Welcome to AnthroSites, builder of quality websites. Let us take care of your Web work so you can focus on your business.
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our services
Website Design
We’ll create what you need to accomplish your online goals. This includes drawing on our toolkit of skills and strategies to make the perfect site for you. We will make and keep your site clear, clean, simple, and functional – as well as easy on the eye. Check out a few (of the more than 200) sites we’ve made below to see what we mean. We’ll happily show you more if you wish and provide references upon request.
Website Design
A great website is where your successful online presence starts. No matter your business, most of your customers or clients will be going to your site at some point, so it has to be more than good; it needs to make the impression that you are serious, professional, and take pride in your work. If you haven’t created a great site, what will you do for them? Let us know when you’re ready to do it.
Branding, images & Logo
Your images and branding are critical, and will make or break a website. It’s essential that you invest in professional branding, a striking logo, and first-rate photography. This will give the designer a real leg up and drive the momentum of making a truly stand-out site, one you’ll be happy with and proud of. We can do all this for you.
Content creation & Strategy
You know your business and your products, but can you describe and represent them concisely and articulately? Every aspect of your site must be done professionally, strategically, and artistically. Impress your visitors and they’ll be much more likely to contact you – and buy from you. First, let’s work on your strategy and visibility.
OPTIMIZATION & PLANNING AS WE BUILD
The perfect time to optimize your website for Google – yes, and other Search Engines – is when we’re building it. Everything should be optimized, from your pagenames to your filenames to your ALT tags, not to mention your titles and descriptions. It should be set up and ready for your launch, as it will be more difficult to change them later. Now is also the time to install the primary plugins that will drive your site in the right direction: SEO, caching, image reduction, Analytics, and more. You can only make one first impression.
WHY WORDPRESS
There are many important reasons to use WordPress as your Content Management System, too many to list here. A few of the important reasons: it’s free and open source; you can create any type of website with it; clients like it as it’s user-friendly; it supports many media types; SEO comes first and Google likes it; the support and developer community is massive and helpful. That’s more than enough.
THE BUILDING PROCESS
We have our website creation process down to an art: create a basic outline; tell us what you want to accomplish with your site; show us a few sites you like and choose a color palette; pick a premade theme or go homemade and we’ll build it from scratch; send us images and content and a logo; let us build it. Then we’ll go through it together and revise it according to your needs and desires. We can do this quickly and easily and reasonably – we know you’ll be happy in the end.
MAINTAIN, PROMOTE, MANAGE & UPDATE
After the site is built, there is plenty of ongoing work to do. The site needs to be maintained; WordPress, the theme, and the plugins need to be constantly updated; updates should be made regularly to keep the site fresh, as Google likes this; tests should be run to keep the site fast, clean, clear, and user-friendly. If you just make it and put it up, entropy will catch up with it soon enough, and it will begin to wither away and die. You obviously don’t want that to happen.
MONITOR, REPORT, OPTIMIZE & DEVELOP
Your site should be monitored using plugins and Google Analytics statistics to see what’s going on: how are visitors finding you? How long are they staying and where are they coming from? What pages are they visiting? How do you compare with your competition? What needs to be done to get higher search results for your main keywords and keep you on top? Again, the main point is that your website is an ongoing project and needs to be looked after and cared for – after all, in most cases, it is the key to your business, well worth investing in.
Website Development
Beyond website design, website development refers to those aspects of getting and keeping your site at peak performance. This may include a CMS (Content Management System) such as WordPress (which we typically use), eCommerce functionality, client liaison software, security, and social network services. Websites are – or should be – much more than simply an online brochure; ideally, they’re a dynamic, evolving entity bringing you visitors and driving your business.
Featured Work
Website creation, Promotion & development
Isan Real Estate, Thailand
Our flagship site in NE Thailand, our home base. Starting from scratch almost 8 years ago, we built and developed the top real estate site in the region working closely together. Through hard work and commitment on both sides, drawing on our professional strengths & skills, Isan Real Estate is now the go-to site for both buyers and sellers in Isan and beyond. We’ve gone from clients to friends in this rewarding process. This is how we like to do business.
Website creation, Management, & development
Cheese2MeatYou, Udon Thani
Another leading local business, Cheese2MeatYou provides imported food for local expats (mostly). With over 2300 products to choose from, from beloved snacks and comfort foods to cheese and meats, this expat shop is a haven for those seeking a touch of familiarity in a foreign land. This shop aims to make your expat experience a little more delightful, one product at a time.
Website creation, SEO & maintenance
Lottie Watersports, Crete, Greece
A project completed several years ago and one we are constantly refining, as one should. This project has been more fun, interesting, and colorful than normal, as we’ve never built a watersports site, much less one in Crete. Again, a working partnership – and emerging friendship – built on enthusiasm and trust, along with the perfect theme, has produced a great site that goes beyond what’s typical – it reflects the joy of the company.
Website creation, consulting, hotel booking engine
Amy’s Mekong Resort, Nakhon Phanom
We created this website in 2022 for a resort on the banks of the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province. The client required a booking engine to show and manage room availability. We found the perfect WordPress plugin to achieve this, added a Thai translation, and all were happy.
About Me
I’m Jeff. I’ve Been Building Websites in Thailand for over 20 Years
There is no substitute for experience. We’ve heard this said many times and there is a great deal of truth in it. Which plugins work best? Which themes are supported properly? Who is the best Web Host? What reporting software best tells us what we need to know? Do you know how to keep from being charged for the ice below the floorboards at Chicago stadium? Some things can be learned from study; others require experience. We got that in spades.
- Website Design
- Content Creation & Consulting
- SEO & Promotion
- Web Development
Experience
- Vietnamese linguist, US Air Force
- Commercial fishing in Alaska
- Anthropological fieldwork in Thailand and Burma (now Myanmar)
- Web Design, Marketing, & SEO; Chiang Mai, Bangkok, & Nong Khai (2000 – present)
Education
- Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA; Vietnamese language study (1976)
- BA, Language Studies & Psychology, UC Santa Cruz (1986)
- Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Rice University (1993)
Thailand Assignments
- Board of Investment (BoI), Thailand; speech-writing & webmaster of first website
- Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT); article writing
- Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB); Editor of website, article writing
Ready to Start a Project?
I’M AVAILABLE FOR HIRE OR FREELANCE
We’ve done one-page websites and one-hundred-page sites.
We’ve built sites for tour companies, real estate agencies, supermarkets, resorts and hotels, photography, motorcycle tours, yacht sales and charters, coffee and coconut companies, swimming pools, and scores more – the diversity is a large part of what makes this work interesting,
We look forward to hearing from you!