Silverlake Design Studio

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How Does Your Site Measure Up?

We meet with a lot of businesses who do so many amazing things, but we often find their websites unable to match up with the owner's long-term vision. Our favorite thing is to empower you (business leaders) to show off what you do and know so well... which may mean rescuing your site visitors from getting caught in a time warp to 1992.

FOR US, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT BUILDING A SITE IS FLEXIBILITY FOR GROWTH. 

We know you don’t want to build or completely re-haul a website every two years, or maybe ever again! I haven't worked on a website that didn't eventually outgrow it's original intent in some way. This can come from your business growth, a new venture or any number of positive changes. These positive changes are what we build and anticipate with any site, whether it's a site needing a fresh start or just some updates.

We recently got to work with a business owner in this exact spot. They had dropped a lot of money on a site (which does look great!), but all that hard earned money just didn't take them where they were aiming long term. We're getting them there, but the right foresight would have us making a few tweaks at this point instead a sweeping rebuild.

WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE SITE CHANGES...WITHOUT HAVING A PHD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE!

Or regular upkeep may be an issue, great, let us help with that too.  Big or small, the goal is the same- next time you need something changed, you’re not looking at a huge web invoice heading your way.

Our vision is your vision! Our tools for making this happen aren't just the latest and greatest, they are also time-tested and future minded. We don’t know what your needs will be tomorrow. We'll probably all be browsing the internet through virtual reality goggles on our way to Mars or something in about 3 years (I mean, Squarespace already has a prototype...probably.) So, leave it to us to make sure your business is ready and on the front-end when the next wave of technology hits.

Now, thinking ahead is a great start, but what is it we actually do?

Fantastic question, let us show you! Today we're starting a web series to share with you everything we know and everything we're learning in this ever-changing internet world. Here are some of the things we'll be covering:

  • SEO - Search engine love
  • E-commerce - If you sell it, they will come
  • Speed Kills - Improving your site's load time
  • Responsive Design - Your site looking great on every device
  • Copywriting - Write for humans and robots at the same time

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Nathan Pruzaniec

Tenured professor at the School of Hard Knocks - Web department and future astronaut.