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"First of all, we focus on small business and strive to stay within your budget".

What do we do for you?
The reason you hire us is to get presence on the web that you are proud of and can be found by *Search Engines. We specialize in brochure sites, however we are not limited to these kinds of sites. Many of our customers are ecommerce enabled, information gathering form enabled and so on.

What do Brochure Sites do?
These kinds of sites serve to extend your company's vital information to the web. These sites give further credibility to your company and increased exposure as the site can be listed in your traditional marketing material such as Yellow Pages, Business Cards, Stationary, Fliers, etc.

What does all this cost?
As stated on the services page; our price range for building a custom website runs from just $300 to the top end of $1500.  On occasion we have met the needs of businesses up to the $2500 range, but our target market is usually served well at the $1500 limit.

How do we do it?
We create sites that fit your image. We will consult with you until we understand your business and how you want to be seen to the public. We create graphics from photos that you supply, photos we take during our visit to your location and misc. graphics and fonts you already use for your business.

Contact us for MembersCom Small Business Web Design today!
Philly Time uses their website to get their menus out on the web for ordering and catering purposes.  they also employ a catering form. Lastly, the restaurant has the ability to update their Twitter account, and those Tweets are reflected directly on their site's home page. This site employs Java Script, Flash and HTML.
Modern Paving Systems wanted a unique site to compete in the paving contractor's market in Kansas City. This is a crowded market, so he wanted to stand out. Visiting this site gives a potential customer a good feel for the company and an easy way to contact them. This site employs Java Script, Flash and HTML.
Blue Springs Painting Company is one of the best exterior painting companies in Missouri. There are 2 forms on this site, one is for estimates and the other is a 3rd party hosted form for testimonials that the customer can manage himself. This site employs Java Script, Flash and HTML.
We-Load-iT is a Junk Removal service similar to "Got JUNK?" They wanted a simple site that incorporated 3 colors. They wanted customers to move through the site easily and then order the service. There are 2 forms on this site. This site employs Java Script, Flash and HTML.
 
Custom Christmas Lighting is a holiday light hanging company who wanted a presence on the web to show that they were not a one year company. Rather, they have been in business since 1996. This site is used to educate the visitor in addition to setting appointments. This site employs Java Script, Flash and HTML.
 
Damage Control and Restoration, Inc. is a company that wanted to update their website. With the help of our associated graphics design firm, we came up with a new look and added some new functionality to the site.

 
Pilecap Inc. is a company that does highly specialized marine piling repair, cleaning and inspection. Although there site was optimized to get a high page ranking, the goal of the site was not being realized. We employed a Video Spokesperson to urge the visitor to make the call.
 
Aviation Solutions, LLC is an insurance company that specializes in aircraft insurance, pilot insurance and airport insurance. This site is enhanced with the use of 16 separate slide shows that change with the loading of each page. There are also two kinds of forms incorporated.
 
CCF Ministries is a church website that was created as a template for the church staff to update themselves. They have done a great job of adding and deleting information on a weekly basis.  This site employs a Flash intro, then a Flash and HTML site.
 
Auto Glass and Tint Shop is more than just the name of the business implies.  They also do auto detailing and sell a number products for your car or truck.  For their needs, we opted for a site that kept the menu visible all the time and added other content related links on the corresponding pages.  The site is very easy to navigate and the shop phone number is ever present!
 
Pave Guard Technologies, Inc. is a company with a new and innovative idea that needed to have information posted on the web that would tell about the product and how it works. This site is used by the owner as a marketing tool for the prospective clients he engages.
Enhanced Outdoor Living by Bentley is a construction company that builds decks, porches and generally enhances the outside of homes here in Kansas City. The site is a showcase for the work they have done, plus it provides contact information and background about the company and it's principal.
 
Hermit Central is a whimsical site, tongue-and-cheek place where anyone who feels fed-up and tired of all the constant annoyances of the world can go just to vent on the blog, or chuckle at some witty pros. This site also employs a degree of ecommerce through 3rd party vendors and also the use of the PayPal shopping cart.
 
Thom Baxter is the leader of an Olathe, KS Real Estate team.  He wanted to get out in front of the rest of the agents who simply use the company provided website.  We build a custom landing page for him that is attracting a lot more attention from the search engines than before.
 
Spectrum Station is a full service day care and learning center in North Kansas City. This site employs a floating menu that is never out of sight plus embedded videos, Google calendar, Google Photo Gallery (Picasa) and Google maps for location.
ABC Wiggles is a childcare site that incorporated all the information on one page. This technique is a practical and economical way to get your information on the web without getting bogged down with navigation decisions.
 
Ben's Grill is a product oriented site that not only tells about the item for sale, but also allows the sale of the item via PayPal. The site also utilizes a slide show to keep things interesting.

