Bethesda, MD Web Design Services

Our Bethesda Web Services

We are a complete web design company with a large team of in-house web developers and ecommerce developers. Our website design firm is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom web design services.

1.) Template-Based Web Designs

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

Rather than designing mockups and developing a custom theme 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 template for us to 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 template web design is around $3,750, and it can be finished in as little as a few weeks. For template 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 love to begin every Bethesda 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 web development work. In addition, these mockups can undergo edits 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 page speed and usability, as it was tailored specifically for your Bethesda 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 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 Bethesda organization access to a web developer or ecommerce web developer who can fix just about any problem.

Here are a few examples of site requests that might need Bethesda website support services:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Updating apps, themes, and plugins.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Bethesda site's navigation menu.
• Making your pages faster to 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 issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website glitches.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Bethesda, MD Website

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

1. To create a website or online store for a new Bethesda small business.
2. To give an old site 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 improve website accessibility for the general public looking at the website.
6. To make the website a lead generation machine.
7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

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

In addition to designing Bethesda-area websites, our company also provides web development services to those in Annapolis, Baltimore, and Columbia.

Picking a Platform for Your Bethesda, MD Website

The foundation of your Bethesda website is the content management system you choose for the design project. Our web developers and ecommerce web designers 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 Maryland and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Bethesda, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website 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 functionality to your website through third-party WordPress plugins. Not everything has to be built from scratch!
• WordPress has a huge community of contributors that work together to improve its security, stability, and functionality.
• WordPress is popular among professional website design firms and freelance web designers, making it possible to find a local Bethesda website designer to work with you.

2.) WooCommerce

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

These are some of the reasons our ecommerce 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 Bethesda small business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. When you like the look and feel of your content-based website, why spend time and money redesigning it just to add ecommerce?
• WooCommerce is a great open-source option for Bethesda small businesses. You don't have to pay a monthly fee to use 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. To run an ecommerce site using Shopify you will likely be looking for a Shopify web designer in Bethesda.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce developers like Shopify:

• For Bethesda merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Bethesda without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• For Bethesda web companies that don't need a lot of custom features, we often recommend Shopify. It's typically more expensive to develop custom functionality in Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, you'll find getting Shopify apps often require monthly subscriptions versus one-time purchases for WordPress plugins.
• The best ecommerce platform for Bethesda businesses 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 Bethesda, MD Web Developer

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

• Does the website developer outsource the website project? Because we've got our own team of USA website designers and ecommerce web designers, we don't outsource.
• Will the web designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search rankings? For any Bethesda web development project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
• Will the website designer make a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the site? We always start with a design mockup for Bethesda custom website development projects to ensure everyone understands the vision for the website. However, if you choose a template-based web development service we will instead show you template samples before we begin.
• Which CMS platform does your Bethesda 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 Bethesda website 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 have experience with 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 Bethesda, MD Website

There is more to a successful template or custom website development project for your Bethesda, MD business than you might realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Bethesda website:

• Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? Let us write content about your products or services for your Bethesda website or blog.
• SEO Game Plans: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Bethesda? To help with off-page, technical, and on-page search engine optimization, we have our own team of SEO specialists.
• Conversion Optimization: Want to make your lead forms convert more often? We'll create better, higher converting landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Bethesda website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our web maintenance plans.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Bethesda, MD site needs to be accessible? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility glitches on your website.
• Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Bethesda, MD, but haven't settled on a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with good logo ideas for your business.
• Web Hosting Solutions: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our WordPress hosting is fast and simple thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and website designers!

Our complete web design company is the perfect solution for your company!

Why Choose Us for Your Bethesda, MD Web Services

Because we love Bethesda as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Bethesda, like visit popular destinations of Strathmore, Round House Theatre, Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club, and others. For more fun ideas around Bethesda, 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 just 880 miles away, to handle your professional web design.

• You won't find us outsourcing Bethesda website design projects. Head over to our web development portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled website designers.
• We've worked with multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• Our team is highly experienced in SEO, user experience, and page speed.
• We've made free website tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
• Our digital marketing team is experienced in Bethesda SEO services to help you improve search rankings and organic traffic.
• Our web developers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Bethesda ecommerce web design project you need completed.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We have a website team to help with Bethesda website maintenance when you need website updates.
• To broaden your website advertising service, we can include our Bethesda paid ads management and Bethesda social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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