Al Achi Advertising approached ACA Web Consulting with the vision of creating a fresh and minimalistic approach to their web site to convey their services in a straight-forward, engaging fashion. The result…a visually aesthetic site design that engages their audience.
Outsourced website design, development, PHP programming, PayPal shopping cart integration, video optimization and logo design for Betty’s Brittle in Murrieta, California.
Outsourced website design/development and logo design for San Diego Pool Contractor.
ACA Web Consulting was approached by Buttercream Dreams owner Lauren S. to create a website that would showcase her cakes and generate internet leads for her wedding cake business. The finished product elicits a rich warm feeling with an interactive slide show on the homepage and photo galleries to highlight her stunning bakery talent. SEO has boosted Buttercream Dreams rankings to 1st page Google and Yahoo results within 3 months.
“You can’t believe all the business I have received from my website! It truly is amazing and my business has taken off! I get requests for quotes daily. Thank you so much.”
Take care,
Lauren
7/22/09
Auto repair website in Van Nuys.
Outsourced web design and development and logo design.
“Hi Anita,
I wanted to thank you again for the great job you did for me on my website. I get responses every day from prospective clients. It has already paid for itself!”
Lauren Schafer
Wedding Cakes in San Diego
“Thanks so much for your creative re-work of our website. Your high level of expertise was apparent and the design elements were very professionally done. You were easy to work with; the costs were reasonable and you delivered the finished product in a timely manner. I look forward to working with you again on future web projects for my company.”
Howard Gad, President
Heritage West
“My company was in need of web design services and initially came across Anita’s company, ACA Web Consulting on a Craigslist posting. We had interviewed numerous designers previous to that but were underwhelmed with everyone to date. We liked Anita’s ethical approach and decided to work with her on a few small scale projects to test the waters. She was able to produce exactly what we needed in an extremely timely fashion and is now a key member of our team. Anita is one of the most responsive and open-minded designers we have ever worked with and we would highly recommend her work to anyone.”
Courtney Smith, Senior Consultant
Rosemont Media
Communication services web site in San Diego.
Outsourced web design and development.
Norman Insurance was seeking a professional and efficient web site that will represent their great customer service, generate business and be easy for the agency representative to update. ACA Web Consulting came up with a design that is professional and enables Norman Insurance to update their website via a Content Management System employed through the WordPress platform.
ACA Web Consulting was approached by Heritage West to bring their outdated website up to par with today’s Web 2.0 look. We worked in sync with Heritage west in accomplishing their vision and incorporating streamlined coding that adheres to WWW3 standards.
The discussion of any SEO Code of Ethics is like a discussion on politics or religion: there are more than two sides, all sides are strongly opinionated, and seldom do they choose the same path to the same end. Most Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practitioners understand these ethics, yet not all practitioners practice safe-SEO. Too many SEO practitioners claim a bias towards surfers, or the search engines, or their clients (all are appropriate in the correct balance), and it is common for the “whatever it takes” excuse to bend some of these ethics to fit their needs. This page does not pass judgment, it simply states the obvious.
Whereas all parties are working towards presenting relevant and high quality information in an easy to use format to information seekers, and whereas SEO practitioners are being contracted to assist clients in obtaining higher rankings for client pages, ACA Web Consulting is voluntarily adhering to the below SEO Code of Ethics:
No SEO practitioner will intentionally do harm to a client.
This involves the continued use of any technology or procedure (without appropriate care) that is known to result in having the client site removed from search engine indexes or directories, or rendered inoperative. Questionable adherence to standards must be addressed via the Robots Exclusion Standard.
No SEO practitioner will intentionally violate any specifically published and enforced rules of search engines or directories.
Should rules and guidelines change (as they often do), the SEO practitioner will promptly take action to comply with the changes as they apply to all clients. Where rules and guidelines are unclear, the SEO practitioner will seek clarification and await approval from the appropriate search engine before continuing to utilize potentially harmful technology or procedures.
No SEO practitioner will intentionally mislead, harm, or offend a consumer.
All individuals utilizing a search engine to visit a site will not be misled by the information presented to or by the search engine, or harmed or offended upon arrival at the client site. This includes techniques like “bait and switch” where the client page does not substantially contain and is not clearly associated with the optimized phrase, or may be reasonably offensive to targeted visitors.
