Few people visit the Internet without a purpose. Those who intend to access its wealth of information usually search and navigate with the help of signs, just as they would if traveling over real terrain. WebHarmony LLC never loses sight of the fact that your Web site is effective only if it is visited by the audience that you directed it to be designed for, and only if it is easy for that audience to understand and use.
WebHarmony LLC uses the environmental design principle of "wayfinding" to make certain that your Web site is easy to use by your target audiences. Wayfinding encompasses people's relationship to space, and the problem-solving processes used to reach a destination. This underlying principle for helping people find their way is as appropriate for virtual spaces -- such as Web sites -- as it is for real spaces.
Environmental designers have adopted the architect's phased approach to project development: planning, schematics and production. WebHarmony LLC adds to this mix long-term support for your developed Web site through our hosting and maintenance services. Here are some of the ways that WebHarmony will use the environmental design process to ensure that your Web site meets all of your goals:
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We will work with you to identify your target audiences, those audiences' needs, and the most cost-effective way to develop, present, maintain and update the information that your Web site will provide to them.
| | Schematics |
We will develop schematics of the Web site, including all navigation options to be presented to the site visitor. Through careful planning and a studied use of wayfinding principles, visitors can be directed to various areas of the site based on their previously-discerned needs. This enables a single Web site to appeal to a range of audiences while its size is kept to a minimum.
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Only after the first two steps are complete will we program and code the Web site. For any good Web site, the intended purpose drives the content and the content drives the design. WebHarmony LLC has proven expertise in translating a business' or organization's mission to the most effective computer-based design models available. In addition, we will provide programming elements that are invisible to the visitor that will exist to allow you to easily direct the updating and expansion of your Web site as future conditions dictate.
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Once your Web site is on line (usually a three-to four-week process from initial planning meeting to final production), WebHarmony LLC's commitment to you has just begun. All Web sites hosted by WebHarmony are registered with each of the major Internet search engines. In addition we perform quarterly reviews and re-registrations of each site as necessary. All WebHarmony LLC host agreements include monthly text updating of specific pages and the option is available for up to 24-hour updating as needed. For our domain name clients additional included host services are: automatically updated detailed site statistics, e-mail forwarding, and Perl and CGI scripting capability. For all clients optional host services include: e-mail, e-commerce shopping cart solutions, bulletin boards, chat rooms, redundant hosting, direct password-protected Web browser updating, streaming audio and/or video, listservs, and automatic list subscription.
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Each Web site that is created by WebHarmony LLC is unique in appearance and design, but all meet the goals of the businesses and associations that they represent. The decision to create a 24-hour, 365-day per year presence on the Internet is an important one. You can be assured that WebHarmony LLC is particularly well-suited to make sure that your Web site will be an accurate and professional representation of your business.
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