Our Charlottetown Website Services
We are a complete web design company with a large staff of internal web developers and ecommerce developers. Our website design firm is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom web design services.
1.) Template-Based Web Designs
Looking for an affordable website? Your Charlottetown business 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.
Don't worry though, you'll be able to select your desired theme for us to 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 development is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce web developments, the cost and turnaround will be higher.
2.) Custom Web Developments
As a custom web design company, we love to begin every Charlottetown web development 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 web designers start building the site. In addition, these mockups can undergo edits 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. Opting for a custom theme can provide several benefits, including a simplified codebase that usually delivers enhanced page speed and usability, as it was tailored specifically for your Charlottetown small business.
The starting price for a custom web design is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. 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.
We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Charlottetown organization access to a web developer or ecommerce web developer who can solve nearly any site problem you have.
Here are a few examples of website requests that might require service from Charlottetown web maintenance firms, including:
- Updating your website platform.
- Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
- Adding new web pages as you release new information.
- Freshening your blog with new content.
- Rearranging the navigation menu of your Charlottetown website.
- Improve your site speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- Making backups of your website's files and databases.
- Making your website look and feel better.
- Fixing website scan glitches or Google Search Console coverage errors.
- Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
- Providing solutions to other website problems.
- Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.
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Set Goals for Your Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Website
To choose the best template or custom website design firm for your Charlottetown business, you need to know what your goals are. Here are some of the most common web design and ecommerce web development goals we've seen for Charlottetown websites:
- To build a site or online store for a new business in Charlottetown.
- To redesign an existing website or storefront with a fresh, professional look and feel.
- To improve UX, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
- To increase website speed for a passing score in 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 improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.
Let's figure out what you want from your Charlottetown web design project!
Picking a Platform for Your Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Website
A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Charlottetown site. 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
WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Charlottetown and the greater Prince Edward Island area.
Our website design firm chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Charlottetown, but also because it is simply the best overall. While there are dozens of content management systems to consider, we've found WordPress to be the most scalable platform 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 is popular among professional website design firms and freelance website designers, making it possible to find a local Charlottetown web designer to work with you.
2.) WooCommerce
If you run an ecommerce website with WordPress, you'll probably need a WooCommerce web developer in Charlottetown.We help Charlottetown startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.
These are some of the reasons our ecommerce website developers like 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.
- We often recommend WooCommerce for Charlottetown businesses with an existing WordPress website. 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?
- Most small businesses in Charlottetown who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. 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 Charlottetown, you'll probably need a Shopify web developer.
We can design a website for your online business in or around Prince Edward Island that runs on the Shopify platform.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers often recommend Shopify:
- Charlottetown merchants searching for a hosted ecommerce platform should check out Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Charlottetown without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
- For Charlottetown web companies that don't need a lot of custom features, we often recommend Shopify. It's typically more expensive to develop custom functionality in Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, Shopify apps often have monthly fees versus WooCommerce plugins that are more affordable.
- Shopify is a good option for Charlottetown ecommerce businesses that need fast turnaround times for marketing and development. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.
Questions to Ask a Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Website Designer
You should ask your prospective Charlottetown website design or ecommerce development agency several questions before you get started. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom website design or ecommerce web design project:
- Does the web designer outsource the work? We do not outsource custom website design or ecommerce website development projects for Charlottetown businesses. We have our own internal team of skilled website developers.
- Do the web designers plan to create 301 redirects to help with SEO? We always create 301 redirects because we understand how important they are for Charlottetown search engine optimization.
- Does the web developer plan to create a mockup, or provide theme samples, before building the site? We find it is easier to create a design mockup for Charlottetown website projects to help everyone understand the design direction before the site build gets too far along. However, that is only possible if you choose a custom website design service. If you opt for a template-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
- Which CMS platform does your Charlottetown web 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 quick is the turnaround time for your Charlottetown web design service? 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 enjoy a design or functionality challenge! Simply reach out to set up a phone call to discuss your needs!
Other Services for Your Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Website
There's more to a successful template or custom web design project for your Charlottetown small business than you may realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Charlottetown website:
- Writing Content: Don't feel comfortable writing about yourself or your company? Let our content writers help your Charlottetown 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 Charlottetown, or beyond? We have our own team of SEO experts to 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 & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Charlottetown website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our web maintenance plans.
- Website Accessibility: Not sure if your Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island website needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? Our solutions use artificial intelligence to fix accessibility issues on your website.
- Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Charlottetown, but still need a logo? Our graphic designers can come up with good logo ideas for your organization.
- Web Hosting Solutions: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our WordPress hosting is fast and easy thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web designers!
No matter what your business needs for its website, you'll find our comprehensive web development agency to be your solution provider!
Why Choose Us for Your Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Web Services
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We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of site projects. We'll take care of your professional web design quickly and efficiently.
- We do not outsource Charlottetown website design projects. Check out our website development portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
- We have our own in-house team of top web designers.
- Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
- We're specialists in SEO, UX, and page speed.
- We've made free website tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
- Our internet marketing team is experienced in Charlottetown search engine optimization services to help you improve search placements and organic traffic.
- Our website developers are knowledgeable within WooCommerce and Shopify for any Charlottetown ecommerce web development project you need completed.
- You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
- We have a website team to help with Charlottetown web maintenance when you need website updates.
- To broaden your digital advertising service, we can include our Charlottetown PPC management and Charlottetown social media services to help you target a bigger audience.
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