Iowa City, IA Web Design Services

Our Iowa City Website Services

We are a complete web design company with a large staff of internal 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 a low-cost website? Your Iowa City 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.

But don't worry - you'll have the option to choose your favorite theme for us to install on your development site.

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

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

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2.) Custom Web Developments

As a custom web design company, we love to begin every Iowa City web 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 website 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 web development team will integrate it into a custom template. A custom theme offers numerous advantages, such as a streamlined codebase that typically results in improved website speed and usability, since it was created exclusively for your Iowa City organization.

The starting price for a custom website design is $9,500, and it can be completed in as little as a few months. 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 some examples of website requests that Iowa City web maintenance companies 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.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Iowa City site's navigation menu.
• Making your pages faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your site.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Improving technical SEO by 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 Iowa City, IA Website

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

1. To create a website or online store for a new Iowa City small business.
2. To redesign an existing website or storefront into a fresh web 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 pass Google Core Web Vitals.
5. To fix website accessibility errors, or perhaps receive a web accessibility certificate.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To get more sales from their ecommerce store.

Let's figure out what you want from your Iowa City website development project!

If you live in Iowa City, you probably love the Iowa Hawkeyes basketball team. Go Iowa Hawkeyes! In addition to designing Iowa City-area websites, our agency also provides website design services to those in Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, and Waterloo.

Picking a Platform for Your Iowa City, IA Website

A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Iowa City 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

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

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Iowa City, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website development. 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.
• 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 Iowa City website designer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

Here's why our ecommerce web developers love WooCommerce:

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Iowa City web development projects that require a custom designed template with complex functionality, but are working on a limited budget. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
• If your Iowa City small business website runs on WordPress, we typically 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 Iowa City 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.
• WooCommerce is good if you're in an industry that's not accepted by Shopify.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular SaaS ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce site using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify website developer in Iowa City.

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

Our ecommerce website designers love Shopify for these reasons:

• We often recommend Shopify for Iowa City merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Iowa City without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• For Iowa City web companies that don't need a lot of custom features, 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.
• We often recommend Shopify for Iowa City ecommerce businesses that rely heavily on fast delivery times for development and marketing initiatives. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

Questions to Ask a Iowa City, IA Web Designer

You should ask your prospective Iowa City website design or ecommerce web design agency several questions before you get started. Let's go over some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom website design or ecommerce website development project:

• Does the website designer outsource the website 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? For any Iowa City website design project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
• Does the web developer plan to create a mockup, or provide template samples, before starting the website? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Iowa City 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.
• What CMS platforms is your Iowa City web designer experienced in? Due to its scalability, ease of use, and popularity, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Iowa City website design team turn things around? It takes us about 2-3 months to complete 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 like unique design and functionality requirements! Just let us know what you have in mind and we will be happy to help!

Other Services for Your Iowa City, IA Website

There's more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Iowa City 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 Iowa City website:

• Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? We'll help your Iowa City 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 Iowa City? To help with technical, on-page, and off-page SEO, we have our own team of search engine optimization experts.
• Conversion Rate Optimization: Looking to boost the conversion rates for your lead forms? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance: After your template or custom Iowa City website goes live, do you want to make changes? If you need help updating your website, ask about our website maintenance plans.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Iowa City, IA 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 Iowa City, but still need a logo? Let our graphic designers come up with logo concepts for your organization.
• Web Hosting: Need somewhere to host your website after it launches? Our WordPress hosting is fast and basic thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web developers!

Whatever your business needs from its website, our full-service website design firm has your solution!

Why Choose Us for Your Iowa City, IA Web Services

Because we love the City of Iowa City! There are so many exciting places to visit in Iowa City, like Beaver Kreek Park, Backpocket Brewing, Bush and Barrel, and others. For more ideas around Iowa City, check out this helpful 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 just 283.4 miles away, to handle your professional web design.

• We don't outsource Iowa City 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.
• We have experience in multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're experts in search engine optimization, UX, and page speed.
• We have free website design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our digital marketing team is experienced in Iowa City SEO services to help you improve search rankings and organic traffic.
• Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Iowa City ecommerce website developments you might be considering.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We help with routine Iowa City website maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
• To broaden your online advertising service, we can include our Iowa City PPC ads management and Iowa City social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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