Web Design Services
No matter your budget, Mach 1 Web Design has a Web Design solution for you. We offer website template customization for FREE with any hosting package. We offer hundreds of professionally designed web templates for sale. Our hosting customers can also access hundreds of FREE templates from within their server control panel. Of course, we also offer custom web design starting as low as $249. Our lead web designer has over 12+ years of experience designing websites
When we design your website, we keep not only your human readers in mind but also the Search Engines. Every website design we do is optimized for Search at no extra charge.
Our Basic Website Design package includes 5 web pages. Common pages include: home, about, contact, products/services, and pricing. We will work with you to choose the most appropriate content for your site. For photography, we typically use stock photography which can be purchased from shutterstock.com or you can provide your own photos that you take yourself or from a professsional photographer.
DIY Web Design Tips
Never include your email address on any web page. Spammers have bots that continuously crawl the web searching for email addresses to add to their spam lists. Publishing your email address makes you an easy target for a ton of spam. The solution to this problem is to use a contact form instead.
Use compliant code. Avoid using any word processor to create your web page. The HTML markup generated by these programs are extremely bloated and non-compliant. Stick with a program created specifically for website creation such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. After your web page is created, use an HTML validator such as the one at W3C.org. Using compliant code will help ensure your web page displays the same across all browsers and will also help your search engine rankings.
See how your page looks on many different browsers. You've designed your site and it looks great on your computer. You go to your friends house and pull up your site to show off your handiwork. On his computer your website looks awful! What happened!?! Different browsers will display your websites differently. Go to browsershots.org and you can see your website on several browsers. I highly recommend it!
Use CSS to decrease web page load time. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is the modern method for laying out website content. When someone visits your website, the CSS file gets cached on the visitors computer and doesn't need to be downloaded again. This helps to decrease the bandwidth used on the server and speed up load time. Studies have shown that if your website doesn't load in 5 seconds or less, many people will click 'back' and you will lose a potential customer.