Web Design

Welcome to MultiMedia's Web Design. We specializes in providing a range of internet services for home builders.

We believe that the availability of a quality web site, at an affordable cost, is not available to the small business community. It is no secret that the major design firms charge exorbitant hourly fees to cover their huge overhead costs which they then pass on to their clients. MultiMedia on the other hand does not have this overhead cost and will not hit you with big hourly fees... we charge a "fixed price" for our design work so you know in advance what your upfront costs will be.

Main Fields

Web Design

Our passion is for creating highly effective, stand-out, world-class, web sites for builders.  The kind of site that gives serious home buyers the feeling of being there so when they visit the development there are no surprises and they are ready to buy.

Generally our web design follows in phases:

• Strategy and theme (phase 1) - Includes initial web site design and structure, assembling existing materials and theme refinement.

• Collection, Programming and Testing (phase 2) - Includes Materials scanning, web site structure implementation, html, database programming, Java applet and cgi-bin programming and coding, graphics optimization, contact and survey form design and live testing, debugging and corrections

• Implementation and Roll-Out (phase 3) - Includes: Meta-tag development, modeling and refinement, doorway page development, search engine submission, category specific list site submissions, review and three months web site maintenance (varies by program).

Content and Feature Ideas for Web Pages:

• Online order forms for submitting information to the company

• A map with detailed directions to your place of business

• Product displays and listings

• Photographs and biographies of personnel

• Company Mission Statement (eg. "About Us")

• Links to partnership companies, organizations, and groups

• Contact information for your company (eg. address, phone, fax, hours, and email).

• Menus

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Customer Testimonials

• Online applications for potential employees

• Sales and Specials

• News Alerts

• Calendar of Events

• Company Policies

• Customer Message board where customers can post messages and interact with each other

• Job Openings

• Manager/Employee "Spotlight"

• Best Selling Items

• Information On Branch Locations

• Company Trivia

• Company History

• Gift Shop Page: used to sell company shirts, hats, et. al.

• Seasonal and Holiday Offerings

• Any unique features and ideas that apply to your company

Digital Photography

We found early that a limit in creating full builder web sites (i.e., those with a virtual tour)  is the lack of good quality photos for each model and feature. As a result, we include all photographic work in our proposals.

Once taken, photography is enhanced and saturated, bordered, shaded and optimized for web site use.  Most photography is completed in a single day and photographs are available on-line within three to four working days.   All photographs are provided the client on CD-ROM in case they have future photo needs. 

Web Graphics

We provide a full range of web graphic services including:

• Image compositing, clean-up and correction

• Scanning (photos, slides or negatives)

• Web logo and thematic design

• Image enhancement, saturation and optimization

• Static and rotating banners

• Macromedia Flash

• Original graphics such as maps, renderings, etc,

Banner Design

We can design a custom banner for your website, or for use as a display banner normally used on sites you would like to exchange banners with. There is a difference between the two:

1. Business banners: does not have any restriction on width, height or file size. This type of banner is also known as a logo.

2. Exchange banners: limited to a specific width and height restriction and in the size of the file that was built to create it. The standard banner size right now is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high. The file size is also limited to 10k or less including any animation.

We often work with our client's current advertising agency or web developer to optimize graphics for the web.  This can include restyling and optimizing logos, floor plans, renderings and existing brochures

The Strategy

It used to be you built your web site, listed it on search engines and that was about it.   Oh, maybe you did some banner advertising and listed your site on one of the large new home search sites.

MultiMedia Web Design has a number of programs to meet your web advertising and marketing needs.  All are focused on managing your brand on the web and bringing traffic to your community.  Some of the activities include:

• Periodic search engine ranking optimization

• New home search engine placement, maintenance and analysis

• Banner ad placement

• Hit reporting and analysis

• Advertising coordination audit (both traditional and on-line)

• Listing on proprietary new home search engines

Site Maintenance

It could be you already have a great web site that has been up for the past couple of years that says everything you want to say about yourself and your communities.  Everything's great except it's outdated.

What can you do? 

A couple of comments:

• Once you have a web site you must be committed to keeping it up to date.  Nothing reflects so badly on a builder than having a web site that looks amateurish or is seriously out-of-date.

• It is true most web designers like to create new web sites, not maintain older work (too boring)

We want your business and we realize that if we demonstrate to you the value of a well-designed and maintained web site you will become our client over the long-term and we will both prosper.

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