Why Should I use Goolsby Web Services?

We are a small company focused on producing the best product suited for our customers. We do not mass produce websites and hand them out around town. Each one is custom designed and setup to fit your needs. Your website should be a source of pride for you and should impress your visitors.

We are located in the Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota area. We are willing to sit down and get to know you and what exactly it takes to build the perfect site for you. If you are looking for someone reliable, professional, local while remaining customer oriented then you have found the right web design organization - Goolsby Web Services.

Do I need an expensive maintenance contract?

We do offer and recommend maintenance contracts for any and all of our packages & designs, however they are not necessary. We try to create designs that are able to be updated and maintained by the average user. Certain edits and modifications can be a challenge for new users so we certainly recommend them but they are not required. We do not post maintenance contract prices as they are negotiable as to the level of modifications that you anticipate as your side and your business grows!

I already have a site. Can you update it?

We often have customers that come to us with an existing site. We can certainly evaluate your current site and provide you the best possible solution for you and your site going forward. Most of the time its even easier to migrate your current site into a new design and give you that Web 2.0 style and look! Feel free to contact us if you have any questions and we will certainly give you our thoughts. This is another benefit of dealing with a small, local organization. We are willing to work with you, the customer, to provide ultimately the best solution.

Do you offer Logo Design?

At this time we do not offer professional logo design. We will, however, include the company name of your website or organization in an attractive font/typeface on your newly designed website. This will allow for a professional design that you do not get with other web services organizations! If you have a current logo (digital copy or on paper/brochure) we will scan and incorporate it into your design. Minor photo editing can be performed to increase the seamless design into your web site.

What type images and image formats should I send you?

PNG - transparent background is preferred! This allows the designer the flexibility to incorporate the design into the theme or template for an extremely clean and professional design. If you have any questions feel free to contact us and we can provide assistance.

How do I get my website to show up on google? (or yahoo, or bing...)

This is what is referred to as SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Front page listings for common phrases are extremely difficult and require a frequently updated site with number other sites linking to your URL or pointing to your site. We do include, of course, basic search engine optimization will all packages.

An essential aspect of any site's growth is link building. Backlinks are defined as links from other websites that point to yours, and they are probably the most important part of SEO and ranking well in the SERPs (search engine results pages). Most SEO professionals will tell you that the key to ranking well in the SERPs is to accumulate more high quality backlinks than your competitors for whatever keyword phrase you're targeting. This takes time and hard work when trying to rank for highly competitive keywords, but it can be done.

Internet Acronyms

There are a log of acyronyms that you might encounter while researching how to build a website and hopefully this will help you as you continue on your research!


CMS - Content management system
DNS - Domain Name System
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Server
ISP - Internet Service Provider
KB - Kilobytes or Knowledge Base. There are 1024 Kilobytes in a Megabyte.
MB - Short for megabytes. There are 1,024 megabytes in a gigabyte.
OS - Operating system
SE - Search Engine
SEO - Search Engine Optimization
SQL - Structured Query Language
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
More to come...