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Welcome to Webmasters United Web Development
Our Website Development Practices
Webmasters United is a Wisconsin based website development company. We design everything from plain XHTML pages to full scale dynamic CMS sites. We develop with the highest web standards with SEO in mind to keep your site at the top in its field. We cover North East Wisconsin including Oconto, Oconto Falls, Marinette, Green Bay, the Fox Cities and obviously the World Wide Web. Hello and welcome, my name is Jeff a.k.a. topdown, the owner of this site and I am a website developer/ website designer. I preach web standards to my customers and on free support communities that I belong to. I spend a lot of time writing code for OS (Open Source) projects and also for users throughout the phpBB communities that I either own or I am on their staff, like Star Trek Guide Forums which put me on their Styles Team for my experience in Web Design, XHTML strict table-less layouts, and CSS knowledge. For those of you that don't know, on a site this size, being on the team is a very prominent position. Most customers don't realize how much sites that have non valid code can affect their business. You can have the best looking web design around, but if it's not coded properly you can and most likely will loose potential clients.
Take this into consideration, you're going to buy a new house and you Google Search for the local realty companies in your area. So you click the link for the site that lists right at the top of Google because that's probably the best company. The page loads and suddenly your browser crashes because of some bad code in a script they have on their site for the navigation. Now you tell me, are you still going to try and buy a home from that company, probably NOT. Here is a more common example, the page loads fine but it is all broken up because they didn't test all web browsers compatibility. This is very common, because a lot of browsers do not support code the same, so you end up with broken sites in some browsers that display fine in others. Some developers either don't care or are to lazy to test their code.
Web Standards, Valid Code and Browser testing
This is where I do things a little different. I develop all web sites to be XHTML strict and CSS 2.0.1 compliant and show you how to test the pages so you can see for your self. It's just a simple link
Then we go through and test your site in all popular browsers and different OS's (types of computers, PC / Mac), oh yes, that makes a difference also.. Furthermore because your new site is built to the latest in web standards, in the future when new standards are set instead of dumping the broken site it's as simple as a couple little changes (very minimal).Web Application Security
We also take the same time and consideration when developing a custom CMS content management system, custom scripts or any type of server side programing. A lot of people don't realize the security measures needed when developing web applications. Applications need to be well planned out, tested properly and then reviewed (read through every line of code) again and again before it is put into live use. These can be very time consuming and passed over to save money. It's not worth the savings. Instead be prepaired to spend a large amount of money and have your application developed correctly. Not doing so can create security issues and problems that will cost you a lot more than the developing.
SEO, Search Engine Optimization
When we develop a website SEO is always kept in mind. Don't get sold on some company trying to sell you a #1 spot. It is imposible to guaranty something like that. See for your self, a quote from Google
Article link
Google wrote:No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.
Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through our Add URL page or by submitting a Sitemap and you can do this yourself at no cost whatsoever.
If you read that page in full, you will see that any type of promises for SEO are slim to none. What we can do is competition analysis to see what is working for them. Analyze your content, keywords and code to make sure that it does your site justice in ranking. Then it goes through a rigorous testing faze with tracking and analyzing to see what your content is doing for your Google Ranking. Then we do it over again until it gets you up to the top where you business can get noticed (No guarantee, just keep working until its right).
Lets Sum It Up
These are the aspects of website development (and a lot more) that you need to keep in mind when pursing a web developer for building you a website or web application. Hopefully you can see from what I have wrote that it is not as simple as through something together in DreamWeaver or FrontPage, (Help the internet, don't hire someone using those programs). If the developer can not write his own code by hand, then he is not worth a penny. This is not counting application development as that takes an IDE (is not like DreamWeaver) which you can see in another article on this site.
So that pretty much sums up my standard in web development. You can see a full list of our services here Website Development Services
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