Welcome to Dvorak Designs
Dvorak Designs is a primarily web based design company, dealing mostly through email and other forms of electronic communication. We specialize in web design and other website related services, such as hosting and SEO. We also do traditional graphic design projects such as logos, business cards, etc. More information about our services can be found by clicking on the buttons at the top of the page.
About the Company and the Owner
The company was founded in March of 2009 by me, Preston Dvorak. I remain the owner, and as no surprise, the only employee of the company. I started this company because the best avenue I've ever found to challenge myself is to have other people give me the challenges. It's also extremely satisfying for me to be able to deliver exactly what a client wants, even if it means learning something entirely new. Designing websites is my passion, and I love putting that passion to work for other people. I've been messing around with websites, web design, and creating my own company since I was 10, and first able to get on the family computer. This passion for web design, and my desire to own a business, led me to attend the Minneapolis Business College, where I graduated with a 4.0 GPA and an A.A.S. Degree in Graphic Design.
Shortly after graduating I started learning more about the coding side of websites, I already knew HTML and CSS by heart, but that can only get you so far in some cases. I designed websites for my business on Content Management Systems, and during the first nine months I went through countless designs and ideas. None of them felt right, which is when I realized all of them were centered around making money, which made my passion feel like a job. Once I realized that, I went all the way back to the start, and began again from scratch. I decided that instead of focusing on making money, I'd focus on making a community, where my website and my blog are the center piece. This way I could focus on my business and my website as a passion, instead of a job. I've spent a little over three months creating everything you see now: the website, blog, logo, graphics, social networking pages, content for everything, and the tools to bring it all together; it was more than worth it, if I do say so myself.
Let me be the first to welcome you to the Dvorak Designs community. I encourage you to leave comments on our blog, and on our social network pages. I also recommend subscribing to our RSS feed, or following us on your favorite social network site. Every time we have an update, we'll post something on each of those sites so everyone is always in the loop. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or feedback, please email info(at)dvorakdesigns.com (replace (at) with @), use the form on our Contact page, or leave us a message on a social networking site. We read every message we get, and although we may not respond to every message, we take feedback very seriously and will use it to better serve our clients and our visitors.
Overview of Services
Below is a list of the services we offer along with a brief description of the service. You can click on the image to the left of the description to be taken to that service's page.
Web Design
When it comes to your presence on the web it's all about customization. That's why Dvorak Designs is as flexible as possible when it comes to creating your website. Whether it's for business or personal use we can make it just the way you want! In order to offer so much customization nearly all of our sites are built from scratch and coded entirely by hand. This kind of attention to detail ensures that we produce standard compliant and search engine friendly websites.
Search Engine Optimization
If you've made the decision to get a website going, congratulations, but that's only half the battle. Unless you already have a strong and loyal customer base that can utilize your website, you probably aren't seeing much traffic yet. You may have even started some sort of marketing campaign for your site (whether free or paid), and although marketing can be one important step to driving traffic to your site, you can't overlook something as simple as Search Engine Optimization (often called SEO).
E-Marketing
Marketing is an important part of anything. Thanks to the internet there are several unique advertising opportunities you can utilize. The best part is they're extremely low cost compared to traditional advertising, and in many cases can be even more effective.
Hosting
Hosting is an essential part to any website. Without it, no one would ever be able to get to your website! Since hosting is so important, there are endless hosting services out there, with a wide range of features. The most important thing to consider when looking for a host is uptime. Uptime is how long, or how much of the time, their servers that host websites are up. Due to the importance of up time, Dvorak Designs offers hosting through AxisHost, who guarantees a 99.99% uptime (source).
