Portland Web Design

Custom Portland Websites

We develop amazing websites and ecommerce stores. After launch, we'll help you maintain your Portland website for years to come!

400+ Web Development Projects
400+
Web Development Projects
19 Years of Experience
2004
Founded 19+ Years Ago
120+ Web Design Case Studies
120+
Web Design Case Studies
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Portland, OR Web Development Experts

With more than 19 years of experience, you can trust we have professional web developers on our team! In this time, we've offered Portland businesses modern website development services to help them build new websites from scratch and redesign their existing websites.

With a population of 650,380 in Portland, you'll want to ensure a highly functional and useful website for your business to help stay ahead of the competition.

In addition to UX web development, our award-winning team offers web services like digital marketing, website hosting, and web maintenance with you.

Throughout the entire process, you'll be excited you chose our expert website design services for your Oregon website development service!

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Our Portland 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

Searching for an affordable website option? Your Portland 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.

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 template web design is around $3,750, and it can be finished in as little as a few weeks. For template ecommerce website developments, the price and turnaround will be higher.

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2.) Custom Web Designs

As a custom website design firm, we love to begin every Portland web design service from scratch.

Our team can create tailor-made mockups that adhere to your brand's unique specifications, providing a preview of your website's aesthetics before our web designers begin their work. These mockups can be altered to your satisfaction, allowing you to finalize the design concept and proceed with confidence.

Following your approval of the design mockup, our website development team will integrate it into a 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 Portland business.

The starting cost for a custom web development is $9,500, and it can be completed in as little as a few months. For custom ecommerce web designs, the price and turnaround will be higher.

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3.) Website Maintenance

After the launch of your website, or if you have one, you might be interested in website maintenance services.

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Portland small business access to a web developer or ecommerce developer who can solve nearly any website problem you have.

Here are a few examples of site requests that might need Portland website support services:

  • Updating your website platform.
  • Updating apps, themes, and plugins.
  • Adding new web pages as you release new information.
  • Freshening your blog with new content.
  • Rearranging your Portland website's navigation menu.
  • Improve your site performance 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 audit glitches or Google Search Console coverage issues.
  • Enhancing technical search engine optimization with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
  • Investigating and solving any other site issue.
  • Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Portland, OR Website

It's important to understand what your goals are before picking a template or custom web design company for your Portland company. The most common goals we've seen for Portland web design and ecommerce website development projects include:

  1. To create a website or online store for a new business in Portland.
  2. To give an old website or storefront a fresh look and feel to improve branding and functionality.
  3. To improve user experience, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
  4. To pass Google Core Web Vitals.
  5. To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for site accessibility.
  6. To make the website a lead generation machine.
  7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

Let's figure out what you want from your Portland website design project!

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Picking a Platform for Your Portland, OR Website

Your Portland website is likely powered by a content management system, or CMS. While our top web designers and ecommerce web developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we prefer to only provide web development services in WordPress, and ecommerce development services in Shopify or WooCommerce.

1.) WordPress

More than 40% of websites in Oregon 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 Portland, 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 new functionality to your website through third-party WordPress plugins. Not everything has to be built from scratch!
  • WordPress has a huge community of contributors that work together to improve its security, stability, and functionality.
  • WordPress is popular among professional web design companies and freelance web developers, making it possible to find a local Portland web designer to work with you.

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2.) WooCommerce

If you want an ecommerce website using WordPress, you'll likely need a WooCommerce web developer in Portland.

We help Portland startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers tend to recommend WooCommerce:

  • We often recommend WooCommerce for Portland website design 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.
  • We often recommend WooCommerce for Portland businesses with an existing WordPress website. When you like the look and feel of your content-based website, why spend time and money redesigning it just to add ecommerce?
  • Most businesses in Portland who prefer open-source software use WooCommerce. 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.

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3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular hosted ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website in Portland, you'll probably need a Shopify web developer.

Our Shopify website development team has experience designing websites for online stores around Oregon within the Shopify platform.

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce website designers often recommend Shopify:

  • For Portland merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Portland without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
  • For Portland 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, you'll find getting Shopify apps often require monthly subscriptions versus one-time purchases for WordPress plugins.
  • The best ecommerce platform for Portland companies that rely heavily on fast turnaround times for development and marketing is Shopify. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.

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Questions to Ask a Portland, OR Website Designer

You should ask a few questions of your prospective Portland web development or ecommerce development company before starting a project. Let's go over some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom web development or ecommerce web design project:

  • Does the web designer outsource the project? Because we've got our own team of USA website developers and ecommerce web developers, we don't outsource.
  • Do the website designers plan to create 301 redirects to help with SEO? For any Portland web development project that will replace an existing website, we plan out 301 redirects early in the project.
  • Does the web designer plan to create a mockup, or provide template samples, before building the site? We always start with a design mockup for Portland custom web development projects to ensure everyone understands the vision for the website. However, if you choose a theme-based website development service we will instead show you template samples before we begin.
  • Which CMS platform does your Portland 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 fast is your Portland web development service? 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 provide 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!

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Other Services for Your Portland, OR Website

A successful template or custom website design project for your Portland company is just getting started! Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Portland website:

  • Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let us write content about your products or services for your Portland website or blog.
  • Search Engine Optimization: Interested in improving organic traffic within Portland, or beyond? To help with off-page, technical, and on-page SEO, we have our own team of search engine optimization experts.
  • Optimizing Conversion Rates: Are you trying to boost the conversion rate of your lead forms? We'll create better, higher converting landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
  • Website Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Portland website after it launches? If you need help updating your website, ask about our web maintenance plans.
  • Web Design Accessibility: Are you unsure if your Portland, OR website needs to be accessible? We offer an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and fixes accessibility problems.
  • Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Portland, but still need a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your organization.
  • Web Hosting: Need somewhere to host your website after it launches? Our WordPress hosting is fast and basic thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and website developers!

No matter what your business needs for its website, you'll find our full-service website design firm to be your solution provider!

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Why Choose Us for Your Portland, OR Web Services

We love Portland, just like you! There are so many awesome places to visit in Portland, like Portland Art Museum, Forest Park, Hillsdale Brewery, and more! For other new ideas in or around Portland, check out this great website!

We have more than 19 years of experience designing awesome, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! You can trust our consultants to handle your professional web design quickly and efficiently.

  • You won't find us outsourcing Portland website design projects. Head over to our website development portfolio or ecommerce development portfolio to see example websites we've worked on.
  • We have our own in-house team of top web designers.
  • Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
  • Our team is highly experienced in search engine optimization, 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 Portland 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 Portland ecommerce developments you might be considering.
  • You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
  • We help with routine Portland web maintenance services to help you keep your website fresh.
  • To broaden your digital marketing service, we can include our Portland PPC management and Portland social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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Hear what our customers are saying

Kendrick Jacobs

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! (:

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Alo Health

WebCitz designed our Alo Health website and did such a great job of walking us step-by-step through the process, knowing the tech world was not a strength of ours. We love that we are able to change content whenever we want, but if we run into problems, they are a quick email away. They have been responsive, reliable and efficient. Thanks, WebCitz!

Tara Candland

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.

Cassie Richards

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.

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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!!

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Jen Ollanketo

WebCitz helped the Oshkosh Area Humane Society with our new website and they were great to work with. Responsive, professional and affordable. I think the biggest perk for us was having someone local we could talk to for assistance instead of long wait times. Definitely would recommend to anyone looking to start up or revamp their website.

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