Our New Haven Website Services
We are a complete web design company with a large team of in-house web developers and ecommerce web designers. Our website design firm is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom web design services.
1.) Template-Based Website Designs
Searching for an affordable website option? Your New Haven business might be interested in a template website!
Instead of creating design mockups and developing your site in a custom template, we can hand-pick several website templates to share with you that closely match your desired look and feel.
But don't worry - you'll have the option to choose your most liked theme for us to install on your development site.
We will then tailor the template to align with your color scheme and load in your web content.
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.
2.) Custom Website Designs
As a custom website design firm, we love to begin every New Haven web 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 website development work. These mockups can be altered to your satisfaction, allowing you to finalize the design concept and proceed with confidence.
After you approve the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a completely custom theme. There are many benefits to a custom template, including a simplified codebase that often has better site speed and usability since it was developed specifically for your New Haven business.
The starting price for a custom website development is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce web developments, the cost and turnaround will be higher.
3.) Website Maintenance
After the launch of your website, or if you have one, you might be interested in web maintenance services.
We think of web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your New Haven small business access to a web developer or ecommerce web designer who can fix just about any problem.
Here are a few examples of website requests that might require service from New Haven website maintenance agencies, including:
- Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
- Updating apps, themes, and plugins.
- Adding new web pages as you release new information.
- Freshening your blog with new content.
- Rearranging your New Haven site's navigation menu.
- Making your pages faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- Backing up your website's files and databases.
- Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
- Fixing website scan issues or Google Search Console coverage problems.
- Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
- Providing solutions to other website errors.
- Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.
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Set Goals for Your New Haven, CT Website
Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom website development agency for your New Haven business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. Here are some of the most common web development and ecommerce development goals we've seen for New Haven websites:
- To create a website or online store for a new New Haven organization.
- To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
- To improve UX, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
- To pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- To improve website accessibility for the general public looking at the website.
- To improve lead generation through design improvements.
- To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.
Let's figure out what you want from your New Haven website design project!
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Picking a Platform for Your New Haven, CT Website
The foundation of your New Haven site is the content management system you choose for the design project. Our website designers and ecommerce website designers are well-versed in multiple platforms, but we provide our best website development services in WordPress. We also develop ecommerce sites in Shopify and WooCommerce.
1.) WordPress
More than 40% of websites in Connecticut and the rest of the country are powered by WordPress.
Our web design company chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in New Haven, but also because it is simply the best overall. 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 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 is popular among professional web design companies and freelance web developers, making it possible to find a local New Haven website designer to work with you.
2.) WooCommerce
If you want an ecommerce website using WordPress, you'll likely need a WooCommerce website designer in New Haven.Our WooCommerce web development team has experience helping startups and existing ecommerce businesses in New Haven build amazing stores with WooCommerce.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce website developers tend to recommend 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 New Haven 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 rebuilding that site just to add ecommerce?
- WooCommerce is a good open-source option for New Haven small businesses. You don't have to pay a monthly fee 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 SaaS ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify web developer in New Haven.
Our Shopify website development team has experience designing websites for online stores around Connecticut within the Shopify platform.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers often recommend Shopify:
- For New Haven merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in New Haven without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
- When New Haven web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, we often recommend Shopify. It is often more expensive to develop custom functionality within Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, you'll find getting Shopify apps often require monthly subscriptions versus one-time purchases for WordPress plugins.
- Shopify is a great option for New Haven ecommerce businesses that need fast delivery times for marketing and development. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.
Questions to Ask a New Haven, CT Web Developer
There are several important questions to ask your prospective New Haven web design or ecommerce website design firm before proceeding with your project. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom web design or ecommerce website development project:
- Does the web developer outsource the website project? Because we've got our own team of USA website designers and ecommerce website developers, we don't outsource.
- Do the website designers plan to create 301 redirects to help with SEO? For any New Haven website design project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
- Will the website developer make a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for New Haven website 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 design service. If you opt for a theme-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
- Which CMS platform does your New Haven website designer plan to use on your website project? Due to its ease of use, popularity, and scalability, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How fast can your New Haven web development team turn things around? It takes us about 2-3 months to finish custom website design projects, and 3-4 weeks to finish template websites. Ecommerce developments often take longer.
- Does the web design company have experience with original solutions? As a full-service website design firm, we love a challenge! Let us know what you have for unique needs and we will be happy to assist!
Other Services for Your New Haven, CT Website
There is more to a successful template or custom website design project for your New Haven, CT organization than you might realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your New Haven website:
- Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? Let us write content about your products or services for your New Haven website or blog.
- Search Engine Optimization: Interested in improving organic traffic within New Haven, or beyond? To help with technical, on-page, and off-page SEO, we have our own team of search engine optimization consultants.
- Conversion Optimization: Want to make your lead forms convert more often? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
- Website Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom New Haven website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our web maintenance packages.
- ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your New Haven, CT website needs to be accessible? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility glitches.
- Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in New Haven, CT, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your small business.
- Web Hosting Services: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our WordPress hosting is fast and basic thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and website developers!
Our full-service website design firm is the perfect solution for your business!
Why Choose Us for Your New Haven, CT Web Services
Because we love New Haven as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in New Haven, like visit popular destinations of Armada Brewing, Shore Line Trolley Museum, East Rock Park, and others. For more fun ideas around New Haven, check out this website!
We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of site projects. You can trust our specialists to handle your professional website design.
- You won't find us outsourcing New Haven website 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 top website designers.
- We've worked with multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
- We're experts in SEO, UX, and website speed.
- We've made free site tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
- Our internet advertising team is experienced in New Haven SEO services to help you improve search rankings and organic traffic.
- Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any New Haven ecommerce web developments you might be considering.
- We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
- We have a website team to help with New Haven web maintenance when you need website updates.
- To broaden your digital advertising service, we can include our New Haven PPC management and New Haven social media services to help you target a bigger audience.
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