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Blue Ridge Media Web Design
Blue Ridge Media established in 1998, is a North Carolina web design company, located in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.
We provide our business customers with a full range of web design services.
As professional North Carolina web designers, we specialize in Search Engine Optimization and Quality Web Designs written in Error Free Code!
Error Free Coding - SEO Results
I learned how to design websites back in 1996, when the only way to design websites was to learn the HTML code. We still handwrite every website using industry standard HTML code. Our ‘Old School’ coding approach ensures that all of our HTML Code is Error Free.
We are one of the few web design companies who actually post a large list of our Proven SEO Results for you to see. We believe our top ten search engine ranking customers in Google speak for themselves!
Scott - Static Web Designer
Scott, an Electronic Engineering Technologist, and ‘Silicon Valley Refugee’, has worked in the high tech computer industry since 1979 for the Top Technology Companies; Apple, IBM and Motorola.
Contact Scott at (828) 265-2730.
Meta - Staff Photographer
Meta, a freelance photographer, is the staff photographer. Meta brings her detailed knowledge of digital photography to the web design team. Meta, a RN, also operates Meta Data Legal Nurse Consultant.
Contact Meta at (828) 443-4277.
Important Questions To Ask When Hiring a Web Design Company!
Can you show me online proof of your search engine optimization results?
• We have posted a long list of our Proven Search Engine Optimization Results, using common search phrases!
• We only use Ethical SEO - No Black Hat SEO - No Link Farms - No SEO Scams - See our Proven SEO Results!
• We submit your website monthly to the major search engines until you obtain a valid Google PageRank Score!
• We include Search Engine Optimization with every website - At no extra charge! See our Proven SEO Results!
Do you have any customer comments and recommendations?
• We have posted an extensive list of our actual Customer Comments!
Do you charge any monthly maintenance fees?
• We don’t charge any monthly maintenance fees! Always ask your web designer about maintenance fees!
• We don’t charge for simple updates, like adding a link! If it takes longer to print the invoice, the update is free!
How much does website hosting and domain name registration cost?
• Website Hosting through Becotech runs about $9/month.
• Domain Name Registration through Becotech runs about $12/year.
• We don’t make markup or make a profit on these two services.
Who’s name will my domain name be registered to?
• Domain Name Registration is always registered to you, in your name only.
• Your Domain Name will never be registered to the web design company or to the hosting company.
How long will it take to get my website online?
• If you have all your content ready to go, your website will be online within 3-5 business days.
How long do you take to make updates and changes?
• We promise a 24 hour response time on all updates and changes!
• Most updates and changes are made within a few hours.
What type of visitors counters do you use?
• We only use Unique Visitors Counters - We Count Real People - Never Page Loads!
• We will encode your Google Analytics tracking code into every web page.
How long have you been in business?
• We have been designing websites since 1996 - back in the early days of the Mosiac web browser!
• We have been in the Professional North Carolina Web Design business since 1998!
• You work with U.S. based, English speaking, Professional Website Designers, during normal Business Hours!
• We consider web design to be a Marketing Business.
• There are a plenty of artistic and animated websites that never get found.
What about my privacy?
• We don’t keep records of our customer’s E-Mail passwords, so we don’t have access to your E-Mail account.
• We don’t accept credit cards, so we don’t have access to your credit card information.
• Your website account information will not be sold or shared with anyone.
Check Out Our Customer Comments! Contact Any of Our Customers for a Reference!
Five Common Mistakes in Web Design
1) Do-It-Yourself - What may seem like an inexpensive solution, can often end up becoming a coding nightmare, and end up costing you a lot more. How much expensive graphic software did you have to purchase? Do you know what you are doing? Did you have to pay for software training classes? Does your business website look professional? Is your website easily found in the major search engines? Do you have broken links and broken images? Does your HTML code pass W3C Validation? Can you fix all your HTML coding errors? Does your website display correctly on different browsers? Do you honestly know what you are doing? The majority of our new business is from do-it-yourself websites customers.
TIP: If your Title says ‘Home’, ‘Untitled’, ‘Untitled Document’, or your URL, then You Marketing Needs Our Help!
2) Do-It-Yourself Template Websites - Most do-it-yourself template websites come with very little or no technical support. You are often very limited on what you can change in the HTML code. Some template sites even leave out the important META TAGS and any Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so you will not be found. Many template sites are often riddled with hundreds of HTML coding errors, many of which can’t be fixed. Most have no FTP access to the host servers. Many templates have banner ads attached to the bottom of every page, which are impossible to remove. You will often end up paying a lot extra for website hosting, because the template website only works on the provider’s own server - not your own. Many templates are just cheap overseas knockoffs, filled with duplicate content which is bad for SEO. There’s an old saying ‘You Get What You Pay For’, and that certainly applies to template websites.
3) All-Flash Websites - All-Flash websites might look great on the page, but as we like to point out, there are many great looking All-Flash websites that no one will ever find in the major search engines. Unless all of your pages can be indexed with real text (something Flash Websites don’t have), the search engines are not going to be able to find them. First page text content is critical for the first page of any website. All-Flash websites are typically very large animation files, making them unusable by slow speed internet users. What you end up with is an expensive, and bloated All-Flash website that no one will ever find in the search engines. Flash as content can be used as an effective graphic enhancement if the Flash files are small enough, replacing a photo or slideshow for example. All-Flash should never be used as the coding foundation for an entire website. Flash websites do not run on Apple’s iPhone, iPad Touch or iPads. The new trend is converting All-Flash websites into HTML5, which is supported by all Apple devices.
4) Relative Sites - Everyone has a relative, a niece or nephew in high school or college that just completed a web design class, and is eager to put your business website online as their next school project. The internet marketing of your business is far too important to trust to amateurs - no matter who they might be related to!
5) Telemarketers - Telemarketing companies will often try to sell you on their Search Engine Marketing Programs, many involving Doorway Pages and Link Farm Scams! Most of these telemarketing companies are based overseas, but some operate in the United States as well. This is where they sell you links on a large number of duplicate websites in order to ‘artificially’ boost your Google PageRank score. If you think you can fool Google - then you are the greater fool!
North Carolina Web Design by Blue Ridge Media
PO Box 1571, Blowing Rock, NC 28605
Studio Hours: 1000 - 1800 EST | M - F Please Do Not Call Outside of Studio Hours
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