Athens Web Design Services

Our Athens Web Services

We are a one-stop web design company with a large group of onsite website developers and ecommerce web developers. Our website design firm is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom web design services.

1.) Template-Based Website Designs

Searching for an affordable site option? Your Athens business might be interested in a template website!

Rather than designing mockups and developing a custom template for your website, we can search for a few website templates that match the look and feel you want in your next website or online store.

But don't worry - you'll have the option to choose your most liked theme for us to install on your development site.

Next, we will modify the template to use your color scheme and then add in your web pages.

The starting price for a templated web design is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce website designs, the cost and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Web Designs

As a custom website design firm, we love to begin every Athens web design service from scratch.

By utilizing this approach, our team can produce customized mockups that align with your brand guidelines. This will give you a glimpse into your website's look and feel prior to the start of website development work. In addition, these mockups can undergo changes until you're pleased with the design concept, enabling you to advance with certainty.

Following your approval of the design mockup, our website development team will integrate it into a custom theme. Opting for a custom template can provide several benefits, including a simplified codebase that usually delivers enhanced page speed and usability, as it was tailored specifically for your Athens small business.

The starting price for a custom web design is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce web developments, the price and turnaround will be higher.

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3.) Website Maintenance

After the launch of your website, or if you have one, you might be interested in website support services.

We think of web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Athens company access to a web developer or ecommerce website developer who can fix just about any problem.

Here are some examples of website requests that Athens web maintenance companies might help with:

• Updating your site platform.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Athens site's navigation menu.
• Making your pages faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage errors.
• Enhancing technical search engine optimization with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website concerns.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Athens, GA Website

It's important to understand what your goals are before picking a template or custom web design company for your Athens company. Here are some of the most common web design and ecommerce website development goals we've seen for Athens websites:

1. To create a website or online store for a new Athens business.
2. To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
3. To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
4. To pass Google Core Web Vitals.
5. To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for site accessibility.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

Let's figure out what you want from your Athens web design project!

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Picking a Platform for Your Athens, GA Website

Your Athens website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. Our web developers and ecommerce developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, but we provide our best website design services in WordPress. We also develop ecommerce sites in Shopify and WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

More than 40% of websites in Georgia and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Athens, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized web development. Although there are dozens of content management systems to choose from, we've found WordPress to be the most scalable for designing websites.

• You can add new functionality to your website through third-party WordPress plugins. Not everything has to be built from scratch!
• There's a huge community of WordPress contributors helping to make the platform more stable, secure, and scalable.
• WordPress is popular among professional website design firms and freelance web designers, making it possible to find a local Athens website designer to work with you.

2.) WooCommerce

We help Athens startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.

These are some of the reasons our ecommerce web developers like WooCommerce:

• If you need a custom theme with complex functionality, but have a limited budget, we often recommend WooCommerce. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
• If your Athens business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money redesigning your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
• Most businesses in Athens who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. As an alternative, Shopify has monthly fees and their apps are often more expensive than WooCommerce or WordPress plugins.
• If you're in an industry that's not supported by Shopify, try WooCommerce.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular SaaS ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website in Athens, you'll probably need a Shopify web designer.

We can design a website for your online business in or around Georgia that runs on the Shopify platform.

Here are some reasons our ecommerce web developers like Shopify:

• For Athens merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Athens without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• When Athens web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, we often recommend Shopify. The cost of developing custom functionality within Shopify is often higher than in WordPress. Additionally, Shopify apps often have monthly fees that really add up, in comparison to the less expensive WordPress plugin options.
• The best ecommerce platform for Athens organizations that rely heavily on fast delivery times for development and marketing is Shopify. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

Questions to Ask a Athens, GA Web Designer

You should ask a few questions of your prospective Athens website development or ecommerce web development company before starting a project. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom web development or ecommerce development project:

• Does the website designer outsource the site project? Because we've got our own team of USA website designers and ecommerce website designers, we don't outsource.
• Will the website developers make 301 redirects to help preserve search placements? For any Athens website design project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
• Does the web developer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Athens website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the site build gets too far along. However, that is only possible if you choose a custom website design service. If you opt for a template-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
• Which CMS platform does your Athens web designer plan to use on your website project? Due to its ease of use, popularity, and scalability, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Athens web development team turn things around? Most of our custom web design projects are ready in two to three months, but template websites are closer to three to four weeks. Ecommerce projects usually require more time.
• Does the website design firm provide creative solutions? As a comprehensive web development agency, we enjoy a design or functionality challenge! Simply reach out to set up a phone call to discuss your needs!

Other Services for Your Athens, GA Website

A successful template or custom web development project for your Athens business is just getting started! Let's look at some additional services to help your Athens website:

• Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? Let us write content about your products or services for your Athens website or blog.
• SEO Tactics: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Athens? To help with off-page, technical, and on-page SEO, we have our own team of search engine optimization experts.
• Optimizing Conversion Rates: Are you trying to boost the conversion rate of your lead forms? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Website Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Athens website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our web maintenance plans.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Athens, GA website needs to be accessible? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility issues on your website.
• Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Athens, but still need a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with good logo ideas for your organization.
• Web Hosting Solutions: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? To ensure fast hosting, our server admins teamed up with our website development team to configure fast caching systems for WordPress.

Our full-service website design firm is the perfect solution for your business!

Why Choose Us for Your Athens, GA Web Services

We love Athens, just like you! There are so many awesome places to visit in Athens, like Sandy Creek Park, Georgia Museum of Art, Jennings Mill Country Club, and more! For other new ideas in or around Athens, check out this great website!

We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of site projects. You can trust our specialists, who are just 975.4 miles away, to handle your professional website design.

• You won't find us outsourcing Athens website development projects. Head over to our web design portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled website designers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're experts in SEO, UX, and website speed.
• We've made free site tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
• Our internet advertising team is experienced in Athens SEO services to help you improve search rankings and organic traffic.
• Our web designers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Athens ecommerce website development project you need completed.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We have a website team to help with Athens web maintenance when you need website updates.
• For an expanded internet marketing campaign, check out our Athens PPC management and Athens social media services to target a broader audience.

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