Web Design

The appearance and interface usability of a Web site is the most important part of the whole Web process. The look, ease of navigation, and clear setup of the site's "information space" are essential to giving that first good impression with a potential customer.

People have expectations about the setup of a Web site and where to find navigation links. If someone cannot figure out how to use your site, they will probably hit the back button and choose another site in the list of search engine results.

Web Development + Programming

A lot more can be done on the Web than display "static" information. We can make your site dynamic by adding Web applications to your site. A Web application lets visitors interact with your Web site and provides useful ways to customize content or offer increased convenience to potential customers.

For example, you can have people fill out a form to be added to a mailing list. The Web application drops their signup information into a database and then we give you a tool to see who's signed up and send out mailings periodically. Your options are unlimited!

E-Commerce

Our first Web site ever was a full-blown e-commerce site with product catalog and automated order processing. Since then, we've developed our own comprehensive e-commerce software that can be custom configured for any type of online store.

Our e-commerce software handles your storefront, shopping cart, user accounts, affiliates, discounts, automatic credit card processing, shipping calculation for all major carriers, mailing list software and a whole lot more. Behind the whole system is a set of administrative tools you can use to manage your storefront and product catalog, process orders, send email about product offers to current and potential customers, and view statistics and trends. And it's all surprisingly easy to use.

We've integrated this software into small e-commerce sites with only a handful of products and huge online stores with thousands of products with call centers using specialized tools to take orders by phone and push them through the same system, so everything is managed and tracked from one central place.

Web Hosting

Take 42 operates and maintains its own top-of-the-line Web servers. Security, reliability, and unbeatable network and system uptime make Take 42's servers an ideal setup for hosting any type of Web site. With the kinds of high-powered sites hosted and the level of traffic they see, it is essential that Take 42 has the absolute best servers and network connectivity available.

Marketing

Having a Web site is important, but even more important is getting the right people to visit it. There are incredibly effective ways to draw highly targeted traffic to your Web site that can produce immediate results. Through careful analysis, we can determine the right way to market your Web site online and propose an advertising budget that is reasonable and practical for maximizing your return on investment.

Search Engine Optimization

Obtaining good placement in the free search engine results is the best way to market your site online. All of the sites we create are optimized for search engines right from the start, beginning as early as the site's conceptualization and design phases. Optimizing a site requires a thorough understanding of all of the disciplines of Web design and all of the "innuendos" of the major search engines.

It really takes a full-service Web design company to properly optimize a site for good search engine rank because it requires everything from proper Web server configuration to network setup to specific HTML coding techniques to keyword selection and semantics. A company who doesn't deal with all of the steps in the process of creating a Web site on a daily basis simply cannot guarantee you the most comprehensive search engine optimization available.

Search engine optimization is one of our most popular services. We both optimize sites for clients and consult with them to help them understand how to do it themselves. We often spend a day at companies with their own in-house Web departments training staff on the techniques needed to achieve good search engine placement.

Site Updates + Maintenance

We offer cost effective ways to improve your existing site to help you maximize its use and potential. Clients often come to us — disenchanted with their previous Web company — seeking ways to get the results they originally wanted from their Web site. We offer a real, honest analysis of the existing Web site and provide ways to "fix" it and have it meet its intended goals. Sometimes, even the goals and the purpose of the Web site need to be changed or updated as well. We take the time to understand your company and decide what the Web site should be doing for your company.

A whole lot more...

There are many services that a complete solution like Take 42 Productions has to offer — far too many to list here. If you want to know about a particular service, or if you are not completely certain what you need, feel free to Contact Us for a free consultation. We are very responsive to any type of inquiry!