Website Design

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Website design plays a big part in brand development at The Brand Garage. Our sites are attractive and search engine friendly for optimum page ranking in organic search. Nearly all are built with the WordPress Content Management System, so our clients can make text edits themselves if they choose.

Used to be, back in the 90′s, we built static HTML sites.  They were pretty.  They won awards.  But making changes required a call to us. Nowadays our website design and development estimate includes a tutorial on how to use the WordPress dashboard, so clients can add photos, make staff changes, edit content, etc. without altering the code or needing to contact The Brand Garage.

Truth be told, most clients still simply send us an email with their request, and within 24 hours the site change are up.  Painless and cost effective, since our maintenance fees are quite reasonable.

WordPress: the Killer Content Management System

I love WordPress. Did you know that 17% of ALL websites now run on WordPress?  That’s because the HTML code of the WordPress frameworks used at The Brand Garage are easy for search engines to read.  So your site gets ranked higher. We take considerable care with our on-page SEO to ensure File Names, Meta Descriptions, Article Headings, Page Titles and Page URL’s have focus keywords. More work, yes. But that’s what Google likes when searching pages.

Our website design and development can include contact forms so you can capture leads, social media icons to get folks to your Facebook and Twitter pages, PayPal payment processing links, product photo galleries and descriptions, and an integrated blog to keep your content fresh and encourage inbound links.

Google site analytics are always part of the package, so you can track site traffic–how long folks stay on your site, what pages they click, where they came from, etc. Surprisingly helpful.

A dozen years of website design and development!

Bear with us, some of our website design examples were developed over ten years ago (gosh, before Facebook and Twitter) and are no longer active. But you’ll see whom we’ve worked with and how great their sites looked.

Our newest work in the Recent Website Development section on this page all link to current websites. Check ‘em to see what we’re doing lately…

So without further ado, let’s begin a  review of our website design chops:

Computer Horizons is an international placement agency headquartered in Canada.  They asked us to design and develop a multi-level site addressing both employers and job seekers. We built the site, wrote the headlines, launched on schedule, without ever meeting them personally. They were thrilled with their new site, btw.

Magnifi provides extranets for marketing collaboration. They were so pleased with their website design, they asked Patrick Mountain to design their platform’s user interface as well. Kudos to Mike Welles for the homepage illustration.

Crisp colors and a clean, easy to read structure, highlighted by lively illustrations from Doug Ross in Santa Cruz, California, are hallmarks of this website design. Complex technology made easier to digest, Patrick Mountain and crew helped the new brand got lots of attention.

CacheFlow was wildly successful and ready to take their brand to the next level.  Their website is database-driven, running on a proprietary Content Management System.  The site was designed by Patrick Mountain Brand Development, (you know us as The Brand Garage). It mirrors the fresh new look we gave them extending through their print advertising, collateral, tradeshow graphics, packaging, and of course their online presence.