Long Island · New York · Custom Web Development

Websites that look good, work well, and do something useful.

Website design, data-driven applications, ecommerce and web marketing, built on decades of programming and database experience.

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Long Island's most experienced website design and marketing consultant

  We create websites; not flashy websites, but inexpensive, functional, and good looking sites that can advance your business; most important,  we can get them FOUND. As we are database programmers we are able to create a variety of data driven sites for any purpose you may imagine. We are also experts in web advertising, (which is how you found us)  and can even refer you to experts in mass email advertising (call it what it is; spam) though as a matter of self-respect we don't do this ourselves.

  We have assisted scores of firms with choosing a name for their new website, registering it on the web and in designing and uploading a site.

  • Basic sites consist of a series of static pages of text and graphics. We will assist you in registering the name, finding a hosting service, and after we design the pages we will upload your site onto the web. This whole process can cost as little as a few hundred dollars. We often ask customers to write their own ad text; this can greatly lessen the time we need to spend, and thus the cost.

  • Interactive sites draw on a back-end database; this can be anything from a parts list for a user to search on to a way of visitors to your site to enter their own data into your system. Anything you can do with data on your own computer can be done on the web. Web pages here are created dynamically.

  • E-commerce sites combine data with  shopping cart functionality. Web pages can be created "on the fly" as the result of a user's search (as with interactive sites) and then allow users to purchase goods or data. We can assist with your acquisition  of a merchant account and shopping cart software.

  • We make sites using WordPress

  • We make sites with Expression Web

  • We make sites with Dreamweaver

  • We make data driven sites with PHP and MYSQL

  • Most amazing of all - we can make a website with no tools but our wits and a text editor - :>)

 MARKETING:  In any one of these cases you may , and should , wish to advertise the site. Google adwords is the way to go now, and we can assist you in writing a Google ad, choosing key words and a budget and in tracking the success of your campaign.

  A web site is worth a thousand words of descriptions; have a look:

Close Pizza ! Written in PHP and javascript with a MYSQL backend using Google maps

Deposit Referral Services  now out of business but our work here  Helping investors and banks buy CD on line (written with PHP, MYSQL and Dreamweaver)

Long Island Alarm Association: complete with a  PHP/MSQL member database, bulletin board (PHPBBS) and rotating banner ads. We were told to model this on another site. We believe it's better.

An artist and teacher wanted to display his work and life

An organization wanted to communicate to the world and with  their members.

A sailmaker wanted to sell a surfeit of superlative sails.

A photo lab ..."keep it simple" is a philosophy we've come to like.

A  captain looking for work delivering sailboats. Not our best site, but the captain is very, very good , we think.

PMCharters.com - Charter the Schooner Lady Sterling (we've captained and  sailed her ourselves.)  Making this site was fun. (no longer under our control)

 41 north -  a shopping cart site - quite inexpensive using our hosting service and Americart shopping cart services. Now out of business, so just some of these links will not work. We keep it around to show you a shopping cart site.

 Long Island Builder's Institute ( a organization's web presence and member contact site; we used  Perl and a text data source to create the feel of a dynamic database. (The site is no longer under our control, so things may have changed.)  

Eastcoastextreme.org  Not a site we made , but one we are working on to raise in Google's search return.   They do Freestyle Mini Pit Bike shows

Waypoint Real Estate  Again not a site we made, per se, but a site where we taught Waypoint staff (well done, Linda !) how to use Frontpage.   They are the best in Long Island commercial real estate

Website development today

Our original approach remains useful: create an attractive, practical website at a reasonable cost. Today's websites also need to work on phones, load quickly, protect customer information, and be easy for search engines to understand.

Responsive design and modernization

Modern HTML and CSS layouts that adapt to phones, tablets and desktop screens, while preserving useful existing content, branding and URLs.

Custom business applications

PHP, JavaScript, Node.js and database-backed applications for customer portals, forms, reporting, internal tools and specialized workflows.

Databases and integrations

Connect websites to MySQL, SQL Server and other data sources, with APIs and secure data exchange between business systems.

Security and dependable hosting

HTTPS, software updates, access controls, backups, server configuration and monitoring for Linux/Apache-hosted websites.

Search visibility and measurement

Search-friendly page structure, technical SEO, Google Search Console, GA4 measurement and practical landing pages for advertising campaigns.

Ecommerce and payments

Shopping experiences, secure third-party payment integrations and customer-facing workflows tailored to the business.

Keep the useful parts of your existing website

A business may already have years of valuable pages, established search visibility and working features. Modernization need not mean throwing all of that away. We can improve navigation, mobile usability, performance and maintainability while retaining the material that still serves customers.

Some of the older project examples above are historical and may no longer be live or under our management. They remain here to illustrate the range of work undertaken over the years.

Have a website that needs attention? Contact Net/Works to discuss an update, a repair or an entirely new application.