Two Girls Design studios specializes in providing services in web site design, development and support. We create projects such as graphic elements, corporate identity and different advertising information products for publishing.

Website Design

Choosing a web design company can be a challenge. That’s why we developed a flexible and helpful design process that is simple, clear, and fast. We provide each client with an easy to follow work flow chart that will guide you through the process every step of the way. Each client is assigned one web designer/developer who will be with you through the process from beginning to end.Our clients are important to us and we make every effort to help you with your new or existing project.

Custom Website Design: Each website we design is fully scalable and is custom created specifically for you. We do not use canned templates, nor do we use the same graphics you find on hundreds of other sites. Your website design will scale without distortion across the web in both mobile and standard browser formats and in print. We always supply you with the original Photoshop or Illustrator files.

Color Palettes: Because our web designers and developers are also professional artists, you will see beautiful color palettes that "speak" to your brand. Little changes in hue can make really large differences in print and on the web. Each hue we choose is chosen specifically to subtly communicate your company’s message in a timeless, natural manner that will neither blend in with every other site on the web nor will they be so unnatural that they are aesthetically undesireable. The color palettes we work with are built on timeless natural elements and photographs so they are sure to be stunning and unforgettable. This provides your company with the the perfect leaping off point for print.

Modular development: We code every single website by hand in a modular fashion. This makes it so that you can easily move elements around in your website in the future as needed. Additionally, you can easily add news and content on the fly, which means that you have full moment to moment control of your website which allows you to maximize its effectiveness for no additional cost. The modules we develop are designed for you to easily work with each one – without needing to know any HTML, PHP, or XHTML. In other words, anyone in your organization can easily make changes for you (with your permission, of course!) without any worries of "breaking" your website!

CSS & XHTML

Each site we create uses valid CSS and XHTML. This helps your website on many levels. Fast load times, cross browser compatibility, and easy reading by the search engine spiders are only a few ways this valid CSS and XHTML coding will help your website. It also gives you the ability to meet the unique needs of mobile users as well as diabled people.

Web Standard Compliant: All of our code is created to meet the highest standards – above and beyond the current web standard compliance guidelines. This means that your website isn’t going to break in any browser or on any platform. This is as important for your image as a company as it is for your customers user experience.

Fast Loading Websites: Studies have shown that visitors won’t usually wait more than 4 or 5 seconds for a page to load before they simply leave the website. By using valid CSS and XHTML code and testing on multiple platforms, we ensure that your pages will load quickly and perfectly every time.

Usability

Usability must be considered every step of the development process. Both from an administrator’s perspective for your company and for your website visitors. Usability is a multi-faceted process that incorporates rich design, easy navigation, valid CSS and XHTML, pages that load fast, and a website that can be easily viewed on any device. Not only should your business be able to update your website easily on the fly with changes instantly available across your website and announced to the search engines. But, through your customer’s eyes, the design and navigation should be deeply intuitive no matter how they are viewing the site. Valid CSS & XHTML create pages that will load lightning fast with nearly any connection.

Navigation: The way a customer navigates a website must be carefully considered for optimal experience. If navigation is intuitive, your customers will feel relaxed and at-ease on your website which will increase the usefulness of your website, maxmimizing your sales. How navigation is setup is more than simply where it goes on the page. It involves optimal placement of navigation and optimal order of navigation. That is to say, we work with you to determine which pages are most important and what sort of flow you would like your customers to follow as they traverse your website.

Scalability: One of the most important aspects of developing and designs your website is to ensure that it is highly scalable without needing a redesign at every step of growth. Scalability is one of our top priorities. We want to make sure that your website will easily grow with your company without further expense. Scalability is the entire reason that we do not offer “5-page”, “8-page”, or “10-page” design packages. Your company shouldn’t be limited to a handful of pages for your website. We will build a website for you that will work hard for your company today with only a few pages and 5 years from now when it needs hundreds of pages.

User experience: The fact is, if your customers are happy on your website, they will come back. The worst thing a company can do is alienate their customers with a difficult website. To ensure that your website gives your customers the best user experience, we design your website with valid CSS and XHTML which will ensure that your website looks, feels, and navigates exactly the same in every browser. Additionally, every website we design is 100% mobile browser compatible so that your customers can connect with your company even when they are on the go!

 

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Search Engine Optimization is vital for every business website. However, it needn’t be as complicated as what many companies would like you to believe. Don’t let anyone trick you into paying thousands of dollars for SEO. A well built website using the proper platform with good, descriptive content, valid CSS and XHTML and a little bit of information can sky rocket your website into the top 10 search results for search terms that your customers use to look for exactly what you offer! This doesn’t involve any fancy tricks or shady techniques. We will guide you through the search engine optimization process so that you can enjoy those same great search engine results in an honest, easy way.

WordPress

We work exclusively with WordPress for your content management system. This means that you will have a very easy to use user interface that is both intuitive and user friendly from which you can update your own website on the fly – from anywhere in the world where you have internet access. While most people know WordPress as a blogging platform, we have been building custom websites using WordPress as the foundation for over 5 years. This gives us the unique advantage of knowing the most effective ways to set it up so that you can easily run your own website.

There are a multitude of reasons to use Word Press to run your website. These include easy scalability, full W3C compliant code, no rebuilding of websites every time there is a change, and typographical niceties. Creating a new page for your website in Word Press is as easy as typing a document in any word processor. WordPress will make sure that your new information is added to the navigation, announced to search engines and your social networking sites.

