Joliet Web Design Services

Our Joliet 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 Joliet 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.

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

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

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

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2.) Custom Website Designs

As a custom web development agency, we like to start every Joliet website 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 web development 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 website development team will integrate it into a completely custom theme. There are many benefits to a custom template, including a simplified codebase that often has better page speed and usability since it was developed specifically for your Joliet small business.

The starting price for a custom web design is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce web 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.

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

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

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Updating apps, themes, and plugins.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Joliet site.
• Improving page performance to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• 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 Joliet, IL Website

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

1. To create a website or online store for a new business in Joliet.
2. To redesign an existing website or storefront with a modern, professional look and feel.
3. To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
4. To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
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 get more sales from their ecommerce store.

Let us help plan your Joliet website design project!

In addition to designing Joliet-area websites, our firm also provides web design services to those in Aurora, Chicago, Decatur, Elgin, Naperville, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield.

Picking a Platform for Your Joliet, IL Website

Your Joliet 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

WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Joliet and the greater Illinois area.

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

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• If you need a custom template 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 Joliet small business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money remaking your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
• WooCommerce is a good open-source option for Joliet organizations. You don't have to pay a monthly fee 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 in Joliet, you'll probably need a Shopify website designer.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce website developers like Shopify:

• For Joliet 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.
• For Joliet 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, Shopify apps often have monthly fees versus WooCommerce plugins that are more affordable.
• We often recommend Shopify for Joliet 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 Joliet, IL Web Designer

You should ask a few questions of your prospective Joliet 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 project? We do not outsource custom web development or ecommerce web design projects for Joliet small businesses. We have our own internal team of USA website developers.
• Will the web designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search rankings? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Joliet website refresh project.
• Does the web designer plan to create a mockup, or provide template samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Joliet site projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the website build gets too far along. However, that is only feasible if you choose a custom website development 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 Joliet website designer experienced in? Because of its ease of use, popularity, and scalability, we prefer WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Joliet web development team turn things around? We typically complete 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 website 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 Joliet, IL Website

A successful template or custom web design project for your Joliet 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 Joliet website:

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Joliet company write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• SEO Tactics: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Joliet? With our own team of SEO experts, we can help with on-page, off-page, and technical 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.
• Website Maintenance: After your template or custom Joliet website goes live, do you want to make tweaks? We can help you install updates or make changes to your website.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Joliet, IL website needs to be accessible? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your site and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility glitches.
• Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Joliet, IL, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your company.
• Web Hosting Services: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? 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 Joliet, IL 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 only 225.2 miles away, to handle your professional web development quickly and efficiently.

• We do not outsource Joliet web design projects. Check out our website design portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled 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 team is highly experienced in Joliet nearby SEO plans to help you rank higher in search results.
• We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is great if you are looking for a talented Joliet ecommerce website designer.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We have a website team to help with Joliet web maintenance when you need website updates.
• To broaden your digital marketing service, we can include our Joliet PPC management and Joliet social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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