Ottawa, ON Web Design Services

Our Ottawa Web Services

We are a complete web design company with a large staff of internal website developers and ecommerce web developers. Our website design firm is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom web design services.

1.) Template-Based Website Designs

Looking for a low-cost site? Your Ottawa business 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 most liked 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 Ottawa 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. In addition, these mockups can undergo changes until you're pleased with the design concept, enabling you to advance with certainty.

Following your approval of the design mockup, our website development team will integrate it into a custom theme. A custom template offers numerous advantages, such as a streamlined codebase that typically results in improved page speed and usability, since it was created exclusively for your Ottawa 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 Ottawa 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 Ottawa web maintenance companies might help with:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Ottawa site's navigation menu.
• Improve your site speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage errors.
• Enhancing technical search engine optimization 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 Ottawa, ON Website

To choose the best template or custom web development agency for your Ottawa business, you need to know what your goals are. Here are some of the most common website design and ecommerce development goals we've seen for Ottawa websites:

1. To create a website or online store for a new Ottawa 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 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 you figure out the goals of your Ottawa website design project to ensure everyone is happy with the finished website!

If you live in Ottawa, you probably love the Ottawa Senators hockey team. Go Ottawa Senators! In addition to designing Ottawa-area websites, our firm also provides web design services to those in Toronto, Gatineau, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Oshawa, Windsor, St. Catharines, Barrie, Guelph, Kingston, Milton, Brantford, Thunder Bay, .

Picking a Platform for Your Ottawa, ON Website

A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Ottawa website. Our web designers and ecommerce web developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, but we provide our best web development services in WordPress. We also develop ecommerce sites in Shopify and WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

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

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Ottawa, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website design. Although there are dozens of content management systems to choose from, we've found WordPress to be the most scalable 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.
• With WordPress, you should easily be able to find a local Ottawa web designer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

Here's why our ecommerce developers love 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 Ottawa organization already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money redoing your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
• WooCommerce is a good open-source option for Ottawa businesses. There are no monthly fees to use WordPress or WooCommerce. If you want to use Shopify, you'll need a paid subscription for the platform and their apps are often more expensive than WordPress or WooCommerce plugins.
• If you're in an industry that's not supported by Shopify, try WooCommerce.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular hosted ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website in Ottawa, you'll probably need a Shopify web designer.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce web developers like Shopify:

• For Ottawa 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 Ottawa web companies without a lot of custom functionality requirements. It's typically more expensive to develop custom functionality in Shopify than 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 Ottawa 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 Ottawa, ON Web Designer

You should ask your prospective Ottawa website development or ecommerce web development company several questions before you get started. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom web development or ecommerce development project:

• Does the website designer outsource the site project? Because we have our own internal team of experienced web designers, we don't outsource custom website development or ecommerce web development projects to other companies.
• Will the website designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search placements? For any Ottawa web design project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the 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 Ottawa 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 Ottawa 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 is your Ottawa web design service? Most of our custom website design projects are ready in two to three months, but template websites are closer to three to four weeks. Ecommerce projects usually require more time.
• Does the website 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 Ottawa, ON Website

There's more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Ottawa small business than you may realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Ottawa website:

• Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? We'll help your Ottawa business write content that describes your products or services on its website or blog.
• SEO Strategies: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Ottawa? To help with on-page, off-page, and technical SEO, we have our own team of search engine optimization consultants.
• 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 Ottawa website goes live, do you want to make changes? Ask about our website maintenance packages to receive help installing updates or making website updates.
• Web Design Accessibility: Are you unsure if your Ottawa, ON website needs to be accessible? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility problems on your website.
• Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Ottawa, but still need a logo? Let our graphic designers come up with logo concepts for your small business.
• Web Hosting Strategies: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? To ensure fast hosting, our server admins teamed up with our website design team to configure fast caching systems for WordPress.

Our complete web design company is the perfect solution for your company!

Why Choose Us for Your Ottawa, ON Web Services

Because we love the City of Ottawa! There are so many exciting places to visit in Ottawa, like Dominion City Brewing Co., Kochin Kitchen, East India Company, and others. For more ideas around Ottawa, check out this helpful website!

We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of website projects. You can trust our experts to handle your professional web design.

• We don't outsource Ottawa 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 have free website design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our digital marketing experts are very familiar with Ottawa search engine optimization services to help you rank higher in Google.
• Our web developers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Ottawa ecommerce web design project you need completed.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We have a website team to help with Ottawa website maintenance when you need website updates.
• For an expanded website advertising service, check out our Ottawa PPC management and Ottawa social media services to target a broader audience.

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