Marc Dorsett Designs... the Right Services
Marc Dorsett Designs is a Creative Graphics agency which provides design and internet technology solutions to our clients. We work with you to develop and deploy solutions that build customer loyalty, differentiate your company and streamline business processes to reduce costs. Seasoned professionals dedicated to working with businesses of every size, type and industry.
Read more about each area that you may need...
Design- Logo and Company Identity
- interface design
- flash animation
- print communications
- advertising
- usability
Technology
- e-commerce
- content management
- database development
- site enhancements
Interface Design
Graphic user interfaces were designed to give people control over their personal computers. Users now expect a level of design sophistication from all graphic interfaces, including Web pages. The goal of Marc Dorsett Designs is to provide for the needs of all your potential users, adapting Web technology to their expectations and never requiring readers to conform to an interface that places unnecessary obstacles in their paths.This is where our research on the needs and demographics of your target audience is crucial. It's impossible to design for an unknown person whose needs you don't understand. We create sample scenarios with different types of users seeking information from your site.
Would an experienced user seeking a specific piece of information be helped or hindered by your home page design? Would a casual reader be intimidated by a complex menu scheme? Testing your designs and getting feedback from a variety of users is the best way to see whether our design ideas are giving them what they want from your site.
Flash Animation and Integration
Websites and online advertising can all benefit from the proper use of Adobe Flash technology. As the internet evolves, people are expecting more interactive and visually engaging experience. Adobe Flash is still the best tool in the market for producing these types of media rich presentations and websites.Motion, video, and music can lend emotion and interest to a presentation or website that standard html cannot. If it is appropriate for your company and market, we can produce rich interactive experiences that will differentiate you from the competition and communicate in exciting new ways.
Print Communications
How you represent your Company to the marketplace affects the type and amount of business you will attract. Marc Dorsett Designs can help you shape and define the most impressive profile for your business through print advertising and related services.From Image advertising, mail
order, black & white
to color, we never forget that even the smallest ad we
prepare for your company speaks volumes about your organization
and ours.
Advertising and Creative Direction
Traditional advertising does not take a second seat to technology here... we enhance it!Far too often the Internet is sought out as the only way to advertise and do business. Let us show you the real options.
Creative art and advertising direction is best done by experience... making the all-important combination of design with salesmanship that brings in the deal.
Marc Dorsett Designs coordinates your advertising look and sales effort in so many ways by providing design in:
*Print and Literature
*Signage
*Point-of-Sale Displays
*Merchandise Packaging
*Sales Materials
Contact
us today for a 'No Obligation'
consultation of your total design and advertising needs!
Usability
Usability rules the web. If a client can't navigate your website, then he or she will not use your site to find your services or products. While everyone wants to design cool web sites, no one wants to think simple and consider whether the design actually accomplishes its goal, which is usually to sell, teach, inform or entertain.Your website needs to anticipate the user's expectations and choose appropriate design elements that make it easy to find and use information. Designing the perfect home page, effective navigation, organization and structure for a web site is a challenging process.
How do you know that your site works and is easy to use? What works best?
Marc Dorsett Designs studies
web site usability
and effectiveness.
We don't spend your time and budget inventing a new
wheel!.
We pick the best practices and techniques possible
to ensure you
have a "user-focused" and
effective site design. How? By avoiding the pitfalls
of designing for what visitors "say" they
like and observing what
they actually
do..
E-commerce
Our e-commerce solutions designs offers you the ability to manage a profitable online store with no web design or development experience required! The powerful ColdFusion shopping carts and MySQL database offers all of the features and functionality that you need to develop and market a successful online storefront - no programming required. Features of a website store design from Marc Dorsett Designs can include web-based administration, real-time payments, PayPal integration and more!Unlike packaged software systems
that are designed to be 'one size fits all,' the care
to detail
and the
personal attention you will receive in the total development
of your website and store are unparalleled when you
use Marc Dorsett Designs.
Website Content Management
What's the most common thing people do on your website? They read. You can save time for your customers and make sales by writing and laying out content that wins on the Web.As you know, simplicity is the key to designing a quality website. After all, visitors go to your site to find information—and they're most happy when they find what they want quickly.
Website design should focus on how content is created and presented to your visitors. How do readers navigate your classification system? How do they search for a particular document? How easy is it for them to move around your site?
These fundamental questions are designed for simple, straightforward answers . Marc Dorsett Designs has the resources to provide a common platform for addressing your multiple web answers, expand the role of the web in your organization, transform your use of the web from an exclusive IT function to an organization-wide tool, and minimize the time and investment generally associated with web projects.
Because top programmers are an integral
part of the Marc Dorsett design teams, we are available
to consult and advise when you require a
custom
solution.
Database-Driven Design
Marc Dorsett Designs partners with elite, professional programmers - building highly compatible, ColdFusion©-driven websites, custom designed specifically for our clients, providing exactly what you've asked for plus the professional touches you may not know you need. Your website can be designed for easy administration by non-technical staff where possible for increased long-term value and decreased maintenance costs.
In most database websites, a visitor makes requests from the web page to request data from the database and then the programming decides how to display it within the context of the page. This is an advanced web development technique utilized by all major web sites and employed more and more by competant developers for their small business clients.
The primary benefit is the separation of the content of the site, which should be maintained by you, from the technical & design elements which should be maintained by your web professional. The database enables us to create administration consoles that you can use to add information into the database and update your website when you wish, as often as you wish!
Let us show you how it can enhance your website today!
Website Enhancements
Marc Dorsett Designs understands what makes a great site. For companies wishing to perform upgrades to their site, without the expense of a major overhaul, we offer a variety of enhancement options.A website enhancement is any new addition that improves the appeal and functionality of your site. We we are continually seeking out new ways to utilize the very latest technology to improve the competitive advantage of our clients.
Potential website enhancements that Marc Dorsett Designs can deliver include:
Re-Design
For older sites, or sites that were published at a minimal
budget, a complete re-design may be in order. Marc Dorsett
Designs will work with you using the same strategies
and insight we use when developing a new website, to
design a fresh, up-to-date web presence that brings your
company into a professional and technologically advanced
light.
Graphic Re-Fresh
Perhaps your content is still valid, but your graphics lack the pinache that newer sites are creating. Marc Dorsett Designs re-molds the look and
feel of your site, improving navigation, re-organizing
and re-formatting your existing content to bring fresh
excitement to your website..
Feature Enhancement
If your current site is effective, adding additional
functionality to your site may be what is needed. Perhaps
you want to sell your products on-line. Marc Dorsett Designs can bring e-commerce to your
customers, allowing them to browse your catalog of products or services
and place orders 24 hours a day.