Website Design

WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Website Design and Development that meets your needs and budget.

Websites have become an essential marketing tool for businesses of all sizes, it is your opportunity to make a great first impression on potential clients and give your business credibility.

A website should also be the cornerstone of any marketing campaign you run for your business.

With dozens of satisfied clients covering a wide range of industries and business types, we develop your website specifically for your needs and to reflect your companies individuality.

A website should also be the cornerstone of any marketing campaign you run for your business.

With dozens of satisfied clients covering a wide range of industries and business types, we develop your website specifically for your needs and to reflect your companies individuality.

Website Design for all types of sites

Through our experience as an established website design house we have developed websites with extensive online stores, online reservation systems, portfolios, and much more.

Not sure what type of website you need?

That’s okay! We work with you to discover what type of website works best for you.

We also take great care to ensure:

Most importantly we are a website design and development business you can trust to ensure you are happy with the final product.

We are experts & only want the best for your business

During the 15 years we've been building websites we have used various tools, or platforms, to build sites. However for the last 10 years we have been using WordPress, and more recently we added our own cloud based CMS Website Builder.

So which one is best for you - WordPress or our CMS Website Builder

First let me say that whether we go with WordPress (WP) or the CMS Website Builder (CMS WB) they are both great platforms. That said, like everything in life there are Pros and Cons to each and the final decision will be down to which one you feel will meet your needs best - and we will be there to help you decide.

Primary Difference

There are some differences though due to the philosophy each platform is built-on.

Wordpress is more flexible - there are literally tens of thousands of plugins (not all of which are good to use or even safe to use but that's another story).

The platform is known as a dynamic website - data for each page is stored in a database and the page is basically created on the fly when a user wants to view it.

The CMS WB creates Static HTML pages during development. Typically these are much faster to load giving a better user experience.

WP can be made to be fast but it takes extra work to do so.
Build Time and Cost

No difference here. It typically takes about the same time to build your site on each of the platforms and there is no difference in the development cost, except for the additional cost of some of the plugins for the WordPress site.
Security

Since WP is very popular it has become a target for hackers. Being a dynamic website that uses additional plugins to achieve the required functionality, the plugins are pure code and they need to be updated regularly, either for functionality updates or security updates. The hackers look for, and take advantage of plugins that are not updated.

The CMS WB on the other hand is inherently safer and less prone to hacking - however - there are no guarantees that any site will not fall victim to hackers.

The goal is to make it as difficult as possible for hackers. With WP we add security plugins that help protect the site.

Our CMS WB can be set up to have an auto-renewing SSL certificate.

For WP sites it's down to the website owner to host the site and have a SSL certificate installed manually.
Responsiveness

This refers to the ability of the website to format to differnt screensizes e.g. desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone.

Our CMS WB is natively responsive and works great on all devices.

Similarly WP sites can be designed to be responsive and work on all devices
Website Updates

If you, or a team member, is already comfortable in editing WP sites then great. However, typically clients spend so little time editing their own sites that they never truly become proficient and WP has a fairly steep learning curve.

Our CMS WB is more intuitive to use so even if you are not editing pages very often it's likely to be easier.
Hosting

A WP site will need to be hosted on a server, typically somewhere like. GoDaddy, Bluehost, etc.

Costs vary greatly depending on the quality of the hosting but you should expect to pay about $25 - $50 per month for a good quality hosting plan.

Yes, there are much cheaper shared plans out there - I think the lowest we have seen is about $5/month but we wouldn't recommend it.

Our CMS WB, and the resulting sites are hosted on Amazon Web Services. One of the fastest and most secure hosting options available.

The monthly cost is comparable to having to equivalent Wordpress hosting (which you would have to manage yourself). For you it is simply fast, secure and hassle free hosting.