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Go Media | Cleveland Web Design, Branding & Design FirmDesign We love the challenge of taking complicated usability scenarios and turning them into intuitive experiences. User Interface Design Next level pixel perfect beautiful user interfaces are what Go Media is known for. Website Maintenance Keeping your website software updated is critical to long-term performance and security. We take care of this so you don’t have to think about it. Branding and Logo Design Also referred to as branding, the talented designers at Go Media love to work through a complete and cohesive visual experience. Graphic Design Presentations, banners, brochures, business cards, catalogs, flyers, sell sheets, ads, signs - we can take care of all your design needs. The Other Things We do more. If you don’t see it here, just ask! And if we can’t do it, we likely have partners who can. Get started. Contact Us. 216.939.0000 Give us a call now! We love to listen. [email protected] Emails work too. Contact Us Reliable Cleveland web design team for over two decades In 1997, with a brand new degree in Industrial Design, Go Media founder William Beachy passed on a "real job" to follow his dream: Launching his own design firm, combining artistry and function. He had no money, but his father was kind enough to let him move back home and live there rent-free while he got started. A few years later, William met his business partner, developer extraordinaire, Wilson Revehl. Working side-by-side for more than two decades now, they’re still passionate about their work and growing this thriving Cleveland web design business . Our Process Research Good Cleveland web design starts with research. We get to know you, your customer, your competitors and your industry. This knowledge guides our design. Design Wireframes will show you what’s on each page and how it functions. Our beautiful mockups show you exactly how it will look. Development We guarantee code quality. We don’t outsource anything. All your website code is written by our staff, right here in beautiful Cleveland, Ohio! Frequently Asked Questions (So don’t worry if they’re dumb questions) Do I own my website? Expand Yes. At Go Media, we believe that our clients own the design work we’ve done for them. Many firms hold their clients hostage by restricting the use of the files they’ve made. They then charge their clients per use, or refuse to give their clients the source files. Go Media would never do that to you. Similarly, platforms like Wix and Square Space are "hosted solutions". A hosted solution requires that you remain a subscriber, and pay their fees indefinitely. The second you stop paying, you lose your entire website. You can’t take any of it with you. At Go Media we are happy to provide our client with all their files - including source design files like Adobe Illustrator, Phototshop and XD. Additionally, our websites are built on the most popular open source code. With this approach you get Ferrari performance at Ford pricing. If you ever wanted to take your files and go to another design firm - you would have that ability. Of course, this almost never happens because we treat our customers right. Are there subscription fees with a Go Media website? Expand No. However, every website does have a few things that have to be paid for on an ongoing basis. Your domain (your URL) must be paid for. This typically costs about $10/year. Additionally, someone has to host your website. Hosting typically cost anywhere from $10 - $150/month depending on how big your website is, and how much traffic you get. And finally, Go Media recommends some kind of maintenance plan. The internet is a constantly growing and changing thing. To keep your website performing at it’s best and secure, it needs periodic updates to the software. Think of it like changing the oil in your car. Go Media recommends you own your own Domain (URL). A domain has real value, like a piece of property, so never let a design firm own your domain. That would be like letting someone else own the land you’re about to build your house on. That’s a bad idea. For hosting, Go Media leases dedicated manager servers with Amazon Web Services. AWS is the worlds largest server company in the world. With that comes incredible performance and reliability. Does Go Media offer hosting and website maintenance? Expand Yes. Go Media offers hosting and website maintenance. Go Media leases dedicated and managed servers with AWS (Amazon Web Services). AWS is the worlds largest cloud hosting provider and with that comes amazing performance and reliability. We have several hosting options depending on your website needs, or we can customize a hosting solution for you. Go Media only offers hosting to it’s own clients. We’re not a ’hosting’ company. We’re not out to make money selling hosting, we just want to ensure that the clients we build websites for have a great experience once those sites are live. Go Media can also warranty your website with our maintenance plan. We perform all necessary software updates to guarantee that your website is bug free and secure from cyber attacks. If anything goes wrong while your website is on our maintenance plan, and we will fix it at no additional charge. How does Go Media charge for a website? Expand Typically, Go Media has project based pricing for our services. To start, Go Media does a through review of your needs. We work up a site map with a detailed description of any noteworthy functionality or content. Once that is confirmed with you, we provide you with a written proposal that explains in detail all the work we will be doing. This proposal includes an exact price, not an estimate. So long as your project stays ’on scope’ (doesn’t change), then your price won’t change either. Once you approve the proposal we bill in equal monthly installments over the course of the project. The first installment is due at the commencement of the project, and the final payment is due prior to the website going live. Any ongoing costs like hosting, maintenance or a service plan are billed either monthly or annually. In some cases, we can offer a custom payment plan to suit your needs. Can you briefly explain your website development process? Expand Everything Go Media does is iterative. In other words - we work a little, show you proofs, take your feedback and rework our designs until we get your approval. We work our way through your project using this step-by-step process. In this way, we ensure that you’ll be thrilled about our final solution, and save ourselves from investing too much time in a bad direction. Here is a more detailed list of our typical steps: Visual Site Map - Using the approved site map from our sales process, we will produce a visual flowchart of your site structure. This gives you a 10,000 foot view of how your web pages and navigation are structured. Wireframes - As needed, we will produce wireframes (think of these as very rough preliminary designs) of your web pages. At this point we’re not trying to make them pretty, we’re just working through the user experience. Wireframes help us establish the navigation, general page layout, content hierarchy and user journeys. In some cases we will produce a functioning prototype of your website so you can click through it to get the best feel for how your website will work once it’s built. Designs - Once the wireframes are approved, we’ll start by designing several homepage concepts. Based on your feedback, we work through several rounds of homepage designs until you’re thrilled. Using the approved homepage design, we establish the site’s global styles and interior page templates. Additional interior pages are also designed in this phase, but most pages are typically designed in browser. Development - When the homepage and interior page templates are approved, we’re ready to start writing code. This work is mostly behind the scenes, but the result will be a living website live on a stage server...