Bellingham Web Design Services

Our Bellingham Website Services

We are a complete web design company with a large team of in-house 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

Looking for an affordable site? Your Bellingham business might be interested in a template website!

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

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

We will then tailor the theme to align with your color scheme and load in your web content.

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

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2.) Custom Website Developments

As a custom web design company, we like to start every Bellingham web development 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 web development work. In addition, these mockups can undergo tweaks until you're pleased with the design concept, enabling you to advance with certainty.

After you approve the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a completely custom template. Opting for a custom theme can provide several benefits, including a simplified codebase that usually delivers enhanced site performance and usability, as it was tailored specifically for your Bellingham business.

The starting cost for a custom web development is $9,500, and it can be completed in as little as a few months. For custom ecommerce developments, 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 view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Bellingham small business access to a website developer or ecommerce web developer who can solve nearly any website problem you have.

Here are a few examples of website requests that might require service from Bellingham web maintenance companies, including:

• Upgrading your site platform to the latest version.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Bellingham website's navigation menu.
• Improve your page performance to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing website scan concerns or Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating and solving any other website issue.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Bellingham, WA Website

Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom web design company for your Bellingham business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. Here are some of the most common web design and ecommerce web development goals we've seen for Bellingham websites:

1. To create a site or online store for a new business in Bellingham.
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 improve website accessibility for the general public looking at the website.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To get more sales from their ecommerce store.

Let us help plan your Bellingham web design project!

In addition to designing Bellingham-area websites, our company also provides web development services to those in Auburn, Everett, Kennewick, Kent, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Spokane, Spokane Valley, Tacoma, and Vancouver.

Picking a Platform for Your Bellingham, WA Website

The foundation of your Bellingham website is the content management system you choose for the design project. Our website developers and ecommerce web 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

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

Our web design company chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Bellingham, 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 functionality to your site 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 Bellingham website designer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Bellingham web development 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.
• We often recommend WooCommerce for Bellingham small businesses with an existing WordPress site. If you are happy with the look and feel of your content-based website, why invest the time and money into redoing that website just to add ecommerce?
• We often recommend WooCommerce for Bellingham companies who prefer open-source software. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. If you want to use Shopify, you'll need a paid subscription for the platform and their apps are often more expensive than WordPress or WooCommerce plugins.
• If you're in an industry that's not supported by Shopify, try WooCommerce.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular hosted ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website in Bellingham, you'll probably need a Shopify website developer.

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

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers often recommend Shopify:

• For Bellingham merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Bellingham without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
• When Bellingham web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, we often recommend Shopify. It is often more expensive to develop custom functionality within Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, Shopify apps often have monthly fees versus WooCommerce plugins that are more affordable.
• We often recommend Shopify for Bellingham ecommerce businesses that rely heavily on fast turnaround 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 Bellingham, WA Website Designer

There are several important questions to ask your prospective Bellingham web development or ecommerce web design company before proceeding with your project. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom website development or ecommerce web development project:

• Does the website designer outsource the project? We do not outsource custom web development or ecommerce development projects for Bellingham small businesses. We have our own internal team of USA web developers.
• Do the website designers 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 Bellingham website overhaul project.
• Will the website developer make a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Bellingham website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the website build gets too far along. However, that is only feasible if you choose a custom website 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 Bellingham website designer experienced in? Because of its scalability, ease of use, and popularity, we prefer WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Bellingham website design team turn things around? Most of our custom web development 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 web design company have experience with original solutions? As a full-service website design firm, we enjoy a design or functionality challenge! Simply reach out to set up a phone call to discuss your needs!

Other Services for Your Bellingham, WA Website

There is more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Bellingham, WA organization than you might realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Bellingham website:

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Bellingham small business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• SEO: Interested in improving organic traffic within Bellingham, or beyond? With our own team of search engine optimization experts, we can help with off-page, technical, and on-page SEO.
• Conversion Optimization: Want to make your lead forms convert more often? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance: After your template or custom Bellingham website goes live, do you want to make changes? We can help you install updates or make modifications to your website.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Bellingham, WA website needs to be accessible? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility problems on your website.
• Logo Creation: Are you starting a new business in Bellingham, WA, but haven't settled on a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with great logo ideas 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 website designers!

No matter what your business needs for its website, you'll find our comprehensive website development agency to be your solution provider!

Why Choose Us for Your Bellingham, WA Web Services

Because we love Bellingham as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Bellingham, like visit popular destinations of Mt Baker, North Lake Whatcom Park, Stones Throw Brew Co., and others. For more fun ideas around Bellingham, check out this website!

We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of website projects. You can trust our experts, who are only 2019.6 miles away, to handle your professional website design quickly and efficiently.

• We do not outsource Bellingham web development projects. Check out our web design portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We have our own in-house team of top web designers.
• We've worked with multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're professionals in SEO, UX, and website speed.
• We have free web development tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our digital marketing team is highly experienced in Bellingham nearby SEO campaigns to help you rank higher in search results.
• Our web designers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Bellingham ecommerce development project you need completed.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We help with routine Bellingham web maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
• To broaden your digital marketing service, we can include our Bellingham PPC management and Bellingham social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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