Blue Spike Studios

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At Blue Spike Studios, we know getting a small business or personal website online can be a daunting task for most people. In addition to offering web design and hosting services, we want to help you through the maze of web content creation by offering solutions to fit both your expectations for your site and your budget.

Full Web Development for Small to Large Personal, Business, and Professional Websites

We specialize in helping small businesses, organizations, and individuals create an online presence quickly and affordably. At Blue Spike Studios, We believe everyday people starting everyday businesses and organizations should be able to have a professional looking website without breaking the bank. This includes individuals such as professionals and others needing a small website. The solution is to use rapid development web authoring software to create what are sometimes known as brochure or informational sites. These types of websites are great at accomplishing the needed Internet and offline advertising needs of many small businesses and professionals. Blue Spike Studios specializes in:

► Web Graphics
► Site Design and Development
► Logo Design
► Email Forms
► Hosting
► Uploading your finished site to the server

A website should accomplish all the objectives you have for your site. It should meet your needs and the needs of your visitors. A web site should be:

► Affordable
► Attractive
► Easy to Navigate

Blue Spike Studios offers:

► High quality web design
► Domain name registration
► Hosting of your website and setup of your e-mail addresses

Customer support and service at all phases, before, during, and after your website goes live on the web. For more information, visit the Design Services page.

If you are in need of a larger, high-powered website, please visit Blue Spike Studios' partner web design site at Blue Spike Designs. Here you will find information on database-driven sites with content management systems which we develop.

From Our Article Section

The Myth of the Template

What, exactly, is a template?

I get a kick out of new web designers who advertise that they "don't use templates", especially when they use the term "cookie cutter template". The reason is that most people don't even know what a template is. All web designs, even those custom created from scratch are called "templates" at some stage of their development. A template is simply a master copy of something which is replicated over and over again. For instance, let's say you hire a designer to create a custom web design for you. You want your website to look like nothing else on the web. That is how it should be. Your site should exude uniqueness. Here is what the web designer does.

Writing Content for Your Web Site

Note: This article was originally written for small business. However, many of the principles also apply to non-profit organizations.

Although a brochure site can have a multiple number of pages, they generally are 1-7 pages in size.

One Page Brochure Web Sites- Tools for Pre-selling

One page sites consist of your business name and logo (or main graphic), usually on a masthead or banner at the top of the page. The rest of the page consists of textual information about your company and services or products along with one or more graphics or photos to explain them and how they can benefit your web site visitor. You will also want to include contact information such as physical address if you have one, phone number, and email. The whole point of the page is to introduce your company and services or products and to list the benefits they provide to your prospective customer. The main thing you want to remember in writing your web page content is this: You want to "pre-sell" your visitor on your service or product so they will pick up the phone and call you or email you for more information. At that point, you can give your sales presentation to a live person who is interested in your services and products. When your prospect calls you or sends in an email request for more information, you web site has successfully fulfilled its main purpose.