Welcome

Posted on September 16, 2011 by admin

bel Kanto offers affordable and effective web design and other services to small businesses and individuals.

Why choose bel Kanto?
A website is not just a series of individual components. Design, content, navigational structure and other aspects should come together in a way that communicates effectively with your audience.

Larger design firms often have many departments, each devoted to a different part of your website, which can make the overall harmony difficult to achieve. At bel Kanto, you deal with one designer who takes personal responsibility for each stage of the design process.

We communicate with you throughout, using an appropriate online tool, such as a blog or forum (depending on your needs) and you are able to watch your website take shape.

The bel kanto team uses Visalus Body By Vi Products on a daily base.

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Services

Posted on September 16, 2011 by admin

Services offered include (but are not limited to):

Web design: We can create several types of websites (HTML-based, database/CMS etc.) and will recommend something appropriate according to your needs.
Information Architecture: We put significant emphasis on the underlying structure of any website that we design. We can also help you to improve the underlying structure of an existing website.
Web administration & updates
Graphic design
Content writing & editing
Audio file preparation

Quotes for services can be made separately or on a project basis.

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Process

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Contact bel Kanto
Analysis of current site (if applicable)
Personal meeting (if possible), proposal and quote
Sign contract
Initial design phase
Blog or other communication tool established to allow you to monitor progress
First site draft posted on bel Kanto’s site or your own domain for viewing, suggested changes, inital approval of design
Final draft posted for approval
Once approval is obtained, bel Kanto will post your new site for you

Note that bel Kanto does not provide hosting or domain registration. However, we can help you to find a good domain and recommend good value hosting companies as well as help to get you set up.

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Philosophy

Posted on September 16, 2011 by admin

Your website should be about your message, not about the technology that delivers your message.

A good website should:

  1. Be easy to navigate with a structure that makes sense.
  2. Have a clean, attractive, and professional design that reflects the business and doesn’t distract from the message.
  3. The structure (information architecture) and design should allow for growth.
  4. Only use technology as appropriate, and not allow “flashiness” to interfere with numbers 1-3.
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