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Website Design & Graphics, Ventura & Los Angeles County adds extra value to your website and graphic design projects. To learn how we can assist you in your next website or graphic project, call us at 805.524.2740.
Want more than you bargained for?
Then you will love the extras you receive from SketchPad!
Quick Response—SketchPad has been in business for over 20 years serving small business and organizations in southern California offering website design, development and hosting for the last 12 years. We have developed a reputation for responding quickly to our clients needs. To read what our clients say about it, click here.
W3C Compliance:
Nothing will be more important to your website and your business than W3C compliance and web browser compatibility. Separating html mark-up from your site content not only allows your website to display quicker, but strips out all content that is not search-related, thereby enhancing the ranking capabilities of the search engine when their robots index your website. W3C compliance also ensures better browser compatibility making sure that your website looks the same on all major browsers.
Search Engine Help:
Meta Tags—We include numerous Meta Tags with your most important keywords within the Head of your web pages. Meta tags enable search engines to better target your website and push it to your visitor based on keyword searches.
XML Sitemaps—Google and Yahoo are now using specially prepared sitemaps to collect data for keyword searches. They frequently update their indices using these sitemap files. Other major search engines can also utilize these sitemap files to update their indices. We create sitemaps for both Google and Yahoo as a integral part of our hosting service.
Value-added Web Services:
Email Redirects—We will create up to 10 email address aliases using your unique domain name (i.e. sales@yourdomainname.com or tom@yourdomain.com). Alias email addresses that we will re-direct to your personal/business email address(es). This means that when your personal/business email address changes, you will not have to reprint your stationery and anyone who you gave your domain email address will be able to still contact you. Your domain email address doesn’t change—just let us know where you want us to redirect it.
Web Stats—SketchPad offers 24/7 web stats for their internet clients. Information from these stats can be very helpful when you want to see what is working and what isn't on you site. This is useful when determining any adjustments that you may need to a website to make it more popular. An example of the stats can be seen when you click here. We have also prepared a PDF file explaining these stats in plain English.
Suggest/Refer email Script—A very popular script that allows visitors to refer the website they are on to their friends, relatives and associates, etc. Once the form is opened, the visitor types in their name and email address and the names and email addresses of whom they want to send the referral. Once they submit the form a very friendly paragraph is emailed to the names in the form saying they have visited a very nice website and then a link directly to that website. This all happens in the background 24/7. There is also a disclaimer in the form saying that no one sees and we do not mine the email addresses. An example of the form can be seen here if you click here. Just click on the 'Share' link to see the form.
CMS Script—Content Management Software area that allows a designated person to change a small amount of content 'live'. This means, with a Username and Password, you can make up-to-the-minute content changes to a specific area of the website using any browser, from anywhere, while connected to the internet.
Secure Forms—Scrambled Image Verification. Whether it is an inquiry form or request for more information, our script requires a verification from a human in order to submit and process the form. No worries about hackers getting into and using your form for spam purposes. Site visitors must fill in required form items and submit it to complete the additional security verification step.
Speed, Security and Reliability—SketchPad's server is the highest quality hardware running the latest versions of server software. It is monitored 24/7. We are not trying to get the last gapping breath out of old, unreliable and slow equipment. Our clients are organizations and small to medium sized businesses–not hobbyists sharing games, music and videos that hog bandwidth and crowd out access to your site and bog down server speed. Because SketchPad monitors bandwidth and server usage, you will never have to share the server with so many other sites that viewers can't get to your website. We expect our client's websites to get visitors and we treat them like welcome guests—just as you would.
Redundant server and off-site back-ups ensure your site against fatal damage or loss. What's more, we're happy to send you a full copy of your web site on disk—just ask.
No one else can access the server. In fact, only Larry and Norma can change or delete your website files. That is security! No one can highjack your site or redirect visitors to girlie videos. In conjunction with this, anytime you want changes to your site, Larry or Norma will be the ones making your adjustments. You won't have to work with a different person each time you contact us or have to explain what you want multiple times.
We hope that you’ll agree that these are compelling reasons to have SketchPad design, host and maintain your website. Please give us a call and we can talk about how we can help you and your business.
Want another reason to use our services? Then here's what we give our print design clients:
- Very high quality printing
- Really fast turn-around time
- Extremely reasonable prices
Visit our Print Portfolio