Websites by Noel
Websites by Noel
Custom Websites designed with love for your personal and professional needs! From formal business to fun and funky formats, let my creative juices go to work for you!
Welcome!
Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Now is the time to have your own website (or update your old, dated website) to showcase the great things your entity has to offer.
I started designing websites years ago for my own personal uses: as a forum to share baseball tickets, to promote personal rental properties, to advertise our business, and as a personal resume. These were crude prototypes of the use of .html (the web language), but as technology has developed so have the tools that allow me to build new wonderful websites, and I am now offering these services to you.
How Does this Work?
1. Initial Consultation
- Together we will brainstorm what you would like your website to do. Is it strictly informational? Are you selling something? Are you offering services? Is it for a non-profit? The uses for a website are endless.
2. Reserving a Name
- Now for some of the technical stuff. You need a domain name (if you don't already have one). That's the "www.xyx.com" that you see at the top of your browser when you go to a web page. I can help you with that. Generally reserving a domain name is very inexpensive - usually around $10 -$20. If you already have a domain name, we will need to transfer it to our website host so that we can rebuild the website to your liking.
3. Building the Website
- With your input, I will build your website to your specifications. Here is where it gets to be fun. What sort of "feel" do you want your website to have? It can be formal and business-like or whimsical and light-hearted. It can be very modern or traditional. You can go for a retro look or something seasonal. The combinations are infinite. See the section below on the Fantastic Features
available for your website.
There is a lot of "behind the scenes" work that goes into building a website beyond picking out colors and photographs. These range from such things as setting up the website's "SEO" or Search Engine Optimization, so that search engines like Google or Yahoo can find you on the internet, to designing flavicons (that little symbol that appears next to the website title on the tab), to editing and formatting pictures, to building and formatting the page structure/layout, to creating page anchors for easier navigation, to formatting the website for mobile devices . Click here to see some examples of some of my current websites.
4. On-Going Website Maintenance
- Once your website is compete, I can turn the reigns over to you to keep your website updated, or if you'd prefer, I can update your website as needed for a very nominal fee.
What Does this Cost?
My initial consultation and basic website package starts at $500. This includes reserving your domain name or transferring your existing one, the building of a 20 page (including subpages) basic website. Each additional page or sub-page is $25 per page. You are responsible for the cost of a new domain name (it will belong to you) and for the hosting of the website - that runs about $10 - $15 per month for a basic website. Websites that offer e-commerce are more expensive, and I can provide you more details if necessary.
Fantastic Features for Your New Website
Exciting Entrance Animations
The first impression is the most important! You want to capture your visitor's attention from the get-go. Designs provided by Websites by Noel offer eye-catching animations from sliding headers to columns that fade in to pictures that roll into place. Your audience will never get bored!
Luxurious Layouts
Kick start your old, tired website or begin your cyber journey with a new and exciting website with elegant and fluid layouts that are easy to navigate, fun to look at and present your business's information in a most attractive light. These contemporary designs are reflexive so that they easily transition to mobile devices.
Fascinating Fonts
Interesting fonts offer a subliminal, but refreshing way to display your information. From a beautiful script to a statement font
to something a bit more interesting, there are hundreds of font combinations that will make your website pop!
Wonderful Widgets
What's a widget? Widgets are the fun features that will make your website stand out and provide features that will help your business grow!
Here are just a few examples of widgets available for your website:
Some Examples of My Websites
Homes By Noel
This website is my professional real estate website that I developed to assist my clients in their real estate search. I have tried to capture an artistic, yet elegant feel for the website that I felt would attract the audience I am looking for.
I've included information about me, a multi-paged Welcome to Austin section, my current listings, my past sales, links to my foolproof recipes, past issues of my newsletter "Be Austin," links to search engines, social media, as well as private pages for my clients to access saved properties. Click the button below to see for yourself.
6918 Van Etten
This is a formal property website for one of my listings.
This website emphasizes the professional photographs of the property, its features and benefits, neighborhood information, comparable sales, location map, tax information, and contact information. Click below to see the website.
Austin Lawyers' Auxiliary
I designed this website to showcase the organization of the Austin Lawyers Auxiliary, a dynamic group of folks working with the Austin Bar Association in numerous philanthropic endeavors.
We wanted to capture the "weirdness" of Austin, while at the same time provide valuable information about the events and activities or the group. I've used a multitude of animated backgrounds and rich jewel tones to make the website appealing to a younger, more vibrant audience. Be sure to check out the multitude of photo galleries to see how cleverly pictures can been displayed.
Texas Lawyers Auxiliary
This is a revamp of an old website that was an offshoot of the Texas Bar Association. The members wanted a fresh, fun look to capture the essence the wonderful charitable works they do for the State of Texas.
This website utilizes colorful abstract Texas landmarks to catch the eye, while at the same time offers a multitude of information for the group: private directory, event calendar, project highlights, membership/donation form, newletters, and much, much more.
American Lawyers Alliance
The original American Lawyers Alliance was aged, dated, and difficult to navigate. This amazing group hired me to breathe fresh life into their website, making it bolder, bigger and easy to get around in.
This website is a great example of the "reflexive" website - one that uses the whole screen rather than just the center. part It translates beautifully to both mobile phones and tablet sizes. I took advantage of mixing and matching formats and utilizing buttons to help ease with the navigation as well as having a bit of fun with the entrance animations which breathe life into something that had been static and boring.
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