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Huntington Beach Web Page Design

By on September 16, 2009

Global Link provides businesses in Huntington Beach and Los Angeles with professional and custom website design at realistic rates. We offer outstanding value and are committed to delivering high quality and effective service.

Our custom web sites are inspired and creative. We have highly gifted graphic designers that will make your website stand out. The graphics are optimized for the web. We stay away from any design technique or technology that causes your website to load slowly. We understand the need for speed in web design. Your web pages must load quickly or you will loose visitors and potential sales.

We provide in-depth and thorough search engine optimization for your web site so that it will rank high in search engine rankings. Customers in Huntington Beach and Los Angeles are going to search engines all the time to find businesses like yours. You must have a website that is SEO friendly in order for it to show up before your competition. We have extensive experience and a strong track record in effective SEO.  Our SEO services will drive traffic to your website from customers in Huntington Beach, Los Angeles and Southern California.

Our other web design services include a full range of ecommerce solutions. Our ecommerce websites include robust shopping carts, online catalogs, product databases that you can manage yourself by updating product information and photos through an online control panel residing on your web server and protected through a secure log in.  Online real time credit card processing with SSL encryption is another feature we provide with our shopping cart systems. We use open source applications so you don’t have to pay expensive software licensing fees. If you are looking for reliable and affordable ecommerce software at discount pricing, we have the solutions you need.

We also offer various Content Management Systems CMS including Joomla, Drupal and WordPress.

Contact us for more information.

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Pasadena Web Design

By on September 15, 2009

Potential customers in Pasadena, Los Angeles and Southern California are searching online every day for products to purchase. If you own a business and your website is not attracting these customers, then you are loosing sales.

At Global Link, we are dedicated to providing quality web site design to businesses throughout the Pasadena and Los Angeles area. We design custom web sites that get results by blending the creative with the most advanced technologies for the web.

With so many options for web design and technologies to choose from, it is crucial that Pasadena web designers know which ones to use. Otherwise your website will be diffuse in message and watered down. We employ only the most optimized web technologies that will give your website the edge it needs to stand out from other businesses in the Los Angeles area. We are committed to providing professional and affordable web design.

In order for you to attract new customers throughout Pasadena, we focus passionately on SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO makes it possible for your website to rank high in search engines and increase traffic. And the goal of increased traffic is gain new customers and increase sales. We employ only ethical SEO practices. There are many people making great claims and promises how they can get you to first page. The reality, however, is far different. We are straight with you up front and focus on practicle, common sense SEO that is both ethical and gets result. It takes disciple, and hard work, and there are no short cuts to good SEO.

Our offerings also include advanced and custom ecommerce website solutions with a wide range of functionality including to shopping carts and do it yourself product database management, online credit card processing and more.

Contact us for more information about our Pasadina web design offerings

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Santa Clarita Web Design

By on September 15, 2009

We are a full service Los Angeles web design company dedicated to serving Santa Clarita and the greater Los Angeles area. Our web design offerings include professional and affordable web design, custom web sites, e-commerce web applications, content management systems, search engine optimization SEO and more.

We design custom web sites that are distinct and stand out. Our graphic design is specialized specifically for the web so your website pages will download quickly to your visitor’s computers. If your pages are slow, viewers will jump off your web site quickly and move on to another site which means lost customers and lost sales.

We undergird our web site design with  search engine optimization SEO from beginning to end so your website will attract new customers in Santa Clarita, Los Angeles and throughout Southern California. If you want your website to market nationally and even internationally, we can do that also.

The website structure is also key in giving your visitors a clean and friendly experience. We provide a simple and user-friendly navigation layout so you can be assured customers can find what they are looking for. Too often website navigation can be convoluted and confusing. We strive to streamline your website’s architecture so everything is logical.

As a business in the Los Angeles area, we know you have many web designers to choose from. So we work hard to provide first rate service. Contact us today if we can be of any help or answer any questions.

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San Fernando Web Design

By on September 15, 2009

Global Link Technologies is dedicated to developing websites for businesses in San Fernando and the L.A. area. We are committed to providing high quality and professional web site design throughout Southern California.

We are a custom web design firm assisting businesses both large and small by designing web sites that are professional and affordable. The websites we design are eye catching and creative without being loud.

