Houston, TX Web Design Services

Our Houston Website Services

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

1.) Template-Based Web Developments

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

Rather than designing mockups and developing a custom theme 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.

Don't worry though, you'll be able to select your desired theme for us to 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 Houston 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. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.

After you approve the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a completely 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 Houston 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 view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Houston small business access to a website developer or ecommerce web developer who can solve nearly any website problem you have.

Here are some examples of website requests that Houston web maintenance companies might help with:

• Updating your site platform.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Houston website.
• Improving website performance to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage problems.
• Improving technical search engine optimization by 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 Houston, TX Website

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

1. To create a website or online store for a new business in Houston.
2. To redo an existing website or storefront into a modern website development to give a better first impression to visitors.
3. To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
4. To increase page speed for a passing score in Google Core Web Vitals.
5. To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for website accessibility.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

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

If you live in Houston, you probably love the Houston Astros baseball team. Go Houston Astros! In addition to designing Houston-area websites, our agency also provides website design services to those in Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Frisco, Garland, Grand Prairie, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, McKinney, Mesquite, Pasadena, Plano, and San Antonio.

Picking a Platform for Your Houston, TX Website

The foundation of your Houston website is the content management system you choose for the design project. While our top web designers and ecommerce 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

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

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Houston, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized web development. While there are dozens of content management systems to consider, we've found WordPress to be the most scalable platform for designing websites.

• 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.
• WordPress is popular among professional website design firms and freelance website designers, making it possible to find a local Houston web designer to work with you.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Houston 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.
• We often recommend WooCommerce for Houston businesses with an existing WordPress website. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money remaking your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
• Most small businesses in Houston who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. Alternatively, Shopify has monthly fees to use the platform and their apps are often more expensive than WordPress or WooCommerce 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 looking for a Shopify web developer in Houston.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce website designers like Shopify:

• We often recommend Shopify for Houston merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Houston without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• When Houston 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, Shopify apps often have monthly fees versus WooCommerce plugins that are more affordable.
• Shopify is a good option for Houston ecommerce businesses that need fast turnaround times for marketing and development. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

Questions to Ask a Houston, TX Website Designer

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

• Does the web designer outsource the project? Because we have our own internal team of USA website developers, we don't outsource custom web design or ecommerce website development projects to other companies.
• Will the web developers make 301 redirects to help preserve search placements? We always create 301 redirects because we understand how important they are for Houston search engine optimization.
• Does the web developer plan to create a mockup, or provide template samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Houston website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the website build gets too far along. However, that is only viable if you choose a custom website design service. If you opt for a theme-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
• Which CMS platform does your Houston web designer plan to use on your website project? We prefer WordPress because of its ease of use, popularity, and scalability. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast is your Houston website development service? We typically finish custom website design projects in 2-3 months, and template website projects in 3-4 weeks. Ecommerce website projects typically take longer to finish.
• Does the web development agency have experience with innovative solutions? As a complete web design company, we love a challenge! Let us know what you have for unique needs and we will be happy to assist!

Other Services for Your Houston, TX Website

There is more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Houston, TX 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 Houston website:

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? We'll help your Houston organization write content that describes your products or services on its website or blog.
• Search Engine Optimization Tactics: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Houston? We have our own team of search engine optimization experts to help with off-page, technical, and on-page SEO.
• 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 & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Houston website after it launches? Ask about our website maintenance packages to receive help installing updates or making website updates.
• Web Design Accessibility: Are you unsure if your Houston, TX website needs to be accessible? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility concerns.
• Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Houston, TX, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts 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!

No matter what your business needs for its website, you'll find our full-service website design firm to be your solution provider!

Why Choose Us for Your Houston, TX Web Services

Because we love Houston as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Houston, like visit popular destinations of Bay Area Park, Battleship Texas, Cajun Kitchen, and others. For more fun ideas around Houston, check out this website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing attractive, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our experts, who are only 1232 miles away, to handle your professional web design quickly and efficiently.

• We don't outsource Houston website design services. Browse our web development portfolio to see past content websites or ecommerce sites we've worked on.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled website designers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're experts in search engine optimization, UX, and page speed.
• We've made free website tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
• Our digital marketing experts are very familiar with Houston search engine optimization services to help you rank higher in Google.
• We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is great if you are looking for a talented Houston ecommerce website designer.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We help with Houston website maintenance requests to keep your website updated and looking great!
• To broaden your website advertising service, we can include our Houston paid ads management and Houston social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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