Web Design Company

If you are looking for a new website, with The Story Web Design & Marketing, it starts with a discover so that we can your requirements and business goals. We will then review a proposed solution with you to ensure what we are proposing aligns with your needs.

When you decide to move forward with us, the process will start with a kickoff meeting, followed by weekly meetings until your project is finished. It could take 2 weeks or 20 weeks depending on a variety of factors.

If you need us to create a new logo or if you need copywriting (the text for your website) done, it starts at the kickoff meeting. Once we have your logo and vision for your website, we start creating the plan to design and develop your website.

• In our initial design phase, we create multiple concepts and you choose the design you like best.
• We then continue to design the rest of the pages for your website.
  Then we develop the website for you and ensure it is mobile optimized.
• Your website is tested to ensure it works properly across platforms, browsers and screen sizes.

The time to create a website various significantly between different projects. Our projects typically take from two to fifteen weeks to complete.

The steps for creating a website include defining the project, crafting designs, developing the site, testing, and launching. Depending on the requirement, there may be additional steps as well. Each phase, while differing in complexity, requires attention to detail and time investment.

In the initial weeks, we primarily focus on understanding our client’s vision, competitors, target audience, and the website’s intended functionality. With that foundation, we commence the design phase, often consuming two to three weeks, to craft aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly interfaces. Thereafter, actual website development begins, translating the designs into functional pages. This stage might last anywhere from two to five weeks.

The final stages include rigorous testing for bugs, performance issues, or design inconsistencies before the website launch. Post-launch, we also offer maintenance and updates, ensuring your website remains relevant and functional over time.

Thus, while we aim for efficiency, we don’t compromise on quality. Each website is a unique undertaking, and our timeframes respect the need for personalized, high-quality digital solutions for our clients.

The cost of a website can vary greatly. Asking about how much a website costs would be like asking a builder about the price of a new home, or a car dealer about the cost of a new vehicle – the answer hinges on many variables.

In the case of websites, factors that impact cost include the size (or the number of pages), the design sophistication (visual appeal), and ecommerce capabilities (the ability to facilitate transactions directly from your site). These are just a few of the variables that influence cost.

Given this degree of variability, the range of cost for a new website that The Story Web Design & Marketing creates could vary anywhere from 3K to 50K. When we initially engage with a prospective client who needs a new website, our primary objective is to understand their business objectives, specific requirements, and their budget.

Once we have these details, we assess them holistically and generate one or more options that align with their needs. Our aim is to provide our clients with options that best suit their business objectives, requirements, and budget so that they can choose the best option for their business that brings them the maximum value.

Whether it is worth paying for a website design service depends on your goals, budget, time, and expertise.

If your requirements for a website are basic and the quality of its look isn’t that important, it’s possible to create a simple professional website. There are many tools and resources you can take advantage of.

However, you will want to use a professional website design service if:

• You don’t have a lot of time
• Your website needs are more complex
• You value a professionally designed look and feel

For businesses, in particular, a website is often the first point of contact with potential customers. A professionally designed website can help in making a strong first impression, enhancing your brand’s credibility, and improving customer engagement.

A good web design expert can also bring a wealth of knowledge on user experience, SEO, responsive design, and web accessibility. These factors are vital in ensuring that your website performs optimally, ranks well on search engines, and can be accessed by a wide range of users, including those with disabilities.

And creating a website takes a lot of time, especially for someone with little to no experience in web design. If you value your time or if your time could be better spent elsewhere then hiring a professional web design service could be better for you.

Big companies like Coca-Cola or Ford tend to revamp their websites annually. However, these are the exception to the frequency most companies should update their websites with.

The schedule of getting a new website should primarily be dictated by its relevance to your current business and website. In other words, when your website stops accurately represent your business, including the services you render, your brand identity, or any other pertinent aspects, it’s time for an update.

In most cases, the determining factor is not a rigid time frame but the alignment of your digital presence with your business’s evolving reality. If you are looking for a specific time period of when you should get a comprehensive website overhaul, we would give you a broad range – anywhere between 3 to 8 years.

The variation in the amount of time between new websites is based on several factors such as changes in your business, the market environment, customer preferences, or digital technology trends. For instance, if you diversify your product offerings or undergo a brand overhaul, it’s essential to promptly reflect these changes on your website.

Here are the highlights:

• Top Talent
• Understanding goals and requirements
• Excellence in design and UI/UX
• Expert Development and Testing
• Professional Project Management

Our team consists of top designers, developers, project managers, copywriters, and strategists. We have a process for creating designs that align with our clients’ vision.

