Web & Multi-Media Design

Communicate By Design has been evolving with the marketplace for 20 years offering not only print related graphic design, but also web design & development.

Applying the Reverse Engineering Process to Web & Multi-Media Design

Creating & deploying your next web or multi-media project requires a design & development team with experience and knowledge; asking the right questions and helping you make the best decisions. Experienced builders understand every facet of their craft—from the proper medium to the density of their paint. A design company is no different.

Before building a house, you examine floor plans and models to determine style, size, and flow of your home. All of these decisions are made based on your style, and preferences. We apply that same principle to web design & development. Most people manage their projects from beginning to end. But that's backwards.

Following a "backwards", phased approach we work from wire frame, the structure of your website, to design, the look, to testing, and finish with deployment. Always checking to make sure that all of the elements complement and support each other.

Expertise to make sure you are seen

A key to a successful website is search engine optimization (SEO), or making sure you are seen. To maintain your website's proper level of search engine optimization, we take the following steps when building or maintaining a web presence:

• Designing for Content
  Search engines can't visually comprehend a website. They can only "read" the content of your website. We design and develop a site with a clear coded hierarchy to help the search engine understand and index the content of your website.
• Keywords, Links, and Titles Meet Content
  Search engines use "meta keywords" and "meta descriptions" to assist in determining your site's ranking. The more commonalities there are between the keywords, page titles, "meta descriptions", and the site content, the more visible your site will be for searchers. We work with you to build a series of appropriate "meta keywords" and "meta descriptions" establishing a better position in search engine results.
• Standards-Compliant XHTML Code
  We develop all of our sites using modern programming standards which increases the ease with which search engines move through a website.