Confluent Web Designs -- Website Design and Development

Creativity

Originality

Website Design requires a number of elemenents together that comprise a distinctive and effective representation of the client's business or profession. The underlying text will delineate on the elements of design, creativity and originality.

Web Designs for Small Business and Independent Professionals

Confluent Web Designs is a New Jersey based company offering Website Design and Web Development, Web Hosting and Digital Marketing services. We design distinctive mobile responsive websites on a WordPress platform. We use the latest design and development techniques and technologies. Our services are offered predominately (but not limited) to small to medium businesses and independent professionals.

Today there are an increasing numbers of small to medium size business start-ups. More people are leaving traditional jobs to work for themselves, providing more services, products, and opportunities to establish a better way of life for themselves and their families. However, small businesses often face fierce competition from other, possibly, more established companies. So as a business owner or an independent professional, you need multiple ways to have your brand become recognized as well as marketing your products and services. Every business needs a Distinctive Online presence.

It is imperative for companies and professionals to have an online presence in the way of a business website. Confluent Web Designs is in business to not only provide an online presence, but to create a distinctive style website that will distinguish businesses from their competitors.

Additionally, Confluent provides website hosting and digital marketing services through our partnership with JSMT Media. Our combined design, development and marketing staff are Google Certified, and ranked number one in the state of New Jersey.

All of our websites are mobile responsive, enabling them to be viewed on any device from table top big screen computers to smart cell phones. Considering that today most people view the web from their cell phones, mobile responsive designs are essential for a successful website.

Establishing a web presence also helps to increase sales and improve customer service. Without a website retail businesses are limited to day-time hours of productive time in which to do business. A website allows prospective customers access to your business 24/7, allowing more time to become acquainted with company brands. That being said, this website will acquaint businesses with our services as well as our qualifications to provide those services.

Distinctive and Well Performing Websites

At Confluent Web Design, we design stylish, distinctive and mobile responsive SEO-ready websites. Our sites are built on a WordPress platform, using the most current web design technologies and development tools. We pride ourselves on being skilled writers to compose professionally written of web content.

Confluent designers are proficient in creating the latest trending animated websites (take a look at our demos under ‘Animation Demos’ in the main menu), using sophisticated 3D transitions and parallax effects techniques. These advanced effects should be applied with creative discretion, and not used superficially. Today’s business customers have numerous online options from which to find needed information. That being said, it is essential that websites perform well functionally, navigate easily, are visually pleasing, and above all, free of downtime that equates to lost revenue.

In addition to the design components described in the underlying sections of this web page, Confluent designers are skilled in the use of several advanced animation techniques. These techniques, when applied wisely, will visually enhance a website, impressively representing a client’s business brand. We have included numerous demos to illustrate how certain animation techniques are used to create distinctive and compelling effects. These effects are showcased under “Animation Demos” in the main menu.

We strategically incorporate certain types of animation in our web designs where appropriate to make websites more interesting and effective. In most instances, we apply a less is more philosophy when including animation in our designs. Over loading a website with unnecessary movement is counterproductive, making it confusing to some extent, and detracting from the underlying business brand.

Positive Online User Experience

It is of the utmost importance that prospective customers visiting business websites have a positive viewing experience; because otherwise they will quickly move on to other sites. The viewing experience is a motivating force, making it a top priority when we design and build websites for our clients. This is where designers proficient in User Experience (UX) analysis and User Interface (UI) modeling play a significant role in overall website design and development. Online audiences must be able to find needed information quickly, and content well written, to engaged them to take action and make contact.

An integral part of website design today is mobile responsiveness. A site must be scalable for viewing on all devices, from a big screen desktop down to the smart phone everyone has become so dependent upon. Considering the level of advanced technology of today’s cell phones, people do a great deal of their Internet viewing, and shopping for that matter, on their cell phones, making it imperative to have a mobile responsive website design to maximize the viewing audience on all smart devices.

Distinctive style is a significant factor in the digital world which is made up of tens of millions of websites. Successful websites are closely tied to the size of the audience they attract, so it is absolutely imperative to have a distinguishable website among the multitude of competing sites on the Internet. Having a comprehensive understanding of the business industry in which a client is competing is paramount. Here, at Confluent Web designs, we do our homework before starting a site design. This includes working closely with business management, researching the relevant industry in which our client does business, and analyzing their online competition, thereby getting a complete understanding and clear perspective so we can then design a distinctive and effective website. In addition, having all of this information at our finger tips will later feed into developing a marketing campaign strategy.

The idiom “a picture is worth a thousand words” very much applies to website design. Crisp HD images are compelling, attract attention, and they tend to engage a larger audiences. Professionally written content make it more likely to hold their attention, and keep their interest. This in turn, increases the probability of generating sales.

