Barrie, ON Web Design Services

Our Barrie Web Services

We are a comprehensive web development agency with a large team of in-house website designers and ecommerce website developers. Our web design team is broken into two groups, each specializing in either template or custom website design services.

1.) Template-Based Website Developments

Looking for an affordable website? Your Barrie small business might be interested in a template website!

Instead of creating design mockups and developing your website in a custom template, we can hand-pick several site templates to share with you that closely match your desired look and feel.

Rest assured, you'll have the opportunity to select the template you prefer, which we will then install on your development site.

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

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

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2.) Custom Web Designs

As a custom website design firm, we prefer to start every Barrie web design service from scratch.

This approach allows our team to design custom mockups specific to your branding requirements. You'll appreciate seeing the look and feel of your future website before our website developers start building the site. These mockups can be altered to your satisfaction, allowing you to finalize the design concept and proceed with confidence.

After you approve the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a completely custom template. There are many benefits to a custom theme, including a simplified codebase that often has better page speed and usability since it was developed specifically for your Barrie small business.

The starting price for a custom web design is $9,500, and it can be completed in as little as a few months. For custom ecommerce website designs, the cost 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 web support services.

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

Here are some examples of site requests that Barrie website support companies might help with:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Barrie website.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Barrie, ON Website

Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom web design company for your Barrie business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. The following are the most common goals we see for Barrie web design and ecommerce web development projects:

1. To create a site or online store for a new business in Barrie.
2. To redesign an existing website or storefront with a fresh, professional look and feel.
3. To improve UX, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
4. To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
5. To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for website accessibility.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To get more sales from their ecommerce store.

Let us help you figure out the goals of your Barrie web development project to ensure everyone is happy with the finished website!

In addition to designing Barrie-area websites, our agency also provides website design services to those in Toronto, Gatineau, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Oshawa, Windsor, St. Catharines, Guelph, Kingston, Milton, Brantford, Thunder Bay, and Ottawa.

Picking a Platform for Your Barrie, ON Website

The foundation of your Barrie website is the content management system you choose for the design project. Even though our top web designers and ecommerce developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we only use WordPress for new content-based website projects. For ecommerce websites we use Shopify or WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Barrie and the greater Ontario area.

Our web development agency chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Barrie, but also because it is simply the best overall. The following reasons make WordPress the most scalable platform for designing websites, despite the fact there are alternatives for your project.

• 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.
• With WordPress, you should easily be able to find a local Barrie web developer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

Our WooCommerce website development team has experience helping startups and existing ecommerce businesses in Barrie build amazing stores with WooCommerce.

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web developers tend to recommend WooCommerce:

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Barrie website design projects that require a custom designed theme with complex functionality, but are working on a limited budget. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
• If your Barrie business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money rebuilding your content-based site just to add ecommerce.
• WooCommerce is a good open-source option for Barrie small businesses. There are no monthly fees to use WordPress or WooCommerce. Alternatively, Shopify has monthly fees to use the platform and their apps are often more expensive than WordPress or WooCommerce plugins.
• WooCommerce is good if you're in an industry that's not accepted by Shopify.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular web-based ecommerce platform. To run an ecommerce website using Shopify you will likely be looking for a Shopify web designer in Barrie.

Our Shopify developers have experience designing websites for online companies in and around Ontario.

Here are some reasons our ecommerce developers like Shopify:

• For Barrie merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you don't have to worry about hosting configuration or platform updates.
• We often recommend Shopify for Barrie web companies without a lot of custom functionality requirements. It is often more expensive to develop custom functionality within Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, you'll find getting Shopify apps often require monthly subscriptions versus one-time purchases for WordPress plugins.
• We often recommend Shopify for Barrie ecommerce businesses that rely heavily on fast delivery times for development and marketing initiatives. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

Questions to Ask a Barrie, ON Web Developer

There are several important questions to ask your prospective Barrie web design or ecommerce website design firm before proceeding with your project. Here are some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom web design or ecommerce website development project:

• Does the web developer outsource the project? We do not outsource custom web design or ecommerce web development projects for Barrie organizations. We have our own internal team of experienced web designers.
• Do the website developers plan to create 301 redirects to help with SEO? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Barrie website redesign project.
• Does the website designer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Barrie website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the website build gets too far along. However, that is only viable if you choose a custom web design service. If you opt for a theme-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
• What CMS platforms is your Barrie website developer experienced in? We prefer WordPress because of its popularity, scalability, and ease of use. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How quick is the turnaround time for your Barrie website design service? It takes us about 2-3 months to finish custom web design projects, and 3-4 weeks to finish template websites. Ecommerce developments often take longer.
• Does the website development agency have experience with innovative solutions? As a complete web design company, we love a challenge! Let us know what you have for unique needs and we will be happy to assist!

Other Services for Your Barrie, ON Website

There is more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Barrie, ON small business than you might realize. Here are some additional services to help make the most of your Barrie website:

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Barrie company write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• SEO: Interested in improving organic traffic within Barrie, or beyond? With our own team of search engine optimization experts, we can help with technical, on-page, and off-page search engine optimization.
• 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.
• Web Maintenance: After your template or custom Barrie website goes live, do you want to make changes? Ask about our website maintenance packages to receive help installing updates or making website tweaks.
• Website Accessibility: Not sure if your Barrie, ON site needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility errors.
• Logo Creation: Are you starting a new business in Barrie, ON, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your business.
• Web Hosting: Need somewhere to host your website after it launches? Our WordPress hosting is fast and easy thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web designers!

Our comprehensive web development agency is the perfect solution for your small business!

Why Choose Us for Your Barrie, ON Web Services

Because we love Barrie as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Barrie, like visit popular destinations of Bear Creek Golf Club, Base Borden Military Museum, Barnstormer Brewing + Distilling Co., and others. For more fun ideas around Barrie, check out this website!

We've been designing high-converting websites for 19 years. We help small businesses and even large corporations with their website projects. You can trust our specialists, who are only 1019.7 kilometers away, to handle your professional web development quickly and efficiently.

• We do not outsource Barrie web design projects. Check out our website design portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We have our own in-house team of top web developers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're specialists in SEO, UX, and site performance.
• We have free web design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our website advertising experts are very familiar with Barrie SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
• Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Barrie ecommerce web developments you might be considering.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We help with routine Barrie web maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
• To broaden your online marketing service, we can include our Barrie PPC management and Barrie social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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