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Lensvelt Houten Vloeren is a wood floor sanding company in the Netherlands. Sandra Lensvelt asked us to design the website based on the photograph of a whale skeleton in a museum where they’d sanded the floor. They also wanted a very clean design without any fuss. Read the rest of this entry »

David Koning is a game ranger in South Africa. His website is intended to share his bush experiences and some of his amazing photographs. The close encounters with the dangerous big five are harrowing and interesting to read. We designed his site to reflect his experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Juch runs mijnsandwich.nl, which offers lunches and refreshments to businesses in the area. Tom advised of his required colour scheme and sent us the famous lunch photograph to incorporate into his design. We created a skin for his webshop and he maintains all the products himself. Read the rest of this entry »

Jawa Meubel is a Dutch website that sells handcrafted Teak furniture. Husband-and-wife team, Astrid and Taufik personally select and import the pieces from Indonesia. Being a carpenter, Taufik ensures that the quality of each piece of furniture is up to standard. The carving detail on the old Teak is beautiful. Their website needed to reflect this wonderful quality product properly. Read the rest of this entry »

A colleague alerted us to a review that had been written in a Dutch trade magazine called Mobilia Vloeren about our flooring website, Floorstyle.nl. Our goal is to build user-friendly websites, but to hear this from an independent source … wow, that’s priceless. 

If you click on the thumbnail to the right, you’ll see a scanned copy of the magazine page in pdf format (614 kb) and below is an English translation. As the web designer and website owner, we are very pleased with the review!  Read the rest of this entry »

What is SEO?

If we take Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in account while we’re planning and designing your website, it means that search engines will be able to find your website pages and recognise your keywords. We are essentially telling them what your website page is about in a quick and efficient manner. We discuss white-hat SEO methods with our clients to ensure their website pages don’t get penalised in the long run, as is the case when black-hat methods are utilized.  Read the rest of this entry »

Why get a professionally-built website?

Not every website needs to be built by a professional, like personal family websites or casual hobby websites. And nowadays there are many websites and/or hosting packages that offer free website builders. Most are very easy to use, so go ahead (you can read more at category: “Self-Build“). However, if you’re serious about your website, then it should look professional.

The biggest reason for having your website designed by a professional, is to have a successful website that fulfils its unique purpose and achieves its goals.

Professional web design also saves you time (getting to grips with everything can be very time consuming) and gives you peace of mind (knowing that your website has had the best possible start). Our client’s websites are successful! They are found by search engines, and they make it easy for people to get what they’re looking for.

If you need to move your website to a different hosting provider for technical reasons, such as the current hosting package doesn’t meet the minimum requirements needed for a CMS website, or if you’ve found a better hosting provider that you’d like to move your website to, then you first need to check the termination clause in the contract with your existing hosting provider. Read the rest of this entry »

Gert van der Kolk is a flooring installer based in Hattem, the Netherlands. He requested us to build him a website similar to our own flooring website, Floorstyle. His goal was to attract clients in the area and encourage them to visit his showroom.

During the web design consultation, he requested that the styling be based on his business colours, which are reflected on his van. So we took a couple of photographs, and used that to create the bold design in accordance with Gert’s wishes. Read the rest of this entry »

Adding videos to a website really makes it seem to come alive. Professional videos are able to get your message across far more quickly than what a person can read on your website, providing extra information and credibility about products or services. They offer a “human touch” to the people visiting your website. Read the rest of this entry »

Another way to get links to your website is to join forums and blogs in your field of expertise. By offering useful information that other visitors will find helpful and interesting, you can establish yourself as an authority in the field. This should not be used as a marketing trick! Most forums and blogs require people to log in and to create a profile, which is where you can add a link to your website. Read the rest of this entry »

A sparkling new website isn’t effective until your best visitors can find it. Your best visitors are the people who are most likely to take advantage of what you’re offering. Website promotion takes an enormous amount of effort and dedication to achieve super high traffic results. Read the rest of this entry »

Promoting your website includes great search engine results (appearing at the top of their results pages), paid advertising, word-of-mouth, viral marketing, as well as links to / from your website. You should use all of these tools for a well-rounded marketing campaign. Read the rest of this entry »

Natural Ranking is Highly Sought-after

The most sought-after promotion tool is to rank highly in search engine results. This is known as organic ranking or natural ranking. A high organic ranking means that when a visitor types your keywords into a search engine, your website appears on the first page i.e. in the top 10 links. This is very desirable as very few visitors go past the second or third page of search results. Read the rest of this entry »

“Content is King!” is the motto for the Internet

It’s all about information. If your website provides unique, original content on your specific topic, then it’s very likely that you’ll be considered as a reliable source of information in your field. You might be asking, “Why do I need original or unique content, when so many other websites have the same information?” Well, that’s just it. Read the rest of this entry »