To get Le Triskell Creperie, a French restaurant, on page one of Google for searches for “Atlanta food delivery” we created an online ordering site on AtlantaFoodDelivery.net using Adobe Business Catalyst, which lets restaurant customers place online orders for food delivery or take out. We shot most of the food photography for this website, which features an animated Flash on the home page, and an animated JQuery menu.

We developed Alex Schrock’s web design inside the Adobe Business Catalyst platform, which let us easily create a web application to house Dr. Nezhat’s medical resource library and surgery videos, so doctors worldwide can access them.

We designed a new online store to gain higher rank on the Google engine. This online store runs within the WordPress content management system so the owner can write long articles about fitness to lure search engine visitors to discover the store. Google is much more likely to bring visitors to long content articles than to short product pages.

An interactive web design lets veterinarians, dog groomers, and dog owners share info about treating dog skin problems with TheraCoat dog supplement made by Davis Manufacturing. Dog owners can publish their own articles and photos about dogs.

The web site was designed to be top-ranked by Google on specific search keywords relating to dry dog skin and dog hair loss. The web design features an animated Flash slide show, and lets the client create and edit web pages using a web browser. The web site was launched on WordPress 3.0 content management system.

We created this dentist’s web site based upon the design ideas the client had in mind. The web design has a “Just For Kids” area with downloads and video games. The site runs within the WordPress content management system so the client can edit and add articles using only a web browser.

How fast can you design an emergency web site? Very fast if it’s about the gulf oil spill. We got the call Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon we were online. A week later we were #1 on Google nationally and soon over 10,000 people signed up to help clean up the oil spill. The web site lets workers, boat owners, and subcontractors in the gulf sign up to be paid to protect the beaches and clean them up wherever the oil spill strikes. We linked that database to email software so workers can be easily contacted.

How did we get top-ranked on Google so fast? We knew we’d be competiting with all the news media covering the oil spill, so to beat them, we created our own news site and then wrote and released a press release that was reprinted in over a hundred newspapers and on national news sites. With all those inbound links coming to our site, Google quickly decided we were important enough to feature us.

This web site is designed within the WordPress content management system so the client can add and edit articles using only a web broswer.

Optometrist Kristie Bennett needed a web site to launch a new eye doctor practice opening in the Virginia Highland neighborhood in Atlanta. Google ranked the site on page #1 for “Atlanta eye doctor” within two weeks of launching the site, which was designed to win important search keywords.

The web design has an animated Flash panel featuring photos that the client can change. Online forms allow patients to order contact lenses. Taking the exact color palette that the client wanted, we created a template to work with WordPress content management system, so the client could write and later edit the pages appearing on the web site.

Atlanta Web Design GA recommends three web site software choices: WordPress, Adobe Business Catalyst, or a Traditional Web Design. Here’s how to choose…

1. We design your site within the WordPress content management system (www.WordPress.org) which is used by 8.5% of all sites on the Internet, or over 20,000,000 web sites. Advantages to you:
   • Once we create your design within WordPress and train you, you can easily edit your own web site pages, using your browser. Change copy , add pages or photo galleries, change the site menus, and lots more.
   • Your single WordPress web site can include regular web pages, a blog, a discussion group, a shopping cart, animated photo galleries, and much more, all under your control.
   • We can create a complicated site design in very little time with little cost by using software contributed to WordPress from other developers around the world.
   • WordPress software is free to use. We install your own copy of WordPress on your own server, and your only cost for operating your web site is our $47.88 a year hosting cost, plus $9.95 a year for your domain name registration.
   • Background: WordPress began in 2003 as an open-source project, meaning the programming code was open for any software developer to modify and share new code back to the project. While blogging was the initial focus, today WordPress is perhaps the largest web site development software platform on earth, with millions of websites running in WordPress including very popular web sites like the New York Times, Best Buy, Forbes Magazine, Martha Stewart, etc.
2. We can dDesign your site within Adobe Business Catalyst online business platform, which is the hot new technology that lets you run your own online business, rather than just a web site.  This is your choice if you want the ultimate web site without limitations. Advantages to you:
   • Adobe, the leading firm providing web design software to developers, has unveiled a powerful platform that lets web developers build complicated web sites in a fraction of the time needed before, because all the features for your online business are already coded: web pages, blog, online shopping cart, financial transactions, event bookings, online forms, customer database, discussion groups, email marketing to prospects and customers, and much more. Every function you might need in a website is already built into the Adobe Business Catalyst system. We just style the design and configure the components, rather than building everything from scratch.
   • We can now create a $20,000 web site for under $2,000 for you because Adobe Business Catalyst lets us launch a complicated web site with less programming on our part in much  less time.
   • Revolutionary stuff: you edit your own web page by going to the page, log in, then type your changes right into the web page you are viewing. Way cool!
   • Actions by every web site visitor are recorded in a central customer database. You track web visitors as prospects and see them convert into paying customers, step by step.
   • Cost to run in this powerful platform is only $39 a month paid to Adobe, which is a bargain compared to using individual services for shopping cart, email marketing, etc. that cost much more. Adobe includes support and software upgrades at no additonal cost.
3. We can design a traditional web site for you, using no software platform.  This is how we had to do all web sites a few years ago, which requires us to code all the programming ourselves with HTML, CSS, JavaScript  or PHP, so we can’t save you money by using existing code provided by the WordPress or Adobe Business Catalyst platforms. However, a custom web site may be required if you have special needs.

