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Based in London, Ontario, Concerto Designs offers affordable website design and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) services for small- to medium-sized businesses, churches, and other non-profit organizations in Canada and across the United States. We specialize in Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) and e-commerce platforms such as Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Silverstripe, CMS Made Simple, Magento, X-Cart, and others. We also offer mobile app development and custom data applications.

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  • (519) 204-6201 (CA)
  • (612) 594-4495 (cell)

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site design • custom cms templates • joomla! • wordpress • e-commerce

Custom Joomla! 1.5 template for chain of building supply stores in Alabama's Gulf Coast.
Multiple contact forms and accordion panels built on Jquery.
Site scheduled to launch December 4. 2009.
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Custom Joomla! 1.5 template for large ad/creative agency.
Custom javascript galleries/widgets written in Mootools and Jquery.
Custom Wordpress blog for professional writer based in the Twin Cities (MN).
Site includes extra security modules to prevent spamming.
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Original design. Custom Joomla! 1.5 template.
All work done pro bono.
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Original design. Custom Joomla! 1.5 template.
Includes e-commerce and newsletter components.
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Original website design and Custom Joomla! 1.5 template for an interactive web agency in Minneapolis.
Original website design and custom Joomla! 1.5 template for an alternative healing firm located in Minneapolis.
Custom Joomla! 1.5 template (design by Jeff High at The Dream Foundry).
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Custom website design and Joomla! 1.5 template.
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Original website design, customized Joomla 1.0.x template. <
Original website, design, custom Joomla 1.5 template, and SEO campaign for Morgan/Saddlebred horse operation in Minnesota.
SEO campaign placed site in top 5 worldwide for keywords: morgan horse.
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Original design. Custom Joomla! 1.0 template.
All work done pro bono.
Original website design, custom CMS template and Flash widget.
Includes class registration component.
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Site developed for Minesota Timberwolves Intranet (access restricted).
Original design. Custom MediaWiki skin.

site design • ui design • xhtml • ajax

Original website design. Site hand-coded in xhtml, css and javascript.
UI built with Spry widgets.

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Original website design. Coded in xhtml, css and javascript.
Javascript widget written in JQuery.
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Original logo and site design. Coded in xhtml, css and javascript.
Site and UI design. Coded in xhmtl, xml, css and javascript.
Custom gallery compononet written in Spry.
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Original website design for Fortune 500 company based in SC. Coded in xhtml, css, and javascript.
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Custom design. Coded in xhtml, css and javascript.
SEO campaign placed site in top 5 worldwide for keywords: custom homes.
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Original design. Coded in xhtml, css and javascript.
Tooltip widget written in Spry.
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Coded in xhtm, css and javascript.
Accordion widget built with Spry.
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(note: site transferred to new developer who retained my code).
UI design. Coded in xhtm, css, xml and javascript.
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Original design. Coded in xhtml, xml, css and javascript.
Locations page developed using geotools kml formatting.
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Original design. Coded in xhtml, css and javascript.
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web site • graphic designs

Original design for non-profit organization based in the Twin Cities (MN).
Header image is an overlay of thirty photographs that I took of archival material.
Original design for Magento ecommerce site.
The right column content will animate using accordion panels.
The header image uses a photo that I took of the nave modified with custom Pixel Bender filters.
Site in production.
Original design chosen by client.
Site in production.
Original design chosen by client.
Site currently in development.
Custom design chosen by client.
Site currently in development.
Original graphics design for 3 ft. by 8 ft. display panel.
Includes original logo design.

