St. Catharines, ON Web Design Services

Our St. Catharines Web Services

We are a one-stop website design firm with a large group of onsite website designers and ecommerce website designers. Our website development agency is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom website design services.

1.) Template-Based Web Developments

Searching for an affordable website option? Your St. Catharines small business might be interested in a template site!

Rather than creating design mockups and building a custom template for your website, we can find and share several website templates that closely align with the look and feel you want.

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 web developments, the price and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Website Designs

As a custom website design firm, we prefer to start every St. Catharines web design service from scratch.

This approach allows our team to design custom mockups specific to your branding requirements. You'll appreciate seeing the look and feel of your future website before our web developers start building the site. 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 website performance and usability, since it was created exclusively for your St. Catharines company.

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

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with a web developer or ecommerce web designer on our team who can fix nearly any website issue.

Here are a few examples of website requests that might require service from St. Catharines web support companies, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your St. Catharines website's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage concerns.
• Improving technical search engine optimization by adding 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 St. Catharines, ON Website

It's important to understand what your goals are before picking a template or custom web design company for your St. Catharines organization. Here are some of the most common web design and ecommerce website design goals we've seen for St. Catharines websites:

1. To build a website or online store for a new business in St. Catharines.
2. To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
3. To improve UX, bounce rates, and/or conversion metrics.
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 St. Catharines web development project to ensure everyone is happy with the finished website!

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

Picking a Platform for Your St. Catharines, ON Website

Your St. Catharines website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. Our web designers and ecommerce developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, but we provide our best web design services in WordPress. We also develop ecommerce sites in Shopify and WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

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

We specialize in WordPress not just because it's the most popular CMS platform in St. Catharines, but just because it's the best for a customized website design service. 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 St. Catharines web designer to help you with your project.

2.) WooCommerce

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

Here's why our ecommerce web designers love WooCommerce:

• If you need a custom theme 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 St. Catharines company website runs on WordPress, we typically recommend WooCommerce. If you are happy with the look and feel of your content-based website, why invest the time and money into rebuilding that website just to add ecommerce?
• Most businesses in St. Catharines who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for 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 St. Catharines, you'll probably need a Shopify web developer.

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

Our ecommerce web designers love Shopify for these reasons:

• We often recommend Shopify for St. Catharines merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in St. Catharines without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
• When St. Catharines web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, 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 St. Catharines small 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 St. Catharines, ON Web Designer

You should ask a few questions of your prospective St. Catharines website design or ecommerce web design agency before starting a project. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom website design or ecommerce website development project:

• Does the website designer outsource the work? Because we've got our own team of skilled website developers and ecommerce web developers, we don't outsource.
• Will the website designers create 301 redirects to help search rankings? For any St. Catharines web development project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the 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 St. Catharines 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 St. Catharines website designer experienced in? We prefer WordPress because of its ease of use, popularity, and scalability. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How quick is the turnaround time for your St. Catharines 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 St. Catharines, ON Website

A successful template or custom web design project for your St. Catharines small business is just getting started! Let's look at some additional services to help your St. Catharines website:

• Writing Content: Don't feel comfortable writing about yourself or your company? Let us write content about your products or services for your St. Catharines website or blog.
• Search Engine Optimization Campaigns: Do you want to improve organic traffic in St. Catharines, or elsewhere? 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? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance: After your template or custom St. Catharines website goes live, do you want to make changes? Ask about our web maintenance plans to receive help installing updates or making site modifications.
• Website Accessibility: Not sure if your St. Catharines, ON website needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility issues on your website.
• Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in St. Catharines, but still need a logo? Let our graphic designers come up with logo concepts for your business.
• Web Hosting Solutions: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our WordPress hosting is fast and simple thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and website designers!

Whatever your business needs from its website, our complete web design company has your solution!

Why Choose Us for Your St. Catharines, ON Web Services

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We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of website projects. We'll take care of your professional website design quickly and efficiently.

• You won't find us outsourcing St. Catharines web development projects. Head over to our web design portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
• We've got our own team of leading website designers.
• Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're consultants in search engine optimization, UX, and website performance.
• We have free website development tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our website marketing specialists are very familiar with St. Catharines SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
• Our web designers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any St. Catharines ecommerce web development project you need completed.
• You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
• We have a site team to help with St. Catharines website maintenance when you need website updates.
• To broaden your online advertising service, we can include our St. Catharines PPC ads management and St. Catharines social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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