No SEO practitioner will intentionally violate any laws.
This involves the deliberate and continued violation of copyright, trademark, servicemark, or laws related to spamming as they may exist at the state, federal, or international level.
No SEO practitioner will falsely represent the content of the client site.
This includes the practice of presenting different versions of web pages to different users except where that information is altered solely to meet browser specifications and needs, sensitivity to regional factors such as language, or product specific needs. In general, ALL requests for a specific URL should be served identical HTML by the web server.
No SEO practitioner will falsely represent others work as their own.
This includes the taking of work from others in whole or in part and representing this work as their own. The SEO practitioner may not make verbatim copies of the work of others (instead of authoring original work) without the prior consent of the other party.
No SEO practitioner will misrepresent their own abilities, education, training, standards of performance, certifications, trade group affiliations, technical inventory, or experiences to others.
This includes quantifiable statements related to project timetables, performance history, company resources (staff, equipment, and proprietary products), and client lists. Guarantees will be restricted to items over which the SEO practitioner has significant and reasonable control.
No SEO practitioner will participate in a conflict of interest without prior notice to all parties involved.
This includes the practice of choosing to emphasize one client over another in competing keywords because there is more personal gain for the practitioner. All clients are treated equally and all will receive equal best effort in their optimization.
No SEO practitioner will set unreasonable client expectations.
This includes the practice of accepting more than a reasonable number of clients competing for the same keywords and implying that all will be in the top positions in the search engines. This also includes the implication that results can be obtained in an unreasonable amount of time given the known condition of the search engines, client site, and competition.
All SEO practitioners will offer their clients both internal and external dispute resolution procedures.
This includes the publishing of address and phone numbers on primary web pages, the inclusion of third-party dispute resolution links prominently placed within the practitioners web site, and contracts that include sections discussing dispute resolution.
All SEO practitioners will protect the confidentiality and anonymity of their clients with regards to privileged information and items implying testimonial support for the SEO practitioner.
All staff of SEO practitioner shall be bound to protect information that is not generally known as it may harm the client. The SEO practitioner will not include the publishing of testimonials and proprietary logos of client lists, press releases, and other collateral discussing the client without explicit approvals.
All SEO practitioners will work to their best ability to increase or retain the rankings of client sites.
Clients are contracting for fee with the SEO practitioner in order to obtain and retain search engine placement. The SEO practitioner is charged with an obligation to utilize appropriate and allowed technology and methodologies to improve and retain the rankings for their clients in the face of shifting search engine technology, competition, and client web site needs.
ACA Web Consulting complies with and supports this Code of Ethics.
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PLANNING
Preparation is the enemy of failure. When you approach a designer to build your site and you’ve got all your ducks in a row, you are most assuredly going to enjoy a smooth ride down the road of your Web Design Process.
Whether you approach your web site development from a standpoint of giving the designer creative license or you know exactly what you want your choices are planned and well thought out. As a tentative web site owner, take into consideration factors that will ensure the web design process flows. Here are a few things you might want to consider before you request a free quote:
The factors above are just a few of the items that are included in any web site development. Some of the things you will consider are based on your personal opinion and the vision you have for your site. The technical aspects, such as content development, navigational architecture (site labels and structure) etc., are all services offered by ACA Web Consulting. But knowing ahead of time what you can do to prepare, what you have time to do and what services you are willing to pay for will enable you to realistically approach your site development with your needs clearly defined.
FIRST CONTACT
You’ve made contact with ACA Web Consulting by filling out the Web Site Development Guide. Once the ‘guide’ is filled out it gives me a pretty good analysis of what you want to do with your site, what you want to say to your audience, how your navigation will be labeled and the look and feel you are striving to accomplish. It also clarifies the need for specific programming as well as specialized features you may wish to include.
PROPOSAL/QUOTE
Based on the specifics you’ve provided to me in the last stage of the process, I will calculate an estimated quote. I approach the proposal process by assessing your customized design metaphor or theme and your desired site structure combined with additional services you may require and the goal of your site. I will meticulously work to achieve a realistic end-cost to you. This is not final, but will remain fairly close to being exact if there are no changes made to the initial information you provided.
