDICTION COMPANY

This website started as a fully functioning volusion shopping cart template. My changes were not gigantic, but then again, they were. First, I needed to add Jquery support to the Volusion template, without violating HTTPS. I also needed to bring all my images onto their server, for security. I designed the slide images and the menus, etc…, uploaded, and coded them into the template. Then, using the inline editor for the front page, I added in the CSS selectors corresponding to the Jquery code and I was in business.

The rest of the website design was pretty easy, just swapping out images. We also did SEO for this customer, which meant building custom landing pages for volusion shopping carts, which can be done pretty handily in the categories menu, under the inventory section, its kind of a weird system, but its easy enough and it works.

I will also give a shout out to the boys at Volusion, good support, great server resources/speed, secure, easy template. It will never be a custom built $12,000 Magento shopping cart, but it is pretty damn good for the price and convenience, better than some of the other I have seen.

Posted on November 22, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

VERITAS ASSOCIATES, LLC

Arizona WordPress Designer

Custom WordPress Sites Provide SEO Advantages

Converting A Website To WordPress For SEO Benefit

As an Arizona WordPress Designer, I often run into situations where a site can be optimized in HTML, but if we are doing an ongoing SEO campaign, the cost benefit of running on a WordPress core increases dramatically. WordPressing a site is not hard, and can often be done as part of a website redesign.

The original design elements were left over from another website designer. I simply cleaned it up, big time. I replaced the bulky javascript that was running the slider menu with nice clean Jquery, I redid the table layout as clean CSS, I proportioned everything. I also put the site onto a WordPress platform, which was a great move. Since we also do the SEO for Veritas Associates LLC, creating a super SEO friendly web design like this was a good move. It paid off well, just search Google for an Arizona Private Investigator, he has been top 5 for a year, #3 right now and closing in on that #1 spot. He is also one of many that I have done and promoted with top AZ spots as an Arizona WordPress Design pro.

When designing a WordPress website, there are many tools to use for different elements. Sidebars can be hard coded, widgetized, dynamic, static, use default template commands, whatever. A really good template blends these elements together seamlessly, and provides for good SEO, which this WordPress Web Design does.

Advantages Of WordPress Content Management Systems

Conquering SEO With Intelligent, Custom CMS

Many people do not understand the need for a good content managed website. You may think, as I once did, I can simply manage my content with dreamweaver, or even notepad if you like to hand code your websites soup to nuts (I Do). Well, this is true. So why does WordPress provide an advantage?

Why Does A WordPress Site Really Make Matter?

Advantages Of WordPress

Every Arizona business could benefit from a WordPress website design. The benefits are many:

Manage all pages of the site in a super easy tree like structure
Manage all URLS for all pages in one place, with easy redirecting for changes
Add capabilities such as live chat, forums, analytics and more with an easy plugin system that anyone can learn in under 5 minutes
Manage all titles, meta tags, and other SEO characteristics from a master list inside the WordPress administration panel.
Fantastic Gallery for managing your website’s images

Posted on November 12, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

ARIZONA ROOF RESCUE

A Wordpress Website designed and developed by Arizona Wordpress Expert Joshua Jacoby

Custom Website Designed And Developed On The WordPress Plaftom For Arizona Roof Rescue

This website was designed and developed for Arizona Roof Rescue by My Favorite Web Designs of Mesa, AZ. We created the graphics from scratch in Adobe Photoshop, and then sent the customer the proof for approval, at which point we built it out on the WordPress platform, using CSS, HTML, PHP and a little bit of Javascript.

Advantages Of The WordPress Website Platform

Easy Upgrades

The WordPress plugin system is a sweet time saver. Programs which normally would take many hours to install can be set up in just a few minutes. Applications like SEO tools, E-commerce and even complex systems, such as ticket management or events booking apps are easily installed and uninstalled by webmasters or even end users.

Awesome Search Advantages

The search advantages of a WordPress system designed by My Favorite Web Designs is huge. We consider SEO in everything, and use only the most sensible design elements. For instance, there are hundreds of slideshows on the market, but only a handful that meet the optimization criteria adequately.

Content Management

The editing system of a WordPress website means contents of the website can be altered by anybody with the correct login. In fact, there are many levels of users, so you can have people who simply contribute, or people who simply comment, whatever you wish. This means you can have employees make updates right away, it empowers the user.

