THESE DAYS IT'S CHEAP AND EASY ENOUGH to produce a professional looking website using templates from various online services. If you want something a bit more individual though, Crescent Moon can custom build your site to look just the way you want it to and for surprisingly reasonable prices. Want a Startrek Voyager theme? See the sample on the right that echoes the screen layouts in that programme.
The design cost obviously depends on the complexity and how much you want to say. How long is a piece of string?
Supplementary pages (enlargements of pictures etc.) can be useful for keeping your design compact. Once a format is established they add little to the overall cost of your site. Picture enlargements can pop up in new frames like those on the right, or have a page to themselves like the one below.
SO IF YOU'RE THINKING of investing in a website how great, you may be wondering, will be the return? Well, it's usually impossible to say in advance but if you think of your website mainly as an economic way of displaying what you do, anything beyond that will be a bonus.
View it mainly as a portfolio, booklet (or even book) that will show the world what you have to offer. It's useful being able to send people straight to your website for details instead of having to repeat them endlessly to potential clients.
As part of the service your site will have keywords that people can pick up on, and the main search engines will learn of your existence. People will be able to find you easily enough on the net if they ask the right questions, and we can advise on how to boost traffic to your site.
