Basic Web Design in Jacksonville

Affordable Web Design

Over the years we have helped many new businesses and small businesses establish and reinvent their online presence with a low cost, affordable web site. We understand that it is not always necessary to have a large feature rich web site to present your business or service online. When this is the case, we are happy to help our client's design a low cost web site that is designed and optimized to achieve good rankings and be found in Google and other search engines.

Risks of "Free" and "Cheap" Web Design

CAUTION! A Word of advice to those looking into low cost or free web site design options.

If you are searching for a free web site design service, or using search phrases such as "Cheap Web Design", or "Low Cost Web design", you have undoubtedly found companies and services that claim to deliver such a product. But be aware of the old adage, "you get what you pay for".

There are certainly different web design company business models out there. But they all have one thing in common; Like any business they must make a profit to stay in business. For this reason, you will ultimately either pay for some portion of the services that are a necessary aspect of having a live web site, find yourself renting the web site instead of owning it while paying for monthly hosting services, or end up with a terrible web site that never really becomes anything other than a wasted effort.

Unfortunately we have heard far to many stories of high priced long term hosting contracts, years of investment only to find the site or the domain name was rented and not owned, and worse of all, unskilled web designers who received payment but are not capable of delivering a completed, properly built and properly optimized web site. To avoid an experience like this you should always ask a few important questions:

• When the web site is completed, do I receive a full digital copy including all related content and files, with all related licenses and full ownership of the web site and?
• After the web site is finished, am I contractually bound or obligated to use your web hosting services for any specific length of time?
• May I see some examples of web sites that you or your company have designed and developed?
• May I see examples of your success with web site search engine optimization?
• Do I own and control my domain name?

 

Quality, Low Cost, "Responsive" Web Design Options

WordPress Web Site Design

Wordpress has in recent years come from a very basic do-it-yourself web site framework to an advanced CMS, (Content Management System) web site framework. And with thousands of WordPress Themes to choose from that quickly give the WordPress framework a design skin loaded with animated and interactive features. and the "Free" WordPress Framework having all the back end code already built, our programmers can set up a feature rich, fully functioning WordPress web design in 10 to 15 hours depending on the sophistication of the theme.

With the look and feel accomplished with the theme, and the site base coding included with the WordPress Framework, total build time and cost is dramatically reduced. The only steps remaining are the addition of the web site's content such as photos and text content, and of course the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of the site and content. A typical 7-10 page WordPress web site can be created for as little as $2,000, and can be completed much faster than a custom web design, usually in 2-3 weeks.

This is a good example of low cost web site design. We helped Susan Elle Harmon create SusanElleHarmon.com, a small web site that she could manage herself. Susan can adjust any page as often as she likes and regularly posts in her Blog on fitness, nutrition and modeling. This site was completed in 3 weeks. See more example of affordable, low cost web design in our portfolio. >>

WordPress web site themes are often "Responsive" themes. "Responsive" means that the theme or look and feel of the web site will automatically adjust itself to look correct on any device used to view the web site, from cellular phone touch screens to large format computer monitors with a mouse or touch pad. With a Responsive WordPress Web Design, your web site will always display in the proper size and resolution.

WordPress web sites also offer "CMS" or content management systems, traditionally known as admin consoles that allow the owner of the web site to edit any aspect of the web site and its content. This is often quite valuable as it can eliminate the ongoing expense of professional web site support or a web master to perform basic updates and additions to the web site.

Over all, the WordPress web site option is certainly an option to consider for new low cost web design and companies who wish to update their web site to a more modern look and feel, and that will perform well on all of the different devices that are now being used to surf the web.

Small Custom Web Site Design

When a client has specific needs for features or functionality that will not work well within the WordPress framework, we offer custom web design. A custom web site can also be Responsive, very attractive and the level of Search Engine Optimization can be taken to a much higher level than is possible with a WordPress Web Site.

STGContractingGroup.com is a small web site that looks very attractive and is fully optimized to perform well in the search engines.

In many cases small businesses focus on a few core competencies that can be presented very well over a few web pages. This site has 6 pages and was created in 4 weeks.

Even a small custom web site can include CMS, and extensive flexibility in design or look and feel. With a custom web site, we can create any look the you may be after; image backgrounds, gradient fill colors, transparent color overlays, Font styles, supporting graphics, any level of design and layout. And as we mentioned, a custom web site design can also be responsive to work on any device.

A small low cost, custom web site is about $3,000 for a 4-7 page web site. This cost can be less or more depending on requirements. Time to build a small business custom web site is typically 3-5 weeks.

Let's Get Started on Your New Web Site!

We'll help you assemble a plan for your new web site that has everything you would like to present about your company in a way that is within your budget. So don't spend too much time planning your new web site before speaking with our experienced web designers. Give us a call to schedule a free consultation, and after we meet with you, we will prepare a formal quote with a fixed total price for your new web site.

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