St. John's, NL Web Design Services

Our St. John's Web Services

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

1.) Template-Based Website Designs

Searching for an affordable website option? Your St. John's 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.

Don't worry though, you'll be able to select your desired template for us to 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 St. John's 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. In addition, these mockups can undergo modifications until you're pleased with the design concept, enabling you to advance with certainty.

After you approve the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a completely custom template. A custom theme offers numerous advantages, such as a streamlined codebase that typically results in improved website speed and usability, since it was created exclusively for your St. John's organization.

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 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.

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

Here are some examples of website requests that St. John's web maintenance companies might help with:

• Updating your site platform.
• Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshening your blog with new content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your St. John's website.
• Improve your website performance to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Making backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing website audit glitches or Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website concerns.
• Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your St. John's, NL Website

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

1. To build a website or online store for a new business in St. John's.
2. To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
3. To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
4. To increase site performance for a passing score in 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 online sales from their ecommerce website.

Let us help plan your St. John's website design project!

Picking a Platform for Your St. John's, NL Website

Your St. John's website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. Our website designers and ecommerce website 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 Newfoundland and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in St. John's, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website design. While there are dozens of content management systems to consider, we've found WordPress to be the most scalable platform 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.
• WordPress has a large following among expert web design companies and freelance web developers, helping ensure you can find a local St. John's web designer to help you.

2.) WooCommerce

Our WooCommerce website development team has experience helping startups and existing ecommerce businesses in St. John's build amazing stores with WooCommerce.

Here's why our ecommerce website designers 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 St. John's business website runs on WordPress, we typically recommend WooCommerce. 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 St. John's who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. There are no monthly fees 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 hosted ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce site in St. John's, you'll probably need a Shopify website developer.

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

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

• St. John's merchants looking for a hosted ecommerce platform should check out Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in St. John's without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
• When St. John's web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, we often recommend Shopify. 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 St. John's 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. John's, NL Web Developer

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

• Does the website developer outsource the work? Because we've got our own team of expert website designers and ecommerce web designers, we don't outsource.
• Will the web designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search rankings? We always create 301 redirects because we understand how important they are for St. John's SEO.
• 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 St. John's 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 theme-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
• What platform does your St. John's website designer use? Because of its ease of use, popularity, and scalability, we prefer WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How fast can your St. John's website development team turn things around? Most of our custom web 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 design firm have experience with creative solutions? As a comprehensive web development agency, 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. John's, NL Website

A successful template or custom website development project for your St. John's business is just getting started! Let's look at some additional services to help your St. John's 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. John's website or blog.
• SEO Game Plans: Want to improve organic traffic in or around St. John's? We have our own team of SEO specialists to help with on-page, off-page, and technical search engine optimization.
• 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: Want help making changes to your template pr custom St. John's website after it launches? We can help you install updates or make tweaks to your site.
• ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your St. John's, NL website needs to be accessible? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility errors on your website.
• Logo Creation: Are you starting a new business in St. John's, NL, but haven't settled on 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. John's, NL 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. John's web 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 skilled 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 provide free website development tools, such as color scheme pickers and password generators.
• Our website marketing team is highly experienced in St. John's local SEO campaigns to help you rank higher in search results.
• Our website designers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any St. John's ecommerce website development project you need completed.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We have a website team to help with St. John's web maintenance when you need website updates.
• To broaden your website marketing service, we can include our St. John's PPC management and St. John's social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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