We combine distinctive style with professionally written content to engage potential customers and hold their interest. We have included some representative images below.

Mobile Responsive Design

Distinctive Style

Attractive HD Imagery

Effective Color Pairing

Animation Demo Introductions

Dynamic 3D Slide Transtions

Confluent Web Designs uses 3D Animation techniques to generate three-dimensional moving images in a digital environment for the purposes creating a next-level website. Careful manipulation of objects is carried out within a digital environment for exporting picture sequences, giving them the illusion of animation or movement.

In web design, this is completely based on the technique used for manipulating objects to advance the promotion of products and services. We have incorporated three demos to illustrate the use of animation and 3D slide transitions; a Scenery Animation Demo (previously mentioned), a Dynamic 3D Slide Transitions Demo and a Parallax Effects Demo, each of which are accessible under “Animation Demos” located in the main menu.Go To Demo

Parallax Design Effects

What Is Parallax Web Design? The phenomenon of parallax website design is a sophisticated technology that enables the creation of uniquely impressive and effective websites across the internet, bringing the user experience to a new interactive level of online viewing. Web designers and developers constantly explore new ways to make their web presence more appealing to their website visitors through engaging visuals and functionality.

Parallax technology, in the hands of a knowledgeable designer, allows components of a web page to move at varying speeds and directions as compared to the rest of the website upon scrolling, providing a 3D effect. Parallax scrolling design attracts, captivates and engages viewers, delivering a very positive experience.Go To Demo

Animating Text

We’ve posted “Animating Text Demo” slideshow demo to illustrate the various ways text can be manipulated to visually animate lines of text, individual words within those lines, and even animate single letters independently within each word. This animation technology, strategically applied, creates a more interesting and compelling website. It provides designers with the capability to capture an online audience, and direct their attention to the underlying business products or services.Go To Demo

Scenery Animation Demo

Website Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images that create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion created by the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be achieved in several ways, the most common being as a motion picture or video.

Animated websites, one of the hot website design trends of 2019/2020, has become an inseparable part of user experience for modern websites. You can find animations on the most compelling websites on the Internet today. Illustrations, interactive details, and the dynamic effects make the modern website fundamentally different from the previous designs.Go To Demo

Parallax Scrolling

Parallax scrolling is a web design technique, in which the background is made to move at a slower pace than that of the foreground. This results in a 3D effect as visitors scroll down the site, adding a sense of depth and creating a more immersive experience.

This perception of the background’s motion as slower than that of the foreground has been long adopted into parallax across different mediums, fostering a realistic effect. Its first use was in traditional animation, dating back to as early as Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and in video games such as Super Mario. With advancements in technology, parallax effects have now evolved into the world of web design as we know it today.

Confluent Web designers are proficient in the use parallax technologies, and are experienced in applying parallax techniques into our website design strategy.

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Experimenting With Parallax Effects

Parallax is based on an optical illusion, caused by the fact that the human eye perceives objects (text, in this case) that are close to us as larger than things that are farther away. As a result, we perceive distant objects as if they were moving more slowly than those that are up close.

We put together an experimental demo to illustrate how parallax techniques can produce the optical illusion depth with text moving in directions, and at varying speeds when scrolling over the page.Go To Demo

Photography Exhibition

In this demo we used a hypothetical photographer’s website to illustrate the effective use of animation combined with varying levels of transparency. Our designers know how the use these techniques when strategically appropriate to make for a more interesting and compelling website.Go To Demo

Embedded Video Demo

In this demo we illustrate the use of embedded videos. Videos convey lots of information in a concise format. No matter how engaging the content, some readers lack the patience to read multiple paragraphs. A fashion blog can embed clips of recent runway shows to complement a site page on hot trends for 2014. This gives readers a choice on how they wish to get information.Go To Demo

Basic 3D Animation Demo

This demo merely illustrates how 3D animation can emphasize certain aspects of a website, focusing the attention of audiences to the underlying products and/or services offered by the business owner.Go To Demo

Animated Page Demo

Animation happens when something created in still or two-dimensional form is “brought to life” and appears to move in a way that follows laws of physics. It’s the way a cartoon character walks across the screen or how an app icon bounces like a ball while it is loading on the desktop or laptop.Go To Demo

New York City Experiment

Our New York City Experiment demonstrates how effective parallax techniques can change the depth of field as we scroll up and down the screen. It animates your field of vision and gives the optical illusion of multiple dimensions, by animating sections of the city to move as you scroll over the surface of the screen. We also demonstrate other ways parallax techniques interact with the site users by displaying media movement that reacts to the user scrolling around the web page.

