Grand Rapids, MI Web Design Services
Custom Grand Rapids Websites
We develop amazing websites and ecommerce stores. After launch, we'll help you maintain your Grand Rapids website for years to come!
Web Design Services
Grand Rapids, MI Web Development Specialists
With more than 19 years of experience, you can trust we have professional website developers on our team! In this time, we've offered Grand Rapids businesses cutting edge web development services to help them build new websites from scratch and redesign their existing websites.
Grand Rapids has a population of 199,417, so you'll want to make sure you've got a functional, useful website to keep up with the competition.
In addition to UX web development, our award-winning team offers web services like internet advertising, web hosting, and website maintenance with you.
You'll be thrilled you chose our template or custom web design services for your Michigan small business!
Our Grand Rapids Web Services
We are a one-stop web design company with a large group of onsite 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 Grand Rapids organization might be interested in a template website!
Rather than creating design mockups and building a custom template for your website, we can find and share several site templates that closely align with the look and feel you want.
Rest assured, you'll have the opportunity to select the template 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 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.
2.) Custom Web Designs
As a custom website design firm, we prefer to start every Grand 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 web 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 website 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 Grand Rapids business.
The starting cost for a custom web development is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce web designs, the price and turnaround will be higher.
3.) Website Maintenance
After the launch of your website, or if you have one, you might be interested in website maintenance services.
We think of web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Grand Rapids small business access to a web developer or ecommerce developer who can fix just about any problem.
Here are a few examples of website requests that might require service from Grand Rapids web support agencies, including:
- Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
- Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
- Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
- Freshening your blog with new content.
- Rearranging your Grand Rapids website's navigation menu.
- Improve your website performance 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 issues.
- Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
- Providing solutions to other website concerns.
- Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.
A Few of Our Web Designers
Pricing for Grand Rapids, MI Web Development Strategies
Try out our Grand Rapids website design price calculation tool to get an idea of how much your site might cost! For a price quote to build an online store, head over to our ecommerce website development services.
Grand Rapids Website Design Cost Calculator
Answer a few simple questions about your project and our Grand Rapids website cost calculator will recommend a budget for your website development. For a custom quote, just call 800-796-8263 or send us an email.
Set Goals for Your Grand Rapids, MI Website
It's important to understand what your goals are before picking a template or custom web design company for your Grand Rapids company. The most common goals we've seen for Grand Rapids web design and ecommerce website development projects include:
- To build a website or online store for a new business in Grand Rapids.
- To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
- To improve UX, bounce rates, and/or conversion metrics.
- To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
- To improve website accessibility for the general public looking at the site.
- To make the website a lead generation machine.
- To get more sales from their ecommerce store.
Let us help you figure out the goals of your Grand Rapids website design project to ensure everyone is happy with the finished website!
In addition to designing Grand Rapids-area websites, our firm also provides web design services to those in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Lansing, and Sterling Heights.
Picking a Platform for Your Grand Rapids, MI Website
Your Grand Rapids website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. While our top web designers and ecommerce web developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we prefer to only provide web development services in WordPress, and ecommerce development services in Shopify or WooCommerce.
1.) WordPress
More than 40% of websites in Michigan and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.
We specialize in WordPress not just because it's the most popular CMS platform in Grand Rapids, but just because it's the best for a customized web design service. 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 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 Grand Rapids website developer to help you with your project.
2.) WooCommerce
If you want an ecommerce website using WordPress, you'll likely need a WooCommerce website developer in Grand Rapids.We help Grand Rapids startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.
These are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers 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 Grand Rapids small business already has a WordPress site, we often 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?
- WooCommerce is a great open-source option for Grand Rapids companies. 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 using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify website developer in Grand Rapids.
Our Shopify web development team has experience designing websites for online stores around Michigan within the Shopify platform.
Our ecommerce developers love Shopify for these reasons:
- Grand Rapids merchants looking for a hosted ecommerce platform should check out Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Grand Rapids without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
- When Grand Rapids web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, we often recommend Shopify. The cost of developing custom functionality within Shopify is often higher than in WordPress. Additionally, you'll find getting Shopify apps often require monthly subscriptions versus one-time purchases for WordPress plugins.