Which is your best choice for web design?

• WordPress if you primarily need web pages or articles and perhaps simpler e-commerce, such as a shopping cart with easy shipping and payment options.
• Adobe Business Catalyst if you desire a full-featured site with easy-to-edit pages, a complicated online store or e-commerce transactions, collecting data from customer forms, and marketing to prospects and customers via email.
• Traditional web site when you have special requirements that cannot occur within WordPress or Adobe Business Catalyst.

Address: ftp://ftp.AtlantaWebDesignGA.com/
User: manyfiles
Password: Atl1919

If you don’t have an FTP program, no problem. Here’s how you can send them using Windows. Choose the directions for your version of Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. (If you have a MAC email us and we’ll send instructions for you.)

How to FTP with Windows XP

You will Create a New Network Place, then you can drag and drop (or copy and paste) your files there, and they are sent over the Internet to us.

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Network and Internet Connections.
2. Under See Also, click My Network Places.
3. Click Add a network place. The Add Network Place Wizard starts.
4. Click Next to continue.
5. Click Choose another network location, and then click Next.
6. In the Internet or network address box, type:  ftp://ftp.AtlantaWebDesignGA.com/
7. Click Next.
8. In the Type a name for this network place box, type AtlantaWebDesignGA then click Next.
9. Click Finish.
10. While connected to the Internet, click on the Network Place called AtlantaWebDesignGA to open a window to the AtlantaWebDesignGA server.  Note: The first time you click the shortcut, you will be prompted to enter a user name and password (click the “remember” box so you won’t have to enter this next time).
    1. User: manyfiles
    2. Password: Atl1919
11. Now drag and drop (or copy and paste) your photos or files from your local PC folder into the Network Place called AtlantaWebDesignGA

How to FTP with Windows Vista

To create a shortcut to open an FTP site in Windows Explorer

1. Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.
2. Right-click anywhere in the folder, and then click Add a Network Location.
3. In the wizard, select Choose a custom network location, and then click Next.
4. Enter the name of the FTP site, with the full FTP:// in front of it, and then click Next.
5. To use a name and password, clear the Log on anonymously check box. Type a user name, and then click Next.
6. To have the FTP site open when you’re done setting up the shortcut, just click Next. If you do not want the FTP site to open after you’re done setting up the shortcut, clear the Open this network location when I click Finish check box. Click Finish.
7. A shortcut to the FTP site appears in the Computer folder. You can drag that shortcut to your desktop so that it’s easy to find later.
8. While you are connected to the Internet, click the shortcut to open a window to the AtlantaWebDesignGA server. Note: The first time you click the shortcut, you will be prompted to enter a user name and password (click the “remember” box so you won’t have to enter this next time).
   1. User: manyfiles
   2. Password: Atl1919
9. Now drag and drop (or copy and paste) your photos or files from your local PC folder into the window open to the FTP site at AtlantaWebDesignGA.

