Learning about your industry and showcasing your products and services with an engaging online user experience is one of the ways to ensure your online presence is professional. Helping our clients succeed is our teams number one goal. Our years of experience helps our team shine for you!
We help you make a lasting first impression. Your website is often the first place a potential customer comes into contact with your business.
It is vitally important that you showcase your Grand Rapids business, products and services in the best light.
A Web designer in Grand Rapids who builds websites often deploy websites with technical issues that simply cannot be fixed.
The issues we see most often are compatibility problems with certain web browsers and slow page loading times.
The time and effort it takes to repair the issues on poorly built websites does not make financial sense. It generally is more cost effective to build a new site versus trying to repair an existing one.
It is important that you understand the costs, timelines and the pros and cons of sticking with your current website or building a new one. We present each client with a detailed analysis to help them make the choice that best matches their goals and budget.
We are asked this question from time to time. Only in very rare circumstances would a build it yourself website be recommended. Free website builders are made available and often have free hosting as well. These builders typically make their money by putting ads on your website. Most of the pre-built templates from these sources allow you to change a color or add a photo in addition they are optimized for mobile devices. If, however, you need a larger site or if you want to use your site as the basis of an SEO project you would do better building a site that you have full control of. Determining what elements are on your page and how they are loaded is vitally important. How fast your website loads is quickly becoming one of the more Significant parts of SEO.
Website builders do not allow for you to do this, but a custom built website allows you to control every detail. You should also remember that once you sign-up to a website-builder, you are locked into their monthly payment for as long as you want the site to appear on the internet. In essence you are renting your website and have no way of moving your site to another hosting company. Custom built solutions do not allow you to own your site. You have the freedom to choose your web development company and move to any hosting company you like.
The short answer is longer than you think. It takes time to plan, prepare and execute. Even single landing page for a PPC ad campaign takes time to design and develop properly. Most projects take around 3 months while smaller ones can be completed in is as little as 6 weeks. Planning ahead and having realistic timelines helps. On average larger web development projects easily go into the six month time frame.
It is essential that have at least one meeting with the developer or account executive before starting a web project. The larger the project the more meetings that will be required. This is built into the overall cost of the project. A successful project outcome dictates that should expect one ore more meetings remotely or in person.
You don't want a web designer. They are great at graphical layout but as a general rule they do not have the technical skills required to properly build your website. Multiple team members with different sets of skills are required to design and develop a website properly. We have in-house developers with different strengths. We believe the sum of the parts is greater then the whole. This allows us to design and deliver a robust solution to our clients!
A successful website starts with proper research, planning and execution. You need to have a clear goal for your project. We work with our clients to narrow down the goal of each section of a web site.
With clear goals laid out we move into design and development. In this phase our developers and designers work side by side to ensure each feature on your website is built to work and perform as intended.
We keep the goal front and center. Each section of our clients websites is checked and re-checked. We look at things such as how fast it loads, branding guidelines, proper display on various screen sizes and more.
People often ask when should I start SEO? The SEO process starts before a single line of code is written. Successful search engine optimization starts in the planning phase of a website and is defined by the goals of the project. Every article or page on a website should have a specific purpose. We help our clients with content development and make sure that content flows naturally within your website. The third and most important piece of the puzzle is what we call “Technical SEO”. Our team makes sure the code developed and deployed adheres to best practices such as W3C guidelines and usability guidelines including responsiveness for different screen sizes.
The website design process is the defining factor in your online presence. The most basic of web design principles can have large scale effects on your overall success. Your project should only be entrusted to a team that has multiple skill sets including design and development.
WordPress content management system is a popular solution for a lot of businesses, but there are other routes that can be more effective depending on your objectives. We discover a lot of times that our customers really need a custom database driven application. We work with Laravel, JavaScript and many other popular frameworks to help meet our clients needs. Working hand in hand with our clients is important. It helps us identify the specific needs of each individual project. Because we are truly experts in our field it allows us to present the best solution based on the needs of our clients.
All websites should receive some form of on-going updates and support. We would love to be your partner going forward and provide the on-going support required to maintain your online presence.
Latest web standards are vitally important. Every project we launch is developed to the latest coding techniques and best practices.
Your website should have a purpose. Engaging and dynamic are just two pieces of the puzzle required for a successful online marketing campaign. Driving people to your website is great, but you need to have a presence that is designed to convert qualified traffic.
We have an in house team that is dedicated to marketing your project once it goes live. We utilize a combination of social media campaigns, pay-per-click and organic ranking methods. We help your project succeed by focused and detailed planning and amazing customer services. Give us a try!
Our Service is Second To None. Through attention to detail and outstanding customer service we will help your project succeed!
