Our Baton Rouge Web Services
We are a full-service website design firm with a large team of in-house web designers and ecommerce website developers. Our web development team is broken into two groups, each specializing in either template or custom web design services.
1.) Template-Based Website Designs
Looking for an affordable site? Your Baton Rouge business 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.
Rest assured, you'll have the opportunity to select the theme you prefer, which we will then install on your development site.
We will then tailor the theme to align with your color scheme and load in your web content.
The starting cost for a template-based web development is $3,750, and it can be completed in as little as a few weeks. For template-based ecommerce web designs, the price and turnaround will be higher.
2.) Custom Website Developments
As a custom web design company, we like to start every Baton Rouge web development 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 tweaks until you're pleased with the design concept, enabling you to advance with certainty.
Following your approval of the design mockup, our web development team will integrate it into a custom template. A custom theme offers numerous advantages, such as a streamlined codebase that typically results in improved site performance and usability, since it was created exclusively for your Baton Rouge business.
The starting cost for a custom web development is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce 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 support services.
Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with a website developer or ecommerce website designer on our team who can fix nearly any website issue.
Here are some examples of website requests that Baton Rouge website support firms might help with:
- Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
- Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
- Adding new web pages as you release new information.
- Staying fresh with new blog content.
- Rearranging the navigation menu of your Baton Rouge website.
- Improving site speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- Backing up your website's files and databases.
- Changing the look and feel of your website.
- Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage errors.
- Enhancing technical search engine optimization with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
- Providing a solution to any other website problem.
- Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.
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Set Goals for Your Baton Rouge, LA Website
Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom website design firm for your Baton Rouge business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. The following are the most common goals we see for Baton Rouge website design and ecommerce website development projects:
- To create a website or online store for a new Baton Rouge small business.
- To refresh an existing website or storefront with a cutting edge, professional look and feel.
- To improve user experience (UX), reduce bounces, increase time on site, and/or improve conversions.
- To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
- To improve website accessibility for the general public looking at the website.
- To improve lead generation from the website.
- To get more online sales from their ecommerce website.
Let us help plan your Baton Rouge website design project!
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Picking a Platform for Your Baton Rouge, LA Website
The foundation of your Baton Rouge website is the content management system you choose for the design project. Even though our top web designers and ecommerce website developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we only use WordPress for new content-based website projects. For ecommerce websites we use Shopify or WooCommerce.
1.) WordPress
WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Baton Rouge and the greater Louisiana area.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in Baton Rouge, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized website design. The following reasons make WordPress the most scalable platform for designing websites, despite the fact there are alternatives for your project.
- You can add functionality to your site through third-party WordPress plugins. Not everything has to be built from scratch!
- WordPress has a large community of contributors helping to improve the platform's functionality, stability, and security.
- WordPress has a large following among expert web design companies and freelance website developers, helping ensure you can find a local Baton Rouge web designer to help you.
2.) WooCommerce
If you run an ecommerce website with WordPress, you'll probably need a WooCommerce web designer in Baton Rouge.We help Baton Rouge startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.
Here's why our ecommerce developers 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 Baton Rouge organization 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.
- We often recommend WooCommerce for Baton Rouge businesses who prefer open-source software. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. As an alternative, Shopify has monthly fees and their apps are often more expensive than WooCommerce or WordPress plugins.
- WooCommerce is good if you're in an industry that's not accepted by Shopify.
3.) Shopify
Shopify is the most popular web-based ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify web designer in Baton Rouge.
Our Shopify developers have experience designing websites for online companies in and around Louisiana.
Here are some reasons our ecommerce web developers like Shopify:
- For Baton Rouge merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you don't have to worry about hosting configuration or platform updates.
- When Baton Rouge 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.
- The best ecommerce platform for Baton Rouge organizations 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 Baton Rouge, LA Web Designer
There are several important questions to ask your prospective Baton Rouge website development or ecommerce web development company before proceeding with your project. Here are 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 site project? We do not outsource custom web design or ecommerce website design projects for Baton Rouge companies. We have our own internal team of USA 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 Baton Rouge web redesign project.
