Our Kelowna 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
Looking for an affordable website? Your Kelowna business might be interested in a template website!
Rather than designing mockups and developing a custom theme 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 template 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 templated web development is about $3,750, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For templated ecommerce developments, the cost and turnaround will be higher.
2.) Custom Web Developments
As a custom web design company, we prefer to start every Kelowna website 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 website designers start building the site. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.
Following your approval of the design mockup, our web 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 Kelowna business.
The starting price for a custom website development is around $9,500, and it can be finished in as little as 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 Kelowna 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 need Kelowna website maintenance services:
- Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
- Installing app, theme or plugin updates.
- Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
- Staying fresh with new blog content.
- Rearranging your Kelowna site's navigation menu.
- Improving website speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- Backing up your website's files and databases.
- Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
- Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage glitches.
- 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 Kelowna, British Columbia Website
Before proceeding with the selection of a template or custom web development agency for your Kelowna business, it is important to understand what the goals are for your website project. Here are some of the most common website development and ecommerce web development goals we've seen for Kelowna websites:
- To create a website or online store for a new business in Kelowna.
- To redesign an existing website or storefront with a fresh, 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 site 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 us help you figure out the goals of your Kelowna website design project to ensure everyone is happy with the finished website!
In addition to designing Kelowna-area websites, our firm also provides web design services to those in Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Abbotsford, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Chilliwack.
Picking a Platform for Your Kelowna, British Columbia Website
The foundation of your Kelowna website is the content management system you choose for the design project. Our web designers and ecommerce web developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, but we provide our best web 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 Kelowna and the greater British Columbia area.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in Kelowna, 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 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 Kelowna web designer to work with you.
2.) WooCommerce
To run an ecommerce website using WordPress you'll likely be searching for a WooCommerce website developer in Kelowna.We help Kelowna startups and ecommerce businesses build and launch awesome stores with WooCommerce.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce website designers tend to recommend WooCommerce:
- We often recommend WooCommerce for Kelowna website development projects that need a custom theme with complex functionality, but are on a budget. This is mostly due to custom theme and functionality work being cheaper in WooCommerce.
- If your Kelowna small business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. When you like the look and feel of your content-based website, why spend time and money redesigning it just to add ecommerce?
- We often recommend WooCommerce for Kelowna businesses who prefer open-source software. There are no monthly fees to use WordPress or WooCommerce. Alternatively, Shopify has monthly fees to use the platform and their apps are often more expensive than WordPress or WooCommerce 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 site using Shopify, you'll need a Shopify website developer in Kelowna.
Our Shopify web development team has experience designing websites for online stores around British Columbia within the Shopify platform.
Here are some reasons our ecommerce developers like Shopify:
- We often recommend Shopify for Kelowna merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce platform. Shopify allows you to run an ecommerce business in Kelowna without the hassle of hosting configurations or platform updates.
- When Kelowna web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, 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 Kelowna businesses 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 Kelowna, British Columbia Web Developer
There are several important questions to ask your prospective Kelowna web design or ecommerce web development firm before proceeding with your project. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom web design or ecommerce website design project:
- Does the website developer outsource the project? We do not outsource custom web design or ecommerce website development projects for Kelowna organizations. We have our own internal team of expert website designers.
- Will the web developers make 301 redirects to help preserve search rankings? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Kelowna website overhaul 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 Kelowna 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 Kelowna website designer plan to use on your website project? We prefer WordPress because of its ease of use, popularity, and scalability. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How quick is the turnaround time for your Kelowna web design service? We typically complete custom web development projects in 2-3 months, and template website projects in 3-4 weeks. Ecommerce website projects typically take longer to finish.
- 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!
Other Services for Your Kelowna, British Columbia Website
There is more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Kelowna, British Columbia organization than you might realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Kelowna website:
- Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Kelowna small business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
- Search Engine Optimization Game Plans: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Kelowna? With our own team of search engine optimization experts, we can help with technical, on-page, and off-page search engine optimization.
- Conversion Optimization: Want to make your lead forms convert more often? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
- Web Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Kelowna website after it launches? Ask about our website maintenance services to receive help installing updates or making website changes.
- Website Accessibility: Not sure if your Kelowna, British Columbia website needs to be accessible to people with disabilities? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility concerns.
- Designing Logos: Getting ready to start a business in Kelowna, but still need a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your business.
- Website Hosting: Looking for a place to host your website? 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 Kelowna, British Columbia Web Services
Because we love Kelowna as much as you do! There are so many exciting things to do in Kelowna, like visit popular destinations of Canadian Wildlife Museum, Knox Mountain Park, Scenic Road Cider Co., and others. For more fun ideas around Kelowna, 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, who are only 3038.7 kilometers away, to handle your professional website design quickly and efficiently.
- We do not outsource Kelowna website development projects. Check out our web design portfolio to see example content websites or ecommerce stores we've built.
- We have our own in-house team of skilled 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 experts are very familiar with Kelowna search engine optimization services to help you rank higher in Google.
- We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is great if you are looking for a talented Kelowna ecommerce web designer.
- You can reach us by phone, live chat, or email.
- We help with Kelowna web maintenance requests to keep your website updated and looking great!
- To broaden your internet marketing service, we can include our Kelowna paid ads management and Kelowna social media services to help you target a bigger audience.