Good web design involves much more than creating the pages. An experienced, professional web designer can help you make the most of your website and your website dollar.

What should you expect from your web designer?
First of all, you should expect them to be a good consultant. They should know how to guide you into determining the purpose of your website, the content of your website and the best way to fulfill your goals for the website.

How should your web designer work with you to plan your site?
A good web development professional can help you determine what should be included in your website and help you gather the necessary information—they should prepare and present you with a list of the necessary items—photos, text, etc.—that will be required for the site. They can advise you on what is important and what is better left out.

What about content preparation?
Writing for the web requires the usual good grammar and spelling. It also requires much more. Good writing for the web is different from article writing. Web writing should be concise, focused and topic oriented. Text needs to be broken into manageable portions with easy to access titles and content. Your web designer should be able to help you determine the goal of your site and help you prepare the content to further that goal. A good web designer has a business background and understands the goals of business and the process of marketing and selling.

Why is your site important?
Your site presents your company to the world. If visitors to your site have only the site with which to assess your work, then it is extremely important that the site is professional looking and provides the information that visitors will expect. A badly designed site will drive away clients; a well-designed site will attract business and this is, after all, why you want a web presence and why you need a web professional to work with you.

APEX Computer Technologies Web Design Services
Apex Computer Technologies partners with Radiance Dream, an internationally experienced web designer. Radiance has worked with businesses and organizations throughout North America and Europe to create their web presence. Radiance has been working in the web design business for over 7 years. Prior to her work as a web designer, she worked in sales and marketing and has the business experience to support businesses in achieving the goals of their websites.

Radiance designed the first interactive website for Vocational Training Professionals in Europe (in three languages) and has since created the site for The European Centre for the Development of Vocation Training (CEDEFOP). CEDEFOP is one of twelve agencies of the EU and the site designed for them by Radiance, was produced using active server page technology to support the language function—the site provides content in eleven languages.

More recently, Radiance has developed and maintained sites for businesses and real estate developments in Canada. Her portfolio includes: The Barometer, Corinthia Estates, Southwind Developments and Trumpeters Landing. See above left to visit these sites.

Ms. Dream studied art at The College of the Desert in Palm Springs, California and provides graphic design work to her clients, including logos, cover artwork and backgrounds and buttons. She is expert in a number of website coding programs as well as graphic design programs such as: Photoshop, Corel Draw, Paint Shop Pro and Macromedia Flash. She has taught HTML and web design for The Vancouver Community Network and The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training.