How to FTP with Windows 7

To create a shortcut to open an FTP site in Windows Explorer

1. Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.
2. Right-click anywhere in the folder, and then click Add a Network Location.
3. This displays the Add Network Connection wizard. Click Next.
4. In the wizard, select Choose a custom network location, and then click Next.
5. Enter the name of the FTP site, with the full FTP:// in front of it, and then click Next.
6. To use a name and password, clear the Log on anonymously check box. Type a user name, and then click Next.
7. By default, the name of the shortcut is the same as the FTP address. If you want to give the shortcut a different name, type it in the Type a name for this network location box. Click Next.
8. If you do not want the FTP site to open after you’re done setting up the shortcut, clear the Open this network location when I click Finish check box. Click Finish. A shortcut to the FTP site appears in the Computer folder. You can drag that shortcut to your desktop so that it’s easy to find later.
9. While you are connected to the Internet, click the shortcut to open a window to the AtlantaWebDesignGA server. Note: The first time you click the shortcut, you will be prompted to enter a user name and password (click the “remember” box so you won’t have to enter this next time).
   1. User: manyfiles
   2. Password: Atl1919
10. Now drag and drop (or copy and paste) your photos or files from your local PC folder into the window open to the FTP site at AtlantaWebDesignGA.

Northside Hospital of Atlanta sponsors the World Symposium on Endometriosis, needing a web site that lets doctors register and pay for attending this educational event. An animated Flash photo area makes this an interesting web site design.

We designed and launched the site in only three days thanks to the Adobe Business Catalyst platform, which saves us development time (so the client saves money) because Adobe’s software quickly creates complete online businesses that include a content management system so clients can edit their own pages, plus online payments or shopping, event booking, customer database, email marketing, and more. Need an advanced web site at a fraction of the cost? Have us show you a demo of Adobe Business Catalyst.

There are many ways to accept online payments with credit cards or e-checks:

• Taking your customers outside your web site to PayPal or Google Checkout using “buy now” or “pay now” buttons on your regular web pages.
• Accepting credit card and e-check payments on your own web site by opening your own online credit card merchant account and subscribing to a payment gateway service.
• Using shopping cart software within your web site, which can sell not only products but also memberships, services, subscriptions, downloadable items, etc.
• Having Atlanta Web Design GA LLC write programming code to handle your transactions, usually needed when the information you need to collect requires a special form, or because you are handling out-of-the-ordinary transactions that require computations, recurring billing, etc.

Which method is correct for your web site depends on these factors:

• How many kinds of items or services you need to sell via e-commerce
• What is your expected dollar volume of online credit card payments in one month?
• Do you already have a credit card terminal at your place of business, or plan to only use an online payment form?
• Do you need recurring billing, where customers are billed in the future monthly, yearly, etc.?
• Do you need to collect additional info from your customers, beyond their name, email, billing phone, billing address, and credit card info?
• Are you charging customers for a membership to access private areas of your web site?

Now let’s review these issues to decide your best alternative for taking online payments with credit cards and e-checks…

How many items or payment types are you offering?

If you are selling many products or many service choices, then it’s usually best to install shopping cart software on your web site, since it can usually sell much more than products. Shopping cart sofware is best if you have to calculate shipping costs. Using shopping cart software means we can avoid costly programming time to write our own software to handle your transactions.

We offer a variety of shopping cart solutions (which will be described later in Part II of this series on online payments) such as Adobe’s Business Catalyst, Ecwid, WP E-Commerce, Zen Cart, etc. Business Catalyst is the top-of-the-line shopping cart solution with wonderful features that let you sell unlimited products for $39 a month, with no additional fees (we always avoid shopping carts that charge a high monthly fee or worse a percentage of sales.)  Ecwid, WP E-Commerce, and Zen Cart are free to use, but have their limitations.

If you are only selling a few items or services, it’s usually wiser to use an online service like Google Checkout or PayPal. Our web developer time to install Google Checkout or PayPal is minimal. You do not need to purchase a secure sockets layer certificate (SSL certificate) for your web site, because the credit card payment info isn’t collected on a form on your web site, but rather by taking the customer to Google or PayPal’s web site to pay. (Of course, some merchants prefer having the customer pay and remain within their own web site, not on an external web site.)

If the customer is only buying one item at a time, the easiest way is simply adding a Google or PayPal buy now (or pay now) button within your web page.

If your customer needs to purchase more than one thing in one order, then a step up is using Google’s virtual shopping cart, which adds a pop-up cart running on Google’s server atop your web page, needed if your customer needs to buy more than one thing at a time. There may be some drawbacks to using Google Checkout:

• Your customer must create or have a Google account.
• Google stores the customer’s info on their server, not on your web server, so you do not have access to all the customer’s information (like email address) unless the customer allows you to have it. Otherwise, Google handles the transaction for you but keeps some customer info private.
• You have to log your Google Merchant Account to see your transactions.
• Some automated or necessary features you might have with regular shopping cart software won’t exist with Google Checkout, which has limited functionality.

