Branding & Identity
Need a brand that will give you the upper hand over your competition and get you noticed to your client base? We give you the competitive edge you need through intelligent, creative and visually appealing branding and identity solutions.

Web Design & Development
Mankato Design produces award-winning website design and development projects from a few simple pages to extensive sites with full back-end database-driven content management systems. We monitor marketplace trends to build sites with the latest technology and search engine optimization.

Graphic Design
Mankato Design combines your branding with the latest tools and trends in effective design techniques. Our goal is to help you achieve exceptional industry positioning, while communicating a clear, concise, and valuable message to your client base.

Call Mankato Design at (507) 340-5577 today for more information.

We offer affordable website design, website re-design, shopping cart web design, search engine optimization and website hosting for small and medium-sized businesses. At Mankato Design, we listen to your needs before we ever start on a project and then we follow up by producing a custom web design solution that communicates effectively with your target audience.

Our strength lies in transforming a project from a set of ideas and requirements, to a successful creative solution. Moreover, that result must be fit for the purpose. We provide more than just creative skills, but also the ability to listen, comprehend and solve complex issues efficiently.

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Time

In today’s times, an effective web presence is the key to business growth. No longer do simple, one dimensional websites suffice; a contemporary website is complex, multi-dimensional and interactive in nature. Professional web designers require loads of time for research, design, and ample time to test their website, in order to give the best website to their clients. If you hire a designer dedicated to a single project then there is every chance that all the aspects mentioned above will be given due time and attention.

Control

One of the more important benefits of hiring dedicated web designing experts is that they are in complete control of the project. There is no delegation of responsibility and the designer is in charge. Moreover, as a client, even you will have control over the designing of the website. You can continuously check whether your requirements are being adhered to or not. If you don’t like something, you can change it. As simple as that! However, this is only possible if your web designer is dedicated to your project.

Custom Web Design Solutions
We Design and Develop your requirements by carefully analyzing your needs. We ask several questions before taking up your project and then devise a strategy adding our professional expertise with your thoughts and needs to design your website. We are proud to say that we have a 100 percent success rate in retaining our client who come to us for their web design and web developments needs. We clearly understand the business philosophy that when our clients are happy and successful, they make us happy by providing more reference and introducing our brand to their friends and colleague.

Our strengths
Of course we can list several things as our strengths; our strength is our talented web design team and our friendly attitude towards our clients. We are passionate about our work; we deeply involved in work and are passionate to make it successful. We take utmost care in delivering the final designs to our clients. The final designs and application goes through several testing process and finally delivered to our clients with precision.

Showing up higher in search results (like when you go to Google and type in a phrase or keyword) usually means more traffic and more business.

Which is another reason why using WordPress as a content management system is a good idea. WordPress is especially well suited for boosting your site’s rank in search engines

How SEO Works
SEO is part science and part art. The SEO experts figure out what search engines look at when they rank websites. Then they figure out what can be tweaked to improve a site’s rank in the results. Some SEO tactics are of questionable value and others are borderline unethical, but the mainstream of SEO thought is simple, basic improvements that will boost your rank in search engine results.

It’s usually simple things like figuring out keywords for your site and then putting those keywords in the right places. Those right places include the title bar (the text that shows up at the top of your browser), any headers, headlines or bold text on a page, and the meta data (helpful information in a page’s code that is not visible in a browser).

It’s really not rocket science. What search engines do is look at a page and try to figure out what’s the most important thing on that page. For a page to be the number one search result for something like rocket science it better have the words “rocket science” and other important keywords in key locations on the page. Otherwise it’s probably not really about rocket science.

Good SEO is about recognizing the same thing for your site. So if you’re in the rocket science business, you’d probably have keywords like rocket science, rockets, propulsion, physics, NASA, booster, missile, etc. And you’d want to use those words in your headlines and other important places on your site.

How WordPress Works for SEO
Out of the box, WordPress is SEO-friendly. It puts important information in the right places by default, so as long as you fill in the appropriate information, you’ll have a good start in the search engine rankings.

But there are also a number of extra steps you can take to optimize your search engine rank, many of which are either built in to WordPress or easily managed with plugins:

• How to Make Pretty Permalinks – Permalinks are the direct urls to your content and optimizing how those links appear is good SEO.
• Easy SEO: Google Sitemaps Generator – This plugin creates a sitemap, which is a widely adopted standard among search engines, and helps improve your search rank.
• Maximizing Local Search – Local search is important for many businesses and organizations, so be sure to take steps to optimize your ranking for local searches.

Using a platform like WordPress and a theme that builds on WordPress’s SEO-friendly features will move your site to the top of the search results.

You may be thinking that your website doesn’t need a blog. But you might want to reconsider. Blogging is a great way to set yourself up as an authority in your field.

But even if you decide not to have a traditional blog, the blog functionality is still useful. It doesn’t have to power a blog in the strictest sense—it can power any type of consistently updated content:

• News updates
• Press releases
• Feature articles
• Newsletters
• Portfolios

WordPress takes care of all the details, organizing your content chronologically and categorically. So not only can WordPress handle the static pages of your site with ease, but it can also add the muscle of a full blown news section, making it easy for you to keep your site up to date.

• Want to add a map to your site and plot each of your news articles on a map? Try GeoPress.
• Want to show blog posts that might be related to the one a user just read? Try Related Posts.
• Want to add a full-featured photo gallery? Try NextGen Gallery.
  WordPress offers a directory of several thousand plugins and we point to more resources to help you find helpful plugins.

Or for more professionally developed and supported WordPress plugins, check out PluginBuddy.com.

But even better is that many themes offer drop down menu navigation—just like the menus on this site: roll over a menu item and the options appear below. This makes it easy for users to navigate a multi-tiered site and find the information they’re looking for. But it also makes it easier for you to keep your site well organized and easy to navigate—without needing to know the coding that makes drop down menus work.