- The best ecommerce platform for Grand Rapids organizations 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 Grand Rapids, MI Web Designer
You should ask a few questions of your prospective Grand Rapids website development or ecommerce web development company before starting a project. Let's go over some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom web development or ecommerce development project:
- Does the website designer outsource the work? Because we've got our own team of USA web developers and ecommerce web designers, we don't outsource.
- Will the web designers create 301 redirects to help search rankings? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Grand Rapids web redesign project.
- Will the web designer make a mockup, or provide template samples, before starting the site? We always start with a design mockup for Grand Rapids custom web 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.
- What CMS platforms is your Grand Rapids website designer experienced in? We prefer WordPress because of its scalability, ease of use, and popularity. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How fast is your Grand Rapids website design service? 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 Grand Rapids, MI Website
A successful template or custom web design project for your Grand Rapids small business is just getting started! Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Grand Rapids website:
- Writing Content: Don't feel comfortable writing about yourself or your company? Let us write content about your products or services for your Grand Rapids site or blog.
- Search Engine Optimization Services: Do you want to improve organic traffic in Grand Rapids, or elsewhere? With our own team of search engine optimization consultants, we can help with on-page, off-page, and technical 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 Grand Rapids website goes live, do you want to make updates? Ask about our website maintenance services to receive help installing updates or making website changes.
- Web Design Accessibility: Are you unsure if your Grand Rapids, MI website needs to be accessible? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility concerns.
- Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Grand Rapids, but still need a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with good logo ideas for your small business.
- Web Hosting Tactics: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? To ensure fast hosting, our server admins teamed up with our website design team to configure fast caching systems for WordPress.
Our complete web design company is the perfect solution for your organization!
Why Choose Us for Your Grand Rapids, MI Web Services
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We have more than 19 years of experience designing amazing, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! We'll take care of your professional website development quickly and efficiently.
- You won't find us outsourcing Grand Rapids web design projects. Head over to our website design portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
- We've got our own team of leading 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 Grand Rapids SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
- Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Grand Rapids ecommerce website developments you might be considering.
- You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
- We have a website team to help with Grand Rapids web maintenance when you need website updates.
- For an expanded internet marketing campaign, check out our Grand Rapids PPC management and Grand Rapids social media services to target a broader audience.
Hear what our customers are saying
Tara Candland
Incredibly responsive, fast, and professional. They quickly understood the issue we were having with our site, which was fairly complicated, and were able to resolve it. They kept us updated in lay terms along the way so that we could understand how the issue was progressing.
Jeff Ring
This company is just a thrill to work with. Everyone is so friendly and eager to help even with the smallest items. They are always very accommodating when you stop by to look at the magnificent fish tank and will greet you with a warm cappuccino.
Alo Health
WebCitz designed our Alo Health website and did such a great job of walking us step-by-step through the process, knowing the tech world was not a strength of ours. We love that we are able to change content whenever we want, but if we run into problems, they are a quick email away. They have been responsive, reliable and efficient. Thanks, WebCitz!
Jen Ollanketo
WebCitz helped the Oshkosh Area Humane Society with our new website and they were great to work with. Responsive, professional and affordable. I think the biggest perk for us was having someone local we could talk to for assistance instead of long wait times. Definitely would recommend to anyone looking to start up or revamp their website.
Wendy Bottesi
Corey is so incredibly helpful!!!! He took the time and effort to make sure I had the help I needed! Above and beyond friendly! Helpful hints to navigate my website!! I felt so at ease! This is the company I will be sticking with and telling everyone about!!! A million times over thank you Corey!
George Ormond
Corey was extremely helpful and spent a considerable amount of time going over my difficulties with a newly created website put together by someone else. I was under a very stressful deadline and he was extremely considerate and helpful. He managed to fix the problems that I was experiencing with my website. I had reached out to a number of website developers for help but only heard back from WebCitz and Corey got back to me within minutes!
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