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Custom Web Site Design

When contracting with Forthea for Custom Web Site Design in Houston, you can expect a professional website that combines the highest standards for usability and style. The design will also incorporate best practices for search engine optimization, paving the way for optimal website marketing.

Style in a Forthea Custom Web Site Design

Your website is often a user's first impression of your business. When working with Forthea, you can expect a custom web site design that accurately reflects your business image and is appealing to users.

A great web site design is attractive, appeals to a wide range of visitors, and targets your specific market. The graphic designers at Forthea will work closely with you to create unique designs that blend usability with style. Users will feel comfortable browsing, and the high quality experience will breed creditability.

Usability of a Forthea Custom Web Site Design

Usability is a primary focus, not an afterthought, in any Forthea custom web site design project. We achieve usable sites by designing, developing and implementing efficient and intuitive user interfaces, easily navigable site architectures, and natural information categories.

If your web site design needs to follow special standards, such as the federal government's U.S. Section 508 requiring government owned websites to be accessible to the visually impaired, that's not a problem. All our sites are custom-coded by our in-house development team which can make sure it meets your accessibility requirements. From concept to launch, Forthea focuses on creating an interactive, user-centered design.

Forthea Custom Web Site Design is Web & Search Engine Friendly

In addition to usability and style, a great web site design should be web and search engine friendly. It should comply with standards set by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the international authority on web standards, and should make growth, including content and popularity, effortless. When you begin marketing a website one of the first steps is to implement search engine optimization, which includes ensuring your site is accessible to search engines. Your web designer should understand how major search engines crawl and index sites and be aware of webmaster guidelines set by those search engines.

A great looking website is virtually useless if no one can find it because your web designer used techniques specifically prohibited in a search engine’s guidelines. By considering SEO in the design and development process, you avoid the cost for redesign or modification, when it comes time to market the site.

As experts in web site design as well as web development and SEO in Houston, Forthea delivers websites ready for robust online marketing campaigns.

Contact us to learn more about custom web site design in Houston and get a project started.


Did You Know

  • 85% of the world's population uses the internet to make purchases.
    Source: Neilson Ratings

  • 93% of all internet traffic is driven through search engines.
    Source: Forrester Research

  • 78% of online consumers rank web design as most important for judging business credibility.
    Source: Stanford University

  • Over 500 million search queries originate from the US every day.
    Source: comScore

  • SEO, PPC and Email Marketing provide the highest return on investment (ROI) of ALL marketing vehicles.
    Source: SEMPO

  • Online ad spending now surpasses newspaper advertisting.
    Source: eMarketer

  • US online retail purchases totaled over $150 billion in 2010.
    Source: eMarketer

  • More than half (53.5%) of B2B marketers are using Social Media as part of their marketing strategy.
    Source: BtoB

  • Moving from the #11 to #10 spot in Google, leads to a 143% increase in traffic for that keyword phrase.
    Source: Chitika

  • The top spot in Google search results drives double the traffic of the #2 spot and more than #5 through #20 combined.
    Source: Chitika

  • Internet ad spending is expected to pass $30 billion in 2012 and break the $40 billion barrier in 2014.
    Source: eMarketer

  • 50% of active Facebook users (175+ million) log into the site at least once a day.
    Source: Facebook

  • LinkedIn has 50 million members. Twitter has over 75 million.
    Source: LinkedIn & Twitter

  • More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook.
    Source: Facebook

  • 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog.
    Source: Econsultancy

  • 50% of the top 1 million websites (by Alexa rank) use Google Analytics.
    Source: Google