Spigot Design is an independent web and graphic design studio. We mainly butter our bread with with custom web design work, but we’re also fully capable of many other design tasks. Take a look below at our services, and if you’d like, find out a little more about who we are.
Website Design
While there are many things to love in this world, building beautiful, robust, and functional websites are near the top of our list.
Custom Custom Custom
There are many template based web designers out there, and we’re not one of them. We believe that there hasn’t been a template built yet that will fit your business’ needs the way a unique, built from scratch custom website can. A custom site can also be more cost effective over the long run, read more about custom vs template based sites from our articles.
Blogs
If there’s one thing we recommend to our clients regarding how to improve their websites, it’s to add a blog. Before you get caught up in the ‘blogs blogging blogger blog blog blog’ hysteria, just realize that a blog is simply a page that is updated on a frequent basis. We happen to call our blog our ‘Notebook.’ Others call it ‘Articles.’ And everyone who has such a page on their site benefits from the increased SEO and community building capabilities that blogs offer. If you’re serious about driving traffic to your site, get yerself a blogity blog blog blogger.
Content Management
Every site that rolls out of this studio is built within a content management system (CMS). It empowers our clients to keep their websites fresh and polished, in dead-easy fashion. There’s no need to call us up every time some copy needs to be updated, or an image swapped out. Our CMS of choice these days is Wordpress, the same system that runs this very site, and it is a joy to use. Just remember what Spiderman’s grandpa said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” A CMS won’t totally replace the need for a web professional in your corner, but it will enable you to take control of the day to day updates – including that blog bliggety blog :).
Graphic Design
Our training began with Graphic Design, and it’s still work we love to do.
A few of our Graphic Design capabilities:
- Brochures
- Magazine ads
- Catalogs
- Point of purchase
- Newsletters
- Calendars
- Packaging
Identity & Logo Design
A logo is perhaps the single most important design product you can buy. It says so much about your business – A professional business system (logo, business card, and letterhead) can instill trust and reliability, while a poorly executed system can often imply the opposite.
Website Maintenance
A website is much like a living organism – one that needs to be fed, and nurtured, and groomed, and sometimes even poked and prodded. Perhaps that’s going too far, but the point is that the day your site goes live is just the beginning. Keep a web professional around to keep things running smoothly and up to date.
Monthly Maintenance Packages
For those who will be using their website as an active part of their marketing efforts, we offer monthly web maintenance packages that fit your needs.
A-La Carte Updates (By the Hour)
If you don’t feel you’ll need a pro around at a moments notice, then we also offer by-the-hour web maintenance services. Just remember though, much like a season pass to your local ski resort, if you have it, you use it. If you don’t… you probably won’t go (as much).
Email Marketing
Email is still one of the most popular things people do on the internet, and still a major form of communication. While that may be stating the obvious, what’s more important is getting your messages through to the people you most want to reach. Attractive, easy to manage email campaigns that provide benchmarks and feedback information are a very effective way to reach your customers. It’s important too to stay on top of the spam laws that put requirements on commercial email. Don’t get your domain blacklisted by not following the rules!
Web Hosting
A high quality web site deserves equally high quality web hosting. Instead of being stuck on a web server with hundreds or thousands of other sites, we can host your site on a dedicated virtual server, with the resources to keep your site running fast and smooth, no matter how much traffic you get.
We only host sites that we personally build or maintain, which means you get the same dedicated customer service for your hosting plan as you did with your website development.
Cinch Hosting
Cinch is a joint partnership between Spigot Design and Studio2, a design firm located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Together we serve our clients with the highest quality hosting, on dedicated virtual servers leased from Media Temple. If anything goes wrong, we’re here to quickly and securely fix the problem.