Concerto Designs offers you a complete and comprehensive source for your custom web design and development projects. By integrating well-crafted website and User Interface designs with interactive elements and powerful internet marketing solutions, we develop websites that deliver tremendous impact and ROI. The following list of our Web Design, Web Development, and Internet Marketing skills delineates the major areas of our services and client focus:

Internet Marketing:

  • Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Keyword research
  • Content Optimization
  • Link Building
  • Source Code Validation (W3C Standards)
  • Search Engine Marketing
  • Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
  • Social networking Platforms
  • Blogs, Wordpress
  • Website Promotion
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Website Analytics

Website Design & Development:

  • Platforms
  • Drupal (CMS)
  • Joomla! (CMS)
  • Wordpress (CMS)
  • Magento (E-commerce)
  • CMS Made Simple (CMS)
  • E-Commerce
  • Payment Gateways
  • Merchant Services Integration
  • PCI Compliance
  • SSL Certificates
  • Shopping Cart Integration
  • Programming Languages
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • Javascript
  • Actionscript 3.0
  • XML
  • DotNetNuke
  • Web Hosting
  • Domain Name Registration
  • Email Setup, Hosting and Integration
  • Password Protected Directories
  • Spambot Blockage
  • FTP Administration
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Free Template

Fully Optimized

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100% Responsive

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Awesome Features

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Manage Your Online Business Reputation

Concerto Designs offers an Online Reputation Management (ORM) plan to assess, restore and manage your business' online reputation.

This online reputation management process takes three steps:

1. We diagnose your online reputation, assessing both its strengths and weaknesses.

Even when the vast majority of your online reviews are positive, a small number of unfair, negative reviews can damage your reputation and drive away potential customers. We research and report on all aspects of your online reputation. You learn the strengths and weaknesses of your online reputation and how search engines index information about your company and your competitors.

2. We create listings and profiles with the major business directories.

With our online reputation management service, we help you up business accounts in as many - or as few- of these web business directories as your business requires. Your new business profiles will help displace negative reviews by competing for search engine visibility and allowing you greater control and response mechanisms. We edit your content for superior web messaging, choose effective keywords for search engines, and manage incoming reviews. Maps, contact information and concise, effective content promote your business' visibility and online reputation, outperforming older, outdated reviews.

The business directories that we work with include:
Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Thumbtack, YP.com (formerly Yellow Pages), Local.com, Citysearch, Localeze, InsiderPages, and Foursquare.

Some directories allow deletion or company response to negative reviews - very similar to the models you see at online marketplaces. Others focus instead on presenting your company's profile and services. Based on our initial analysis, we help you choose the best directories to ensure that your account continually keeps pace with your business's marketing goals.By choosing your accounts strategically, you engineer a web presence that reaches your target audience.

3. We then create a Customer Review Program to help and encourage your customers to post accurate, positive reviews of your business with specific directories that deliver the maximum benefit to your online reputation. We'll give you the links and content that you can provide to customers or post on a Facebook page so they can easily find and post their reviews.

In addition to these three steps, we will also generate quarterly reports on your new accounts and work with you to manage them. With these reports, you can monitor and respond effectively to customer reviews.

Plans and Pricing:

Plan A

Includes preliminary report and analysis, complete business profiles with three major business directories (you choose from Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Local.com), Customer Review Program, four quarterly reports.

Cost: $450

Plan B

Includes preliminary report and analysis, complete business profiles with six major business directories (choose from Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Local.com, Thumbtack, YP.com (formerly Yellow Pages), Citysearch, Localeze, InsiderPages, Foursquare), Customer Review Program, four quarterly reports.

Cost: $650

Plan C

Includes preliminary report and analysis, complete business profiles with all the major business directories (Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Local.com, Thumbtack, YP.com (formerly Yellow Pages), Citysearch, Localeze, InsiderPages, Foursquare), Customer Review Program, four quarterly reports.

Cost: $900

Customized plans/pricing are also available - contact us to learn more!

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  • a Blazers does not have a web site.
  • b. There are plenty of online reviews - SOME QUITE NEGATIVE - in various directories (Yahoo Local, Yelp, etc.) with the phone number.
Not Everyone Has - or Needs - a Website
But EVERYONE Has an Online Reputation…

Low-Cost Options to Manage Your Online Reputation

Every business owner understands the power of reputation. You work hard to build an excellent reputation by developing strong customer relations and delivering superior service. Your online reputation is equally important to your success. On the web, customer reviews can help build - or destroy - your company's online reputation. Unfortunately, just one negative online review, no matter how old, mistaken, or irrelevant, can overshadow years of hard work and excellent testimonials. Search engines give these reviews high visibility and frustrated business owners feel they cannot respond.

