Our Services

We take a close look at your website and rate such aspects of it as download time, search position, readability, usability, navigation.

We then make suggestions as to how you can improve your website to suit both your target audience and search engines. The whole process takes about an hour.

This is a tricky area of shifting sand. No-one knows how Google ranks web pages - it is a closely guarded secret but it is known that each page is ranked using over 150 different factors.

We are approached regularly to 'just' optimize websites for search position. Some websites we can do but others should really be designed from scratch with search optimization in mind.

We will generate your copy for you if you have writer's block. We will do the research and convert that into search friendly/ people friendly text at an hourly rate.

If you choose to take advantage of our website hosting and maintenance package, server statistics are included. These are browser based and will give you a variety of website information.

Number of visitors, number of visitors who visited more than once, most/least popular pages of your website, browser/operating system used by visitors and the text they entered into search boxes to find you. Such logs can give you a wealth of information about your visitors' habits.

If you have a website that displays many products, rather use a database to display them. We will create a MySQL database and the admin pages that allow you to edit, add and delete records.

Our website maintenance package costs typically around R350.00 per month.

For this you get plenty of disc space and bandwidth, the ability to set up your emails yourself, website statistics (see above) and small updates to your website when you need them. This saves you having to negotiate each change to your website. Such changes are made usually within 24 hours. Finally, we regularly monitor the Google position of your website and tweak it to get you higher rankings.

Words and pictures on a web server are not a website. We have the experience to know what works and what doesn't.

A little online marketing advice can make the difference between a very average website and one that will be a revenue generator. Our marketing advice comes free with every website we design. Our principal concern is that your website generates revenue.

Some websites, typically association/school/NGO websites require strict topicality - meetings, sports events and the like. Such websites lend themselves to content management systems that permit the addition of content and pages through a simple Word type interface.

Fortunately, there are many open source CMS systems such as Joomla. We can install, design and train your staff in the operation of such CMSs.

There are thousands of search engines - most of them of little use. We will submit your website to DMOZ, the open directory and to Google - but not directly. Google has a habit of 'sandboxing' new websites - a sort of quarantine that might last months.

So, we set up links from out other websites to yours. Google knows them and will 'spider down' to your website. This service comes free with every Durban Website Designers website. We also create a free Google sitemap to make it easier for all search engines to spider your web pages.

Don't stampede into a domain name you'll regret. Forget about your trading name - visitors to your website will know who you are once there.

Rather choose a domain name that describes what it is you do. Not 'zenith.co.za' but 'washing-machine-repairs.co.za'. The website will do far better on search engines.

We can come up with several useful suggestions free with every website design.

All ISPs are on probation. We use several to keep them on their toes.

The most important factor about their operation is not the doodads they offer but the quality of their support.

All our ISPs offer a Control Panel which provides plenty of information about your site and enables you to set up your own emails.

Yes, we do graphic design.

We can design logos, letterheads and other company graphics as well as brochures.