I created Silver Leaf Design to give local business owners an affordable and painless way to set their business up with a great looking web site and to get it online for their customers to see.

We'll explain the processes involved in getting your website online so you know exactly what is going on. We'll discuss the website content and layout with you, show you rough drafts, and make sure you get exactly what you want before the site goes live. The site you want, will be the site you get at a price you can afford. I guarantee it.

If you want, we can do everything. We can take care of the domain name purchase, the web hosting and the site design for you. It's up to you how involved you want to be in the process.

Your website is an extremely important extension of your business and it should look that way.

To put it simply, here is what you need in place for a website to exist:

• Webspace or hosting (a place where your website pages and files will live online)
• A domain name (www.yoursite.com, which points to your hosting account)
• A website

We offer Two different types of websites.  Joomla content management systems and standard HTML websites.

What is Joomla?
We recommend Joomla as a content management system (CMS) for your company's website.  Joomla is an award winning CMS that has thousands of plug-ins, components and modules available to install to make your site do everything you want it to, such as allowing for user registration with your site, social networking integration (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), blogging, user commenting and interactivity, unique video/image presentations and slideshows, importing or creating news feeds (RSS), e-commerce solutions, etc.  Plus, if you prefer, Joomla allows for easy updating and on-the-fly simple page editing without the need to know HTML or any other web programming language...which is a huge bonus for some businesses in that they don't have to hire a web specialist to maintain their website.  (or we can perform your site updates for you...it's completely up to you.)

WEB PAGE DESIGN RATES

• Custom Joomla CMS (recommended) or standard HTML web site template: $295 (includes index page)
• Secondary site pages: $45 each
• Hourly rate for future site updates/maintenance: $25/hr. (1hr. minimum)
• Fees for custom graphics, flash movies, modules, components or other specialty items will be determined after analyzing the complexity of the items requested.