WordPress Themes: When we create a custom website for you, we create a custom WordPress theme that is never available for sale or for free to anyone else. Your website will look like a website (not a blog). This custom theme will include, depending on what you need, a few variations so that you can easily change the look of your website without worrying about all the headaches and hassles that usually come when you need a full site facelift.

 

Branding and Identity

Creating an effective brand is something that requires experience and creativity. The design and/or marketing company you work with needs to know the right questions to ask in order to express the right concept for your business. When you choose 2 Girls Design Studios, you tap into years of experience in creating unique brand identities and transforming existing brand identities from average to extraordinary. We want to know what you dream is for your company so that we may help you turn your dream into a reality by giving your brand a real identity that works for you and your company.

Who are you? What do you do? These seem like very simple questions. These are the two questions that your brand identity should be able to answer in the first few seconds of contact with your customers. However, these can be difficult questions for businesses to answer quickly and concisely. One obstacle that business owners face can be not seeing the forest because of the trees! When you are deeply entrenched in your business day to day, it can be difficult to step back and view your business as your customers view it. You may know exactly who your business is and what it does because you are involved in it every single day. However, that does not mean that the message is clear to your potential customers! Research has shown that your customers will develop an opinion of your brand within the first few seconds of contact. With the right branding and identity, you can rest assured that it’s precisely the impression that you want them to develop!.

Long Term Brand Recognition: Your brand must be memorable in a distinct way. There are many companies that sell clip art style logos and call it "branding". We like to look at the big picture. Where is your company today and where will your company be in 2 years, 5 years, and even 10 years? We will help you develop a brand that will grow with your company so that you don’t feel like you are spending all your time recreating your brand simply because your business has grown and changed! Just because your company may move from a startup to a full scale corporation in the next 10 years, that doesn’t mean that your brand must change. The key is to start with a brand that will work now and in the future.

Logo Development

One of the most important steps in developing the brand identity for your company is crafting a logo. Our logo design process is simple, creative, and highly customized. Your artist will brainstorm with you and carefully listen to everything you have to say. She will ask you questions and will work with you to make sure she fully understands your company’s goals and objectives. We understand that your company’s logo is the first visual representation that some of your customers will have of your company. For that reason, we work with you to ensure that your logo is representing your company in the very best way. Our philosophy is: a picture may be worth one thousand words, but, a logo should be worth a million!

Branding Your Business: Creating a brand is actually about creating a message that speaks to your customers. Through the logo development process, we help you define that message. With that, we will create your logo which not only looks great and works on the web but will also work in print and in all other media.

Clear, clean concepts: One of the main hurdles many businesses face is finding and defining a clear business concept. This is the foundation for the entire business and ignites our entire process. We will take the time to brainstorm with you, assisting you in refining your concept until it is clean and crystal clear. At 2 Girls Design Studios, we feel that designing and coding your site are very small (and important) pieces in the entire development process.

 

Graphic Illustrations

One of the top reasons people come to us is because they’ve seen our custom digital artwork elsewhere. We have many years of experience using Illustrator and Photoshop. We are also highly skilled artists in more traditional mediums and can create you great looking graphics by hand which can then be transformed into digital graphics and used in both web and print.

Scalable Across Web and Print: All of our graphic illustrations are created in such a way that they are scalable to any size without compromising quality. When we create graphic illustrations for you and your business, you are free to use them in any manner you see fit now and in the future.

Crisp Graphics for Web All of the graphics we create are saved so that they are true to color, sharp and crisp around the edges yet still fast loading. If needed, we can work with your supplied graphics and use the same techniques to produce sharp, bright, crisp images from those as well. Our results in this area will depend somewhat on the quality of the original, however, we have worked with publishers and other artists through the years to sharpen graphics for optimal impact.

Print Design

 

We work with local and national printers. Our main focus in print design is to carry your brand and identity into all mediums. We accomplish this by working closely with you, designed stunning business cards, brochures, and print ads that you may use. In addition, we will spend some time with you to discuss all your printing options. Why settle for the standard card stock when it may not represent your company in the way it needs to be represented. We help you look at all aspects of your brand: from who your target market is to what the message is and then advise you on the best, most cost effective ways to showcase your unique brand and identity!

Promoting Your Business: Professionals should always have professional business cards on hand. Our print design artists will work with the printer of your choice to produce the highest quality prints on the most appropriate paper. Our print design artists have worked with local printers for years and have extensive knowledge of papers and textures that will create business cards that won’t be laid aside.

Print design: From brochures to business cards, our print design artists have been creating stunning & effective layouts with each individual client in mind for many years. Our goal is to help you reach your goals. One way to do that is through high impact print design.

Social Networking

You’ve heard of many of the social networking sites. You may even have a fan page or "inhabit" a few different sites. But, are you really making the most out of those sites? Our staff of designers and developers have attended numerous conference and put that knowledge to the test in order to advise you on the most effective ways to use Web 2.0. Your customers are already learning to expect to see "like" and "share" buttons on the websites they visit. If you are not giving them an easy way to share your information with their friends, you are missing a very important opportunity for your business.

Let our experts guide you into Web 2.0 so that you are where your customers are 24/7!