Communicating and designing exceptionally well is why Stanford has managed to succeed for such a very long time.
To that end, we produced a series of brief design papers that provide valuable insights into how we work:
In particular, a web site is your corporate presence on the internet and it must speak concisely about your business. It is absolutely never a display of coding prowess — it's about your company's message being front and center where it belongs.
You are paying for a skillfully designed, highly functional and reliable marketing tool ... that's precisely what we deliver!
For more details - please read: "Web Site Design Considerations"
In today's crowded internet environment it is hard work to make web sites sufficiently search friendly that they will consistently enjoy substantive levels of valid traffic.
Stanford builds basic search-friendly features into every site it designs.