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Below is our recent interview with Dean Oakley, Owner of THRIVE Web Design:
Q: Dean, could you tell us something more about THRIVE?
A: THRIVE is a growing digital agency on the Gold Coast, Australia. We started out by producing custom, hand-coded websites that actually looked nice and followed good design principles. This set us apart from the competition which was mostly run by developers with no design skills. We were also early adopters of using a CMS, which was a big selling point back in the day. Now we offer a lot more services including a swag of digital marketing packages and branding.
Q: Tell us more about your services?
A: Websites we make are designed to be a marketing rocket ship on autopilot! Our websites come with high-performance landing pages that are ideal for advertising and conversion funnel paths. For example, if the goal is to sell or offer a new product or service, landing pages can be quickly crafted specifically to target customers’ searches. When combined with a strong SEO plan and Google Adwords campaign, it can improve rankings, visibility and increase conversions.
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Q: Who are your primary clients and what are some of the key challenges you are helping them solve?
A: We have a very wide range of clients who all have their own unique challenges. Usually, it’s helping them gain traction online, improve their business and modernise their branding and digital space.
Q: Walk me through your design process. What steps do you take and how involved should your clients expect to be?
A: Our clients are very involved in the process from start to finish, well maybe not in the development phase. It’s a collaborative process building a website that works and an engaged client will get the best results.
We custom develop our sites so it’s super easy for the owner and administrator to manage and maintain it. They can update images and change and format text throughout the site with ease, plus we create many other flexible sections. When we first build a working prototype of the site we show them how to upload the final content of the pages so they are familiar with the CMS before the website even goes live.
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Q: What does the future hold? Where is the company headed?
A: All our new websites are serverless with amazing worldwide performance and reliability. Gone are that days of PHP scripts compiling the website on every view or clunky WordPress backends with security holes and constant updates. Using this technology we are also moving into more complex application development and custom e-commerce setups.
We believe serverless is the future of websites and applications and we are an early adopter of this technology.
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