What is your expected monthly dollar volume for online payments?

If you will have less than $1200 a month in credit card sales, it is usually cheaper to not get your own credit card merchant account and instead use PayPal or Google Checkout to handle your transactions.  This is because they do not charge any monthly fee or monthly minimums, and there is no one-time charge to open an account.

If you have more than $1200 a month,  then PayPal and Google Checkout can be more expensive. Their top rates for under $3000 a month in sales are 3.1% of the sale plus a transaction fee, costing about $3.40 on your $100 sale. By comparison, we can establish your own credit card processing where your fee is always 2.19% of the sale, plus a 35-cent transaction fee per order. However, when these fees don’t exceed $25 a month, you will be charged a $25 minimum regardless of how few sales you had. (This is why Google and PayPal are cheaper if your web site has low monthly sales.)

There are also other fees for having your own credit card merchant account. You need two components to process credit cards online, a payment gateway and a merchant bank account.

• The payment gateway service checks the customer’s credit at the time of purchase, and authorizes the sale by removing the sale amount from the customer’s credit.
• When you later ship or deliver the product or service, only then may you capture the payment to have it transferred to your merchant bank account. This is a special bank account that only receives your online transactions, with no other transactions allowed except the periodic withdrawals to move the money to your regular business or personal checking out. The special merchant bank account is required so all transactions can be easily audited if necessary.

After you are done reading this article, read our page explaining how to apply to open an account with Authorize.net

Atlanta Web Design GA usually recommends our customers order their payment gateway and merchant account through us from the provider we consider to be the low cost value, Authorize.net, which is one of the very largest online credit card processing firms. You cannot buy direct from Authorize.net; you must order through an authorized reseller like ourselves. We prefer their service not only because it’s the cheapest but because we know how to implement it. That means we get your web site transactions working quickly, without having to bill you for unusual web development time to hook up another system that is problematic.

Your fees for Authorize.net are published online. At the time of writing, you pay $9.95 a month for a merchant bank account where the payments are deposited before they are moved to your own business or personal checking account. You also pay $17.95 a month for the payment gateway service to authorize the transactions. There is a one-time application fee of $99 to create your account.

If you are thinking of just going to your local bank to sign up for online credit card processing, think again. Most big banks are simply charging you more to rebrand the exact same services from the same providers you can buy at a discount through Atlanta Web Design GA. Your card processing rate may be 2.4% to 2.5% from your local bank compared to 2.19%, and your monthly fees will be higher as well.

In addition, you will need to spend $29 a year for an SSL certificate to make your web site able to handle secure credit card transactions, so the page collecting the payment info appears in your browser as https:// not http:// and there is a lock symbol shown in the browser indicating the data being collected is encrypted and difficult for hackers to steal.

An advantage to having your own credit card account is your customers get a better experience because they pay within your own web site, and you get to collect and keep all the customer’s records in your own database on your own server.

After you are done reading this article, read our page explaining how to apply to open an account with Authorize.net

Do you already have a credit card terminal?

If you already process credit cards with a terminal at your place of business, you may think you can use your existing account to handle your online transactions. That isn’t the case. Banks charge higher rates for online credit card transactions, because they consider the payment to be riskier than when the customer is face-to-face with you with their plastic credit card present. “Card present” transactions are as cheap as 1.6% of the sale, whereas the cheapest online transactions are usually about 2.19%. Online accounts are similar to “moto” accounts which stands for mail order telephone order transactions. A credit card processor requires one account for “card present” payments and another account for “moto” payments.

There is a simple work around, of course, if you already have a “card present” account and a credit card terminal and don’t wish to open a second “moto” account. You can manually key in the credit card number and verification codes into your credit card terminal, after collecting that payment info online in a web form. You will still need an SSL certificate to collect the payment info in your online form. You’ll receive an email notice or SMS message to your cell phone whenever a payment request is made online, then you’ll need to log in to your web site to get that payment info to manually key into your in-store terminal. (It’s not safe to email payment info to you, since unless the message is encrypted hackers could steal the credit card data in an ordinary email message.)

Do you need recurring billing, where customers are billed in the future monthly, yearly, etc.?

