The TechCrafters Difference

Content Driven Design

TechCrafters, LLC is more than just a web design firm - we take a pro-active approach to your needs, allowing you to rely on the expertise we've developed from being in the design field for more than ten years. If creating a website was just a matter of putting some words online, anyone could do it (and many have, with some rather unpleasant-looking results!) But your website may well be the very first impression that you make on your prospective client, so it needs to be conveying just the right message.

We'll work with you every step of the way to design and implement the right approach for your particular target audience, taking care of the details so you can concentrate on the building of your business!

One of the major differences between TechCrafters, LLC and a lot of other firms that you might consider is the time we will spend getting to know you and your business, before we even start to build your site. It's really very simple - the more we know about how your business operates, the better we can design a solution customized specifically for you and your company's needs. By taking the time to understand your goals for your business, we can create a site that works for you today and gives you a clear path for future expansion.

Helping you to understand the technology that makes up your site and some of the factors that affect it, helps us as well as it allows us to craft a better solution that fits your needs as your organization changes over time. For that reason, you'll find a lot of articles on this site that talk about the technology and the industry surrounding it. They're not required reading and there's no quiz, but you might find them useful.

Is Your Site Driving Away Customers?
This little form is designed to give you a quick evaluation of whether or not your website is in need of a make-over. Nobody sees your answers here but you, so please help yourself by being as honest as possible in your answers.

Is there a hits counter visible to visitors on your site?
 No. I track my web traffic through back-end tools such as Webalizer. Nothing is visible to site visitors.
 No. I don't track my site traffic stats.
 Yes. I like seeing how many people are visiting the site.

How many different type faces (fonts) appear on your site?
 Three or less throughout the site.
 Four to six throughout the site.
 Seven or more through out the site

Are there background graphics behind the text on your site?
 No. All of my text is dark-colored against a light, plain background.
 Some of my content has a background.
 Most of my pages have background graphics behind the text.

Do you use images in your site's navigation?
 No. None of my menus use images.
 Some of my menus have images but they all have ALT tags showing the link's text.
 Yes, my menus use images and are the only way to navigate my site.

Does the page title shown in the browser title bar indicate what's on each page?
 Yes.
 Sometimes.
 No.

Do all your pages have a consistent appearance?
 Yes.
 Yes, for the most part, though there are a few pages that have a different layout
 No, most of my pages are different in appearance.

How many ads (of any type) appear on an average page on your site?
 Two or fewer.
 Three to five.
 Six or more

Does your site use animated graphics, mouse trails, or background music?
 None of the above.
 Some of the above.
 All of the above.

Score Yourself


Clicking on the Score Yourself button will give you your final score. The highest possible score on this test is 80, though any score above 25 indicates that your site could use some pointers, and a score above 50 means that your website may be driving customers away!


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Will You Be Running VISTA?

October 15, 2007 — WebQueen (Views: 308)

With the latest operating system release from Microsoft, there’s a lot of options to consider, chief of which is whether or not to use the new system. Being part of that school of thought that prefers to wait for the second update or later for any new software, I had no plans on running VISTA anytime soon. I recently bought a new PC and, of course, it was loaded by default as the OS, taking up the entire 320 GB drive. First order of the day was to shrink that VISTA partition back down to a reasonable size. With no additional application loaded on the new system, VISTA was taking up about 15 GB - anyone remember when DOS fit on a single floppy? No matter how you look at it, this new OS is huge. The size is one thing to consider, as well as the performance needs for the PC that will be running it. So far, it seems to be running fine on my new PC, but this is a big fast machine with 2 GB of RAM, so it should run well. For the average user with an older machine, VISTA is probably not a good option. Especially when there are other options out there. I should note that this article is being written on that new PC but not from my VISTA installation - instead, I have installed a distribution of PCLinuxOS and have been working almost exclusively in Linux for the last few weeks.

With the advent of Live CD installations for many of the more popular Linux distributions, installing Linux is no longer the daunting task it used to be, though, in most cases, it does still require some additional tweaking of the the system once installed. Even with that extra effort, though, I find it to be a real pleasure to work in Linux and have been documenting parts of my experience with it on my tech blog, TechTalk.

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