It's true. With today's sophisticated software, anyone who uses a computer can create some sort of a website. But creating a clean, easy-to-use, interesting, professional, unique and informative website - now that's a challenge.

Although both graphic and website development software packages have advanced tremendously in capabilities over the last few years, the quality of any website ultimately depends on the capabilities of the designer. And it isn't just about HTML (web page) code anymore - the ability to design clean, attractive graphics has become as important as the actual page functionality.

How many times have you arrived at a plain, or even ugly website and hit the "back" button immediately rather than try to work your way through it? The fact is that there are so many alternatives on the Web that there's often no reason to waste time on a "bad" site.

Our years of design experience

Sound Ideas has designed numerous brochures, postcards, full-color software packages, logos, magazine advertisements and many other items in-house since 1987. Our software business was built and continues to function based on our ability to design and market our own products.

Website examples

The following are a few examples of our recent website design work (of course, in addition to the Sound Ideas site you are currently viewing).

PLEASE NOTE: The following websites were originally designed and created by Sound Ideas but other individuals may have changed elements since we posted them. When visiting these sites, if you find any errors or things that simply don't look correct, it's safe to assume that someone else made changes...

Specialty page creation

In addition to complete websites, we also design specialty pages at reasonable prices for use with PDAs and our FineLine Mobile Access software, and for website data exchange with our FineLine WebLink software. Of course, having the web page creator also being the software developer drastically helps the project in terms of both timing and cost savings.

Not our main job = savings

The main focus of Sound Ideas is software development. This benefits our web design customers because we don't need to charge the outrageous fees other web designers do since it's not our only source of income (i.e. we don't live from one web design project to another). As a result of this, we've found that our customers are very surprised at how reasonable our prices are, in addition to the timely and accurate work we provide.

Psychology of a website

Many "web designers" believe they can provide quality web page development services because they can assemble a graphic and a web page. But there is actually much more to a site than a pretty face. The type and location of controls, the overall "attitude" and message being conveyed, the tag line chosen for the home page, and many other elements play important roles in the overall success and usability of a website.

We take the time to first learn about your business, then determine the best way to present it on the Web.

UNIX experience is a huge plus

For customers running UNIX who are interested in having their website or PDAs exchange data with their database, Sound Ideas is the perfect fit. Not only does Sound Ideas have many years of UNIX development experience, we created the FineLine WebLink and FineLIne Mobile Access software packages which enable pages to communicate directly with a UNIX server. There is no better alternative than having the developer of the software also be the developer of the web pages since we are able to quickly and effectively add features to the connection software to address different requirements of the pages. This creates stronger software products for us and provides features that are either unobtainable or prohibitively expensive to implement otherwise. If you have a UNIX database with which you want to provide information to the Web or PDAs, we are a one-stop solution.

Let's talk

If you are interested in having web pages created, updated or expanded - whether it's just a few pages or an entire site - give us a call at (800) 633-5250 or (570) 643-6611 to discuss your requirements.