SIGNING A CONTRACT
The contract contains the final cost of your web site design and development and any other services you have requested. You will also receive a timeline that coordinates the milestones of your web site development. If you determine that major revisions are necessary after the initial contract signing, ACA Web Consulting will be happy to make those changes, but additional fees will be charged.
INFORMATION AND MATERIAL GATHERING
You will need to supply ACA Web Consulting with the text content, graphics and photos that you wish to be included on the site. All submitted materials should be sent via email attachment except for photos that may need to be scanned.
NAVIGATIONAL FLOWCHART
Based on the information you have provided via email correspondence and the Web Site Development Guide, a flowchart will be created that shows you how all your pages are connected within your site. You will see the navigation labeled (the actual buttons) that link to pages within your site. The flowchart will need to be Okayed via either email correspondence or electronic signature.
DESIGN CONCEPTION AND PROOF
During this stage your design wishes combined with the type of web site you need are assessed: business, personal, non-profit, etc. Work begins on the theme that you have determined or one is used that ACA Web Consulting may have proposed. The navigation will also have been determined and the navigational labels applied to the buttons. You will receive a design comp to proof the layout of your site. You may choose to edit the design once, whether it is the colors or a different button look, etc.
PRODUCTION
Your content and graphics are placed, and then the pages are structured to contain your message as cohesively and artistically as possible. ACA Web Consulting will communicate effectively with you during production keeping you posted with progress reports. You are welcome to view the work accomplished throughout the production process in your personal client folder loaded on our server.
TESTING AND FINAL APPROVAL
Test, test and then test some more. This is done to ensure your site will be seen as it was designed to be seen on the most popular browsers the internet population is using. Rushing this process is a huge mistake for anyone who desires to have their site not fall apart on your neighbor’s browser. You will then receive a final review of your site on my server, give your official Okay and your site is then published to your host under your domain.
Would you like to get started today?
Fill out the Web Design free quote and receive an affordable proposal for your customized web design project.
Thank you for your interest in having ACA Web Consulting develop your web site.
This ‘guide’ will help properly assess your web site goals and vision, as well as help to establish a more accurate bid. When you hit the SUBMIT* button, your results will be sent to ACA Web Consulting and will be analyzed to develop a strategy for accommodating your web site development project. You will receive a bid as soon as possible.
*ACA Web Consulting is emphatic about approaching your design needs with integrity. No email addresses will be ’sold’, shared or utilized to sell you anything.
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A standard list of services and pricing is located on the web services pricing guide.
PROFESSIONAL WEB SERVICES AT AFFORDABLE PRICES
Your web site project is as individual as you are. Consequently projects will vary from client to client and as a result web site pricing will vary as well.
While our competitors in San Diego County are charging as much as $150 an hour for web development and $1,500 for a basic 5 page web site, ACA Web Consulting takes pride in offering affordable web site design and search engine ranking services with professional results.
Your business can’t afford NOT to establish a professional web presence on the Internet. At the affordable rates that ACA Web Consulting offers, you can build your client base by reaching thousands of potential customers who otherwise wouldn’t know you exist.
Below are some of the service prices and options ACA Web Consulting offers. Prices may be adjusted to fit your unique web site and Internet Marketing circumstances.
Basic Web Site Package - 5 pages $895.00
Includes…
An Affordable Content Management System
A fantastic easy to use CMS for your website. Your initial investment will save you tons of money down the road. A WordPress website will enable you to update your own website when you want to. No more having to call me to update your events page or photos that are outdated.
A basic WordPress website starts at $1350.00. Includes 5 dynamic php pages, a contact form, site search and a widget ready sidebar and two hours of tutoring via phone or email.
A business oriented WordPress website will realistically run between $1575 to $2500.
Other functionality is available: Event calendar, photo gallery, extensive quote/contact forms, etc. Each running between $100-$500 to install.
Content Management Systems for your Business
Content management system websites start at $1575.00. Includes 5 dynamic pages, a contact form, site search and two hours of tutoring via phone or email. Your company’s website point person will have the ability to update the site easily.
Platforms include Drupal, Joomla and Expression Engine. The CMS that works best for your business needs will be implemented. If additional modules are needed these can be installed ranging from $200-$650 depending on complexity.
