Our Surrey Web Services
We are a one-stop website design firm with a large group of onsite web designers and ecommerce web developers. Our web development team is separated into two groups, each focusing on either template or custom web design services.
1.) Template-Based Web Designs
Looking for an affordable website? Your Surrey 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 website or online store.
But don't worry - you'll have the option to choose your most liked 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 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.
2.) Custom Web Designs
As a custom website design firm, we prefer to start every Surrey 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. In addition, these mockups can undergo changes until you're pleased with the design concept, enabling you to advance with certainty.
After you approve the design mockup, our website development team will integrate it into a completely custom theme. 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 Surrey organization.
The starting cost for a custom website design is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce developments, the price and turnaround will be higher.
3.) Website Maintenance
After the launch of your website, or if you have one, you might be interested in website support services.
Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with a web developer or ecommerce developer on our team who can fix nearly any website issue.
Here are a few examples of site requests that might require service from Surrey website support companies, including:
- Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
- Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
- Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
- Freshening your blog with new content.
- Rearranging the navigation menu of your Surrey website.
- Improve your website speed to 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 problems or Google Search Console coverage concerns.
- Improving technical search engine optimization by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
- Providing solutions to other website issues.
- Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.
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Set Goals for Your Surrey, British Columbia Website
It's important to understand what your goals are before picking a template or custom web design company for your Surrey organization. The most common goals we've seen for Surrey web design and ecommerce web development projects include:
- To create a site or online store for a new business in Surrey.
- To redesign an existing website or storefront with a fresh, professional look and feel.
- To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
- To pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for website accessibility.
- To improve lead generation through design improvements.
- To get more online sales from their ecommerce website.
Let us help you figure out the goals of your Surrey website design project to ensure everyone is happy with the finished website!
In addition to designing Surrey-area websites, our firm also provides web design services to those in Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Abbotsford, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Chilliwack.
Picking a Platform for Your Surrey, British Columbia Website
Your Surrey site is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. While our top website designers and ecommerce website designers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we prefer to only provide website development 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 Surrey and the greater British Columbia area.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in Surrey, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website design. 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.
- WordPress has a large following among expert web design companies and freelance web developers, helping ensure you can find a local Surrey website designer to help you.
2.) WooCommerce
If you run an ecommerce website with WordPress, you'll probably need a WooCommerce website designer in Surrey.Our WooCommerce web development team has experience helping startups and existing ecommerce businesses in Surrey build amazing stores with WooCommerce.
Here's why our ecommerce website developers 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 Surrey business 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 redesigning that website just to add ecommerce?
- We often recommend WooCommerce for Surrey small businesses who prefer open-source software. There are no monthly fees to use 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 Surrey, you'll probably need a Shopify web developer.
Our Shopify website development team has experience designing websites for online stores around British Columbia within the Shopify platform.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers often recommend Shopify:
- We often recommend Shopify for Surrey merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Surrey without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
- For Surrey 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, Shopify apps often have monthly fees that really add up, in comparison to the less expensive WordPress plugin options.
- We often recommend Shopify for Surrey ecommerce businesses that rely heavily on fast turnaround 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 Surrey, British Columbia Website Designer
You should ask a few questions of your prospective Surrey web development or ecommerce web design company before starting a project. Let's go over some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom website development or ecommerce web development project:
- Does the website designer outsource the project? We do not outsource custom web development or ecommerce development projects for Surrey small businesses. We have our own internal team of premium website designers.
- Will the web designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search rankings? For any Surrey web design project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
- 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 Surrey website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the website build gets too far along. However, that is only viable if you choose a custom web design service. If you opt for a theme-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
- What platform does your Surrey website developer use? We prefer WordPress because of its popularity, scalability, and ease of use. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How quick is the turnaround time for your Surrey website design service? Most of our custom web development 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 web design company have experience with original solutions? As a full-service website design firm, 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 Surrey, British Columbia Website
A successful template or custom website design project for your Surrey organization is just getting started! Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Surrey website:
- Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Surrey business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
- SEO Strategies: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Surrey? To help with technical, on-page, and off-page SEO, we have our own team of search engine optimization consultants.
- 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.
- Website Maintenance: Want help making updates to your template pr custom Surrey website after it launches? Ask about our website maintenance services to receive help installing updates or making website changes.
- Website Accessibility: Not sure if your Surrey, British Columbia website needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility problems on your website.
- Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Surrey, British Columbia, but haven't settled on a logo? Let our graphic designers come up with logo concepts for your business.
- Web Hosting Strategies: 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 Surrey, British Columbia Web Services
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We have more than 19 years of experience designing beautiful, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our experts, who are only 3311 kilometers away, to handle your professional website development quickly and efficiently.
- We do not outsource Surrey 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.
- Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
- We're experts in search engine optimization, UX, and site speed.
- We provide free web design tools, such as color scheme pickers and password generators.
- Our online marketing professionals are very familiar with Surrey SEO services to help you rank higher in Google.
- Our website designers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Surrey ecommerce web design 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 Surrey website maintenance when you need site updates.
- To broaden your internet advertising service, we can include our Surrey PPC management and Surrey social media services to help you target a bigger audience.
Hear what our customers are saying
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