Toronto, ON Web Design Services

Our Toronto Web Services

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

1.) Template-Based Website Developments

Looking for an affordable website? Your Toronto small 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 site 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.

From there, we'll customize the theme to match your color scheme and then set up your web pages.

The starting cost for a templated web design is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce website developments, the price and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Web Designs

As a custom website design firm, we like to start every Toronto 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 website developers start building the site. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.

After you approve the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a completely custom template. There are many benefits to a custom theme, including a simplified codebase that often has better page speed and usability since it was developed specifically for your Toronto small business.

The starting price for a custom web design is $9,500, and it can be completed in as little as a few months. For custom ecommerce website designs, 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 support services.

We think of website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Toronto organization access to a web developer or ecommerce web developer who can fix just about any problem.

Here are a few examples of site requests that might require service from Toronto website support companies, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Toronto website.
• Improving website speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Troubleshooting 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 Toronto, ON Website

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

1. To create a site or online store for a new business in Toronto.
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 fix website accessibility concerns, or perhaps receive a web accessibility certificate.
6. To improve lead generation through design improvements.
7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

Let us help plan your Toronto web development project!

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

Picking a Platform for Your Toronto, ON Website

The foundation of your Toronto website is the content management system you choose for the design project. While our top web designers and ecommerce 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

WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Toronto and the greater Ontario area.

WordPress is the most popular CMS in Toronto, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized web development. The following reasons make WordPress the most scalable platform for designing websites, despite the fact there are alternatives for your project.

• WordPress has thousands of third-party plugins available that can provide additional functionality for your website.
• There's a huge community of WordPress contributors helping to make the platform more stable, secure, and scalable.
• WordPress is popular among professional website design firms and freelance website designers, making it possible to find a local Toronto web designer to work with you.

2.) WooCommerce

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

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

• We often recommend WooCommerce for Toronto website design projects that require a custom designed theme with complex functionality, but are working on a limited budget. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
• If your Toronto business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. If you are happy with the look and feel of your content-based website, why invest the time and money into redesigning that website just to add ecommerce?
• Most businesses in Toronto 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.
• We also recommend WooCommerce for those in an industry not accepted by Shopify.

3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular web-based ecommerce platform. To run an ecommerce website using Shopify you will likely be searching for a Shopify web designer in Toronto.

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

Here are some reasons our ecommerce website developers like Shopify:

• For Toronto merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Toronto without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
• When Toronto 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.
• We often recommend Shopify for Toronto ecommerce businesses that rely heavily on fast delivery times for development and marketing initiatives. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

Questions to Ask a Toronto, ON Web Designer

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

• Does the website designer outsource the project? We do not outsource custom web development or ecommerce web design projects for Toronto small businesses. We have our own internal team of proficient web designers.
• 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 Toronto web redesign project.
• Does the website designer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the website? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Toronto 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.
• Which CMS platform does your Toronto web developer plan to use on your website project? Because of its scalability, ease of use, and popularity, we prefer WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
• How quick is the delivery time for your Toronto website development service? We typically finish custom website design projects in 2-3 months, and template website projects in 3-4 weeks. Ecommerce website projects typically take longer to finish.
• Does the web development agency have experience with innovative solutions? As a complete web design company, we love a challenge! Let us know what you have for unique needs and we will be happy to assist!

Other Services for Your Toronto, ON Website

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

• Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Toronto organization write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
• SEO Game Plans: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Toronto? With our own team of SEO specialists, we can help with on-page, off-page, and technical search engine optimization.
• Conversion Rate Optimization: Looking to boost the conversion rates for your lead forms? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
• Web Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Toronto website after it launches? We can help you install updates or make changes to your website.
• Website Accessibility: Not sure if your Toronto, ON site needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility errors.
• Logo Creation: Are you starting a new business in Toronto, ON, but haven't settled on 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!

Our comprehensive web development agency is the perfect solution for your small business!

Why Choose Us for Your Toronto, ON Web Services

Because we love Toronto as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Toronto, like visit popular destinations of Gardiner Museum, Mill Street Brew Pub, High Park, and others. For more fun ideas around Toronto, check out this website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing great, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our specialists, who are only 956.4 kilometers away, to handle your professional web development quickly and efficiently.

• We do not outsource Toronto web design projects. Check out our website design portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
• We have our own in-house team of skilled web developers.
• We have experience in multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
• We're specialists in SEO, UX, and site performance.
• We've made free website tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
• Our website advertising team is highly experienced in Toronto nearby SEO plans to help you rank higher in search results.
• We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is great if you are looking for a talented Toronto ecommerce website designer.
• We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
• We help with routine Toronto website maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
• To broaden your website advertising service, we can include our Toronto paid ads management and Toronto social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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