Portland, ME Web Design Services

Our Portland 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

Searching for an affordable website option? Your Portland company might be interested in a template website!

Instead of creating design mockups and developing your website in a custom theme, we can hand-pick several website templates to share with you that closely match your desired look and feel.

But don't worry - you'll have the option to choose your favorite 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 template website development is around $3,750, and it can be finished in as little as a few weeks. For template 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 Portland 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. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.

Following your approval of the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a custom template. 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 Portland 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.

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Portland business access to a website developer or ecommerce web designer who can solve nearly any website problem you have.

Here are a few examples of website requests that might need Portland web support services:

• Updating your website platform.
• Updating apps, themes, and plugins.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Portland site's navigation menu.
• Improving website performance to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Fixing website scan concerns or Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating and solving any other website issue.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Portland, ME Website

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

1. To create a site or online store for a new business in Portland.
2. To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
3. To improve UX, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
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 make the website a lead generation machine.
7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

Let's figure out what you want from your Portland website design project!

Picking a Platform for Your Portland, ME Website

Your Portland website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. 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

More than 40% of websites in Maine and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.

Our website design firm chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Portland, but also because it is simply the best overall. 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!
• WordPress has a huge community of contributors that work together to improve its security, stability, and functionality.
• WordPress is popular among professional website design firms and freelance web designers, making it possible to find a local Portland website designer to work with you.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Portland web 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 Portland organizations with an existing WordPress website. When you like the look and feel of your content-based website, why spend time and money rebuilding it just to add ecommerce?
• Most organizations in Portland who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. 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.
• If you're in an industry that's not supported by Shopify, try WooCommerce.

3.) Shopify

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

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

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

• For Portland merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Portland without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
• For Portland 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.
• The best ecommerce platform for Portland small businesses that rely heavily on fast turnaround 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 Portland, ME Web Designer

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

• Does the web designer outsource the project? Because we've got our own team of USA website designers and ecommerce web designers, we don't outsource.
• Do the web designers plan to create 301 redirects to help with SEO? For any Portland 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 building the site? We always start with a design mockup for Portland custom website design projects to ensure everyone understands the vision for the website. However, if you choose a theme-based website design service we will instead show you template samples before we begin.
• Which CMS platform does your Portland web developer plan to use on your website project? Due to its scalability, ease of use, and popularity, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your Portland website design team turn things around? We typically complete custom web 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 design firm provide creative solutions? As a comprehensive web development agency, we love a challenge! Let us know what you have for unique needs and we will be happy to assist!

Other Services for Your Portland, ME Website

A successful template or custom website development project for your Portland business is just getting started! Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Portland website:

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let us write content about your products or services for your Portland website or blog.
• SEO: Interested in improving organic traffic within Portland, or beyond? To help with technical, on-page, and off-page search engine optimization, we have our own team of SEO professionals.
• Optimizing Conversion Rates: Are you trying to boost the conversion rate of your lead forms? We'll create better, higher converting landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Portland website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our website maintenance packages.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Portland, ME website needs to be accessible? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility concerns.
• Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Portland, but still need a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your business.
• Web Hosting: Need somewhere to host your website after it launches? Our WordPress hosting is fast and easy thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web designers!

No matter what your business needs for its website, you'll find our comprehensive web development agency to be your solution provider!

Why Choose Us for Your Portland, ME Web Services

We love Portland, just like you! There are so many awesome places to visit in Portland, like Casco Bay, Spring Meadows Golf Course, Geary Brewing Company, and more! For other new ideas in or around Portland, check out this great website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing good looking, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our specialists, who are only 1274.2 miles away, to handle your professional website design quickly and efficiently.

• You won't find us outsourcing Portland website development projects. Head over to our web design portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
• We have our own in-house team of top website designers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• Our team is highly experienced in SEO, UX, and website speed.
• We've made free site tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
• Our internet advertising team is experienced in Portland SEO services to help you improve search rankings and organic traffic.
• We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is great if you are looking for a talented Portland ecommerce web designer.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We help with routine Portland web maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
• To broaden your internet marketing service, we can include our Portland paid ads management and Portland social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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