SM Designs is a Virginia web design service providing innovative excellent design solutions at an Affordable Price.
As a Virginia web design home business we serve nearly all of the Washington DC metropolitan area. This is a home business providing professional web design service at more affordable rate compared to most design firms. We are committed to creativity, innovation and quality to meet your design needs. Additionally our services include graphic design, specifically brochures, ads, flyers, and creation of logos, illustrations. We are located in Alexandria, Virginia and as a Virginia web design business we mostly work in the area but we are open to working anywhere else in the U.S. Our web design services include specialization in flash web design, multimedia web design and marketing web design. Sihanat Meas, senior web/graphic designer, I have been doing graphic and web design in Virginia for more than 5 years, as a web designer, my main job is to create and develop a custom web design that would visually communicate to the client their identity and their target audience. I work with Fanta Dumbia, who is an acomplished SEO specialist and writer. Together as a team we can successfully design, develop and promote your website.

When meeting with a client, I listen to what they require for their web site and then offer my proposal; in my proposal I would list what is required and what I can offer and a complete estimate of all services provided. My estimate is always competitive, but if they can find a better deal. I can usually match it. Also I can offer the client an option of working hourly, which can be more affordable to the client. Once the web design project is approved, I only need 1 or 2 requirements from the client, a domain name (web address) and hosting. When choosing a domain, my advice, is to be specific. Depending on the name of your business, having a domain name that describes your business is a good thing. Although the number of available domain names are shrinking, developing a good domain name is important for search engines, if the domain name contains a certain keyword then it is better optimize for search engines.

Having a domain name that includes your location like Virginia web design or VA web design is a good way of optimizing your web page. There are many techniques involved when optimizing your web site, but choosing a good domain is one on the most important factors of Search Engine Optimization, SEO. Once the domain name is chosen then you will need web hosting, all web sites require web hosting and depending on the type of site or sites you want to host, there are number of web hosting packages that you can choose from, whether it is from me or a different company. If you don’t understand what exactly hosting is, the best way I can explain it is this: Hosting is renting space on the server and using its dedicated high speed connection with the World Wide Web to share your web pages with other computers such as yours.

Hosting can be cheap and you can pay monthly or yearly. Hosting can have many features; the basics are disk space, data transfer, domain name, control panels and pre-installed scripts. If the client doesn’t have hosting, SM Designs could offer them hosting as part of the web design deal. As far as the website content, the client usually provides the logos, graphics or pictures and written content, but this isn’t necessary. We can provide most of the content such as, logos, graphic design or photos and written content. But if multimedia web design is involved, then the client should provide all the media content. In flash web design, we can provide some of the content, but it’s up to the client to provide majority of the content.