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Welcome to Birnam Designs! We are a web design and web development firm in the Kansas City metro area.

Making a first impression look good

Yellow pages are being replaced by search engines. Signs are being replaced by GIF and JPEG images. Window shopping is being replaced with points and clicks. More and more first impressions are made online instead of at a storefront. Even if you don't run your business through your website, looking good online is important.

What do I need?

Online, looking good means many things. Your website needs visual appeal, but it also needs a clear navigation that allows visitors to find the information they are looking for.

Your website needs a style that's consistent with your company's branding. It needs to be easy to use. It needs to be visible to search engines. It needs to be easy to update, to accomodate your growing business. Most importantly, it needs to work! Looking good is about the entire experience. And when the experience is good, the results are good!

How do I get started?

Creating a successful website involves a combination of strategy, design, and development — and the means to tie all three together into a coherent whole. Birnam Designs offers this at competitive rates, with excellent turnaround times and an enjoyable production experience.

We offer a wide range of capabilities from flash animation, image retouching, and full websites, to power but easy to use content managed portals, interactive CDROMs, and company-branded screensavers. Our clients range from international businesses to local startups.

We also specialize in assisting other advertising and web agencies when their workloads get to be too much, or they come across a project that requires a different set of expertise than they have in-house. Our process is designed to fit within your process, so our expertise complements yours without creating additional headaches!

If you are in the Kansas City area and in need of web design or development, please let us know! Or if you are outside of the Kansas City area, think about becoming one of our national clients! Our process allows us to manage any project using online communications.

First Impressions

It only takes 50 milliseconds for a user to construct a first impression of your website. The results of a study published in the science journal Nature reveal that this brief instant is all that is needed for a user to judge the quality of your site. A favorable or unfavorable reaction will likely determine if the user will stay on your site, or visit one of your competitors.

The importance of good, crisp, unique design has never been more clear! Fortunately, that's what you get from Birnam Designs. If you are interested in getting a positive first impression from your website, let us know.

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"Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has prevented that. A recent survey found 52% of companies are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers.

More significant, I think, is which 52% they are. At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't."

Read this essay by Paul Graham on What Business Can Learn from Open Source.