Chico Web Design

Custom Chico Websites

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

400+ Web Development Projects
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Founded 19+ Years Ago
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Chico, CA Website Development Consultants

We've been doing professional web developments for more than 19 years! We help Chico businesses create new websites and remake old websites through our modern web design services.

With a population of 94,529 in Chico, you'll want to ensure a highly functional and useful website for your business to help stay ahead of the competition.

As a complete web design company, when your template or custom web development project is finished, our award-winning team will discuss optional website services such as 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 California website development service!

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Our Chico Web Services

We are a complete website design firm with a large staff of internal web designers and ecommerce web developers. Our web development agency is separated into two teams, each working on either template or custom website design services.

1.) Template-Based Website Developments

Looking for an affordable website? Your Chico small business might be interested in a template website!

Instead of creating design mockups and developing your website in a custom template, we can hand-pick several site templates to share with you that closely match your desired look and feel.

Rest assured, you'll have the opportunity to select the template you prefer, which we will then 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 like to start every Chico web 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 web development work. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.

After you approve the design mockup, our website development team will integrate it into a completely 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 Chico 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 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.

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with a web developer or ecommerce website developer on our team who can fix nearly any website issue.

Here are some examples of website requests that Chico website maintenance firms might help with:

  • Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
  • Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
  • Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
  • Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
  • Rearranging the navigation menu of your Chico website.
  • Making your pages faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
  • Making backups of your website's files and databases.
  • Making your website look and feel better.
  • Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
  • Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
  • Providing solutions to other website concerns.
  • Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.

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Set Goals for Your Chico, CA Website

To choose the best template or custom web development agency for your Chico business, you need to know what your goals are. Here are some of the most common website design and ecommerce website development goals we've seen for Chico websites:

  1. To create a website or online store for a new business in Chico.
  2. To revise an existing website or storefront with a modern, professional look and feel.
  3. To improve user experience, reduce bounce rates, and/or improve conversion rates.
  4. To improve the website's speed and responsiveness.
  5. To comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for website accessibility.
  6. To make the website a lead generation machine.
  7. To improve online orders from their ecommerce storefront.

Let us help plan your Chico website design project!

In addition to designing Chico-area websites, our firm also provides web design services to those in Anaheim, Bakersfield, Chico, Fremont, Fresno, Irvine, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Modesto, Monterey, Oakland, Palm Springs, Redding, Riverside, Sacramento, Salinas, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Ana, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Stockton, and Visalia.

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Picking a Platform for Your Chico, CA Website

A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Chico website. Our web designers and ecommerce website 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 Chico and the greater California area.

Our website design firm chooses to specialize in WordPress not only because it is the most popular CMS platform in Chico, 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!
  • WordPress has a huge community of contributors that work together to improve its security, stability, and functionality.
  • WordPress is popular among professional website design firms and freelance web designers, making it possible to find a local Chico website designer to work with you.

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2.) WooCommerce

To run an ecommerce website using WordPress you'll likely be searching for a WooCommerce website designer in Chico.

Our WooCommerce web development team has experience helping startups and existing ecommerce businesses in Chico build amazing stores with WooCommerce.

Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce web designers tend to recommend 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.
  • If your Chico company website runs on WordPress, we typically recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money rebuilding your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
  • WooCommerce is a great open-source option for Chico small businesses. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. Alternatively, Shopify has monthly fees to use the platform and their apps are often more expensive than WordPress or WooCommerce plugins.
  • We also recommend WooCommerce for those in an industry not accepted by Shopify.

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3.) Shopify

Shopify is the most popular SaaS ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce site in Chico, you'll probably need a Shopify website developer.

We can design a website for your online business in or around California that runs on the Shopify platform.

Here are some reasons our ecommerce developers like Shopify:

  • Chico merchants searching for a hosted ecommerce platform should check out Shopify. With Shopify, you can run an ecommerce business in Chico without worrying about hosting setups or platform updates.
  • We often recommend Shopify for Chico web companies without a lot of custom functionality requirements. It is often more expensive to develop custom functionality within Shopify than WordPress. Additionally, Shopify apps often have monthly fees versus WooCommerce plugins that are more affordable.
  • The best ecommerce platform for Chico small businesses 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 Chico, CA Web Designer

You should ask your prospective Chico website design or ecommerce website development agency several questions before you get started. Here are some we get asked before starting a custom website design or ecommerce development project:

  • Does the web designer outsource the project? We do not outsource custom website design or ecommerce web design projects for Chico businesses. We have our own internal team of USA website designers.
  • Do the web developers 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 Chico website refresh 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 Chico custom web design projects to ensure everyone understands the vision for the website. However, if you choose a theme-based web design service we will instead show you template samples before we begin.
  • Which CMS platform does your Chico website designer plan to use on your site project? Because of its popularity, scalability, and ease of use, we prefer WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
  • How fast can your Chico web design team turn things around? 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 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!

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Other Services for Your Chico, CA Website

There's more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Chico organization than you may realize. Let's look at some additional services to help your Chico website:

  • Content Writing: Not sure how to express yourself in writing? Let our content writers help your Chico small business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
  • SEO: Interested in improving organic traffic within Chico, or beyond? With our own team of search engine optimization experts, we can help with off-page, technical, and on-page SEO.
  • 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.
  • Web Maintenance & Support: Do you want help with your template or custom Chico website after it launches? We can help you install updates or make tweaks to your site.
  • ADA Website Accessibility: Not sure whether your Chico, CA website needs to be accessible? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility issues.
  • Logo Design: Are you starting a new business in Chico, CA, but haven't settled on a logo? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your small business.
  • Web Hosting Strategies: After your website launches, do you need a place to host it? Our WordPress hosting is fast and basic thanks to the caching systems set up by our server admins and web developers!

Whatever your business needs from its website, our full-service website design firm has your solution!

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Why Choose Us for Your Chico, CA Web Services

Because we love the City of Chico! There are so many exciting places to visit in Chico, like Bidwell Park, Bidwell Mansion, Secret Trail Brewery, and others. For more ideas around Chico, check out this helpful website!

We've been designing websites for over 19 years. We help large corporations, and even small businesses, with all types of website projects. You can trust our experts to handle your professional web design quickly and efficiently.

  • We do not outsource Chico 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 top website designers.
  • Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
  • Our team is highly experienced in SEO, user experience, and page speed.
  • We've made free website tools like password generators, Hex to RGB converters, and secure password generators.
  • Our digital marketing team is highly experienced in Chico local search engine optimization services to help you rank higher in search results.
  • We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is good if you are searching for a talented Chico ecommerce developer.
  • We are easy to reach on the phone, through live chat, or by email.
  • We have a website team to help with Chico website maintenance when you need website updates.
  • To broaden your digital marketing service, we can include our Chico PPC ads management and Chico social media services to help you target a bigger audience.

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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!

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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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