Elgin Web Design Services

Our Elgin Web Services

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

1.) Template-Based Website Designs

Looking for an affordable website? Your Elgin company 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.

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

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2.) Custom Website Designs

As a custom web development agency, we prefer to start every Elgin website 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 site before our website designers 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. Opting for a custom theme can provide several benefits, including a simplified codebase that usually delivers enhanced website speed and usability, as it was tailored specifically for your Elgin organization.

The starting price for a custom website design is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce website 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 website developer or ecommerce web developer on our team who can fix nearly any website issue.

Here are a few examples of website requests that might need Elgin web maintenance services:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Elgin 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 site look and feel better.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Improving technical SEO by adding 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 Elgin, IL Website

Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom website design firm for your Elgin business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. The most common goals we've seen for Elgin website design and ecommerce development projects include:

1. To build a website or online store for a new business in Elgin.
2. To revamp an existing website or storefront with a modern, professional look and feel.
3. To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
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 make the site a lead generation machine.
7. To get more sales from their ecommerce store.

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

In addition to designing Elgin-area websites, our company also provides website development services to those in Aurora, Chicago, Decatur, Joliet, Naperville, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield.

Picking a Platform for Your Elgin, IL Website

The foundation of your Elgin website is the content management system you choose for the design project. While our top web developers and ecommerce developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we prefer to only provide website design services in WordPress, and ecommerce development services in Shopify or WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

WordPress is simply the most popular open-source site platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Elgin and the greater Illinois area.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Elgin, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized web design. 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!
• 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 Elgin website developer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• If you need a custom template 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 Elgin organization website runs on WordPress, we typically 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?
• We often recommend WooCommerce for Elgin companies who prefer open-source software. There are no monthly fees to use 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.
• We also recommend WooCommerce for those in an industry not accepted by Shopify.

3.) Shopify

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

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

Our ecommerce developers love Shopify for these reasons:

• We often recommend Shopify for Elgin merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Elgin without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
• For Elgin web companies that don't need a lot of custom features, we often recommend Shopify. It is often more expensive to develop custom functionality within Shopify than 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 Elgin small businesses that rely heavily on fast turnaround 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 Elgin, IL Website Designer

There are several important questions to ask your prospective Elgin website design or ecommerce development agency before proceeding with your project. Let's go over some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom website design or ecommerce web design project:

• Does the web designer outsource the work? We do not outsource custom website design or ecommerce website development projects for Elgin businesses. We have our own internal team of USA web designers.
• Will the website developers make 301 redirects to help preserve search placements? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Elgin website makeover project.
• Does the web developer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before building the site? We always start with a design mockup for Elgin custom website design projects to ensure everyone understands the vision for the site. However, if you choose a template-based website design service we will instead show you template samples before we begin.
• What CMS platforms is your Elgin 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 Elgin 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 enjoy a design or functionality challenge! Simply reach out to set up a phone call to discuss your needs!

Other Services for Your Elgin, IL Website

There is more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Elgin, IL small business than you might realize. Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Elgin website:

• Writing Content: Don't feel comfortable writing about yourself or your company? Let our content writers help your Elgin company write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• SEO Tactics: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Elgin? With our own team of SEO experts, we can help with on-page, off-page, and technical SEO.
• Optimizing Conversion Rates: Are you trying to boost the conversion rate of your lead forms? We'll create better, higher converting landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Website Maintenance: After your template or custom Elgin website goes live, do you want to make tweaks? Ask about our web maintenance services to receive help installing updates or making website changes.
• Website Accessibility: Not sure if your Elgin, IL website needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility issues.
• Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Elgin, IL, but haven't settled on a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with good logo ideas for your organization.
• Web Hosting Strategies: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our WordPress hosting is fast and easy thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and website designers!

Whatever your business needs from its website, our comprehensive website development agency has your solution!

Why Choose Us for Your Elgin, IL Web Services

Because we love Elgin as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Elgin, like visit popular destinations of Bartlet Nature Center, Black & Gray Brewing Co., Randall Oaks Golf Course, and others. For more fun ideas around Elgin, check out this website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing awesome, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! We'll take care of your professional web design quickly and efficiently.

• We do not outsource Elgin website design projects. Check out our web development portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled website designers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• Our team is highly experienced in SEO, user experience, and page speed.
• We have free website design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our digital marketing experts are very familiar with Elgin search engine optimization services to help you rank higher in Google.
• Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Elgin ecommerce website developments you might be considering.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We have a website team to help with Elgin web maintenance when you need website updates.
• To broaden your website marketing service, we can include our Elgin PPC management and Elgin social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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