Fort Collins Web Design Services

Our Fort Collins Web Services

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

1.) Template-Based Web Designs

Searching for an affordable website option? Your Fort Collins organization 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 site 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 favorite template for us to install on your development site.

From there, we'll customize the theme to match your color scheme and then set up your web pages.

The starting cost for a template-based web development is $3,750, and it can be completed in as little as a few weeks. For template-based ecommerce developments, the cost and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Web Developments

As a custom web design company, we prefer to start every Fort Collins website 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. 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 website development team will integrate it into a custom theme. 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 Fort Collins organization.

The starting cost for a custom website design is around $9,500, and it can be finished in as little as a few weeks. For custom ecommerce developments, the price 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 website support services.

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

Here are a few examples of site requests that might require service from Fort Collins website support companies, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Fort Collins website.
• Improving website speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Fort Collins, CO Website

To choose the best template or custom web design company for your Fort Collins business, you need to know what your goals are. The most common goals we've seen for Fort Collins web development and ecommerce development projects include:

1. To create a website or online store for a new business in Fort Collins.
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 fix website accessibility errors, or perhaps receive a web accessibility certificate.
6. To improve lead generation from the website.
7. To get more online sales from their ecommerce website.

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

If you live in Fort Collins, you probably love the Colorado State Rams basketball team. Go Colorado State Rams! In addition to designing Fort Collins-area websites, our agency also provides website design services to those in Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Longmont, Loveland, Pueblo, Thornton, and Westminster.

Picking a Platform for Your Fort Collins, CO Website

A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Fort Collins website. While our top website designers and ecommerce website developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we prefer to only provide web design services in WordPress, and ecommerce development services in Shopify or WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

More than 40% of websites in Colorado and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Fort Collins, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website design. Although there are dozens of content management systems to choose from, we've found WordPress to be the most scalable for designing websites.

• WordPress has thousands of third-party plugins available that can provide additional functionality for your website.
• WordPress has a large community of contributors helping to improve the platform's functionality, stability, and security.
• WordPress has a large following among expert web design companies and freelance web developers, helping ensure you can find a local Fort Collins web designer to help you.

2.) WooCommerce

We help Fort Collins startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Fort Collins website design projects that need a custom template with complex functionality, but are on a budget. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
• If your Fort Collins business website runs on WordPress, we typically recommend WooCommerce. If you are happy with the look and feel of your content-based website, why invest the time and money into redesigning that website just to add ecommerce?
• We often recommend WooCommerce for Fort Collins small businesses who prefer open-source software. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. As an alternative, Shopify has monthly fees and their apps are often more expensive than WooCommerce or WordPress plugins.
• WooCommerce is great 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 searching for a Shopify website designer in Fort Collins.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce website developers like Shopify:

• Fort Collins merchants searching for a hosted ecommerce platform should check out Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Fort Collins without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• When Fort Collins 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, you'll find getting Shopify apps often require monthly subscriptions versus one-time purchases for WordPress plugins.
• Shopify is a great option for Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins, CO Web Developer

You should ask your prospective Fort Collins web design or ecommerce website design firm several questions before you get started. Let's go over 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? Because we've got our own team of USA web designers and ecommerce web developers, we don't outsource.
• Will the web developers make 301 redirects to help preserve search rankings? For any Fort Collins website design project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
• Does the website developer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the website? We create design mockups for Fort Collins companies that choose a custom web development service, and provide template samples for clients that choose a template-based web development service.
• What platform does your Fort Collins website designer use? We prefer WordPress because of its scalability, ease of use, and popularity. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Fort Collins website design team turn things around? It takes us about 2-3 months to finish custom web design projects, and 3-4 weeks to complete template websites. Ecommerce developments often take longer.
• Does the web development agency provide 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 Fort Collins, CO Website

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

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let us write content about your products or services for your Fort Collins site or blog.
• Search Engine Optimization Services: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Fort Collins? To help with off-page, technical, and on-page SEO, we have our own team of SEO professionals.
• Conversion Rate Optimization: Looking to boost the conversion rates for your lead forms? Allow our custom web developers and internet advertisers to team up and create an improved, higher converting landing pages for your organic and paid advertising traffic.
• Website Maintenance: Want help making changes to your template pr custom Fort Collins website after it launches? Ask about our website maintenance packages to receive help installing updates or making website tweaks.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Fort Collins, CO 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 Fort Collins, 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? To ensure fast hosting, our server admins teamed up with our website design team to configure fast caching systems for WordPress.

Whatever your business needs from its website, our complete web design company has your solution!

Why Choose Us for Your Fort Collins, CO Web Services

Because we love the City of Fort Collins! There are so many exciting places to visit in Fort Collins, like Black Bottle Brewery, Rocky Mountain National Park, Horsetooth Reservoir, and others. For more ideas around Fort Collins, check out this helpful website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing beautiful, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our experts, who are only 1041.1 miles away, to handle your professional website development quickly and efficiently.

• You won't find us outsourcing Fort Collins web design projects. Head over to our website design portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled web developers.
• We have experience in multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We are highly experienced in SEO, user experience, and site speed.
• We provide free web design tools, such as color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our online marketing professionals are very familiar with Fort Collins SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
• Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Fort Collins ecommerce website developments you might be considering.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We help with Fort Collins web maintenance requests to keep your website updated and looking great!
• For an expanded digital advertising service, check out our Fort Collins paid ads management and Fort Collins social media services to target a broader audience.

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