Custom Website Development

Your business is unique - let us design and create a powerful web presence for you!

The days of one all-knowing webmaster are long gone. Web design development requires skills and expertise in many areas that fall under what many consider “website design/development”. Durkan Consulting is unique because we provide a high level of service and possess the widely varied skillsets required to make your website successful. The web is important to our clients. In many cases their website drives their business. You can read what clients have to say about Durkan Consulting Group.

Durkan Consulting Group wants to educate prospective and existing clients with terms that make sense - no confusing tech talk. Your project may not require all the components we list below, but based on your requirements, you get an idea of what would be important for your potential site/web project. Durkan Consulting brings the pieces together:

We design and develop clean, attractive, well branded websites that are easy to use

A successful site should be clean, easy to navigate and consistent to the owners' vision and ideas. This component entails design and overall user interface of a site. Durkan Consulting staff includes expertise in user interface design, graphics designers that are versed in Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and various other programs for developing logos, graphics and interfaces. Take a look at our Portfolio to get a sense of our design capabilities.

We build websites you can manage

Content Management Systems for websites is something Durkan Consulting Group has been providing to our clients for over 10 years. We offer much more than content management. With a website from Durkan Consulting Group, you can login to your “Admin Interface” and that allows you to manage all content and settings. For example:

Static Pages – A successful site will allow you to easily change your own content without any intervention from a technical resource. It should also be easy to do. With a site from Durkan Consulting Group, you can manage content on your pages via a “rich text editor” which is very similar to Microsoft Word in terms of ease of use. You can format/manage content, add pictures, etc. From the same page you can manage Search Engine Optimization settings or we will be glad to take care of the settings for you.
Keywords & Settings – You can change any settings on your site that may not be related to content. For example, with a Durkan Consulting Group site you can manage all keywords that are used in fields for dropdown choices, checkboxes, fields, etc. You can also determine what emails receive notifications when a form is submitted on your site, menu categories, etc.
Managing Any Other Content – There are a number of different scenarios that require you to store your content in a specialized format. Examples include FAQ, News, Events/Calendar. Products, Job Postings, Profiles/Bios, Document Libraries, Case Studies, etc. The Durkan Consulting Group Site Template and can easily meet any custom requirements.

We know data, xml, database design, schemas

Even the most basic Durkan Consulting Group websites are database driven. Do you have custom requirements for your site? Do you need your data integrated with a web service? Do you need data from an external system integrated with your site? We know data, schemas, normalization, and building highly customized web based sites and applications. If you have specific requirements we can help you.

We know how to optimize websites for search engines and increase traffic

Understanding web traffic is often integral to your website’s success. You need to understand organic listings vs. sponsored listings. You need to know how you can increase your li kelihood of being listed in Google and other search engines for specific keywords. Are Adwords for you, how do they work? Durkan Consulting can also explain how blogs and listings in social networks such as Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn and others can help your site’s presence and increase traffic on the web . Emailing newsletters, blogs, RSS feeds are all methods to increase your ranking with search engines and ultimately increase traffic and sales. It's not complex, but it is involved. We can help. We can explain it in simple terms. We increased traffic dramatically for many sites we redesigned. Be sure any web development/design firm can point to active sites they developed. Is it complete? Was it done within budget? Does the site deliver? Durkan Consulting Group allowed site owners complete control over their content and drastically increased traffic and usability for a number of sites such as kerbeck.com, ganderson.com, perryvidex.com, and more.

We have the soft skills, our style is to educate our customers and prospects

Tech skills are wonderful, tech skills get the job done at the end of the day. While necessary, tech skills only follow the vision and direction of the site owners. Often the business owners lack technical knowledge. Durkan Consulting educates, explains what can be done, in what timeframes, and what the cost will be - because we have the experience. We are business savvy. We build web sites and applications for various companies in various industries.

Durkan Consulting Group's approach is straight forward. During a short conversation, you will learn a lot about the web and all the components listed above. That’s the Durkan Consulting Group approach - we believe in sharing our knowledge and educating our clients. In our initial conversation, we provide you with a general assessment. When you speak with a Durkan Consulting representative you will speak with someone who can assess general time frames, cost, and more importantly, advise you regarding what is the most practical approach for your project.

We listen to our clients, we respect their expertise and ideas

Some design/development firms have the “we know better then you, we will handle it” approach. Durkan Consulting Group respects and appreciates our clients' individual expertise. While we will express our views, we always listen to you! However, we are not business consultants. We want to partner with companies who have goals and objectives for their web site or application.

We have a passion for the web and what we do

While you want your web development firm to be easy to relate to and discuss objectives, you still want a strong technical partner. For example, we are obsessed with building WC3 XHTML validated sites with tableless designs using pure CSS. We can handle mashes with Google Maps and XML data. We have partners who constantly find resources that are shared and allow us to work faster and smarter. Whether it’s a recently implemented heat map or an ajax based editing tool, we scour the web constantly for the latest and greatest articles, tools and widgets that will allow us to better service our customers. We enjoy what we do and are have expertise in various technologies and frameworks.

Lets talk about your website initiatives

Do you have some ideas for your website? Durkan Consulting Group will work with you to accomplish your goals and make your website a success. We have broad-spectrum skills not niche-oriented skills (e.g. graphics guys that don't understand data/optimization, or pure data heads that cannot make sites look sharp and intuitive). We create powerful, business-generating web sites to help your company grow! p>