Category Archives: Web Design

Interesting information on the web design industry. New trends, tricks and techniques.

Best WordPress Web Design

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KO Websites Launches Another
Great WordPress Website this week

KO Websites welcomes aboard Save A Lot Solar, a Bay Area residential solar panel and solar system installer.

When Save a Lot Solar wanted to expand their San Francisco, Bay Area residential solar installation operation, they chose to market online. To start, they needed a new WordPress website along with a long list of other online marketing assets. They wanted a single company and point of contact that could meet all their Internet marketing needs. This marketing firm would be held accountable for all their internet marketing assets, including Google Adwords.
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KO Launches new WordPress Websites

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KO launches new WordPress websites for SIMMS INK, a Hayward, CA tattoo shop.

Simms Ink put KO Websites to the test with this web design project. A complex design we would have just two years ago, used Flash for the coding. But with the impending HTML5 on the horizon, we chose to build it with WordPress, staying within the HTML5 standards. Another reason for using the WordPress application was their easy to use content management system (CMS) and we needed to add an online shopping cart; another good reason to use WordPress.

The first challenge was making all the animation and roll over effects work on the home page without slowing down the website download too much. Next the client wanted custom fonts and minimal text, which always makes SEO a challenge.

Next, we needed a photo album for both the artiest and the tattoo specialist, as well as the shop tour. Then we added a dynamic “Event” page and the shopping cart connected to PayPal.
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Award Winning Web Design Company

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What Does an ‘Award Winning Web Design Company’ mean anyway?

About 8 years ago, I went to a meeting at a PC keyboard company in Oakland, California for a discussion about KO Websites building a new website for them. The meeting went very well, but was typical, in that there was one person who was trying to trip up the web guy, proving they knew more tech than the web guy did. I was used to this and survived well until the last question was thrown at me…It was, “so how many awards has your company won?” Continue reading →

Word Press Design Bay Area

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Word Press Web Design

As a Bay Area web developer of custom websites for over 11 years, we’ve seen a lot of trends come and go in web design. The challenge has been how to not get distracted with every new little gadget, code types and detracted with all the new hype.  We have not always been right, but more right then wrong most of the time. However, I’m still kicking myself for not buying up Google stock on their IPO. Continue reading →

Best Bay Area Website Design

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Best Bay Area Web design

Bay Area Web Design- We are a bay area web design company that is located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bay Area Web Design- The San Francisco Bay Area is known for its high degree of talent and tech aware (savvy) people. This makes for a very competitive field of forward thinking marketing companies. KO Websites is one of those Bay Area web design and marketing companies.

Now understanding that the Bay Area IS the hottest bed of web design companies and online marketing companies. Ask yourself this…who is the best? Search Google for “best bay area web design company” and find out who is the best of the best of the best. That’s right, 3 companies are paying big bucks for paid for Continue reading →