In web design, speed is crucial. If your web pages are slow to appear on the screen of your visitors, then you will loose sales. Web surfers are highly impatient and if your graphics are slow, then potential customers will move on to the next web site. At Global Link, we make sure that our design is lightweight and fast.

We also are committed to Search Engine Optimization SEO. Customers in San Fernando and Los Angeles are searching daily for products and services to buy. We craft your website with SEO as a major goal, so your website will rank well in search engine searches.

We are a full service web design firm offering additional solutions including e-commerce web sites, blogs, Content Management Systems CMS (Joomla, Drupal and WordPress). Our ecommerce solutions are powerful web applications with a wide range of functionality including

We also supply reliable web hosting in a state-of-the-art data center. You can be assured that your web site is hosted on up to date and advanced servers with near 100% up time.

Contact us today if we can answer any questions or be of any help to you in either designing a new website or redesigning an existing one.

Global Link offers custom web design for businesses in San Fernando, LA and Southern California.

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San Diego Web Design & SEO

By on September 14, 2009

Global Link provides web design for San Diego businesses. If you need a web site for a small or large business, we can help.

We work with businesses in San Diego and Southern California providing custom web site design that is both professional and efficient.  We can give your website a custom and professional look and feel with high quality graphics, layout and navigation. We’ll also provide well written content that is optimized for search engines.

Our San Diego web design services include ecommerce web site solutions. If you have a business that sells products, you we can build a full featured ecommerce website complete with a robust catalog online ordering, and online credit card processing to name a few.  You have the ability to add and update your product database at any time by logging into your web server’s control panel. There you can add product descriptions, upload photos, change pricing, add product attributes, etc. We also have built in real time credit card processing. The orders can also be integrated with UPS. This means when a customer places the order, the shipping cost with UPS is automatically calculated overall cost of the order.

Search Engine Optimization is foundational to all our web design work. We stay clear of any technology, architecture and graphics that will hinder your search engine ranking. You can be assured that SEO is not an afterthought. It undergirds the entire design process from site architecture, seo friendly menu navigation, graphics, keyword rich content and more.

Global Link offers additional web design services including Content Management Systems CMS. We work with Joomla, Drupal and WordPress – all cutting edge and robust web applications. These systems run on PHP and MySQL – industry standards in database driven and dynamic web sites. Therefore you can be assured your CMS is of the highest quality and robust.

We are committed to providing the highest level of web design to businesses throughout San Diego and Southern California. Contact us for more information how we can help your business.

Global Link is a San Diego web design & SEO company.

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Southern California Web Design

By on September 14, 2009

Global link designs websites for businesses throughout Southern California. Our web design services focus on businesses both large and small as well as web page design for individuals.

We provide custom web design that is high quality and professional. We emphasize a clean and lightweight design that communicates to visitors accurately what your business is about and stay away from technologies that can “bloat” your website and cause it to load slowly. If your website is not appealing graphically and quick in displaying on your visitors’ computers, then they will loose interest and move on, resulting in lost sales for you.

Our web design services also focus strongly on Search Engine Optimization. You may have the word’s coolest website, but if potential customers in Southern California cannot find you, then much of your effort and cost in it’s design is wasted. It’s that simple. This is why web design with SEO is so vital. Frankly many web designers are good web designers but know very little about SEO. At Global Link, SEO under girds the way we design websites from your web site’s architecture and layout, to graphics and content.

We also provide e-commerce website design solutions. If you have a business in Southern California that sells products and you don’t have a website to sell to online customers you are losing out on sales. We develop ecommerce websites that include online catalogs, shopping carts, online credit card processing, all with search engine optimization built in. You have the ability to manage your ecommerce stock of items through an online control panel which enables you to write descriptions, set pricing, upload product photos. You essentially have unlimited control to manage your stock online, and we are always ready to assist you as needed.

Global Link’s additional Southern California web design services include experience in Content Management Systems. CMS’ give you the ability to manage multiple editors of your website’s content. The focus and strength of a CMS is in it’s ability to publish content quickly from multiple sources. If you have a company with different departments, each can have the ability to publish content quickly using a CMS.

Contact us today if we can answer any questions or be of any help to your business.

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Global Link is a web design and SEO company serving businesses in Southern California

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7 Reasons to Use WordPress for Your Website

By on September 9, 2009

WordPress is a powerful yet simple web publishing system that is free  to use.  WordPress software is installed on a web server that uses PHP and a MySQL database and has a built in online editor where multiple writers can publish content.

