Category Archives: Web Design

Interesting information on the web design industry. New trends, tricks and techniques.

Bay Area Travel Tour Company Works with KO Websites on New Site

Tomales Bay Expeditions, a Marin County-based travel/tour company chose KO Websites to build its new WordPress website to promote its local kayak rental and excursion packages.

KO Websites is a Bay Area leader in building “websites that work” for clients as small as sole proprietors and as large as international firms like Matson Navigation. Our emphasis is on easy-to-use functionality that provides a great user experience, and search engine optimization (SEO) to make it easier for prospective customers to find the site. For Tomales Bay Expeditions we focused on clear, simple navigation that brought the interested site visitor quickly to the information they wished to find, and optimized each page to focus on: Continue reading →

Bay Area In-Home Care Provider Launches New Website with KO Websites

B.E.S.T. Care Provider, a Bay Area firm that offers home companion services and a nursing registry, commissioned KO Websites to create a new WordPress website to better promote their services to the growing number of people needing in-home care for sick and aging family members.

B.E.S.T. Care Provider Chooses Customized WordPress CMS for New Website

KO Websites recommended a customized WordPress website to meet B.E.S.T. Care Provider’s needs for the following reasons: Continue reading →

New Website for Iraqi Development and Relief Foundation Benefits from SEO Work

The Development and Relief Foundation (DRF) of Fresno, CA and Dearborn Heights, MI manages multiple charitable missions in Iraq to improve the life and opportunities for disadvantaged people. KO Websites has built a new website for the foundation to help it spread the word about its work and attract financial and in-kind support for its programs.

Search Engine Optimization the Key for Non-Profit Website Performance

The DRF came to KO with a project to develop a new website that achieved multiple missions: Continue reading →

KO Websites Creates Stylish New Website for Greystone West

Greystone West, a construction management company based in Sonoma, CA and working on project throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, had outgrown their old Drupal website and needed a fresh start with an easy-to-manage WordPress website design to showcase their successful projects and work with contractor partners.

Greystone West Construction Management Chose KO Websites as their Website Design Partner

Greystone West needed three very specific elements of their website to support their business development and operations. Continue reading →

Why Would I Choose Professional Web Design Instead of DIY?

You have multiple options for creating a website for your business. Do-it-yourself (DIY) sites and basic templates that offer limited customization can get you started affordably, although they lack powerful SEO tools (more on that below.) High-end sites, though, might break the budget before they have a chance to generate you any business. You get what you pay for in quality and effectiveness, but small businesses need to walk before they run in some cases, and need to take on manageable web development projects.

Can you afford a web designer and developer?

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KO Websites Launches New Private School Website

Bay Area-based Redwood Christian Schools has new mobile-first, responsive website design

Redwood Christian Schools, a private TK-12 school based in Castro Valley and San Lorenzo, CA has launched a new website to better serve its multiple community audiences.

“We needed a more user-friendly yet attractive look that can highlight our constituents, be a resource to our various audiences, and reinforce the sense of pride we feel for our school,” said Teresa Hendren, Director of Marketing for Redwood Christian Schools. “We have a huge and diverse community of whom we want to connect through our site. Plus, the new website will give us many more options for running and optimizing SEO programming.” Continue reading →

Building a New Website? Here’s Where to Start

If you are thinking about building a new website for your business, start with domain names and hosting services.

In our previous blog, we gave the small business person tips on how to use social media profiles to get a fast start on building an internet presence. Most businesses, however, quickly move up the digital food chain to create and launch their first website.

Once you’ve decided that you need a website for your business or organization there’s a few things you need to understand. You will need a domain name, web hosting services, and web design and web development services (unless you decide to use a basic template or DIY website option).

Why Do I Need a Website Domain Name?

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Does My Micro Business Really need a Full Website in 2018?

Or is there a more cost effective way to market online for small business?

Where to Start? What do I need to know?

If you’re a business in 2018, you must build an online presence. This does NOT mean you must have a website, but you cannot survive on word-of-mouth and recurring customers forever. A constant stream of new customers is the only way to insure longevity. New potential clients and customers find services needed almost 100% online now, so you must be present online in some form. Here are some simple, low-cost ways to do so. Continue reading →

Ideal Landscape Design is a Perfect Website Solution

Ideal Landscape and Concrete, a landscape and hardscape design and construction firm in Burlingame and Menlo Park, came to KO Websites earlier this year with a desire to build a fresh website presence for their firm.

“We are a family-owned landscape and hardscape firm with projects from San Francisco to San Jose along the Peninsula,” said Ideal Landscape co-owner David Alfaro. “Our business is driven by referrals from happy clients. But, we know the first thing a referral does is check us out online! So we need a website that impresses those referrals with the quality of our work. KO Websites has taken our vision and transformed it into a compact but effective site that presents us well.”

The Perfect Small Business Website Package

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Questions to ask as you shop for a web design company

What questions should I ask a web design company before hiring them?

You know your business better than any web designer will, so you should create a set of questions related to your specific needs as you seek a developer to build your new website. The following questions can give you a place to start when qualifying your next web designer, no matter your type of business.

Do you have samples of websites you have built?

You will want to see some examples of the sites each design firm has built, and the right company for you should be able to provide website samples that will be similar to what you want and/or fit into your particular business type. Continue reading →

Eaton Associates

18:34 28 Apr 17

We've been working with KO for the past six months and they quickly learned our business and started helping us with our web strategy right away. They are very good at what they do but more importantly their team goes above and beyond our expectations and they feel like an extension of our team. A great partnership and we appreciate their help!

Brian Morrison

21:21 24 Apr 17

KO Websites has been a great company to work with over the years - 20+ to be more precise! They handle everything for our business in regards to our web presence and give us great feedback every month on how well our content is working for us. They are also constantly recommending ways to "upgrade" our site so it stays relevant. Really love working with these guys!

mark poniatowski

02:28 17 Apr 17

KO has been managing our website and social media account for over 3 years. The KO team is fantastic, they are knowledgeable and responsive to our unique needs as a law firm in Alameda County. The KO team has taken the time to learn our industry and create a total strategy that is specific to our firm and industry. The results have been impressive.

Gustavo Guerrero

03:34 15 Apr 17

When I started my business in 2012, I had to make sure that I partnered with the right company. After interviewing a few companies, Ken's confidence really made me feel comfortable. Since that moment, Ken and his team have done an excellent job with my website. I could not be happier with my partnership with KO Websites.

Brett Miller

19:01 13 Jun 15

KO did an excellent job designing a website for my charter sailing business. The site looks very professional and works especially well on mobile devices. I have been getting lots of feedback from my customers who describe the site as being very friendly and easy to navigate. Ken and his team worked with me through the whole process and were extremely helpful. They are especially good at providing powerful SEO. Highly recommended.