Website Services

Making Websites Work

Good web design doesn’t add up to much without being supported by good web development. It’s like a colossal storefront that lacks a functional warehouse, employee breakroom, supply closet, or loading dock. How unimpressive does that sound?

Web development is a complex topic, but it affects everything about your site. Like how quickly or slowly pages load. Like whether everything works the way it’s supposed to. The basics!

Passionate, overachieving creative superheroes...

Even a simple blog site requires expert web developers at several points along the way. Remember:

Your website’s front-end and back-end must work together.

This requires two key elements:

1. Strategic planning. This means meeting with you and figuring out what we’re going for… and how we can do it better than your competition.
2. Tactical solutions. The actual nuts and bolts that’ll make it possible to achieve your goals.

We’ve succeeded at it before… in fact, we do it everyday. Here is what we offer:

Strategic Planning

Our strategic planning services help to define the project goals, identify an effective communication strategy and develop a plan to achieve these goals. Whether your organizations objective is to sell products, generate leads, inspire people or improve client relations, we will develop a successful, creative solution suited to your needs and budget.

Website Design

We are a leading professional web design firm delivering exceptional web sites that are precisely built and meticulously maintained. We provide high-end web design, writing and web development solutions to our clients at competitive prices.

Recognized by both our colleagues and our clients, as a leading force in web design, GAV will create a website for you that defines your vision and your message. We staff the top professionals in our field to ensure that our web sites are visually striking as well as models of usability and functionality.

We’ll take a look at who your potential customers are, as well as who your competition is. We will take into account your current brand and your personal preferences and create a look for your website that you are truly happy with. Every website we build is custom made. Individuals, educational institutions, companies of all sizes, and non-profit organizations use our services. Whether you are looking for a small brochure-style website or a large website with a content management system and e-commerce, we have the experience to build a site that fits your needs.

Whether you are starting a new business, launching a new product, or feel it’s time to shake things up a bit, chances are you’ve come to realize that looking great is a necessity. We can help with that by applying our years of design experience, enhancing your company’s image, supporting your brand, and promoting your product or service with outstanding visual communications.

Why Choose Us?

Our experienced team can work with you and your staff to design a website that will reflect your corporate identity and appeal to your target audience. Our website designers are highly skilled using all the latest design and programming technology.

We will also work with your existing webmaster, marketing agency or previous web development firm to ensure a smooth and seamless transition of your web site. This includes the handling of duties such as domain name registration, email account setups, project management and much more.

We will take care of the technical needs for you, to ensure minimal disruption to your daily business activities.The website design process highlights what you would like your site to do, say and look like.

Here is our step-by-step process to a complete website design.

Website Design Process

Reason for Website: The first step in designing a website is determining the goals, purpose and function of the site. Take some time to look at your competitors sites and investigate your target market. This may influence the look and content of your site.

Content Pages and Navigation

The site design consists of colour, personality, layout and functionality. The most critical elements of website design are good navigation (so content can be found) and an attractive appearance. The graphic designer will use their creative talent to present a visual prototype.

Prototype Design

A prototype includes all website elements and design for approval by the business owner. Once the prototype design is complete, you can have a realistic image of what your site will look like and do.

The website prototype looks lovely but needs to be coded by specialized programmers to make it accessible and secure for search.

Testing

Before the much anticipated website launch, the site must be tested for broken links, bugs, slow loading times, and browser compatibility. It’s better to be proactive than reactive.

Official Launch and Promotion

Finally, your site is live for the world to browse! Start promoting your site by including it in your email signature and promotions. Write and distribute a press release, promote via social media, and submit your site to directories.

Creative, Professional Website Design 

We offer original, creative, professional and interactive web design. Our web sites are attractive, functional and at the same time affordable. The designs that we offer are both useful for visitors and profitable for website owners.

We make sure that your requirements are met and the results exceed your expectations by paying close attention to detail, and asking a lot of questions up front! This is how we build long-lasting relationships with our clients.

We are not limiting ourselves to web design in Vancouver only. We have clients all over North America and worldwide. Beside web design we offer a wide variety of other services: logo design, e-commerce development, hosting, internet marketing, SEO and many others.

