Cedar Rapids, IA Web Design Services

Our Cedar Rapids Web Services

We are a complete website design firm with a large staff of internal website designers and ecommerce website designers. Our website development agency is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom website design services.

1.) Template-Based Web Developments

Looking for a low-cost website? Your Cedar Rapids small business might be interested in a template site!

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 template to align with your color scheme and load in your web content.

The starting price for a template web design is around $3,750, and it can be finished in as little as a few weeks. For template ecommerce web developments, the price and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Website Designs

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

Our team can create tailor-made mockups that adhere to your brand's unique specifications, providing a preview of your website's aesthetics before our website designers begin their work. These mockups can be altered to your satisfaction, allowing you to finalize the design concept and proceed with confidence.

Following your approval of the design mockup, our web 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 site speed and usability, as it was tailored specifically for your Cedar Rapids business.

The starting price for a custom website development is around $9,500, and it can be finished in as little as a few weeks. For custom ecommerce web 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 maintenance services.

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with a web developer or ecommerce web developer on our team who can fix nearly any site issue.

Here are some examples of website requests that Cedar Rapids web maintenance firms might help with:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Updating apps, themes, and plugins.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Cedar Rapids website's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage concerns.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website issues.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Cedar Rapids, IA Website

To choose the best template or custom website development agency for your Cedar Rapids business, you need to know what your goals are. Here are some of the most common website design and ecommerce web design goals we've seen for Cedar Rapids websites:

1. To build a website or online store for a new business in Cedar Rapids.
2. To remake an existing site or storefront into a cutting edge website design to give a better first impression to visitors.
3. To improve user experience, 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 make the website a lead generation machine.
7. To get more sales from their ecommerce store.

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

In addition to designing Cedar Rapids-area websites, our company also provides web development services to those in Davenport, Des Moines, Iowa City, and Waterloo.

Picking a Platform for Your Cedar Rapids, IA Website

A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Cedar Rapids website. 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

With more than 40% market share in Iowa and the country, WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform.

Our web design company chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Cedar Rapids, 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!
• WordPress has a huge community of contributors that work together to improve its security, stability, and functionality.
• With WordPress, you should easily be able to find a local Cedar Rapids website designer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Cedar Rapids website design projects that need a custom theme with complex functionality, but are on a budget. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
• If your Cedar Rapids business website runs on WordPress, we typically recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money redesigning your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
• WooCommerce is a great open-source option for Cedar Rapids companies. You don't have to pay a monthly fee 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.
• 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 using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify website developer in Cedar Rapids.

Our Shopify web development team has experience designing websites for online stores around Iowa within the Shopify platform.

Our ecommerce developers love Shopify for these reasons:

• Cedar Rapids merchants looking for a hosted ecommerce platform should check out Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Cedar Rapids without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• When Cedar Rapids web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, we often recommend Shopify. It's typically more expensive to develop custom functionality in Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, Shopify apps often have monthly fees that really add up, in comparison to the less expensive WordPress plugin options.
• Shopify is a great option for Cedar Rapids ecommerce businesses that need fast delivery times for marketing and development. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

Questions to Ask a Cedar Rapids, IA Web Designer

You should ask your prospective Cedar Rapids website development or ecommerce web development company several questions before you get started. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom web development or ecommerce development project:

• Does the website designer outsource the work? Because we have our own internal team of USA web developers, we don't outsource custom web design or ecommerce website design projects to other companies.
• 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 Cedar Rapids website redesign project.
• Will the website designer make a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the site? We always start with a design mockup for Cedar Rapids custom web design projects to ensure everyone understands the vision for the website. However, if you choose a theme-based web design service we will instead show you template samples before we begin.
• What CMS platforms is your Cedar Rapids web designer experienced in? We prefer WordPress because of its ease of use, popularity, and scalability. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast is your Cedar Rapids web development service? It takes us about 2-3 months to finish custom website design projects, and 3-4 weeks to finish template websites. Ecommerce developments often take longer.
• Does the web design company provide 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 Cedar Rapids, IA Website

There's more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Cedar Rapids organization than you may realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Cedar Rapids website:

• Writing Content: Don't feel comfortable writing about yourself or your company? We'll help your Cedar Rapids small business write content that describes your products or services on its website or blog.
• SEO: Interested in improving organic traffic within Cedar Rapids, or beyond? With our own team of search engine optimization experts, we can help with technical, on-page, and off-page search engine optimization.
• 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: After your template or custom Cedar Rapids website goes live, do you want to make changes? Ask about our website maintenance packages to receive help installing updates or making website tweaks.
• Web Design Accessibility: Are you unsure if your Cedar Rapids, IA site needs to be accessible? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility errors.
• Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Cedar Rapids, but still need a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with good logo ideas for your business.
• Website Hosting: Looking for a place to host your website? Our WordPress hosting is fast and basic thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web developers!

Whatever your business needs from its website, our full-service website design firm has your solution!

Why Choose Us for Your Cedar Rapids, IA Web Services

Because we love the City of Cedar Rapids! There are so many exciting places to visit in Cedar Rapids, like Cedar River Trail, Bit Brewery, Cherry Hill Park, and others. For more ideas around Cedar Rapids, check out this helpful website!

We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of website projects. We'll take care of your professional website development quickly and efficiently.

• We don't outsource Cedar Rapids web design services. Browse our website design portfolio to see past content websites or ecommerce sites we've worked on.
• We have our own in-house team of top web developers.
• We've worked with multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• Our team is highly experienced in SEO, user experience, and site speed.
• We have free web design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our online marketing professionals are very familiar with Cedar Rapids SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
• Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Cedar Rapids ecommerce website developments you might be considering.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We help with Cedar Rapids web maintenance requests to keep your website updated and looking great!
• To broaden your digital advertising service, we can include our Cedar Rapids PPC management and Cedar Rapids social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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