We discover our clients’ goals and requirements. While we create the copywriting for some clients’ websites, others provide their own content. We create multiple design concepts for our clients, ensuring the right vision and top-quality designs. Our designs emphasize simplicity of design and ease of navigation, reflecting our commitment to excellence in UI/UX.

We are a custom web design services company, creating professional designs that are visually pleasing and easy to read.  Along with our experienced development team, our team delivers websites that ensure excellent user experience across platforms, browsers, and screen sizes.

Throughout the process, we actively manage your web design project to ensure it keeps moving forward to completion. We can also offer strategic consulting to take your website to another level.

Here are the main factors that can impact the cost of a website:

• How many pages your website will have
• The complexity of the pages
• The quality of the design and the quality of the development
• Whether you provide copywriting (the text) or you have us provide it for you
• Whether specialized functionality such as sophisticated calculators is needed on the website
• Professional photography and/or video requirements
• Any high-end animations and video effects needed
• Other graphic design elements which will be a part of the design project
• eCommerce business needs and the complexity of the custom eCommerce website design, such as the number of variations to product

If you are a small business, just starting out, and you have a limited budget, you could create a website yourself for just the cost of your time or you could get a low-end, offshore website for $500 to $1,000. But with these options, you are never sure what you are going to get.

Most companies should try to determine what they want to accomplish with their website.  There may be measurable goals, such as leads or sales. Or there may be objectives that are harder to measure, such as increasing the professionalism of the brand of your company.  Most of the websites that The Story Web Design provides cost in the range of $5,000 to $75,000.

If you are shopping around for a website, you are likely to find widely varying quotes. For example, for a 20-page website, you might have some companies quoting you $4,000 and others $30,000. It’s important to get a handle on what you need to accomplish with your new website and find the best partner who can help you achieve that, within what you consider a “reasonable” budget.

Some of our clients want The Story to write the copy (the text) for their website.  Here’s why we think it’s helpful to get a professional to help create the copy for your website:

The first reason is that our clients don’t have time to create the writing for their website.  They usually procrastinate the writing of the content for the website and that delays getting the website project completed and everyone is frustrated.

The second reason is that our clients benefit from having someone else look at how they communicate to their target market.  The outside view can help create copy that better communicates their message and information.

The third reason is that good copywriters understand how to write in a way that is easy for people to read.  And they know how to create emotion in the reader.  Emotion creates connection and emotion is helpful in getting people to make a decision, whether that is to sign up, contact, schedule or buy.

The Story works with a variety of industries.  We excel at understanding our clients offerings and presenting them to the target client in a way that connects with them.

We have worked with many different industries, including: financial services, law firms, service providers, technology, software companies, manufacturing companies, startups and technology firms, medical practices, dog daycares, retreat centres, AI, and blockchain.

The Story provides a service where we host websites and we maintain them.  Maintenance means that we update the backend systems, like WordPress, plugins, themes and PHP.  If something breaks, we fix it.  For mission critical websites, we also offer 24-hour monitoring and support.

We also provide a service that updates content and other aspects of a website.  This is charged on a case by case basis, either hourly or fixed price.

At The Story, to provide you with a quote for how much your website is going to cost, we first have a consultation with you, so we clearly understand what you need to accomplish. We will identify what business goals you need to achieve and your requirements, and then we will also work to gain insights about your target marketing and your unique value proposition. We will then prepare a detailed proposal and, if it’s useful, we will provide you with options so you can determine what the best course of action is for your website needs.

If you have a problem with your website, we’d like to help. In most cases, we can fix your existing website so that you can continue to function with it.

We maintain our focus on being the best custom website design company; we are not an SEO company, so we do not provide SEO campaigns (monthly campaigns that help get rankings on Google). However, we do ensure we use best practices for SEO when developing websites for our clients. We can also provide SEO research and keyword mapping for the content on your website, which can help to get your website better ranked on Google for a stronger web presence.

We do not use templates. The Story is a custom web design company. That means that we design websites and then we develop them. Each and every website is custom-crafted and unique. We work with our clients to understand their vision, and then create a website with a design to match it. 

The Story primarily works with WordPress. WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System) that helps companies organize their information and enables them to make most changes without a coder. 

In certain circumstances, we do develop using HTML to accomplish special functions. With HTML a developer is required to make all changes.

No. Our web design agency only provides custom website design and development. Each website that we deliver to our clients is bespoke, so it best matches their individual business and website needs.