Remember - your success is our success. Most of our web design customers work with us for years. We have one client who developed 9 sites with us for his different lines of businesses. This is why most of our orders come from repeat clients and referrals. Please take a look at our portfolio to see examples of our work.

If you need help deciding what you need or have other questions, please contact us. Our advice is always FREE.

Website Redesign

Is your website design out of date? Could you benefit from a more current design?

We have worked with many companies to redesign their existing website. A website redesign can involve simply improving the website appearance, web page navigation, search engine rankings, adding a content management system, making the site mobile or all of the above.

The evolution of social media, e-commerce, smart phones and increased online competition is having a significant impact on the need for continous website improvements. Here are a few other reasons to possibly consider a website redesign if it has been more than a few years since the initial design.

Interested in a Website Redesign?

If your website is old or outdated we can upgrade the look and feel. We have worked with many companies to redesigning their exisiting website.

A website redesign can involve simply improving the website appearance, web page navigation, search engine rankings and content management or all of the above.

Top 15 Reasons for a Website Redesign:

• The site looks amateur or parts are broken
• There is little or no lead generation actions
• The navigation links are poorly named or misleading
• The inner pages are difficult to navigate
• The information on this site is dated
• The body text is hard to read
• The site is hosted on a limited server
• The site can't be found by search engines
• The page layout and design is inconsistent among pages
• The site is incompatible with certain web browsers
• The site content is mostly graphic or flash
• The site has a high bounce rate
• The website visitors are complaining
• The competition is fierce
• Your business is current with the new age but the website is not

We will help you redesign a website according to your audience's needs. A website must capture the visitors attention with new information, an attractive design and compelling content that is easy to navigate.

Whether you want to hire us to redesign your website, make it easy for you to update your website or provide you with new ideas, we can help. Click here for more information on the website design process or please click here to request a free website redesign consultation.

Web Development

Meet our Gurus

Our talented team of developers are extremely well-versed in the complete development of websites from front-end, standards compliant code to database-driven dynamic content and the content management systems (CMS) to easily manage that content.

Our team of highly experienced developers are skilled in Cold Fusion, PHP, MY SQL, Flash and more.

We can create a specific application for your website or upgrade your existing one. We have our own in-house programming team. Because of this we can offer first rate support to our clients, who if necessary can actually talk to the programmer working on their site, if they need to.

We do our own programming, and have developed a wide range of web related applications which are second to none. Almost every week we come to the rescue of a client whos programmer has has proven unreliable.

Domain Management

From domain name acquistion to renewals...

We'll research the best domain names, renew your current domain and transfer hosting services. Our diverse team of exports can handle whatever your needs are.  Some key services include:

• We are certified by CIRA for .ca registrations, and an OpenSRS reseller for the domains.
• Our registration system is easy to use, and provides a wide range of advanced features
• DNS service (point your domain anywhere)
• Web forwarding (often called cloaking or URL gripping,
• Web redirection
• Domain parking (a "coming soon" web page)
• E-mail forwarding: For a small fee, you can enable a very powerful mail forwarding system with multiple levels of spam filtering.
• If you are a non-profit we can host your website at a low monthly rate.
• Automatic domain name renewals so you never have to worry about expiration and someone taking your domain name.
• Domain watch for expiration of websites that you would like to acquire.

Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems (CMS)'s are becomming more and more popular.   We are well versed in our preferred CMS - Joomla and also develop websites for WordPress and Drupal.  Content Management Systems allow you to manipulate large amount  of text files in an easy affordable way.

While we can develop with any CMS, we prefer the industry standard.... Jooma!

Strategic Planning

Our strategic planning services help to define the project goals, identify an effective communication strategy and develop a plan to achieve these goals. Whether your organizations objective is to sell products, generate leads, inspire people or improve client relations, BlueLuna will develop a successful, creative solution suited to your needs and budget.

