Our Services
Harvest Moon Design specializes in creating high-quality,
professional web sites for small-to-medium-sized companies and organizations. Regardless
of your budget, we can deliver an effective online presence that will help attract and
retain customers and help boost your business and your image. Along the way, we'll explain
everything we do in terms you can understand. We pride ourselves on making it as easy as
possible for our clients to establish themselves on the web.
Harvest Moon Design can develop your web site
from start to
finish, from concept to publishing and promotion. Or you can bring your ideas to us and
let us turn them into reality. Do you already have a site that just needs some work? We
love to tinker, and we'll speed up those slow-loading graphics (often improving
quality in the process), improve your site's navigation, fix cross-browser compatibility
problems and discuss ideas to freshen up your site.
While we do build the foundation of our sites using Microsoft
FrontPage 2000, much of our page building is done by hand-coded HTML
and/or server-side scripting languages like PHP, ASP, and JSP. We find that this
approach gives us a combination of efficiency and flexibility that can't be accomplished
using just one or the other. And we never (unless you really want us to) use FrontPage
themes or templates, or any other cookie-cutter approach, to design our pages. Each site
is designed from scratch to ensure that your online presence is an appropriate reflection
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Harvest Moon Design can create custom graphics and animations
for your web site, or we can convert your photos, artwork, doodlings, etc. into web-ready
images that will breathe life into your site. Back to top
PHP, ASP, JSP, CGI, Java, and JavaScript can add excitement and
interactivity to your site, and Harvest Moon Design can do them for you. We'll never
try to sell you on these or any other technologies, however, unless we feel it will truly
enhance your site. Unnecessary programs and animations take up space, can slow download
times, and frustrate your visitors, often prompting them to leave your site before your
message even reaches them. Probably not what you have in mind when you're trying to
establish yourself on the web. Used sparingly, however, they can add real value, and fun,
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Harvest Moon Design can link your database to your web site,
or build a database for you, and then build a custom web-based interface for database administration.
Many of our customers enjoy the convenience of being able to make their
own web site updates (event schedules, special offers, monthly
publications, etc.) without having to know a single line of code or
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Harvest Moon Design can register your site with the major
search engines, and we'll use META tags, titles, descriptions, alternative
text-representations for images, and other strategies to maximize the chances that your
site will be near the top of the search results. We'll also give you lots of ideas for
marketing your site through more traditional channels. Back to top
If you'd like, Harvest Moon Design will maintain and update
your site, whether or not we created it. Or, if you're a do-it-yourselfer, we'll tell you
what you need to know and what software you'll need to maintain the site
yourself, or we can build a database-driven site that you can maintain
without any special software or programming knowledge. Either
way, it's critical to the success of your web site that your content be kept fresh and
that your visitors will come back again and again to find out what's new. Back
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Harvest Moon Design will happily advise you on how to select
the internet service provider (ISP) that is right for your needs and budget. Back to top
If your chosen ISP doesn't offer web hosting services, or if
its hosting services don't meet your needs, Harvest Moon Design will help you find an
affordable alternative. We can help you determine what is a good deal for
you and what isn't. Back to top
Regardless of who hosts your site, if you want your address
to be
www.yourcompanyname.com
instead of something like
www.webmall.com/clients/businesses/pages/yourcompany.com
(you get the idea) then you'll need to find an available name
and register it with a domain registrar such as Register.com
or Network Solutions. Many web
hosting services will handle the registration process for you at no extra charge; you only
pay the domain registrar, who will bill you directly. Please don't let anyone charge you a lot of
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Got a question about the internet, the World
Wide Web, and
how it all works? Don't understand the difference between gif and jpg
or between Java and JavaScript? Wanna know what a
Digital ID is? SSL? CSS? PHP? JSP? Just drop us a line
and we'll respond within 24 hours where possible. Advice is always free. If we don't know
the answer to your question, we'll try to direct you to someone who does. Back
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Pricing
Although we don't publish a rate sheet, we will provide you
with a project estimate up front, based on your individual needs. We charge an hourly rate
only for work that we do for you. That is, there is no "setup" fee, no monthly,
quarterly, or yearly charges, etc. We don't charge you for doing nothing!
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