Of course, even with a good website design and a solid CMS, there are plenty of times when you may want to have a web designer professionally design a page. Now you can grant limited access to contractors, so they cannot do damage by accident, to other parts of you site. There is even a database feature that saves the previous versions of any page, so every copy ever published is available to be restored, in the event of accidental deletion or overwriting.

Arizona Roof Rescue Website Design Features

This WordPress Design features components such as a customized contact form 7 sidebar quick quote form, Nextgen gallery pictures for the gallery page, set up for perfect optimization. It also has a front page slider which is content managed by the Gallery plugin, and custom artwork for the slides which are in the slider. Lastly, I am formatting his business info with microdata, and we will add an Hcard for the final My Favorite Web Designs search engine optimization boost.

Posted on August 23, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

THE SAMPAIR GROUP

Designed using wordpress, this website was a rush design for Sampair bankruptcy law, an Arizona company

A law firm headquartered out of Peoria Arizona, the bankruptcy office also has a location in Mesa. They needed a rush wordpress website design in Arizona, and located My Favorite Web Designs to help. I personally set the site up on a WordPress theme, since they needed a site that would also be SEO friendly.

A basic design, this web site has many defining characteristics, such as front page contact form so your online traffic can go right to conversion. It also features three column layout, which was embedded into the CMS, so all three columns could be edited without utilizing widget areas or custom post queries. Both of these common WordPress CMS techniques have drawbacks.

WordPress Websites have Widgets that often serialize the data that is stored in them, which means that it is stored in a coded shorthand. The reason this sucks is database transfer. Lets say Sampair wants to change their URL. The website can be easily transferred over to another server or another hosting account, except for the widget data, which cannot be changed easily Via PHPmyAdmin. Normally, if we changed from one URL to another or one IP to another, I can simply do a find and replace on the database. With serialized data, this does not work. The scripts that exist to circumvent this common and frustrating database storage technique frankly suck, and often break databases or do not work at all. All this in addition to complicating the websites CMS for users, which of course is a bad idea.

We could also do Custom Post queries in WordPress. We could have a post, give it a category, and call it from the template file. the problem with this technique is added load time, as a second set of database queries is executed, but it cannot be called until the first set of code gets called, so it results in more http requests. I could swing this on my private server, which is dedicated and the hardware and VM is managed by my boys at hostgator, but it is a mistake to assume all users will have this, and it is a mistake to not design with resource limitations in mind. It may have worked in this smaller, simpler website, but it is a dirty habit to start thinking of solutions that are resource heavy.

The best resource, for users who can handle a little HTML in their website content management system, is to create the additional data inside the primary data call – so all data is coming from one database table, one row. This would be problematic for more inexperienced users, since they would break the layout and not use HTML mode to edit their WordPress web design. For those, I recommend the other two methods. For myself, I train my employees to use the wordpress CMS, so i am able to have multiple SEO and content crews working on websites without being technical masters, which would drive my costs too far up.

Many thanks to Patrick Sampair and his right hand man, Rick Gordon for the opportunity, I look forward to working with you guys on optimizing and expanding your web presence in the near future!

Posted on August 23, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

ENGINEER DESIGNER

This custom WordPress website was built for Ken Risley, owner of the Engineer Designer. Ken uses the very popular Thesis theme for his content management, which is really a nice CMS system. I personally prefer to design and code my own CMS features, but if you are OK with something a little more out of the box, it is a good starting point.

The fun thing about creating and designing a thesis theme is the restrictions. Anyone familiar with designing wordpress websites knows that when you upgrade, core files are overridden. Due to this, you have several different ways to design a WordPress website theme.

Most themes would be static, meaning they are coded once, and then the content is controlled through the database and widgets. This regular type of setup is a standard WordPress theme. When you upgrade the WordPress installation, the theme files displaying the data remain the same. the advantage is that you can upgrade to your hearts content. The downside is that the code will eventually degrade, and the people using your theme will need to switch. You won’t be able to upgrade your theme without overwriting the individuals changes.

So how do you code a theme that can be upgraded? The answer is to use overrides. Thesis very intelligently provided a section that does not get overwritten during upgrades, where we can place custom functions and CSS. Since they override existing CSS or hook to current functions, all the Thesis authors need to do is stick to their current naming conventions when designing and coding the upgrades, and they will install seamlessly.