Design

Whether you are starting a new business, launching a new product, or feel it’s time to shake things up a bit, chances are you’ve come to realize that looking great is a necessity. We can help with that by applying our years of design experience, enhancing your company’s image, supporting your brand, and promoting your product or service with outstanding visual communications.

Search Engine Optimization

Our search engine optimization services ensure your website will receive relevant, targeted visitors through Google, Yahoo and Bing as well as many other search engines. Our all-inclusive approach covers the many facets of SEO, simplifying the process and delivering results. Results we rely on — we’re ranked #1 out of 50 million and that doesn’t happen by accident — take a look.

Social Media

We can develop online social media tools that effectively communicate with your audience, gain market insights, demonstrate personality, increase customer loyalty and ultimately increase revenue.

E-Commerce

Managing a lucrative E-business entails attracting and servicing customers without the benefit of face-to-face contact. Assure your success with a full range of E-commerce tools and services.

Providing the tools you need to generate revenue.

We provide a full spectrum of e-commerce functionality from shopping carts to reservations systems, our developers will customize your website to generate revenue for your products, quickly, effectively and to suit your budget.

Search Engine Optimization

How will people find you?

Search engine optimization allows customers and search engines to find your site. Investing in SEO services will help reduce your spending on yellow page and web advertising.

Achieving top search engine listings is important for businesses small and large. A good search engine ranking results in more visitors and increased lead generation. Do a quick search using keywords that describe your business and see what page you are found on. This will give you an idea of whether you need some expert assistance ranking your website. 

We offer SEO services to clients as part of a monthly maintenance plan. Our SEO specialist implements traditional and creative methods to increasing your site’s search engine ranking while improving the bounce rate, time on site, and website conversions.

Social Media

We can develop online social media tools that effectively communicate with your audience, gain market insights, demonstrate personality, increase customer loyalty and ultimately increase revenue.

Our social network websites are custom built to reflect your vision and your goals. Our internally designed and developed social network software packages include comprehensive branding and interface design solutions (to include custom logo design and brand development) by our award-winning design staff and the ability to easily enhance your website as the community grows. The social network software offered by us has been created from the ground up and does not originate from any free or paid open source software. Similarly, custom add-on features are constructed from scratch for optimum integration into our PHP-driven social network framework.

Website Maintenance

We don't just develop and then dissapear...

We offer a number of flexible website maintenance plans. A website with fresh content will experience improved search engine rankings, decreased bounce rates, and improved visitor experiences. Knowing that your website will be updated in a timely fashion and that a qualified team is always on your side has its advantages.

Website Maintenance Packages

We know that companies are looking for more ways in which to cut costs, making outsourced web maintenance a popular choice.  We offer Website Maintenance Services packages with non-expiring maintenance hours for companies that require regular website maintenance, website upgades and content revisions and on-going SEO Search Engine Optimization but don't want the expense and commitment of a full-time staff position.

A monthly website maintenance plan is the perfect solution for any company that isn't sure how much maintenance help they will need.  The majority of our clients register for the most popular monthly maintenance plan. This includes sufficient time for technical updates, content updates, website marketing, analytics reporting, SEO & much more. Our pricing is very competitive, on average our clients pay $100-$175 per month.

Choosing an outsourced website maintenance service provides a similar value of employing a full-time marketing employee for 1/5th of the cost.

Whether you require regular or periodic website updates, could benefit from SEO services, or would like to stay informed of our website analytics; we deliver.

Contact us to request more information on our monthly website maintenance packages. We provide free website consultations to assess the current status of your website and can provide recommendations for the overall improvement, appearance and marketing of your website.

Support

Not sure what your analytics statistics are saying? Or maybe you’ve just hired a new staff member who needs a crash course on the inner-workings of your Content Management System? Whatever the case, our staff is always available for our clients when they need our help. Especially after a project has wrapped. We also offer term-based maintenance and support services to be sure things stay exactly the way you want them.

Like what you see?

Want to start a project or just simply say hello? We’d love to hear from you! If you have a project in mind or want to learn more about our services and capabilities, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We take great pride in having a hands-on approach with all of our clients and would be more than happy to arrange a meeting to introduce ourselves and find out more about your project needs.