Welcome to BKDesign Solutions

BKDesign website development brings you the best in technology to make managing your website simple, easy, and cost effective. We design CSS Web Standard sites making your site fast, user friendly, and search engine optimized while meeting the demands of the future and reducing production costs.

BKDesign does complete site design, upgrading and development for personal and business websites. We include recommendations on search engine optimization, accessiblity, and know in depth the future trends of the internet to keep you on top.

Content Management Solutions:

With over 12 years experience BKDesign recommends ExpressionEngine as CMS. It has taken the lead for ease of use and features.  It makes adding and displaying your content a simple and easy task. For personal and business blogs, magazine sites, newspapers, and large corporate sites EE has consitently outperformed larger, more complex systems costing much more.

SPX Cooling Technologies switches to EE

We are the leading cooling tower manufacturer in the world with over $1 billion in sales and offices in 20 countries. Our parent company, SPX Corporation, is a Fortune 500 company and still produce their website with Dreamweaver - yikes. We built our site exclusively in ExpressionEngine and launched it in December, 2006. It’s been three months now and we’ve had a chance to shake out all of the quirks.

We abandoned our $50,000 Vignette installation as our CMS after it took too long to develop pages, was too complex, and didn’t allow for flexibility. Thanks for making ExpressionEngine!

 

This statement brings to mind an article by Jeffrey Veen written several years ago at Adaptive path, and holding true today, Why Content Management Fails.

Additionally, it represents BKDesign’s vision and purpose. To bring our clients, whether they be personal bloggers or enterprise level businesses, valid future proof websites which are simple and easy to use, using the best available system. That is Expression Engine.

“...after it took too long to develop pages, was too complex, and didn’t allow for flexibility.”
Here at BKDesign I have over the years found this to hold true on almost every system available, open source and other. At the time of this writing, I have installed, for some of them numerous times, over 30 of the systems available and found this to hold true for them all.

Web Standards

Multimap goes to Web Standards:

As for bandwidth, roughly speaking Multimap.com serves 4 million pages a day. On average, the HTML of the old site weighed in at 65kb per page. The new site pages are half that at 35Kb. That’s a saving of 40,000 Gb of bandwidth per year! I’ll leave you to translate that into money, but I can tell you the move to Web standards paid for itself within a month.
Multimap interview

 

Then along a similar line, Mike Davidson: writes on the redesign of espn.com

What were the primary factors behind your decision to move away from
table-based layout?

The number one factor was forward compatibility, a term I first heard used by Jeffrey Zeldman….
Bandwidth savings using Web Standards:
Page reduction (est.): 50KB
Page views/day: 40,000,000
Projected bandwidth savings:
2 terabytes/day
61 terabytes/month
730 terabytes/year

 

• We recommend ExpressionEngine or Movable Type as CMS to manage your entire website, and for personal and business blogging.
• Publish pages to your site as easily as using your favorite text editor from any web browser anywhere in the world.
• Edit any page on your site by simply clicking on an edit this link that only you can see.
• Upload and resize photos to include in an article or gallery with three clicks.
• Add maps, podcasting and video simply and easily.
• Make sitewide changes by making changes to one css file.
• Include a google map by typing in an address, including multiple location maps.
• Automated map geocoding and database solutions including rss, xml, and kml.
• Automated podcasting and video solutions, local and remote.
• Easily create any number and type of custom fields and field groups per weblog.
• Include any sites rss feed by entering the url in a custom field.
• Fine grained members and member group permissions.
• Manage multiple domains and websites from one server and one control panel.
• Installation of FFMPEG for video conversion on uload
• Installation of Streaming Media Servers such as Wowza Media Server Pro
• Dedicated servers - consultation, setup and recommendations

New Sites - Site Updates:
From Domain name registration and hosting to a completed custom website we have the solution.

We offer:

• CSS design with no tables using XHTML
• Redesign existing sites to Web Standards.
• Making all or any part of your website updatable and editable using state of the art publishing software.
• Add maps, audio, video, photo galleries, forums, custom XML, RSS and search options integrated into your site design
• Newsletters, mailing lists and more made simple and easy.
• Audio and video podcasting creation and display
• Ajax and custom xml solutions
• ExpressionEngine design, programming, and integration
• Movable Type design, programming, and integration
• Professional graphic designer available.

Search Engine Optimization:
here at BKDesign we make no false or misleading promises of putting you at the top. We do have over ten years online experience and will follow best practices to give you a lead over your competitors. With most of our articles in Googles top ten, our performance speaks for us.

Programming:
BKDesign has years of experience working with PHP, RSS, XML, Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, and mysql databases on a full time basis. What we don’t know, we know who does. Over the years we have collected an excellent team that can handle anything.

Video:
BKDesign has formed associations with a number of the leading providers of website video. We have also invested an immense amount of time to bring you the very best solutions available for design and the best in onsite players.

We have excellent demos of the many video options available in both the Media category and in the demos area. We can design the best system in line with what is needed and advise on best practices.

Podcasting:
We make podcasting easy for you. Go the extra mile and add an mp3 player allowing your visitors to click and listen rather than having to download every time. Simple and easy podcasting solutions for audio and video.

E Commerce:
BKDesign has always looked for the best possible solution to website management. This includes online sales of digital and tangible goods with shopping cart software. Not settling for anything less than the very best and most configurable, trouble free software, after years of checking whats available we have found what we feel is the best. Easy integration and a complete feature list of everything wanted and easy to use and manage. See the right menu for more.

Maps:
BKDesign has every kind of mapping service you could need. From making it simple and easy to dropping a map into the middle of an article to complete database and xml based housing, store locators, and multiple location maps we have the solution. We have developed a manual property-location entry system or real estate multiple listings second to none.

Contact us for a free estimate, consultation, or demonstration today.

 

Trusted Email Marketing
and Online Surveys

Create professional email campaigns and online surveys quickly and easily; choose from more than 200 easy-to-use newsletter templates and 40 survey templates.
Get survey feedback and measure email campaign results in real time with instant tracking and reporting—and uncover revealing trends and patterns. Use online polls to keep your website fresh and your visitors coming back.
Manage your email and survey lists, and reporting—all in one place with your integrated Constant Contact account.
Create targeted email lists based on survey response, and follow up with relevant email communications.
Get help every step of the way with our online educational resources and award-winning, free, and unlimited customer support.

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