A small business's most effective tool in combatting negative reviews is to have a well-built, optimized web site with a LOT of authentic, well-written content. That can also be a significant cost both in money and time that many small businesses cannot afford. If you own or manage a franchise, your web presence may be restricted to a main corporate site where you have fewer options for adding or customizing content specifically related to your company. Concerto Designs has designed an innovative plan small businesses can use to effectively manage their online reputation.

  • Web Design @ London, Ontario
    Web Design @ London, Ontario

    There is tremendous opportunity for web design and development in London, Ontario and tremendous competition as well. Londonn has emerged not only as a technology hub but also as a home for web design firms of all types and sizes, from the very large to small (well - Concerto Designs, for one!), from enterprise solutions to WordPress sites and everything in between.

    Concerto Designs thrives in this environment because we offer a focused, efficient approach to providing a unique product model.

    Let's start with our product: although we have experience designing and developing web sites in a wide range of platforms, (Drupal, Wordpress, Magento, X-Cart, DNN, and others), we focus above all on providing complete, turnkey solutions using our optimized configurations of the Joomla CMS platform. By turnkey solutions, we mean everything necessary for a well-functioning, optimized, beautifully designed, hand-coded and content-rich web site. We stress content because we know that content is the most valuable - and challenging - asset in developing an effective digital presence.

    We also offer flexible development plans that streamline production and costs.

    For some businesses, this means a website that features daily specials, product updates, or e-commerce, for others it might involve downloadable brochures, email campaigns with newsletters, blogs, bulletin boards to handle FAQs, or other dynamic content options. However you put your website to work, Joomla CMS allows you complete flexibility and control so that your website and your business grow together. By providing the web solutions that make the most sense for your company, we keep your costs down and your marketing focused. And with Joomla, you can always add new components later.

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  • Content to Marketing: Joomla Helps You to Connect the Dots

    Your web design gives your business a face – your content gives your business a voice.

    And the best platform for shaping and broadcasting that voice is Joomla.

    Well-written content that is crafted and published with Joomla's outstanding editorial tools lets your business and organizational goals come in loud and clear through search engines and social media. Our Joomla’s CMS (Content Management System) web sites provide multiple tools to manage all aspects of content development, publication, and optimization.

    After years of developing Joomla sites for clients in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN), South Carolina, and across the country, we have selected an array of extensions and tools that give your site the competitive edge it needs, including:

    1. The JCE (Joomla Content Editor) lets you style content, spell-check, insert images, add links, embed pdfs and other attachments, add captions, and much more. No knowledge of html or coding is required at all. The full-featured editor panel lets you perform all editorial tasks easily and efficiently. Images can added directly into content from your desktop or laptop computer.

    2. The K2 Content Creation Kit (CCK) brings in the best features of other platforms like Wordpress and Drupal into Joomla, including full-featured blogging capabilities, layout options that can be changed on the fly or varied from page to page, tagging, and extra fields that allow you to add customized maps, contact info, spreadsheet data, and much more.

    3. Joomla’s flexible system of modules (typically used in side columns, dialogue boxes, text boxes, header, footers) provide visually rich, flexible snippets that broaden the scope of your messaging.

    4. Joomla's built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) features allow you to manage search engine-friendly urls, page titles, metadata, and other structural elements critical to short- and long-term SEO campaigns. By responding quickly and efficiently to shifting visitor traffic and keyword patterns, you can propel your site's page ranking without having to pay expensive SEO consultants.

    5. Frequently updated content scores better with search engines - and with repeat visitors. Joomla makes updating and adding content as easy as editing a word document. You choose how often to update modules, add new pages, blogs, specials, or news items. That’s good for search engine visibility, good for visitors and good for business.

    Joomla makes managing content simple. With these tools you shape access and create trigger points for visitors to find your site’s most important information.

    Before your site launches, we make sure you understand and can use all these Joomla tools.

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