bracket bracket The web industry is changing. Faster than most companies could have imagined; or planned for. Don't lose your footing in the fastest growing marketing arena on the planet.

Confused arrows. Where to go? It seems as though every time you open your browser 5 new design companies have suddenly sprung to life. Offering pre-written ready to go websites, the latest retina blinding flash sequence, or the 'new hip' layout/design scheme. With all of these blatant 'I'm the best' messages flying in your face, how can a company that isn't versed in web design know what they truly need?

Research.

We know, you wanted an answer that didn't involve your ever dwindling supply of time. But successful business owners/directors know that to make a wise decision, you need all of the facts. And to truly get all the facts you have to do some leg work. We encourage that. Read up on what a truly successful website is built on and we are confident that you will begin to see a pattern emerge. This pattern will pivot around the 4 features of successful web design that we have outlined below.

These are the core that we design around. It's not all about a cool graphic or bizarre navigation menu (although we do love making them!). It's about the core framework of the site. All the groovy graphics in our box of tricks won't help your business if no one can find your site. CloverLeaf offers custom website design and development with a focus on search engine optimization (SEO), accessibility, current web standards, cost effectiveness, and speed. So look over the 4 primary benefits of a CloverLeaf designed site below, check out some of our recent work, and do some research. Hopefully you will see what we see. A smarter way to build a web site that is so much more than an online billboard.

Accessibility is increased by making content is accessible to wider range of users (normal users, blind users, vision impaired users, dyslexic users, motor skill impaired users etc.). Content is also accessible to a wider range of devices (screen readers, browsers, text based browsers, handhelds, search robots, printers etc.). It also lets your site be viewed on a wider range of web browsers. This is not only good business sense, but it shows your clients that you put forth the extra effort. It can also be a legal issue (Target settled a lawsuit in 2008 that was originally launched back in early 2006. In the settlement, Target agreed to pay damages of up to $6 million to the NFB).

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of making a site and its content highly relevant for both search engines and searchers. SEO includes technical tasks to make it easier for search engines to find and index a site for the appropriate keywords, as well as marketing-focused tasks to make a site more appealing to users. Successful search marketing helps a site gain top positioning for relevant words and phrases.

Updating a website that was not designed with web standards can a brutal task. Web standards require the content and the style of a web page to be separated. In short, streamlined code allows for spectacularly easier site maintenance. Updates that would have required hours of wading through old code (especially if the updater is not the original writer) are now completed in a fraction of the time. While this not only saves much frustration, it also can save your company a great deal of money when a revamp is in order.

Speed, speed, speed! The faster our devices and services get, the faster we desperately 'need' them to be! And once again CloverLeaf Design is designing for your present and future needs. This speed is achieved by designing your web pages in such a way that considerably lightens your web pages. This is transformed into cold hard cash by lessening the load on your server, saving you valuable bandwidth.

bracket bracket In short, CloverLeaf Design stays on top of the latest developments to make sure that our clients sites outperform their competition.

  • Code Focus
  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • Code Specific SEO
  • Client Focus
  • We cater to all genres of clients.
  • CloverLeaf has successfully worked with clients ranging from independent artists, to manufacturers, to government sanctioned websites.
  • Cost Focus
  • We know what it is like to want to step it up but the cash is tight.
  • Our pricing is almost always under the competition. But we're OK with that. We aren't trying to buy a Lotus or build an empire.