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Dark Mode Web Illustration

Dark mode web designs not only look ultra-modern, but they’re easy on the eyes, and make colors and design elements pop. Sometimes the most visually stunning web designs have practical origins.

Dark themes are exceedingly better for OLED (organic light-emitting diode or Organic LED) screens; saving power and extending screen lifespans. However, the fact that Dark Themes are more efficient, doesn’t prevent them from looking great. Dark backgrounds improve the visibility of other accent colors for truly dynamic design.

Coincidentally, the dark mode design aesthetic also fits in perfectly with other 2020 design trends that include dark and moody color schemes combined with glowing elements as well as futuristic yet dark cyberpunk and dystopian styles.Go To Demo

Upon Completion A Mobile Responsive and Distinctive Website Design Should Incorporate:

Professionally Written Content

Intuitive Navigation

On-Topic HD Imagery

Subjective Originality

Significance of a Distinctive Web Design

In a digital world websites serve as business store fronts, as the physical bricks and mortar structures do in the real world. So, needless to say, website design is of the utmost importance. As with physical brick and mortar storefronts, the first impression goes a long way. Customers are drawn to a clean, attractive well organized shop. Conversely, people avoid cluttered, disorganized, or run-down stores. So our objective is to always give our clients a clean, professional and attractive online presence with a website design that enhances their brand image, and promotes their business through their website.

At Confluent Web Design, we believe every website should be:

Clean, distinctive and state-of-the-art: Modern website designs can now incorporate the latest animation techniques and parallax effects technology, making for inherently unique, attractive and compelling websites. The addition of HD, and even UHD, quality images and professionally written content will engage and maintain the interest of online visitors.

Ergonomically organized: Confluent ergonomically design navigation menus and relevant links to make it easier for visitors to pilot themselves through client sites. If a prospective customer cannot easily navigate through websites, business owners run the risk of turning them off before they can engage and make contact. We design our sites with intuitive navigation, avoiding the loss of customers due to a confusing layout.

Marketing Attributes

Mobile Responsive Website Design: Potential customers will have the ability to browse websites on any device; a smartphone or tablet as easily as on a desktop computer. This is more important than ever, now that Google has begun to penalize non-responsive websites through their search rankings.

Uniquely Branded: Business branding is the first thing visitors notice about websites, and it’s what they remember after they leave. At Confluent Web Designs, we design websites to match the business brand for the digital face of our client’s company.

Why Go With Confluent Web Design for Your Website Project?

Work Ethic, Honesty and Transparency

At Confluent Web Designs, we pride ourselves on always working in the client’s best interest; and “going the extra mile” to build the best possible website to represent our clients’ businesses. We routinely keep our clients apprised of our progress, and we encourage clients to request review sessions at any point in the site design and development process. In fact, we routinely schedule regular monthly meetings to discuss current progress and plans going forward.

100% In-House Web Design Team

Every aspect of our projects stays 100% in-house because our designers, developers, and content creators have all the skills required to build completely custom sites to best represent our client’s business.

WordPress Website Platform

Developing a website on a WordPress platform gives us complete control of website design and development. This enables us to design client sites that impressively represent their business in a digital community.

Uncomplicated and Easy to Use

Confluent designs navigation menus and underlying links ergonomically, making it easier for visitors to pilot themselves through client sites when searching for the information needed. At project completion, clients have complete ownership of their website, allowing them access to update their sites using the WordPress platform.

Extensive Technical and Business Experience.

Confluent designers and developers are seasoned professionals, each with their own expertise. Our chief designer has over 20 years of technology experience in a business environment, with exceptional user interface (UI) and graphic design skills.

Color Pairing Expertise for Distinctive Designs

Today’s Internet has virtually hundreds of millions of websites representing various businesses and brands. So it is absolutely essential to have a site design that distinguishes company brands from competing businesses. Our chief designer has a graphic design background, and extensive technology and business experience. That expertise goes into every website designed and developed by Confluent Web Designs. Our develop team is Google certified which requires passing exhaustive exams.

Completely Mobile Responsive Design

For many people, smartphones and tablets are the primary means of browsing the Internet. We create mobile responsive sites so prospective customers can view websites on all devices without losing essential details.

In-Depth Branding

We develop websites designed to promote every aspect of our client’s current business, because we are aware of the highly competitive nature of digital marketing on today’s Internet. We know our clients’ businesses are contending with rival companies for the same business

SEO-Ready Development Platform

Our sites are ready to effectively benefit from an ongoing SEO campaign at the time of launch. All of our website designs are compliant with Google’s strict standards.