Website Design

At Unique Media & Design we offer informational sites with HTML and Flash designs. Our services can help you promote your small business online with a great looking custom designed website.  We will work with you to create a design that is suitable for you and your needs.  This is done by using modern, easily accessible, standard base design methods through customizing a pre-packaged template just for your business or creating a unique design from scratch using your sketch or Photoshop file.  Our process will meet and exceed all of your web design needs!

Whether you are looking to get a new website for your business or interested in giving your current site a facelift, we are here to accommodate all of your needs.  We can show you how easy it is to have your own business BLOG, demonstrate our affordable solutions and explain how they can help you sell more with less effort.  We can also teach you how to increase your site traffic , and we can host and maintain your site for you at an affordable rate. Remember at Unique Media & Design our custom work starts at only $399.

UMD Websites & Hosting

What is it?

A fully hosted, completely managed environment for creating and maintaining a website, blog or portfolio.

Who is it for?

Bloggers. Businesses large and small. Authors. Teachers. Lawyers. Doctors. UMD's flexible platform can power sites of all sizes.

Website Management

Our websites & hositng give you all of the tools you need to sucessfully manage your own wesbite. Our developers will help train you to make changes to your site with an easy user friendly web application.

• Real-time visitor analytics, pagerank tracking, and more - all in one place.

• Total control: update any part of your site, at any time, right from the front of your site. No developer help required. No waiting.

Who better to manage your site than you? We built our comprehensive platform so bloggers and business owners alike would be equipped with not only the ability to have an attractive site, but to understand what's going on with visitor behavior. We lay out all the numbers you want to see in an attractive useful way. What does this mean for you? Don't worry about plugging in third party analytics tools or being an analytics guru. Your site automatically comes with this information ready to be discovered, all you have to do is click a button, and you're off on your way to knowing your visitor behavior.

• No software to manage, no software to update, no plug-ins to patch, no server that can crash.

When we mentioned that you don't need anything but UMD, we meant it. You have full control over everything from journal posting to creating a whole new look. After having control of your own site, we bet you'll never go back to paying someone to do it ever again.

Hosting

• You're looking at a Squarespace website.

See the website you're on? It's a UMD website. We run our business website off of the same exact systems, using the same exact accounts that we sell to our customers. That means if your site is down, so is ours. Since we run a profitable and well performing business, it better not be down for long.

• Nothing to set up, nothing to tweak, nothing to install, nothing to scale, nothing to optimize (SEO).

UMD is a completely managed system. We take care of all the tricky details in setting up your site, which means that there is no software to install, nothing to upgrade and that your site will stay online through the most massive traffic storms. Further, we've already used every trick in the book to ensure your site gets picked up by search engines. New features are constantly deployed so that your site is always up to date.

• True cloud hosting.

Running a huge site? Getting featured on Digg and Slashdot all the time? You need Squarespace. All sites are hosted on all of our web servers -- which means you never have to worry about a single server failing. The traffic generated from being on the front page of Digg is nothing compared to what the thousands of sites hosted on UMD see in a single day. A normal day for the architecture serving your UMD site is serving tens of millions of hits. Compare this to the crippling effect this would have on your slice of resources on a shared web host — you wouldn't stay online long enough to receive the traffic from your press.

•  We have real people monitoring your website 24 hours a day.

UMD monitors hundreds of functional aspects of our system automatically every 20 seconds. We eliminate the cost of setting up your own monitors and we take the worry out of your site going down. Squarespace automates the next human resolution step when we've got a hardware failure, and our engineers are on call 24x7 to handle any issue that may arise.

Anti spam system.

Every UMD site comes equipped with a network-aware anti-spam system that prevents spam from ever reaching your Squarespace site. Because of our unique access to tens of thousands of hosted sites, Squarespace collects a massive amount of real-time spam data which is used in our spam blocking process -- a process developed over half a decade of experience, and one that is impossible for the independent site owner to replicate without plugins.

• Tier 1 data center, world class infrastructure.

On the web, some bandwidth is cheap, and some is expensive — the cost difference comes down to reliability. Some web hosts who run single servers connected to unreliable providers can offer very large bandwidth at dirt cheap prices. Our infrastructure is the complete opposite. At UMD, our service is world class, so our partners are world class too.

We don't run our own data center — we aren't experts at that. We're experts at software. We rely on real data-center experts —Peer1 Networks — for our connectivity and power sources. It isn't cheap — the bandwidth at a world class data center costs more than commodity grade co-location facilities that are prone to power and network failures. How good is Peer1? They not only remained online during the NYC blackout a few years ago — but were nice enough to lend their power to some neighbors in need.

• Advanced Blog Importing

UMD is the only blogging platform on the web with a custom importing system designed to attack the nasty details of seamlessly and completely moving your blog. Our system goes beyond just importing all of your blog posts and comments -- we ensure that all your media is moved over, URLs remain working, and that all of your data comes with you -- where it belongs.

• Seamless Importing

  Import from WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, or Movable Type using your old login...no more exporting/importing files.

• Automatic Data Migration

  Squarespace will import ALL of your assets from your previous blog -- posts, comments, photos, video, author info. Squarespace works with all the popular blogging platforms, ensuring that it's easy to move over no matter where you're coming from.

• Media Rehosting

  Squarespace is the only service on the web that will crawl all of your previously imported posts, locate your media, and migrate that media (using Amazon S3), allowing you to safely cancel your old service without losing images and other data. Other importing tools only take your post text with you, making a real migration impossible.

• SEO preservation

  For users with custom domains, your original post URL's are automatically redirected to your new blog posts to preserve your search engine rankings.

• Fully Integrated Posts

  You can style and edit your imported data using the full range of Squarespace features.

• URL Remapping

  Our completely custom remapping feature will preserve all your previous SEO efforts by migrating over your existing permalinks from your old blog. All inbound links to your articles will remain intact -- your URLs will be exactly the same here as they were on your old system. After a short while, your PageRank will automatically update too.