If customers are subscribing to a service, or purchasing products delivered every month or year, then your options are more limited. PayPal can handle some kinds of simpler recurring subscriptions whereas presently Google cannot. Some shopping cart software can sell recurring services and products, many cannot. If your recurring billing has out-of-the-ordinary parameters, you may need Atlanta Web Design GA LLC to write your own software to setup up Automatic Recurring Billing in a service like ARB offered by Authorize.net.

Do you need to collect additional info from your customers?

 Shopping cart software, PayPal and Google collect only the typical info associated with a sale, like customer’s name, billing address, shipping address, email, and phone. If you need to collect additional information you need a payment tied to a customer data entry form, so you can ask any kinds of questions needed. Depending on your needs we may have a lower-cost solution involving ready-made software we can integrate with your web site, or we may need to write a customer program to collect info and process your transaction.

Are you charging customers for a membership to access private areas of your web site?

If the customer’s payment gives them access to special areas of your website, like member’s pages or access to download products or obtain an online service, then we usually have to write custom software for your web site.

One of many ways you can display your photo gallery using NextGen Gallery in WordPress

The NextGen Gallery for WordPress allows you to add photo galleries to your WordPress site and display photos in many different ways.

To use the gallery:

1. Login to your website and go to the WordPress Dashboard.
2. In lower left column click on Gallery.
3. Click Add Gallery / Images and Add a new gallery name.
4. Upload your photos into that gallery name.
5. Insert into your post or page one of the following shortcodes (the text including the [ ] ) where id number is the number of your gallery. (Your first gallery will be 1.)

Thumbnails. Displays a grid of thumbails. Click one to view it on a new page.
[nggallery id=1]

Slideshow. Displays a slideshow.
[slideshow id=1]

Image Browers. Displays photos one at a time as wide as the user’s PC allows.
[imagebrowser id=1]

Single Picture. Displays a single photo in the w (width) or h (height) you specify, floating it to the left or right of the article text.
[singlepic id=1 w=400 h=500 mode=web20 float=left]

AutoViewer. Displays a line of photos with an arrow to move from photo to photo.
[autoviewer id="1" width="500" height="375"]

SimpleViewer. Displays photo thumbails, clicking one displays it larger.
[autoviewer id="1" width="500" height="375"]

PostcardViewer. Displays an arrangement of photos, clicking one zooms into it.
[pcviewer id="1" width="500" height="650"]

TiltViewer. Displays photos in 3D, clicking one zooms and tilts it.
[tiltviewer width="600" height="600"]

It’s called Microsoft Security Essentials and you can install it by visiting this link: free virus software from Microsoft.

Microsoft instructs you to unintall any virus software you already have before installing Microsoft Security Essentials, as your old program may create conflicts. Uninstall your old programs by clicking Start and going to your Windows Control Panel.

Once installed, your PC will be continously updated daily with the latest virus and spyware protection for free.

In past years Microsoft charged $49.95 a year for its virus protection software, but when Windows 7 was released in late 2009, Microsoft likely decided to give away virus protection because in the past so many people were calling Microsoft complaining Windows wasn’t working, when in fact it was a virus causing the problems. Cheaper to protect everyone and not have them calling?

Microsoft Security Essentials only works on registered PCs running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7.

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Google Apps is our preferred way to provide free email service for Atlanta Web Design GA clients @ you own domain name. Here’s all you need to know to start using your new Google Apps (Gmail) email service. (If you need more help request our free web design support, 7 days a week 8am to 11pm.)

Where Do I Get To My Email?

• You send and receive Google Apps email using any web browser on any PC or MAC. Not other software is needed.
• When we setup Google Apps for our clients, we put your email server at http://mail.YOURDOMAINNAME.com so if your website is at http://www.happyfrog.org then you get mail at http://mail.happyfrog.org.
• Just log in there with your user name (the part before @ in your email address) and your password.

Using Google Apps Email

Your new email service uses Google Apps, similar to Google’s @Gmail but @ your domain name.

Play the 3-minute video below to learn how to use it.

• Google Apps Help Center has lot of help articles like using with your Mobile Phone (note: if instructions for your phone are given for both Gmail and Google Apps use the later.)  You can also find how to get email sent to your other address (@yahoo or @gmail or @hotmail or @bellsouth or @comcast etc.)  to arrive in your Google Apps inbox. (If you use Microsoft Outlook to read your mail, read the instructions at the bottom of this page.)
• Google Apps is more than Email…
  • Contacts stores all your people, addresses, phones and email addresses and you can see them on your mobile phone and your PC.
  • Calendar keeps your appointments organized on your mobile phone and PC.
  • Chat lets you instant message anyone you email, plus saves the conversation in your email inbox.
  • Docs lets you create or upload office documents or spreadsheets so you can share one copy with a few people you choose or all staff.
• Tip: if you wish to group related email within your inbox, watch the two videos below on Labels and Filters.