This becomes fun for me as the Website Designer, since I am achieving things I do everyday anyway, but in a different way than I would normally do them. As a CSS purist and fanatic, I prefer to use CSS over Javascript or PHP when possible, it is a cleaner, lighter weight language and can often accomplish the same objective with less load on the server.

Anyway, the new site looks great, I hope you guys take the time to check it out. Many thanks to Ken Risley and his Wife Kim, great people to work for, I look forward to helping them maintain a dominant web presence well into the future.

Posted on June 29, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

HCG MOMMA

This website was created using wordpress CMS, HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript and Jquery. It features a slideshow on the front page that links to posts within the website, a great SEO friendly feature. It also features WordPress E-commerce Web Design that is built into the wordpress site via wp e-commerce and customized with an eye toward seamless upgrades. The customers were a Husband and Wife in Mesa, Arizona. They are selling HCG on the net, and they needed a designer who could establish a web presence for them that was both attractive and optimized for search engine results. They also wanted the ability to sell online, and needed a web designer who would be able to integrate the e-commerce with the CMS, as opposed to using the CMS abilities that come with most cart, which are serious disadvantage when going up a well optimized WordPress website. One of the coolest parts of this cart is the ability to feed the products via RSS to Google, so that they display in the merchant search results. The cart also features auto tagging of all products in RDFa format, which is great for search engine readability. I definitely consider this project a home run, and count the site amongst my favorites.

WP e-commerce is a terrific platform for doing commerce online. Though it had a rocky reputation in its earlier development, it now is on a very stable development line, and is the most widely supported and used E-commerce software on WordPress. In fact, the team at Get Shopped is an 8 man development core, that has been working together for years, and the future for this software just keeps getting brighter and brighter. As an Arizona WordPress E-commerce Designer, I have designed for storage shops, home health remedies, diet pages like this, and even complex product types like upload and print interfaces.

Posted on April 19, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

THE NATURAL ROAD

A Thesis Wordpress Design, Customized thesis theme by My Favorite Web Designs of Mesa Arizon

This website was designed and developed for a health supplement company who was looking to increase their conversion rate. The website was originally built on the Thesis WordPress theme. This aspect of the web design was tricky, as Thesis require you add content via custom hooks, delete no content, and achieve all styling with CSS overrides. While CSS makes many aspects of website design and development quite simple, it is much more complicated in an override system. In order for the override to take effect, the exact instance of the html selector must be called, which can be very tricky.

This was also a great project because it involved a remodel of an existing site, without any changing of the content. Many website are made more complicated by using non-standard classes and id’s to style output, instead of building a cross browser compliant website design, seamlessly integrated into a theme which can then be upgraded and updated. It also retain 100% of the original search engine optimization advantages for which the Thesis theme is renowned.

Arizona WordPress Website Design by My Favorite Web Design of Mesa is a terrifically valuable web design service. Our WP customers are able to jump up the search engine rankings far fast and easier than customers without this advantage. In fact, the Natural Choice has ranked many #1 keywords with the benefits of their article system, so they can create landing pages at will.

Posted on April 19, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

PYRAMID OF PIXELS

A Website designed for a Tempe Arizona ASU student

I created this website for an ASU student who was looking for a web design incorporating Pixel Advertising. Pixel advertising is a concept that briefly became popular in 2005, then faded from memory as quickly as it has come. The scripts for the design were are circa 2006, and had to be updated for modern CSS output, and made to work with modern browsers.

This Tempe, Arizona college student used a website theme related to the end of the Aztec calendar in 2012. He had a solid business plan in place, and advertised his website to gain traffic, then sold pixels to raise money. It was a unique challenge from a web design and development perspective, and the customer ended up very happy with his project. He has contacted me several times since we concluded work on his project to let me know how well the website was working for him!

Posted on March 24, 2011August 7, 2017 by Josh — Leave a comment

SOLAR SYSTEM AZ

Arizona Solar Contracting Website Design by Mesa Web Designer Joshua Jacoby

A website built for a North Scottsdale Solar contractor. This web design incorporates a slideshow, static text, RSS fed news rolls, and many other awesome design elements. This site also features a custom built Solar Calculator, developed for the website using PHP, and returning values based on the companies own estimating numbers.

“Josh did a great job on this website. We have received numerous inquiries through the site, and it has been an invaluable way for us to get the word out. Josh also did some e-marketing for us, including an email marketing piece which got almost twice as many opens and 3 times as many clicks as any we had done previously. – Mike Capuzzo”