Guelph, ON Web Design Services

Our Guelph Website Services

We are a one-stop web design company with a large group of onsite 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 Guelph company 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 website templates that closely align with the look and feel you want.

Rest assured, you'll have the opportunity to select the theme you prefer, which we will then install on your development site.

Next, we will modify the template to use your color scheme and then add in your web pages.

The starting price for a templated web design is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce website designs, the cost and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Web Designs

As a custom website design firm, we prefer to start every Guelph 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 website development work. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.

Following your approval of the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a custom template. There are many benefits to a custom theme, including a simplified codebase that often has better site performance and usability since it was developed specifically for your Guelph business.

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

We think of website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Guelph small business access to a website developer or ecommerce web developer who can fix just about any problem.

Here are some examples of website requests that Guelph web maintenance agencies might help with:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Guelph site's navigation menu.
• Improving website speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your site.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Guelph, ON Website

It's important to understand what your goals are before picking a template or custom website design firm for your Guelph business. The most common goals we've seen for Guelph website design and ecommerce development projects include:

1. To create a website or online store for a new Guelph small business.
2. To redesign an existing website or storefront with a fresh, professional look and feel.
3. To improve UX, bounce rates, and/or conversion metrics.
4. To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
5. To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for site accessibility.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To get more sales from their ecommerce store.

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

In addition to designing Guelph-area websites, our company also provides website development services to those in Toronto, Gatineau, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Oshawa, Windsor, St. Catharines, Barrie, Kingston, Milton, Brantford, Thunder Bay, and Ottawa.

Picking a Platform for Your Guelph, ON Website

Your Guelph website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. 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 Guelph and the greater Ontario area.

We specialize in WordPress not just because it's the most popular CMS platform in Guelph, 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 new functionality to your website through third-party WordPress plugins. Not everything has to be built from scratch!
• There's a huge community of WordPress contributors helping to make the platform more stable, secure, and scalable.
• With WordPress, you should easily be able to find a local Guelph website developer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce developers tend to recommend WooCommerce:

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Guelph 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 Guelph business already has a WordPress site, we often 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 Guelph small businesses. There are no monthly fees to use WordPress or WooCommerce. As an alternative, Shopify has monthly fees and their apps are often more expensive than WooCommerce or WordPress plugins.
• We also recommend WooCommerce for those in an industry not accepted by Shopify.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular web-based ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify web designer in Guelph.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce web developers like Shopify:

• For Guelph merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you don't have to worry about hosting configuration or platform updates.
• We often recommend Shopify for Guelph web companies without a lot of custom functionality requirements. The cost of developing custom functionality within Shopify is often higher than in WordPress. Additionally, Shopify apps often have monthly fees versus WooCommerce plugins that are more affordable.
• The best ecommerce platform for Guelph 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 Guelph, ON Web Designer

You should ask a few questions of your prospective Guelph 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 site project? We do not outsource custom web design or ecommerce website design projects for Guelph companies. We have our own internal team of expert website designers.
• Will the web developers 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 Guelph web redesign project.
• Does the website designer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Guelph website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the website build gets too far along. However, that is only possible if you choose a custom web design service. If you opt for a template-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
• What CMS platforms is your Guelph web developer experienced in? We prefer WordPress because of its popularity, scalability, and ease of use. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Guelph web design team turn things around? We typically finish custom website development projects in 2-3 months, and template website projects in 3-4 weeks. Ecommerce website projects typically take longer to finish.
• Does the web design company provide original solutions? As a full-service website design firm, we love a challenge! Let us know what you have for unique needs and we will be happy to assist!

Other Services for Your Guelph, ON Website

A successful template or custom website design project for your Guelph company is just getting started! Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Guelph website:

• Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Guelph business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• Search Engine Optimization Campaigns: Do you want to improve organic traffic in Guelph, or elsewhere? With our own team of SEO professionals, we can help with off-page, technical, and on-page search engine optimization.
• Optimizing Conversion Rates: Are you trying to boost the conversion rate of your lead forms? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance: After your template or custom Guelph website goes live, do you want to make changes? Ask about our web maintenance plans to receive help installing updates or making site modifications.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Guelph, ON website needs to be accessible? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility problems.
• Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Guelph, but still need a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your small business.
• Website Hosting: Looking for a place to host your website? Our WordPress hosting is fast and easy thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web designers!

Our comprehensive web development agency is the perfect solution for your small business!

Why Choose Us for Your Guelph, ON Web Services

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We have more than 19 years of experience designing great, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our specialists, who are just 884.6 kilometers away, to handle your professional web development.

• We do not outsource Guelph web design projects. Check out our website design portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We've got our own team of leading web developers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're specialists in SEO, UX, and site performance.
• We have free web design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our website advertising experts are very familiar with Guelph SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
• We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is good if you are searching for a talented Guelph ecommerce web designer.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We help with Guelph web maintenance requests to keep your website updated and looking great!
• To broaden your website marketing service, we can include our Guelph PPC management and Guelph social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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