Miscellaneous Web Elements
Additional $70 per hour charges
(Billed by the minute…no quarter hour minimums):
Additional $85 per hour charges
Design & HTML/XHTML Maintenance
(Maintenance contracts are paid up front in order to qualify for the reduced rates):
Programming & Database Maintenance
(PayPal Integration, PHP, Yahoo! Stores, CGI, Perl, WordPress)
One Time Search Engine Optimization Service - $ 680.00
Includes…
Google Adwords/Yahoo Search Marketing Account Management
Search Engine Inclusion Report $75.00
Search Engine Keyword Report $100.00
Competitive Analysis Report $330.00
Search Engine Submissions $140.00 (OPTIMIZATION EXTRA)
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WEB DESIGN CLIENTS & SEARCH ENGINE RANKING CLIENTS
Below are a few featured web sites that ACA Web Consulting has designed and performed search engine ranking services for. Many of the websites we have designed or performed SEO for are locally owned by San Diego businesses, but we have worked with clients across the country as well.
ACA Web Consulting strives to design every web site to be search engine friendly from the ground up, assuring your site will be not only user friendly, but search engine friendly as well.
AL ACHI ADVERTISING
Services:Web design, web development, PHP Programming and flash development.
BETTY’S GOURMET PEANUT BRITTLE
Services:Web design, web development, PHP Programming, PayPal shopping cart, Video integration and optimization.
FASTRAK POOL CONSTRUCTION
Services:Web design, web development and PHP Programming
BUTTERCREAM DREAMS
Services:Website design and development, SEO and PHP Programming
EZ AUTO REPAIR
Services: Outsourced Web design and development, SEO and PHP Programming
NORMAN INSURANCE AGENCY SAN DIEGO
Services: Web design, Wordpress programming and integration, SEO, PHP Programming
NEW TREND SPA
Services: Outsourced user interface (UI) web design
Dr. of Dialtone
Services: Outsourced web design and development, PHP programming
CAL ASIA ORGANIC CATERING
Services: Outsourced web design and development, PHP programming
HERITAGE WEST PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
Services: Web design and development, PHP programming, JavaScript programming
BMS GARAGE REPAIR
Services: Web design, PHP form programming, SEO
OAHU VACATION RENTAL
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Services: Web design
Professional web design with a creative, clear-cut approach. ACA Web Consulting is a full service San Diego web design company committed to assisting small to medium businesses flourish online.
Our technique is simple - we offer professional website design and web site marketing services combined with friendly customer service at affordable rates. We can design or redesign all aspects of your website, from search engine friendly graphic design and layout to information architecture and navigation.
ACA Web Consulting also specializes in SEO (search engine optimization), search engine ranking and Internet marketing services that will help your web site succeed online. We have achieved a 100% success rate in gaining first page rankings in the major search engines for our clients. Visit our portfolio to see the search engine ranking results ACA Web Consulting has achieved for our clientèle.
With twelve years of professional design experience, ACA Web Consulting brings you not only clearly defined creative and artistic skills, but a marketing mind set that focuses on developing great web site designs that succeed.
ACA Web Consulting takes pride in creating streamlined, outstanding website designs that are easy to navigate, search engine friendly and cross-browser compatible. Your vision and ideas are the inspiration to developing a superior web design that will receive the attention you deserve.
Owned and operated by Anita Anderson, ACA Web Consulting is headquartered in San Diego, California, providing professional web design and search engine ranking services nationwide.
Top-notch web design services tailored to meet your business, organization or personal web site needs. Providing assistance with web hosting and domain registration and optional maintenance plans that suit your needs. Search engine submission provided in all proposals.
What type of web site do you need?
Below are a few examples of sites that ACA Web Consulting can build for you:
San Diego & nationwide Business web sites (small to medium companies)
Home-Based Business web sites
PayPal shopping carts
Blogging websites
Team Sports web sites
Photographic Gallery web sites
Dog, Cat and Bird Breeders web sites
Professional Resumes and Portfolios
Self-help/outreach web sites
Clubs (Car Clubs, Motorcycle Clubs)
Non-Profit Organization web sites
Brochure web site (1-2 pages)
Whatever your web project may be, ACA Web Consulting can help you achieve the web presence your business or hobby deserves.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Internet Marketing
Search engine ranking and submission is a key factor in driving Internet traffic to your site. Search Engine placement services that promise submission to an unbelievable number of search engines are never used. ACA Web Consulting will work at combining key words, meta name tags, titles and your page content and then individually hand submitting your site to achieve top search engine ranking results.