There are essentially two ways to use WordPress. If you want to set up a blog and begin publishing right away, you can go to www.wordpress.com and sign up for an account. In no time you’ll be blogging away.

WordPress also comes in a software package that you can download and install on your webserver. You can download the web application here: http://wordpress.org/

1. Simple to Use
The power in WordPress is it is very simple to use. There is a small learning curve where you learn to publish posts and pages, and also set up categories and tags. The online web page editor allows users to publish content without knowing HTML or web design. No technical knowledge is necessary to be able to publish with WordPress.

2. Create web pages yourself
With WordPress, you don’t need to rely on a web designer to publish web pages or edit them. WordPress puts the control in your hands and gives you full publishing power. A web page designer who is knowledgeable in WordPress is necessary to do the initial set up and configuration of the web application.  They can also customize the design and layout for you to give your website the unique look and feel you need. But beyond that, you can have the power to take full control of the web content creation process.

If a customized design is beyond your budget constraints, WordPress has many different templates providing a wide array of design and functionality.

3. Publish Content Quickly
WordPress allows for multiple accounts so you can have numerous writers publishing web page content simultaneously. A key factor in using WordPress is how it separates content from design. So people who are writing your content do not need to be distracted with how the page is designed. This frees people up to focus on writing great content.

4. SEO enabled Content
WordPress comes with many built in features that enable your web pages to be SEO compliant. There are a few additional add-ons that can be installed to make your pages even more optimized when it comes to web searches. SEO is a complex field. But with WordPress, much of the SEO is already done for you, allowing you to focus on publishing your content. Because WordPress is a blogging application, Google lists your web site both in their regular index and blog index, too. So you get greater coverage.

5. Automatic notifications
WordPress excels as a blogging application and as such, automatically notifies search engines that you have published new content. This speeds up the indexing of your pages considerably.

6. Add-ons
WordPress has many different add-ons, or mini-programs that carry out specific tasks. You can search at WordPress.org to see all the different plug ins available. The variety is amazing. These plug-ins expand the power and functionality of your website without the cost and time of hiring a web developer to do the same thing. These add ons are  ready to use, and simply can be installed. Some add ons require some simple configuration steps.

7. Strong Developer Community
WordPress has a very strong community of committed IT programmers and developers. As a result, the web application is very strong. As WordPress’ popularity continues to grow, more developers join the pool which ensures continued growth and a better software development.

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Global Link is a Portland web design company that has strong experience is developing websites in Worpress. If you are interested in a WordPress website, contact us for more information.

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What Are Content Management Systems CMS?

By on September 8, 2009

This is a brief introduction to understanding Content Management Systems.

A CMS is web site software that resides on the web server which has a built in word processor. At least one administrator can set up multiple accounts for people to create web pages. This allows for people to log into the CMS control panel on the web server with a username and password and type web pages without needing any HTML or web design knowledge. The writer can create a new web page or edit an existing one all without having to look at any HTML code.

The benefits of using a CMS are mainly in publishing new content quickly by multiple users without relying on a web designer.  A web page designer is usually needed to initially set up and configure the CMS, but after that, pages can be self published. CMS make the “do it yourself” website a reality and excel when you need to publish content quickly from multiple sources.

There are, however, some disadvantages and trade-offs using a CMS compared to a traditional website. If it is most important to give your web site a high end custom design that is complex, then designing for a CMS may be limiting.  When using the online web page editor, it is important to know the limitations. There are ways to edit the layout if you know HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. However, apart from adding pictures and doing some basic text formatting, these editors are not meant to do much else.

If you can be flexible on your design expectation and your most pressing need is the publishing of content from multiple sources, then a CMS may be right for you.

There are also many added features that can be added to the core CMS software packages. These add-ons or mini-programs can be modules, plug-ins, widgets etc and depending on your CMS. They are implemented and behave a little differently, but all give your CMS added functionality. The power of add-ons is that they can be added a later date when needed, at a fraction of the cost of having a programmer custom develop the same program manually. This provides you with excellent value and tremendous savings in cost and cuts development time to almost nil.

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Global Link is a Portland web design firm that develops Content Management Systems CMS for small and medium size businesses. Contact us today if you have any questions or to find out more about our CMS design services.

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