Cool Bananas® Ltd. was founded in 1995 by Dan Globus to service the growing need of companies who required an Internet presence. Even though the web design company initially serviced the arts and entertainment industries, it found a niche market in the designer and manufacturer-end of the Jewelry Industry. Since 1997, Cool Bananas® has focused its efforts on the Jewelry Industry.

Now, in an effort to offer additional services to the Jewelry Industry, Cool Bananas® has created a division named WebSitesForJewelers.com. This division is exclusively devoted to the Jewelry Industry

Our original role as simply a "web design" company has dramatically changed over the years. We no longer simply build web sites for clients who feel that they require an Internet presence. We now partner with companies and educate our clients about the possibilities that the Internet has to offer.

There have been dramatic changes in the way that business is being conducted. For example, even though we have been building database-driven web sites since 1997, our average web site now takes a client's in-house database and connects this to their web site. This allows our clients to keep an exact copy of their inventory online at all times. When a sale is made, the web site is automatically updated to reflect this.

Many of the functions of today's web sites were actually pioneered by Cool Bananas® between 1995 and 2001. This includes the use of Flash to create eye-catching introductions. People still remember the first Aaron Basha animation that we created in 1997. We also created the first Flash jewelry site with database integration in 2001.

Unlike many other web design firms, all of our web sites are customized and created from scratch. Even though it is very common to purchase pre-made shopping-cart enabled web sites for a fairly small sum, we create all designs and programming from the bottom up so that we satisfy each client's unique needs. This does cost more than pre-made solutions, but also guarantees that our clients receive exactly what they want and need.

Our philosophy and approach to building Web sites has not changed since the company's inception. As Yahoo put it, "Cool Bananas® designs deceptively simple, yet highly effective sites". We want to make sure that the point of every Web site is very clearly stated from the beginning. Navigation is fast and easy and people are entertained and interested in what the site has to offer.

The profile of our typical jewelry web site design client is a company that is spending no less than $100,000 per year in traditional advertising, realizes that there is a much larger market that they can reach via the Internet, likes the style of Cool Bananas®, and feels that Cool Bananas® can get results for them.

To learn more about us, please visit some of our clients' sites in our portfolio section.