Web Design and Development

What is a website? A website is simply a collection of pages containing information that you would like conveyed to others. These pages are organized in a way that is both easy to understand and easy to navigate. They are designed to please to the eye and reinforce the written information with visual cues. These days everyone is busy, and in most cases it's much quicker to go to an intuitive URL (web address) than to pick up the phone. A website serves as a 24/7 representation of your business, communicating not only your products and/or services, but also the answers to most of the questions someone would typically handle with a phone call. This saves time for both your customers and your employees, and ensures that one customer will get exactly the same information as the next one, 365 days a year.

Web Hosting and Maintenance

After a website is created, it needs a "home" that your customers can "visit." Whether you need Windows or Linux hosting, we can price-match just about any other provider out there, and because we administer our own servers (as opposed to simply reselling other provdiders), we guarantee unrivaled support for your site.

Ask us about special discounts available if we design and host your site! We generally provide generous discounts when we design and host your site. This ends up saving you money in the long run, because if your designer and your host are two seperate entities, you usually have to make two phone calls (and pay two bills). If we create your site, that means we know it inside and out, and can update it quicker (ergo, cheaper) because it's running on our own servers. It's just one more way we save you money.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." You've heard it from your mother, business associates, and maybe even a few horses. Even if you have the best product or service available on the market today, no one knows it's the best unless you tell them. After your site has been designed, you want people to see it, right? Of course you do!

Several technologies and practices exist to bring people to your site, and we're here to help you decide what's right for your business or organization. FDG is an experienced publisher of Google AdWords, the industry-leading targeted advertising program from Google. Our in-house artists also create eye-catching ad banners that work with ad exchange or direct advertising programs. We also work with great local advertisers to maximize your exposure.

Translation and Internationalization

Are you looking to expand your business into new countries or regions? Get your message across with an internationalized website!

We offer professional, certified translation in a number of languages. Our translators are bilingual native speakers that work in one (and only one) target language. Currently we offer translation in Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, and Mandarin.

Rollovers / Independent Consulting

If you've got a website that you're unhappy with, or would like to expand beyond the capabilities of your current website or communication firm, we can help you! No matter what your situation is, we can completely reverse-engineer your site, and in many cases work with your existing provider(s) so that you're not paying twice for the same product or service.

We can also work with existing providers (such as a graphic designer, copywriter, or other "web guys") on an independent consulting basis, providing you with professional advice on only the specific items that you need.