About Us - Bowie Web Design - Cutting Edge Web Development

Bowie Web Design, a web development company began with a vision that did become a reality. Stu Walder shown here, retired in 2001 from his work as a Web Designer for a major corporation in Silicon Valley, California He moved to North Texas to be near his oldest daughter who lived in the small town of Bowie. His new avocation became woodworking, and he built a 'New Yankee Workshop' to satisfy his love of exotic woods in the creation of furniture and crafts. Computers were now used for game playing, sending E-mails, joining various forums and generally used for entertainment, not business. Life was good. A friend and parishioner of his church asked him about the process of building a personal website that was affordable and had original content, not a cookie-cutter. Then, someone else's vision became a reality. The website was created.

Stu Walder

Soon the word spread and retirement slowly but surely graduated to ex-retirement. A small Bowie, Texas cottage industry, SPW Webwork was born and became our parent or I should say should sister company. That website's business grew rapidly, mostly by word-of-mouth and a small $50.00/month ad in our weekly shopper. This website, Bowie Web Design, originated as a second site used for testing Search Engine responses. Soon dozens of other clients came for our affordable website designs.

As our reputation grew, so did our need to learn about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Websites are designed for the purpose of bringing your dreams and visions to a larger audience. The Internet is the obvious vehicle for that goal. Our web development experience was limited to a corporate intranet that existed inside of a firewall. Search Engines were built by ourselves just for the purpose of searching our internal pages which numbered in the hundreds. Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc. were there for our personal, not business use. The need to expand our knowledge base to include Search Engine Optimization was obvious.

Now we're designing websites that need a worldwide presence. How can we successfully accomplish that goal?

Our quest to learn Search Engine Optimization techniques began this way. We needed two sites to give us a control group, so Bowie Web Design was created by SPW Webwork. We offer affordable, creative, original cutting edge web development for small business, church, school and personal websites. The look and feel of this site differs from our sister site on purpose. This is part of our continuing efforts to learn more about SEO and marketing. By checking these sites in our small control group and comparing their respective PR's, we analyze the differences in design techniques and then make the appropriate changes to study their effects on PR. Our SEO-Marketing page goes into greater detail on this subject.

Summing it all up, we arrived at a mission to give you an attractive and well developed cutting edge website that will attract new visitors and enlarge your visibility in a world-wide venue. Your vision is unique. Your website should reflect that quality.

Sincerely,

Stu Walder

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