Using Microsoft Outlook to Send and Receive Your Mail

The easiest way to read your mail is just to use any browser to go to http://mail.YOURDOMAINNAME.com and login with your user name and password. But some users still wish to use Microsoft Outlook to send/receive mail instead. To set that up, read the instructions at set up Microsoft Outlook to send/receive Google Apps mail.

Moving Your Old Email Messages from Microsoft Outlook into Your New Google Apps Inbox

If you no longer wish to use Outlook and you will just go to http://mail.YOURDOMAINNAME.com, you may wish to move all your old email messages from within Outlook into your new Google Apps mail server. Here’s how to do that…

When you use a desktop email program like Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, it actually makes a copy of every email on your PC’s local hard drive.

Google makes Google Email Uploader software that lets you take the email stored in your local PC Outlook and move it into your new Google Apps inbox. Also, Google has a User Guide for Google Email Uploader

Lord Nelson Charters needed a new web site design to appear on page #1 of Google — the old site wasn’t doing well at catching free visitors from search engines . After studying keyword search patterns on Google, we created the new Lord Nelson Charters web design with SEO search engine optimization in mind.

Why do few people visit your retail store’s website?

The reason we often find: Your online store fails when the web design just describes your physical storefront.

Secret #1: Design your website to fit the way Atlanta surfs the web, not reflect how your real store looks. An example makes things clear…

Ms. J has a website for Atlanta Specialty Foods. We analyze Ms. J’s web site design to learn why it isn’t found when Atlanta surfers search Google.

When counting the keywords the old web design has, we learn “specialty foods” is the big buzzword. Therein is the problem! We should be using “gourmet foods” because here’s how many people searched Google last month:

Secret #2: Feature the most popular keywords for your retail store in the web design.

Secret #3: Surfers include “Atlanta” when searching for local retailers. So “Atlanta Gourmet Foods” is the keyword phrase our web design must feature. In fact, we need the word Atlanta to appear often in web site copy in order to rank highest in Google search results.

Secret #4: We’d catch even more Google searchers if we focus web design on gourmet food products, rather than the overall store:

“Atlanta Coffee” is searched often, and Ms. J confirms that her rare gourmet coffees are a main reason people visit her store. To be top-ranked for Google search “Atlanta coffee” our new web design needs an entire page devoted to coffee. We also need web pages focused on: “Atlanta chocolate,” Atlanta Cheese,” and “Atlanta gift basket.” By buying more domain names for $10 like “AtlantaCoffeeShop.com” and  “AtlantaCheeseShop.com” we can put up small  specialty sites that catch more shoppers and route them to our main site.

This overcomes the problem that Ms. J’s old home page has: it has a home page that tries to describe so many food products on one page that none stand out. Google won’t rank a page high on “coffee” if it only mentions it a few times, but when the entire page or web site mentions only coffee and often, it can be top-ranked.

Secret #5: One keyword, one page.

Our retail web designs feature specific pages for the keyword “drivers” that bring online customers in. When you work together with Atlanta Web Design GA, we create your pages after we research hundreds of keywords to discover those your web design must emphasize. Please read more about our web design process. Then email us to get a free consultation at your office.

Keeping Web Design Costs Low

We create successful retail web sites for $600 to $1500, the average is about $800.

Operating your website costs $48 a year for web hosting. Unlike some web design firms, Atlanta Web Design GA doesn’t charge any monthly fee for using our web design. We even make quick changes and updates for free.

While there are several reasons, the primary answer is: “Your web design does not match the way patients search with Google.”

Here’s an example…

We study Dr. P’s web design and discover the  keyword mentioned most often in his current web site copy is his specialty: otolaryngologist.

The secret is this isn’t the best keyword to focus his web design on. The table at right shows how many times a month Google is searched for other keywords:

Now we can plan our Google keyword strategy because we see:

1. Few people search for otolaryngologist.
2. ENT gets 45 times more searches and is the keyword patients search most.
3. Otolaryngology get 7 times more searches than otolaryngologist, so it’s the better term for web design.