One Time Search Engine Optimization - $680.00
Dramatically improve your search engine rankings with a ONE TIME optimization fee of $680.00.
Fees include analyzing and formatting your meta tags and page content, assistance with restructuring your site information and individual hand submissions of your site to the search engines to gain search engine rankings.
We have achieved #1 Search Engine Rankings for many of our clients…and FIRST PAGE Ranking results for 100% of our clients
Internet Marketing
ACA Web Consulting offers a number of services that will help your website attain search engine rankings to get you business.
Website Redesign
Your current web site is lacking the ‘edge’ of today’s web designs or perhaps it was developed years ago and the code is outdated and doesn’t comply with current browser capabilities. ACA Web Consulting offers affordable web site redesign services geared at bringing your web site ‘up-to-date’. Services offered include: consultation with you to determine your web site goals, addressing problem areas relating to multiple browsers (Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera) and cross-platform (Macintosh and PC) compatibility, lack of proper meta tags which lead to poor search engine rankings, gaining increased loading speeds by optimization of customized graphics, assessment and restructuring of navigation.
Web Site Maintenance
ACA Web Consulting can perform website maintenance on your existing web site at affordable rates. No minimum quarterly hour charges, you are simply billed for the time ACA Web Consulting has worked on your site on a bi-monthly basis…even if it’s just minutes. Web maintenance rates are $70 hourly with no minimum quarterly hour charges.
If your business necessitates your website being updated on a regular basis, a “Web Site Maintenance Package” could be right for you. Maintenance packages are for a contracted time period of 6 months to 1 year. The hourly rate is reduced based upon the length on your contract and the minimum allotted hours of maintenance per month. Rates range from $50-$60 hourly.
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Flash Interactivity
Services provided include Flash navigation and Flash Intros. Development of complete Flash sites are taken on a reserved basis and require that you fill out the Web Site Development Guide.
Fees for Flash Interactivity start at $540.
Information Architecture
Does your target audience get around your site easily or are they forever searching for the ‘home button’? Or you are planning a web site, but aren’t sure how to make it accessible and easy enough for your grandma to click right where she wanted to go? ACA Web Consulting specializes in user friendly navigation and offers navigational architecture solutions which include: a flowchart module to help you visualize the restructuring of ‘linked’ pages within your site, restructuring of links and pages on your server, redundant text links added to your site.
Assistance for the layman who wants to develop their own site.
Offering consulting solutions relating to all aspects of web site development for the do-it-yourselfer who needs a little help. Consulting solutions offered include: Web site evaluation, assessment and solution strategy, technical and programming troubleshooting as well as marketing strategies that will increase traffic to your site.
$70 hourly consultation fee.
Banner Design
Corporate Identity
Logo Design
Print Media
Featured in the National Website Design Directory
ACA Web Consulting was founded in 2001 by Anita Anderson and is based in Carlsbad, California, a suburban town located in beautiful San Diego County.
Originally formed in 1995 as MorningStar Marketing; the company’s primary focus was developing graphics for print advertising mediums and incorporating marketing strategies that would assist our client’s business in getting seen and heard. Avenues of modality were newspaper ads, direct mail pieces, press releases, and radio spots combined with promotional events.
In 2001 Anita moved into New Media development after attending college and earning several Internet and Multimedia Technology certificates in web development and Flash interactivity.
Anitaz-Dezignz was the first Internet venture into Web Development, focusing primarily on Flash interactivity. A year and a half later ACA Web Consulting emerged as the web development company as it stands today.
ACA Web Consulting focuses on attractive and straightforward web design with a passion for coding that validates to W3C standards.
Anita Anderson is the Project Manager and Owner of ACA Web Consulting. We work alongside gifted designers, developers, programmers and talented coders on a per project basis to ensure your website will be all that you envisage.
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