It’s time for another website designer spotlight. This time around I’m going to talk about 9th sphere, a leader in Toronto website design. 9th sphere sets themselves apart from other website solutions firms in the region by offering more than just simple design services. They have an expanded set of client offerings including building web applications, Internet marketing, web consulting and domain name and hosting solutions.

Since this is a blog about design and development I thought I’d take a look at their web application services a little more closely. 9th sphere offers a multitude of web application types for their clients. They have a strong focus on ecommerce (a topic near and dear to our hearts here) and offer shopping cart and catalog web apps. The shopping carts and catalogs run on custom-built content management systems and, in the case of the cart, come with standard security layers and credit card processing integration.

Canadian businesses looking to build a new website utilizing best practices or expand upon their current one should consider contacting 9th sphere and seeing what they can do to help. From simple website design to more elaborate web applications and Internet Marketing, 9th sphere has the tools and abilities necessary to make your project a reality.

Since this is a blog focused on WordPress it’s not surprising that the topic of open source web design is near and dear to our hearts. For those of you interested in building web applications and sites but don’t have the keen design eye you feel you need the option of using an open source web layout is certainly a viable solution.

Many people who are experts in website development are prone to relying on themselves for everything. When this includes your site’s design there’s a good chance you might end up with an unattractive product. No matter how good it is behind-the-scenes, people won’t use or visit your site if it doesn’t look good.

With Open Source web design, there are thousands of pre-made layouts and templates available for free online that you can use in your projects. This way you can ensure your site or application looks good even if you aren’t a designer yourself. Most Open Source designers ask that you leave a simple link in the footer of the template giving attribution and credit to the author. That’s the only price you’d have to pay to instantly have a site design up and running that is of high quality.