When website design is done right, it closes the gap between your business’s goals and your customer’s.
Your website is not barely an online business card. It is a significant part of your company’s experience.
Do businesses still need a website?
Customers turn to the internet for everything nowadays. Social media alone is not enough to getting your stories and messages out. Every business needs a website that is designed to be truly representative, productive and profitable for themselves.
A well-branded website does not just strengthen your online presence and gives you an edge in your field. It will also give your business higher credibility and trust. Your business looked more authoritative as opposed to those without a proper website.
But somehow website development could be complicated. From performance, usability, security, to round-the-clock maintenance, there is a multitude of aspects to take care of. And if your business has products or subscriptions to sell, e-Commerce adds its own complexities even further.
We are here to make your web projects free from worries. And we have your back covered too.
How our websites are better?
Sometimes we are still blown away by the number of prospective clients, who, still think that the only requirement is making a nice-looking website. No question having an aesthetically pleasing web design is important. But it is not the ultimate goal.
Those clients have not paid enough attention. There are few equally important, but easily negligible areas that make all the differences. Those are the features truly set a website apart from the rests. And they are of solid help in driving customers and revenue.
While web design trends come and go, we ensure our clients’ website will advance with times by making the must-have features listed here below a core part in our project brief.
Must-have Features for Web Design and Development
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Lightweight & Fast
Wonder why some bounce rates are high? If a page takes longer than 5s to load it can cause frustration for its visitors. Those visitors may just leave.
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Responsive/ Optimized for Mobile
Over 50% of online traffic is happening on mobile phones. We will make sure your website provides the same level of user experience on every device. If it doesn’t work well on mobile, potentially you’ll be losing more than half of your visitors.
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Responsive/ Optimized for Mobile
Over 50% of online traffic is happening on mobile phones. We will make sure your website provides the same level of user experience on every device. If it doesn’t work well on mobile, potentially you’ll be losing more than half of your visitors.
03.
Great Visual Design
The visual appeal of your website design should make an impact on your audience, catch their attention and encourage them to stay.
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Satisfying User Experience
We keep everything intuitive. Visitors will always know where they are, find what they’re looking for on the website. We understand no one has time for guesswork.
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Satisfying User Experience
We keep everything intuitive. Visitors will always know where they are, find what they’re looking for on the website. We understand no one has time for guesswork.
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Traffic Insight
Being able to track and understand your website visitors will help you better adjust and improve your marketing plan. So as to advance toward your business goal in a faster pace.
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SEO Friendly
Search engines cares how accessible and useful the pages on your website are. So do we. The inherent code/ data structure of our web projects is tidy and understandable by search engines. Our websites are SEO ready. To find out more about our SEO Service, please click here.
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SEO Friendly
Search engines cares how accessible and useful the pages on your website are. So do we. The inherent code/ data structure of our web projects is tidy and understandable by search engines. Our websites are SEO ready. To find out more about our SEO Service, please click here.
How much does it cost to build a website?
Business leaders always ask this question. However there is no simple answer. It entirely depends on your budget, business strategy, and the goal that you’re hoping to accomplish. Technologies for website building have evolved over years. Let’s first see what options are available now. By its complexity we can broadly categorize them into the following approaches:
DIY website builder
DIY website builder like WIX, Squarespace, etc. is perhaps a good starting point to kickstart and get an online presence. It works just fine with a small budget and very basic requirements.
Literally no installation is needed. The setup is very easy. After choosing a template for your website, you can start customizing it with a drag and drop tool. You may even host your website on their server.
These website builders provide those with little-to-no web development experience the ability to quickly create a simple and good-looking website.
Open-source CMS platform
When scalability and more sophisticated features are required, choosing an open-source CMS platform like WordPress or Magento gives you extra rooms to create. Essentially it is opened to all the possibilities to upgrade and expand your website in the future.
By starting with a compatible catalogued template or designer theme, building a website can be relatively quick too. And, if needed, still be able to customize it to add robust features. Yet it remained ‘affordable’ to most businesses.
Custom web development
For a more established or niche business, off-the-shelf solutions may just not work in meeting their needs. Their website may need to tie to their brand, integrate into the marketing or operation processes, and/ or serve many other different functions.
For them custom web design and development has distinct advantages over template-based approach. The back-end programming can be cleaner. It gives them total freedom to design and build. The website can be created with the only needed software and content elements. That speeds up loading to creating the best user-experience.
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Free website is not a myth
From the chart above we got a rough idea on what’s the minimum amount we would probably need to spend to hire a web developer to build a website. But it’s not always a must to get someone else to do it. As the name explicitly indicates, you may choose to do it yourself (DIY) using one of those online website builders.
Together with a supply of hundreds of pre-made templates for different business categories to choose from, literally all of the DIY website builders come with their own drag and drop building tool. With a few twists, most people are able to modify the template on their own to make layouts with contents they desire.
But make no mistake the process is not automatic. There is still a short learning curve. And a reasonable sense of design is a prerequisite. All in all apart from investing your own time, it could be totally free.
DIY Expert Tips
So if you are tight on budget, we suggest you may first sign up a free plan with one of the website builders. Of course there are certain limitations. Storage is somehow restrictive. You may not be allowed to choose your domain name freely. But you can always upgrade to a paid plan later.
Start working on your website and see whether you can finish it or how far you can go. When you hit a wall where Google is no longer able to help you to break it. Then you know it’s time to consider getting some outside help.
Also need to bear in mind is that creating a good website is actually just the beginning of the process. It is not the end. Once the website is live, you will need to put resources on adding contents to keep it fresh, actively promoting it to drive traffic and conversions.
What to choose for your web project?
So when it comes to web design and development, we understand one size hardly fits all.
At Wavyos Technologies, we do both the rather economical WordPress solutions and highly custom web development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP/ Lavarel. They have their pros and cons. Either of them can boost your company’s online exposure if done and presented right.
Whether you are after a minor upgrade, a landing page, or someone to build your first website or online store, please come talk to us. We provide an excellent free consultation service and will assist you in choosing the right technology. We can use themes or design from scratch. When the site is launched, we’ll provide on-going support and maintenance services. We do not just build you a website, but a sales tool to help grow and expand your business.