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If you're shopping around for website designers, you've probably noticed that there are a lot of options. What you might have also noticed is that there are a lot of individuals and businesses advertising website design services, even though they're not professionals or a website design company where their sole focus is building websites. If you're lured in by the promise of rock-bottom prices, you're not alone. Hey, everyone likes the chance to save money, right? But the risks associated with hiring anyone but actual website designers are too high, and you could end up wasting a whole lot of time and money if and when things go terribly wrong. The Risks: You Could Lose Your Domain Name It happens all the time; a business hires an individual or a company to build their website, and later, when they decide they want someone else to host their site, or there's...

Ah, yes, the age old question of how long it's going to take before you're the proud owner of an awesome Saltmedia website! Well, the amount of time it takes to create a website design that's perfectly tailored to a company and fully executed on the web depends on a few key factors, such as the complexity of the site and the customer. Laying the Foundation Like Rome, Saltmedia websites aren't built in a day, but lucky for you, they typically take about 45 to 90 days, on average. Whenever we build a site, our web developers start with an in-depth discovery meeting - we want to know everything there is to know about what it is that you do, what your goals are for the future and the challenges you face. Creating a Custom Website From here, we create a strategy for a website that will not only look...

Choosing who it is that will design and build your website is a pretty big decision. Pick the wrong website designers and you could wind up with a costly and largely ineffective web presence, but select the right team and your business will be armed with the most important marketing tool, today. In 2016, these are the questions you should be asking any company that you're thinking about hiring for web design services. Will my website be built in Canada, by your team, or will it be outsourced overseas? Believe it or not, many 'Canadian' web design companies outsource their work, making it much more difficult to follow up if you have issues or need to make changes to your site in the future. Do you have an actual web developer on staff? Sometimes, companies that sell web design services really only employ graphic designers or a couple of basement...

Last time, I talked about the core values that drive everything we do here at Saltmedia, from the solutions we offer to the ongoing support and quality customer service we provide. Today, I want to talk about the ways our core values are shaping the solutions we provide to small and mid-sized businesses across a wide range of industries, and how you, too, can reap the rewards of our Grande Prairie web design team's commitment to excellence. Let's take web and graphic design, as well as online marketing, as examples: Web and Graphic Design To effectively brand a business, you need a quality logo, website design and other graphics that are going to command attention and make an impression. Our core values ensure you receive the branded online presence you need to succeed: Honesty: designers start with an in-depth discovery meeting where they learn about your business we create a...

In business, first impressions are everything. You've got one shot to impress people or they'll move on, taking their money elsewhere. It's that whole instant gratification thing, where people want to see that you've got what they need - right away - or they're gone. On the internet, where your website is your business' online representative, the user experience you provide has the ability to turn those site visitors into your customers or leave them hitting the back button. User experience includes everything from how quickly your website pages load to the quality of the design and information you provide, or how easy it is to navigate. Invest in a Website that Delivers Results When you own a website (and you should!) with a great user experience, you're armed with a powerful tool for driving more leads and sales to your business. These are just some of the many things...