Services

Website Design and Development

Confluence creates graphical website designs from scratch to rival the most expensive web design firm in town. Just because our designs cost less, doesn't mean they aren't as stunning and perfectly tailored to our clients. We just don't charge as much.

We learned early on that web design needs to be done by artists, not programmers. Our talented designers have degrees in art and design, not computer science and engineering.

In addition to creating unique designs from scratch, we can execute a "face lift" of your website. This is a relatively low cost way to take a site that is showing its age, and/or has been incrementally modified internally over time so it has lost its way, and spruce it up, make it consistent, and more pleasing to the eye. Check out the "before" and "after" examples to the right.

You won't find a "Confluence style" in our portfolio because the designs we create reflect the design preferences of our clients, not of us.

Our design process starts with the creation of a new site architecture. The organizational structure of the site reflects the priorities of each organization's constituents and visitors. We use modern techniques such as card sorting (a simple technique to guide people familiar with an organization's mission and website content in creating a category tree — and we use Post Its! How fun is that!).

Confluence can help you survey your public web audience to gather ideas of functions of interest and make sure you really know what people want from your site. We are experts in social media, providing advice and recommendations of how it can be leveraged effecctively. Our implementations are secure, attractive, and fast loading.

Unlike many design firms, we never force our clients to host a site through us. We provide recommendations on the most reliable and affordable hosting services and help you get signed up. In our world view, web hosting should be a direct relationship between a web hosting company (where this is their #1 line of business) and a web site owner. We will maintain the website, and help mediate any issues that might arise as desired.