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WEB DESIGN

serving... Brampton | Burlington | Hamilton | Milton | Mississauga | North York | Oakville | Toronto

About Us

For over ten years 17 Designs has provided our corporate customers with contemporary, highly-functional web design and timely on-going web maintenance.  Our clients are extremely loyal and many are on their second, even third generation website with us.  We take great pride in assembling CSS-based websites and dynamic PHP web pages that are stable, compliant with W3C guidelines, coded for organic search engine optimization and robust for continued expansion.  Our web design approach is proven and given the budgetary concerns many companies are faced with during these stressful times we have adopted a flexible pricing structure.  We are eager to prove our value to your company and trust you find our designs marketable, innovative and beaming with creativity.

Recent Client Web Updates

Clarity Conference Gets a New ID

June 29, 2009

www.clarityconferencing.com

Clarity came to 17 Designs years ago with a goal to provide affordable conferencing solutions. Now, with 1,000s customers a month it shows we delivered. Last week, we prepared a new corporate ID for Clarity demonstrating their continued growth.

Con Steel Gets First Website

June 23, 2009

www.consteel.ca

17 Designs in partnership with Connected Technologies will develop a website for Con Steel, a Brampton manufacturer of the steel frames of industrial buildings and high rises.

Our Customers

17 Designs provides web design to customers within the Greater Toronto Area.  We service a diverse range of industries (including construction, entertainment, manufacturing, health care, transportation, to name a few) and consider our web designs versatile in promoting any product.  Situated in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, our success stems from attention to detail, superior customer service and a continued effort to grow with emerging Internet technologies.  This, the sixth version of our website, has three themes: a "Default" theme suitable for any monitor, a "Corporate" theme and a "Hip" theme.  Visit Preferences to set your desired theme and the appearance of this website will adjust accordingly.  We also encourage visitors to join our BLOG where we discuss web design.

Bondfield Gets Television Appearance

June 23, 2009

www.bondfield.com

In keeping with the high profile announcement of the completion re-construction of the $91 million Windsor Hospital, Bondfield Vice-President and Hospital CEO were on A-Channel News. 17 Designs posted the streaming video feed on Bondfield's website.

Canadian Hospital Specialties Photo Shoot

June 9, 2009

http://www.chsltd.com

A leading Canadian specialty distributor of medical / surgical products, CHS has commissioned 17 Designs to photograph a new product line for an up-coming trade show.

Recent Web Designs

Website: www.pianosi.com

www.pianosi.com

Project Details:

Headquartered in Etobicoke, Ontario, Pianosi is a developer of industrial buildings and residential condominiums in the Greater Toronto Area.  Their website, written mostly in PHP, accesses a MySQL database of leasing / rental properties and is enhanced with Flash animation fade-ins of recent construction projects.  17 Designs also provided photographic services of properties.

Website: www.orionhardware.com

www.orionhardware.com

Project Details:

Located in Woodbridge, Ontario, Orion Hardware is an importer of fine Italian door handles, door knobs and bath accessories sold to developers of chic hotels and condominiums within North America.  Their website, written mainly in PHP, accesses a MySql database of over 1,800 products.  Downloadable specifications are provided for each product as well as sizes and colours.  The website also uses a top animated Flash menu, a drop down menu and has a handy metric to imperial conversion calculator.

Website: www.stagewestexpress.com

www.stagewestexpress.com

Project Details:

Based out of Bolton, Ontario, Stage West Express Inc. was recently ranked #2 in Ontario by a Ministry of Transportation audit.  Their trucking and logistics website developed in HTML and formatted using CSS features action photos of trucks, trailers and oversized loads taken by 17 Designs.  The website also includes a highly detailed quotation page as well as an on-line employment application.  To promote search engine recognition, the website includes industry-specific terms such as LTL / FTL / expedited freight, among others.

Recent Technology Initiatives

Search Engine Optimization

17 Designs took immediate steps to bring Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in house.  This will allow us to promote clients' websites and increase web traffic.  SEO practices are now included into every website we develop.  Clients that have used our new organic SEO service have seen an immediate improvement in their Alexa ranking.

Flash ActionScript 3.0

Our knowledge of Flash ActionScript 3.0 is quickly expanding.  The Flash banner located on our Actionscript page was developed to retrieve compiled SWF files and MP3 sound tracks.  We also used AS3 in the Flash animation of the new Pianosi Construction website currently on-line and a Flash presentation developed for Platform Computing.

We develop innovative web solutions using new, state-of-the-art technology.

RECENT BLOG ENTRIES

Flash Video - Media Encoding
Summary: More and more you see websites including...
Author: Creative - June 23, 2009

Thoughtful Web Design - Header Tags
Summary: A well designed website employs CSS for ...
Author: Creative - June 9, 2009

Google Analytics - Measuring Web Performance
Summary: Google Analytics has quickly become the ...
Author: Creative - June 9, 2009

Firefox claims 21%
Summary: Slowly but surely Microsoft is losing ho...
Author: Creative - June 2, 2009

Internet Explorer 6 is DEAD!
Summary: First introduced in August 2001 and rele...
Author: Creative - June 2, 2009

Make Links Stand Out!
Summary: As a web design firm, we always feel tha...
Author: Creative - May 21, 2009

Targeting the Longtail Phrase
Summary: Choosing keywords, meta tags and page de...
Author: Creative - May 21, 2009

The SEO Benefit of Good Site Navigation
Summary: When designing a website, either by your...
Author: Creative - May 11, 2009

How to name images on a web page
Summary: Web designers are under constant pressur...
Author: NJurgen - April 29, 2009

What makes a great rollover button?
Summary: I used to think Flash was the be all and...
Author: NJurgen - April 21, 2009

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