Our Barrie 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 team is broken into two groups, each specializing in either template or custom website development services.
1.) Template-Based Web Designs
Looking for an affordable website? Your Barrie organization might be interested in a template website!
Instead of creating design mockups and developing your website in a custom theme, we can hand-pick several website templates to share with you that closely match your desired look and feel.
Rest assured, you'll have the opportunity to select the theme you prefer, which we will then install on your development site.
Next, we will modify the template to use your color scheme and then add in your web pages.
The starting price for a templated website design is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce web designs, the price and turnaround will be higher.
2.) Custom Website Designs
As a custom web development agency, we love to begin every Barrie website 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 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 Barrie 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.
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 web designer on our team who can fix nearly any website issue.
Here are a few examples of website requests that might require service from Barrie web support agencies, including:
- Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
- Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
- Adding new web pages as you release new information.
- Freshening your blog with new content.
- Rearranging your Barrie site's navigation menu.
- Improve your site performance to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- Making backups of your website's files and databases.
- Changing the look and feel of your website.
- Fixing Google Search Console coverage concerns.
- Improving technical SEO by adding 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 Barrie, Ontario Website
Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom website design firm for your Barrie business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. The following are the most common goals we see for Barrie website design and ecommerce development projects:
- To create a website or online store for a new business in Barrie.
- To revamp an existing website or storefront with a modern, professional look and feel.
- To improve user experience, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
- To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
- To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for site accessibility.
- To improve lead generation through design improvements.
- To get more sales from their ecommerce store.
Let's figure out what you want from your Barrie web design project!
In addition to designing Barrie-area websites, our company also provides website development services to those in Toronto, Gatineau, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Oshawa, Windsor, St. Catharines, Barrie, Guelph, Kingston, Milton, Brantford, Thunder Bay, and Ottawa.
Picking a Platform for Your Barrie, Ontario Website
The foundation of your Barrie website is the content management system you choose for the design project. Even though our top web developers and ecommerce 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 site platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Barrie and the greater Ontario area.
Our web design company chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Barrie, but also because it is simply the best overall. The following reasons make WordPress the most scalable platform for designing websites, despite the fact there are alternatives for your project.
- 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.
- With WordPress, you should easily be able to find a local Barrie web designer to help you with your project.
2.) WooCommerce
If you want an ecommerce website using WordPress, you'll likely need a WooCommerce web designer in Barrie.Our WooCommerce web development team has experience helping startups and existing ecommerce businesses in Barrie build amazing stores with WooCommerce.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web developers tend to recommend WooCommerce:
- We often recommend WooCommerce for Barrie web development projects that require a custom designed template 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 Barrie small 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 Barrie organizations who prefer open-source software. There are no monthly fees 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 hosted ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website in Barrie, you'll probably need a Shopify website designer.
Our Shopify developers have experience designing websites for online companies in and around Ontario.
Our ecommerce website developers love Shopify for these reasons:
- We often recommend Shopify for Barrie merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Barrie without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
- We often recommend Shopify for Barrie web companies without a lot of custom functionality requirements. 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.
- We often recommend Shopify for Barrie 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 Barrie, Ontario Web Designer
There are several important questions to ask your prospective Barrie 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 project? We do not outsource custom web development or ecommerce web design projects for Barrie small businesses. We have our own internal team of proficient web designers.
- Do the website designers plan to create 301 redirects to help with SEO? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Barrie website refresh project.
- Does the web designer plan to create a mockup, or provide template samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Barrie site 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 development service. If you opt for a theme-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
- What CMS platforms is your Barrie website designer experienced in? Due to its ease of use, popularity, and scalability, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How fast can your Barrie web development team turn things around? It takes us about 2-3 months to complete custom website design projects, and 3-4 weeks to complete 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 Barrie, Ontario Website
There is more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Barrie, Ontario company than you might realize. Here are some additional services to help make the most of your Barrie website:
- Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Barrie business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
- Search Engine Optimization: Interested in improving organic traffic within Barrie, or beyond? With our own team of SEO experts, we can help with on-page, off-page, and technical SEO.
- 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: After your template or custom Barrie website goes live, do you want to make tweaks? If you need help updating your website, ask about our web maintenance services.
- ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Barrie, Ontario website needs to be accessible? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your site and fixes accessibility glitches.
- Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Barrie, Ontario, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your company.
- Web Hosting: Need somewhere to host your website after it launches? Our server administration and website design team work together to ensure fast WordPress hosting services!
Whatever your business needs from its website, our complete web design company has your solution!
Why Choose Us for Your Barrie, Ontario Web Services
Because we love Barrie as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Barrie, like visit popular destinations of Bear Creek Golf Club, Base Borden Military Museum, Barnstormer Brewing + Distilling Co., and others. For more fun ideas around Barrie, check out this website!
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 experts, who are only 1019.7 kilometers away, to handle your professional website development quickly and efficiently.
- We do not outsource Barrie 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 top 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 have free web design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
- Our online marketing team is experienced in Barrie search engine optimization services to help you improve search placements and organic traffic.
- Our design team is very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify for any Barrie ecommerce website developments you might be considering.
- We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
- We help with routine Barrie web maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
- To really expand upon your digital advertising, we can offer Barrie PPC management and Barrie social media management to help you target potential customers outside of organic search results.