Our Irvine Web Services
We are a complete website design firm with a large staff of internal 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
Looking for an affordable website? Your Irvine 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 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 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 Irvine web development 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 website designers begin their work. Best of all, those mockups can be revised until you're happy with the design concept and are ready to move forward.
Once you've given your approval for the design mockup, our web development team will merge it into a custom template. There are many benefits to a custom theme, including a simplified codebase that often has better website speed and usability since it was developed specifically for your Irvine organization.
The starting price for a custom website design is about $9,500, and it can be ready in just a few weeks. For custom ecommerce website 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 website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Irvine business access to a website developer or ecommerce web designer who can fix just about any problem.
Here are some examples of website requests that Irvine website maintenance firms might help with:
- Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
- Keeping apps, themes and plugins updated.
- Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
- Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
- Rearranging your Irvine website's navigation menu.
- Improving page performance to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
- Making backups of your website's files and databases.
- Changing the look and feel of your website.
- Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
- Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
- Providing a solution to any other website problem.
- Importing / exporting ecommerce product data.
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Set Goals for Your Irvine, CA Website
To choose the best template or custom web development agency for your Irvine business, you need to know what your goals are. The most common goals we've seen for Irvine website design and ecommerce website development projects include:
- To build a website or online store for a new business in Irvine.
- To revise an existing website or storefront with a modern, 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 comply with ADA, WCAG, and other published guidelines that set the standards for website 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 Irvine web development project!
If you live in Irvine, you probably love the UC Irvine Anteater basketball team. Go UC Irvine Anteater! In addition to designing Irvine-area websites, our agency also provides website 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.
Picking a Platform for Your Irvine, CA Website
A content management system, or CMS, is what powers your Irvine website. While our top web designers and ecommerce developers are well-versed in multiple platforms, we prefer to only provide web design services in WordPress, and ecommerce development services in Shopify or WooCommerce.
1.) WordPress
WordPress is simply the most popular open-source website platform, with more than 40% market share throughout Irvine and the greater California area.
WordPress is the most popular CMS in Irvine, but it's also the best in terms of overall performance and scalability of a customized web development. 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 Irvine website designer to help you with your project.
2.) WooCommerce
To run an ecommerce site using WordPress you'll likely be looking for a WooCommerce web designer in Irvine.We've helped startups and existing ecommerce companies develop great WooCommerce stores in Irvine or other parts of United States.
Here are some of the reasons our ecommerce developers 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 Irvine small business already has a WordPress site, we often recommend WooCommerce. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time and money redesigning your content-based website just to add ecommerce.
- WooCommerce is a good open-source option for Irvine organizations. You don't have to pay a monthly fee for WordPress or WooCommerce. If you want to use Shopify, you'll need a paid subscription for 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.
3.) Shopify
Shopify is the most popular web-based ecommerce platform. If you want to run an ecommerce website in Irvine, you'll probably need a Shopify web designer.
Our Shopify developers have experience designing websites for online companies in and around California.
Here are some reasons our ecommerce developers like Shopify:
- For Irvine merchants interested in a hosted ecommerce system, we often recommend Shopify. With Shopify, you don't have to worry about hosting configuration or platform updates.
- When Irvine web companies don't need a lot of custom functionality, 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 great option for Irvine ecommerce businesses that need fast delivery times for marketing and development. It is often faster with Shopify to test out new products, themes, apps, or ideas.
Questions to Ask a Irvine, CA Web Developer
You should ask your prospective Irvine web design or ecommerce web development firm several questions before you get started. Let's go over some of the most common ones we get asked before starting a custom web design or ecommerce website design project:
- Does the website developer outsource the work? We do not outsource custom web design or ecommerce website development projects for Irvine organizations. We have our own internal team of USA web designers.
- Will the website designers make 301 redirects to help preserve search placements? We are careful when it comes to broken URLs, so we plan to implement 301 redirects during any Irvine 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 Irvine 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 web design service. If you opt for a template-based website, we'll provide several template samples for you to review instead.
- What CMS platforms is your Irvine web developer experienced in? Due to its popularity, scalability, and ease of use, we love WordPress. For ecommerce sites, we recommend WooCommerce or Shopify.
- How fast is your Irvine 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 have examples of 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 Irvine, CA Website
There's more to a successful template or custom website design project for your Irvine organization than you may realize. Let's explore some additional services, which are completely optional, to help you get the most out of your Irvine website:
- Writing Content: Don't feel comfortable writing about yourself or your company? Let our content writers help your Irvine business write web page or blog content to describe your company and its products or services.
- Search Engine Optimization Tactics: Want to improve organic traffic in or around Irvine? 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? Let us create effective landing pages for your organic and paid traffic.
- Web Maintenance: After your template or custom Irvine website goes live, do you want to make changes? If you need help updating your website, ask about our website maintenance plans.
- Web Design Accessibility: Are you unsure if your Irvine, CA website needs to be accessible? We have an affordable solution that continuously scans your website and uses artificial intelligence to fix accessibility concerns.
- Logo Design: Have you decided on a logo for your new Irvine business yet? Allow our graphic designers to provide you with logo design concepts for your small business.
- Web Hosting Services: 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 website developers!
Our full-service website design firm is the perfect solution for your business!
Why Choose Us for Your Irvine, CA Web Services
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We have more than 19 years of experience designing good looking, high-converting websites for small businesses and large corporations! We'll take care of your professional web design quickly and efficiently.
- We do not outsource Irvine 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 skilled web designers.
- Among the CSS frameworks we've worked with are Bootstrap and Tailwind.
- We're specialists in SEO, UX, and page speed.
- We have free website design tools like color scheme pickers and password generators.
- Our internet marketing team is experienced in Irvine search engine optimization services to help you improve search placements and organic traffic.
- We are very familiar with WooCommerce and Shopify. This is good if you are searching for a talented Irvine ecommerce website developer.
- We're easy to reach by phone, live chat, or email.
- We have a website team to help with Irvine web maintenance when you need website updates.
- To broaden your internet marketing service, we can include our Irvine paid ads management and Irvine social media services to help you target a bigger audience.
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