Web Design

The best place to start for a web design or redesign is to get a feeling for your style.  Peoples’ styles change over the years so the style your website had when you started may be out of date for what is the current trend.

We like to begin the process by asking you for 2 to 4 website examples that have a style you like.  The websites don’t need to be in your niche.  For example if you are a small business that sells shoes, you might find an inspirational site that sells perfume or luggage.  Don’t copy your competitors.  Rise above them with a fresh design that you like.

Once you have given us some examples of the style of design that you like, our first step is to design the home page.  The home page sets the standard for design and the overall aesthetic throughout the website.  The homepage is a critical starting point as it sets the design of the menu, the header and the footer for every page.

Don’t worry if you don’t have all your images and copy (text) written.  That’s not as important as the overall flow of the page.

Once the homepage design is approved, other interior pages can be designed and flushed out.

Don’t worry.

You will have input for every page throughout the design process.

It partly comes down to how complex the site is and how many iterations we go through settling on the perfect look and feel for your home page.

Most homepages start with about 8-10 hours of work to come up with a design based on your initial input.

Additional change to the homepage will naturally extend that time frame.

Once the homepage design is settled, designing the interior pages tends to go quicker.

With good communication and timely input, we usually have a website design solidified within a week or so.

We would LOVE to design one for you!

If you choose to go with another designer, that’s totally fine as well.  We will put a placeholder anywhere the logo is showcased on the page and insert it when you have your logo finalized.

Typically, we will do our mockup in Photoshop / Illustrator or a design program called Adobe XD.  On a rare occurrence, we may choose to use Figma as well.

Not to worry though.

If you choose not to do development through us, all of our designs are easily accessible to any web developer.

We’re not satisfied until you’re satisfied.

Our initial home page design is a starting point, nothing more.  It would be ludicrous to imagine that we could read your mind and deliver the perfect design the first time.

You won’t hurt our feelings if you don’t like it!

Let us work together to get the look and feel of your website dialed in to your aesthetic.

Stock image prices can range dramatically from ‘free’ to upwards of $100+.

Don’t worry though.

Through some purposeful forethought, we have wonderful stock photography library subscriptions at our disposal to meet any of your stock photo needs at an incredibly discounted cost.

Don’t settle for the same free images that can be found everywhere on the internet.

Let us curate some incredible stock photos to speak to your clients and the design of your website.  Stock photos tend to run about $5 a piece, a price affordable to any client.

No problem!

Few clients are ready to go out of the gate with all of their final images for their website.

To help you, we will use placeholder images, perhaps free image comps, to show you how your site will be laid out.  Once your photos are ready, it is easy to replace them.

Colors evoke feelings.

Does your product help people who are sad?  Do you serve a younger demographic?

Every generation associates colors with different memories.  Different emotions.

Moreover, different products call for happy colors, or thoughtful colors or serious colors.

Your color story is just as important as your text.  Use the wrong colors and your product may be dismissed as silly or too stodgy.

Let us help you craft the story you want to tell and the colors that do that best.