To get our web site found in Google, we should focus on “ENT” and “Atlanta” since we aren’t competing nationally. When a Googler searches for “Atlanta ENT” Google will show the web site that mentions “ENT” and “Atlanta” most often. Now we know we’re going to design that web site.

Searches for Medical Symptoms

Our Google keyword research shows many patents are searching about symptoms, so Dr. P is much more likely to gain new patients if the doctor’s web design has more content than competing doctors about: allergy, sinus, sleep apnea, sore throat, snoring, hearing aid, etc. His website needs a page about each subject to capture searches on that keyword. Mentioning a keyword once won’t help; it must be mentioned many times. Wording matters: “ear infection” is searched 5 times more than “ear ache.”

When you work together with Atlanta Web Design GA, we create your pages after we research hundreds of keywords to discover those your web design must emphasize.  Please read more about our web design process. Then email us to get a free consultation at your office.

Keeping Web Design Costs Low

How much will your new web design cost? $500 to $1500 is the range. Figure $500 to lay the web design foundation, and $50 to $100 for each additional page. The more content your web design has, the more visitor traffic it will attract from Google keyword searchers.

You can lower web design costs by helping with copy writing or finding existing photos or graphics we can use.

Operating your website costs $48 a year for web hosting. Unlike some web design firms, Atlanta Web Design GA doesn’t charge any monthly fee for using our web design. We even  make quick changes and updates for free.

Beware of web designers advertising cheap prices. Many have hidden costs or the design work is done overseas. Not all “Atlanta web design” firms are in Georgia.

Be sure you end up legally owning your domain name and your web design. If another person registers a domain name for you, he may own it, not you.

You can have a new web design online in 2-3 weeks if you make decisions quickly.
We can tailor a web design for any medical specialties including:

• Aesthetics
• Allergy & Immunology
• Anesthesiology
• Cardiology
• Chiropractic
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology
• Emergency Medicine
• Family Medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Internal Medicine
• Medical Genetics
• Neurology
• Obetetrics & Gynecology
• Opthalmology
• Orthopaedics
• Otolaryngology
• Pain Management
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Physical Medicine
• Plastic Surgery
• Preventive Medicine
• Podiatry
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonology
• Radiology
• Surgery
• Urology

It’s a challenge to capture Atlanta Sports Medicine within a website because this is a large medical practice that covers many topic areas and has a large facility with its own operating rooms and magnificient physical therapy equipment for patients. The solution was to let the doctors and staff create their own website content within WordPress, the content management system that lets clients create web pages using nothing more than a little training and web browser.

After Atlanta Web Design GA created the 3-D layout and a news magazine style that lets the doctors/staff feature their latest articles on the home page, the staff added the content to the site. Writing one article on one topic on one web page is a great way to impress the search engines that are seeking relevancy, so this site has the good content that will do well in catching new web visitors. We’ll be adding an HDTV video tour of the facility next.

A web design for a Taiwain manufacturing firm that makes machine key parts. The home page has a slide show featuring product photos that the client can easily change. The client can also change any copy on any page. We optimized keywords on each page for Google.  In addition to the English version of the web site, we have a Chinese language version on another domain name.

Web Color Palettes

Either send us a URL to any website that has colors you like, or click on the color tools listed and pick a color palette.

Type Fonts

Unfortunately we can’t use any type fonts for web design. We are limited to those that are already installed on all PCs and MACs so there are only a handful of these Safe Fonts to choose from. However, Google has a new idea for expanding fonts we can use. Here are some tools for viewing the available fonts.

Web Design Style & Templates

Define the style you like for your website by sending us the URL to any website you admire, or browse different styles using the links below. (If you see a template style you like, send us the site and template name and we’ll design something similar in your chosen color palette. If you wish to use the exact template found below, that requires putting a small link on the bottom of your home page to the site providing the free template.)

Stock Photos

What Google Knows About You

TreeCrews needed a web design that allows the client to write many articles about tree service and each tree service customer’s job. We used the WordPress content management system that lets the client’s staff easily create new articles and add photos to them. The web design uses a news magazine layout. We will be adding HDTV video produced by Atlanta Web Design GA to the site.

MB Concierge has a unique idea: providing a free concierge service for all the wealthy homeowners who live on Lake of The Ozarks in Missouri. The web design has public pages as well as private areas that can only be viewed by members with a password.

Atlanta Web Design GA LLC created a rich black/grey site which allows the client to add as many pages as needed using only a web browser, without needing a web designer’s help. The site runs within the WordPress content management system.