Dordogne Design, Putting Dordogne on the web. Dordogne Design for all your web services, specializing in the Dordogne.

Key facts and for the Dordogne figures from 1 March 2007

• Over 3.1 million tourists
• Average length of stay (all accommodation): 10 days
• Representing almost 31 million nights' accommodation
•  A direct turnover of at least 980 million euros
• Over 6,000 permanent jobs in tourism (6900 in July & Aug.)
• Tourism in the Dordogne represents over 31% of the local economy

More facts and figures.

• 77% booked part of their vacation online. (airline, ferry, rental car etc)
• 93% of visitors researched the area online before visiting.
• 71 % of visitors booked accommodation online

5 years ago, these figures would have all been below 30%, and 10 years ago they would have all been below 3%, however, in 3 year time they will ALL be above 90%
These figures show that anyone serious about running a business, must make the most from the internet.

Services offered

WEB DESIGN

Now a day, you just cannot imagine a world without internet, run your business 24 / 7 /365, even when you are asleep potential customers from all around the world can visit your site. You cannot afford to have a business and not have a web site. Take a look at my Portfolio and let me design your web site and get you and your business on the www. for an affordable price, that will make and save you money in the long run.

LOGO / SLOGAN DESIGN

Do you already have a Web site, or a business but need a nice catchy logo and slogan for your site or
business cards? Let me design you professional looking logo(s) and slogans.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization. Designing a web site is by far the easiest part, getting the world to find your web site is the tricky part, and I'm afraid the most important part.. what's the point in having a great web site if nobody knows it is on the web? There are no guarantees about getting on the first pages of the search engines, unless you are willing to pay the search engines for a sponsored ad, which can work out to be extremely expensive. However, there are ways of optimizing your site, that can bump your site up the rankings.

SITE ADVERTISING

Advertising your web site on another site is not done purely because the other site is popular, and you hope to get someone's attention. The main reason is called “Linking”  the more links the search engine finds linking to your site, the more important your site must be, or that is what the search engine thinks, and your site will get bumped up the rankings. Let me advertise your site on about 30 relevant web sites or for one small fee.

COMPLETE SITE SETUP (incl. database setup)

After all the above, now comes this, again, like I mentioned above, this can be very daunting if you do not fully understand all this technical web stuff. Uploading a site is not too bad, you can download a Free Ftp program, and just drop and drag into your desired folder (well it's almost that easy) but, when you start using “Database” drive scripts using Php / MySql now you are talking a different league. I will spare you the technical details, but if you are ever in need for someone to install and setup your scripts and database, just give me a yell.
I can install WordPress, Joomla / Mambo, and any other Php/ MySql driven scripts on Linux / Windows Servers