Why Are You Here?
Development & !nnovation Group
Sure I build great brands and good looking web-presences for business entrepreneurs. But you’ll get so much more than just a pretty website out of our time together. From day one, we’re on a journey of discovery to the centre of your business, and this is where my twenty five years of business management, marketing and design experience come into play! While we’re exploring, you’ll start to see yourself and your business in a new light. Every step we take will bring you closer to realizing your potential—the raw truth of what you’re capable of.
During this discovery process, my mission is to use my love of entrepreneurship and business branding to both guide and inspire you. I’ll be your coach, your marketing guru and your visionary. Then at the end of our solution development journey, you will have a visual identity package that captures the essence of your corporate identity, an online presence that truly serves your enterprise needs, your business soul and your story told. That’s my promise to you.
Mark Simon - Chief !nnovator at DiG
Who Is Mark Simon?
!nnovator • Solution Architect • Designer • Developer • Business Analyst
Mark Simon was selected to represent South Africa as the Graphic
Design Expert for World Skills Competition 2019. Held in Kazan Russia.
2019 WORLD SKILLS
EXPERT FOR SOUTH AFRICA
Mark Simon has worked with Joomla! since it branched off of Mambo in 2005,
aquiring vast amounts of knowledge from his valuable network of international designer, developer and business contacts.
SINCE 2005
EXPERT & CONTRIBUTOR
What We Do
From web design and web development to content creation and maintenance,
we offer end to end web services and support solutions that are smart and affordable.
At DiG, we pride ourselves on achieving great things with modest budgets.
Web Design
From information architecture to look and feel, we design websites that are responsive and user experience-led. and most of all, will strengthen your brand identity and enguage your potential market while establishing your business propriety.
Content Strategy
It is important to plan your content as it is the story your business tells. From strategy and planning to creating, reviewing and editing, and ongoing content management too. We ensure that what you need to say is heard in the right place at the right time.
Content Creation
Writing for the web is a specialist skill compared to copywriting for other media. Our team can review and edit your website content, or write new content that engages and motivates users to act. We use content to establish propriety, engender trust and build a relationship with your market.
Content Admin
Content management takes time and effort, and for your image to stay fresh and engaging it must be done regularly to keep up with your evolving business and changing market. We do this all for you on a monthly retainer leaving you to get on with what you do best, running your business.
User Experience
Our years of research, analysis and experience ensures what we do works! We place great significance on user experience. While we design websites that are easy to navigate and are engaging we also ensure that mechanisms, like forms, are easy to use to motivate visitor interaction.
SocialMedia Strategy
As part of our monthly retainer we deploy a social media strategy. This involves feeding regular articles on your website to social media platforms posts and sharing those posts into target groups. This drives visitors to your website, where we can use a call to action to achieve interaction.
Email Marketing
Managing email marketing campaigns is about a lot more than just designing pretty flyers, as you need to be aware of sending server limitations as well as ensuring that your recipients are correctly engaged otherwise your domain could be reported for SPAM. Our team are specialists in mass email solutions and email campaign management.
Web Development
We use industry standard platforms and open-source content management systems, with a combination of off-the-shelf and custom functionality. This is so that your web presence is robust, secure and enjoys service continuity. Our expertese is also augmented by a vast network of open-source experts.
Graphic Design
DiG Design now offers a monthly graphic design retainer service that provides
professional graphic design work, with 48-hour turnaround.
No Hourly Billing, No Contracts. Cancel Anytime.
Project Portfolio
Websites • Graphic Design • Online Applications
www.ESCB.co.za
This is a website for ESCB a technology consultancy featuring a one page styled design with moving graphic and privacy statemnt popup shown in the screenshot.
www.TrattoriaMaranello.co.za
This is a website for Trattoria Maranello "Maranellos" featuring a one page styled design matching the look and feel of the restaurant venue with linked service items.
www.SimpsonConsulting.co.za
This is a website for Simpson Consulting an insurance consultancy featuring a multi page styled design with intilligent forms that addapt and change in real-time to the users answers to the form questions.
TESTIMONIALS
Clients • Partners • Brands
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