 
Televerge is a telecommunications company that needed all their vast services listed in one place so that potential customers could get more information on the particular service they were interested in.  Televerge is the company who provides MembersCom customers with high bandwidth internet connections!
 
Two Guys and a Grill is a mobile grilling business.  They use the web to host their menu and what their policies are. Their name is rather unique, we've been able to get them listed on the first page of many of the major search engines when searching for their company by name.  Pick a search engine and give it a try!
 
Wellness Works is a wellness company specializing in therapeutic massage.  They have many other services and they needed a website to describe them.  They also use the site to book appointments with an interactive appointment scheduling service.
Destroy Delusions is a "brochure" style site that's purpose is to post the latest lecture dates of the owner.  It also contains general information about the cause and contact information for those that are interested. Simple, but effective presence on the web!
 
KC Window Tint is a secondary site for the Auto Glass and Tint Shop home site. This company is expanding into residential and commercial "flat glass" tinting and wanted a site to showcase it.  However, they did not what to abandon their established business and search engine ranking with a brand new site that stood on it's own. Thus, a sub-site under their original site was employed.
 
This Marco Island, FL Condo for rent site serves the owners as a way for their prospective renters to 'peek' into the unit and get a feel for how they would be living during their vacation. It also lists the condo's availability and other pertinent information.
 
Das Auto Werk is an auto repair and sales company that specializes in Porsche, Audi and Ferrari automobiles. The site has been used for the sales of cars in the past. It is now an informational site used for contact information and to tell a little bit about the company.  Auto sales will return to the site in the near future.
 
Kalmortgage is a mortgage company in Kansas City. They wanted a website to host their newsletter and also give some other general information about their business.

 
Celebrity's Cafe is three sites in one.  There are 3 locations for this restaurant and the owner wanted one place on the web where customers could see all three at one time.  Each site looks a little different and have varying menus and coupons.
 
Roberto Espresso is a unique coffee and smoothie bar located in a large movie theater.  This site is used for exposure to all the various items that are available on the menu and to give information about the business and the various vendors that are used in order to deliver a superior product.  Also, there is a weekly listing of the latest movies coming out with links to the theater movie schedule.
 
Xielwear is an online sales oriented website incorporating PayPal as it's merchant account. This site explained the special fabric each shirt was made of and explains the unique qualities of said fabric by use of diagram and text. The PayPal buttons are built with 3 custom characteristics for each item.
 
 

Why Flashers Never Get Caught!

SEO Don’t: Using Fancy Flash Designs for Your Site
By Alexis Siemon

Optimizing your website for the search engines can help you get more traffic and, eventually, more sales. That’s why it’s so important to avoid certain website pitfalls. For instance, it’s a bad idea to use images for your critical site content. The search engines just can’t "see" content that’s in graphic form.

A close cousin to that potential SEO disaster is using Flash to design your website. If your designer or Web development firm suggests a cool Flash design, resist the temptation and say no.

This always makes my designer friends grumble, because they love to have the freedom to make a really cool Flash site. And I don’t blame them. But, alas, just like images, search engines can’t see content that is programmed in Flash.

Now, as I write this, news has come out that Google and Yahoo are working closely with the makers of the Flash program to rectify this issue. The two search giants are now able to crawl some Flash content. While this is exciting news, there are still limitations. Not all search engines are involved in this new development, and not all content contained within a Flash application can be crawled. To be on the safe side for now, you should still stay away from Flash.

Recently, I was asked to make a few suggestions on how to improve the SEO of a friend’s website. As soon as I saw that the site was designed exclusively in Flash, I knew the only piece of advice worth giving them: Redesign.

What should you do if you have a Flash site? Well, like I said to my friend, I recommend a redesign. If you are dead set on implementing Flash on your site, use it in non-critical areas only. Use HTML for your navigation and content and reserve the Flash for special areas where you would normally have images.

[MembersCom designers, with little exception, use only HTML, Java Script, XML, PHP and Pearl; all readily crawled by search engines for maximum ranking potential.]

 
 

*Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a phase related to the technique of making your website very friendly to search engines. It is an important part of building a useful website for business.  Without any optimization, your site may never be seen by anyone else than who you refer to the site directly.

If you want new people to find your site, you will have to do some SEO!

As a regular function of building a business website, MembersCom does do some SEO automatically; enough to be seen by the major search engines.  However, SEO is almost more of an art than a science and requires hours of planning and executing strategies for getting your site ranked. Ranking is different than listing! Secondly, SEO requires maintenance which means that proper SEO execution consists of constant testing and changing to meet the ever changing algorithms that search engine companies use to rank the pages they have crawled.

MembersCom limits SEO to a level that meets most budget minded customers.  However, if more attention to SEO is needed, we can recommend some excellent companies both in the area and nationally that can do a great job.

 

  
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