Kitchener, ON Web Design Services

Our Kitchener Web Services

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

1.) Template-Based Website Designs

Looking for an affordable website? Your Kitchener 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.

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 web development is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce 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 Kitchener website 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 web development work. These mockups can be altered to your satisfaction, allowing you to finalize the design concept and proceed with confidence.

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 theme, including a simplified codebase that often has better website speed and usability since it was developed specifically for your Kitchener organization.

The starting cost for a custom website design is $9,500, and it can be completed in as little as a few months. For custom ecommerce 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 view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Kitchener business access to a website developer or ecommerce website developer who can solve nearly any website problem you have.

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

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Kitchener site's navigation menu.
• Making your pages faster 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 website scan problems or Google Search Console coverage concerns.
• 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 Kitchener, ON Website

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

1. To create a website or online store for a new Kitchener small business.
2. To redesign an existing website or storefront with a fresh, 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 site accessibility.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To get more online sales from their ecommerce website.

Let's figure out what you want from your Kitchener web design project!

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

Picking a Platform for Your Kitchener, ON Website

The foundation of your Kitchener website is the content management system you choose for the design project. 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 Kitchener and the greater Ontario area.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Kitchener, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized web 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.
• WordPress has a large following among expert website development agencies and freelance website designers, helping ensure you can find a local Kitchener web developer to help you.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Kitchener website design 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.
• We often recommend WooCommerce for Kitchener businesses with an existing WordPress website. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money redesigning your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
• Most small businesses in Kitchener who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for 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 SaaS ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce site using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify website developer in Kitchener.

Our Shopify web development team has experience designing websites for online stores around Ontario within the Shopify platform.

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce developers often recommend Shopify:

• We often recommend Shopify for Kitchener merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Kitchener without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• We often recommend Shopify for Kitchener 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 that really add up, in comparison to the less expensive WordPress plugin options.
• The best ecommerce platform for Kitchener businesses 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 Kitchener, ON Web Developer

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

• Does the website developer outsource the website project? We do not outsource custom website design or ecommerce web design projects for Kitchener businesses. We have our own internal team of professional web developers.
• Will the website designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search placements? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Kitchener web redesign 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 Kitchener 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 development service. If you opt for a template-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
• What platform does your Kitchener web designer use? Due to its ease of use, popularity, and scalability, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Kitchener web development team turn things around? It takes us about 2-3 months to finish custom website design projects, and 3-4 weeks to finish template websites. Ecommerce developments often take longer.
• Does the web design company have experience with 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 Kitchener, ON Website

There is more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Kitchener, ON organization than you might realize. Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Kitchener website:

• Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Kitchener business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• SEO Strategies: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Kitchener? With our own team of SEO specialists, we can 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.
• Website Maintenance: Want help making updates to your template pr custom Kitchener website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our website maintenance services.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Kitchener, ON website needs to be accessible? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility issues.
• Logo Creation: Are you starting a new business in Kitchener, ON, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design 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 website 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 Kitchener, ON Web Services

Because we love Kitchener as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Kitchener, like visit popular destinations of Huron Natural Area, Victoria Park, Descendants Beer and Beverage Co Ltd., and others. For more fun ideas around Kitchener, check out this website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing awesome, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our consultants, who are just 874.6 kilometers away, to handle your professional web design.

• We do not outsource Kitchener website design projects. Check out our website development portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled web designers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're specialists in SEO, UX, and page speed.
• We provide free website design tools, such as color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our internet marketing team is experienced in Kitchener search engine optimization services to help you improve search placements and organic traffic.
• Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Kitchener ecommerce developments you might be considering.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We help with routine Kitchener web maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
• To broaden your digital marketing service, we can include our Kitchener PPC management and Kitchener social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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