- Will the website designer make a mockup, or provide theme samples, before starting the site? We create design mockups for Baton Rouge companies that choose a custom website design service, and provide template samples for customers that choose a theme-based website design service.
- What platform does your Baton Rouge web developer use? Because of its popularity, scalability, and ease of use, we prefer WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How fast can your Baton Rouge web design team turn things around? Most of our custom website 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 development agency provide innovative solutions? As a complete web design company, 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 Baton Rouge, LA Website
There is more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Baton Rouge, LA small business than you might realize. Here are some additional services to help make the most of your Baton Rouge website:
- Page Content Writing: Do you have trouble expressing yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Baton Rouge company write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
- SEO Tactics: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Baton Rouge? With our own team of SEO experts, we can help with on-page, off-page, and technical SEO.
- Conversion Optimization: Want to make your lead forms convert more often? Allow our custom website developers and digital marketers to team up and create an improved, higher converting landing pages for your organic and paid advertising traffic.
- Web Maintenance: Want help making changes to your template pr custom Baton Rouge website after it launches? We can help you install updates or make tweaks to your site.
- ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Baton Rouge, LA website needs to be accessible? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility errors on your website.
- Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Baton Rouge, but still need a logo? Let our graphic designers come up with logo concepts for your company.
- Web Hosting Services: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our server administration and web development team work together to ensure fast WordPress hosting services!
Whatever your business needs from its website, our full-service website design firm has your solution!
Why Choose Us for Your Baton Rouge, LA Web Services
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We've been designing high-converting websites for 19 years. We help small businesses and even large corporations with their website projects. You can trust our professionals to handle your professional web design.
- We do not outsource Baton Rouge website design projects. Check out our web development portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
- We have our own in-house team of skilled web designers.
- We've worked with multiple CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Tailwind.
- We are highly experienced in search engine optimization, UX, and page performance.
- We provide free website design tools, such as color scheme pickers and password generators.
- Our online advertising team is highly experienced in Baton Rouge local search engine optimization services to help you rank higher in search results.
- Our web designers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Baton Rouge ecommerce web development project you need completed.
- You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
- We have a site team to help with Baton Rouge website maintenance when you need website updates.
- To really expand upon your online advertising, we can offer Baton Rouge PPC ads management and Baton Rouge social media management to help you target potential customers outside of organic search results.
Hear what our customers are saying
Tara Candland
Incredibly responsive, fast, and professional. They quickly understood the issue we were having with our site, which was fairly complicated, and were able to resolve it. They kept us updated in lay terms along the way so that we could understand how the issue was progressing.
Dawn White
These guys are always there when you need them! Whether the issue is big or small, there is little they cannot handle. I cannot express enough how greatly we appreciate their continued superior service and willingness to assist whenever we need them. Thanks Dave, Corey and the entire WebCitz team!!
Southwest Radio Church
What can I say about this company? These people that work there? Unbelievable!! It doesn\'t matter when or why you call, they will help you. The other part of that statement is: I never have to call them! They made a web site for us that works 24/7. But if I do call they actually take care of it right then. … great bunch of guys…Southwest Radio Church really appreciates you!!
Cassie Richards
Working with WebCitz has been nothing but a great experience. David, Jake, Drew, and the rest of the team are easy to work with, accommodating, and very knowledgeable. WebCitz is a company that you can trust will be there when you need them most. If I’m having an issue or problem with a website, I can always count on a quick response and a timely solution.
George Ormond
Corey was extremely helpful and spent a considerable amount of time going over my difficulties with a newly created website put together by someone else. I was under a very stressful deadline and he was extremely considerate and helpful. He managed to fix the problems that I was experiencing with my website. I had reached out to a number of website developers for help but only heard back from WebCitz and Corey got back to me within minutes!
Kendrick Jacobs
Corey G at WebCitz was so professional and patient while helping us solve our issues. We appreciate his help so much. This company definitely needs more people like him. Amazing customer service! Thank you Corey G! (:
