Here’s what goes into the cost of a website:
Hosting – This is the service or company providing space on the internet for your website. Hosting providers include WPEngine (our recommendation if you have a WordPress website), GoDaddy, InMotion, and others.
Domain name – This is shown as www.yourcompany, and is usually a yearly payment.
Design – Some designs are free, others cost money.
Plugins and extensions – Typically, the more plugins you want, the more expensive a website gets.
The complexity of design – The more customized your website is, the more expensive it will be.
Our web design services for home service companies aren’t one size fits all—there are no cookie-cutter solutions, at least not from the best companies.
A good website design agency will help you figure out the best type of website for your business. What’s important is that your website is beautiful, thoughtfully laid out, and lead-focused.
You also need to continually update it to keep up with the modern customer’s expectations. Most website designs only have a life expectancy of 2-5 years.
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Looking for affordable web design services? VIETSEO is an award-winning web design company with a team of digital designers specializing in designing and building mobile-friendly websites that:
Increase leads
Drive sales growth
Optimize marketing costs
Differentiate their brands in the marketplace
Unlike other website design companies that only focus on the look of your company’s website, VIETSEO’s web designers uniquely target your industry, your market, and your customers with precision. But don’t take our word for it—check out our website design case studies that prove it.
We’ve worked with businesses of all sizes throughout their website design projects, from small local contractors to home service franchises, and have a team of in-house website designers ready to take on your next project.
Your website needs to harmonize functionality with beauty, enticing visitors to explore pages while supporting your commercial and marketing efforts. It’s a careful balancing act between utility, aesthetics and tangible results.
In a digital world, your website may be more important than your storefront. A good website serves as the home-base for digital marketing campaigns and lead generation initiatives.
Potential customers will find your site from organic search, social media, ad campaigns and through routes you may not have even considered yet.
When they arrive, it’s your web design that will tell them what you’re all about & why it should matter to them.
How Our Design Process Works
VIET SEO’s website design services can help you find that perfect balance and create a website that serves as the centerpiece of your online presence.
Our web design and development team uses the latest search engine optimization (SEO) and user experience (UX) best practices to craft mockups and websites tailored to any business and industry.
As an agency working with clients in a wide range of industries, including health care, technology, software, finance, manufacturing, education and more.
Whether you need a consumer-facing e-commerce website, business-forward site to promote B2B services or something else altogether, we’re ready to help.
Collect website assets
Maintaining brand consistency is important in a website redesign, as returning visitors should recognize immediately that you’re still you, just with a new look.
You’ll provide the logos, colors, typefaces and other elements that define your brand so our designers stay on-brand throughout the process.
Launch the site
With your site polished and ready to go, now’s the time to launch it. We’ll work with you to determine the right day and time to go live with the new-and-improved site.
Your consultant can create a go-live plan that helps ensure it’s crawled correctly and communicated across your audiences, including submitting your new sitemap to be indexed by the leading search engines.
Responsive Web Design
It’s a mobile-first world, which means having a mobile friendly website is critical. Search engines reward websites that are able to deliver strong UX to a wide variety of users (mobile, browser, desktop, etc.), making a responsive website an important element to any SEO strategy.
VIET SEO development teams consult you on every aspect of responsive web design, ensuring that your finished responsive website is ready to engage users across all device types, from mobile to PC.
Driven by responsive website design best practices, we help your site rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) and deliver a better user experience to the widest audience possible.
Website Auditing
Performance metrics such as page speed are important criteria for search engine ranking. Routine site checks are essential to ranking higher in SERPs, holding search positions for top-performing landing pages and directing more organic traffic to your site.
Website audits assess your website’s performance to better understand what changes need to be made with a site redesign to better serve your marketing needs.
VIET SEO teams thoroughly check technical factors that could impact your search ranking and outline actionable steps to improve them.
Graphic Design
Graphical components give your site life, adding eye-popping visuals that draw in visitors and appeal to their senses.
VIET SEO’s experienced designers work with your team to ensure every graphical element aligns with your brand guidelines and standards, creating a website that fully reflects who you are and what your message is.
Our graphic design services are continually expanding, incorporating more sophisticated forms of visual communication to engage users and tell your brand story.
Landing Page Design
VIET SEO’s production teams collaborate to create landing pages for your website that boost SERP rankings and bring qualified organic traffic to your site. A team of professional writers create landing page copy that’s carefully researched and crafted to rank for targeted search queries.
Graphic design teams produce detailed page layouts that showcase the finished look of your landing pages before they are published on your site.
Our website designers thoughtfully select each graphical element to create the best user experience and support your marketing and commercial goals.
On-Page SEO
Seemingly insignificant backend factors could have a profound impact on your site’s search ranking.
VIET SEO’s SEO team supports website design or redesign projects by closely analyzing site health and checking for issues that could prevent your website from reaching its full potential. We thoroughly assess every aspect of your website, using site crawls, content checks, landing page analyses and more, to flush out underlying problems that may hurt site ranking and performance.
Web Hosting Consultation
Although VIET SEO does not directly offer web hosting services, we can provide our years of experience to help answer any questions you have and help you find the right website hosting solution for your business.
Our website designers, developers and consultants have worked with virtually every content management system and hosting platform in use today, and we are more than happy to share our insights with your technical teams.
Even if we can’t deliver a hosting service ourselves, we can point you in the right direction.
Additional Marketing Services
Your website is the backbone of your digital marketing initiatives.
That means simply having beautiful site design is only one component of taking control over your digital presence. Your dedicated content marketing strategist (CMS) can brainstorm the many ways you can leverage your site to benefit your marketing goals.
Whether you need blog content, a social media strategy, custom videos like testimonials or animations, or something else altogether, you’ll have a team of SEO and content experts behind you every step of the way.
Turn your website into your business’s greatest asset by making it easier for prospective customers to find you online, impressing new visitors, engaging returning users, generating qualified leads and producing more revenue.
In-house design teams may not have the time, resources or specialized knowledge needed to meet your goals, whether you want to build an e-commerce website, brand website or microsite.
Working with a professional website design team gives you the benefit of their experience, skills and expertise – without taking internal resources away from other important jobs.
We use our years of experience and keen understanding of SEO and content marketing best practices to tailor every web design project – whether it’s a simple redesign or full teardown – to increase search ranking, online visibility and engagement metrics.
When It Makes Sense to Invest into Web Design Services
Whether you’re starting a brand new website from scratch or want to revamp your existing website, web design services come in all shapes and sizes. You can decide if you want to outsource the design of one page, every page, or something in between.
Want custom graphics and help with branding, too? No problem. You get to decide what services you need or don’t need, making web design a flexible service to match your needs.
Regardless, you’re in complete control of the scope of the project.
So, it makes sense to invest if look and feel is an important part of your new website, you’re looking for an affordable way to change up an existing website, or you’re ready to take your site to the next level with a custom design.
And when you start making enough to warrant a custom website, we recommend freelancers and small local agencies rather than massive large-scale agencies.
Why? Because the cost is more reasonable and you’ll get a more personalized experience. If you’re comfortable spending $5,000 to $10,000 on your website, this is definitely the way to go.
But if that’s outside your budget, not all hope is lost. You can still invest in a site builder or theme that looks great out of the box.
You don’t have to learn anything about web design or development, making it an excellent choice for beginners. Plus, there are 800+ pre-designed templates you can use to get started.
Because of those templates, you don’t have to spend thousands on a professional designer, which is particularly helpful if you’re just starting out.
Wix’s drag and drop interface is incredibly easy to use and you get complete design freedom to create whatever you can imagine. On top of that, there are dozens of add-ons to increase your website’s functionality.
Want to add an online store? No problem!
Maybe you want to add an online scheduler, a blog to attract more visitors, or an online menu so visitors can order online and pick up in-store.
The possibilities are endless, despite being an intuitive site builder that’s suitable for beginners and anyone without extensive web design knowledge.
You can control the size and placement of everything, including text, images, videos, shapes, and more. It’s truly one of the easiest and most customizable website builders on the market.
As such, you can create a truly customized experience minus the headache.
Another standout feature is the Wix ADI (artificial design intelligence) tool. All you need to do is answer a few questions about your new website and the tool will automatically build the entire thing for you in just a few seconds.
From there, you can customize the auto-generated content with your own images, colors, fonts, text, and more to make your website truly one-of-a-kind.
The best part, though? You can try Wix for free… forever.
It’s an excellent way to try it out, but the free plan is extremely limiting and you can’t connect your own custom domain. So, it’s not a long-term solution, but it far outshines a temporary free trial.
Whether you’re looking for a personal website or a full-featured business page, Wix has everything you need and a variety of plans to suit users of all shapes and sizes.
This is an excellent way to avoid themes that aren’t compatible, have low rates, and are outside your budget.
It’s important to note you can always change the colors, fonts, images, and overall branding of the theme you choose. So, it’s more critical and beneficial to pay close attention to theme functionality and overall layout instead of colors and other things you can change later.
Website mock-ups & design
Our world class design team brings concepts to life in our mockup process. Interactive feedback tool and revision rounds add value and help us manage the design process as a team.
3. Website development
Our expert web design and development team builds your approved designs into the industry-leading drag-and-drop system for easy updating and ongoing maintenance. All sites are always fully responsive for all screen sizes and devices.
4. Revisions & launch
Our revision rounds are an opportunity for us to work with clients to key in any changes to the development link prior to launch, we work until it’s perfect.
Experience award-winning web design
A top web design is more than an “About Us” and a “Contact” page. It’s how you communicate.
It’s how you show off your products and capabilities and most importantly, it’s how you convert leads. A ( CTA ) call-to-action strategy needs to intuitively guide your visitors through your brand story and products or services.
The user experience and user interface need to make them engage, take action and convert. An integrated blog and easy to use CMS needs to feed them content and dynamically update those static web pages.
Ebooks, videos and other micro-conversion opportunities need to to be reaching out to those conducting research and analysis (Check out our ebook on “10 questions to ask before starting your web design project”).
If you are going to redo or just plain do this website thing, let us help you do it right.
You need to analyze the competition, create content that matters, communicate effectively and convert your visitors.
You probably just wanted a brochureware website. Don’t fret, designing your website right doesn’t cost you extra, it just takes choosing the right web design company and asking for the right features…
But doing it wrong might cost you everything. Let Vital Design’s experienced team of web design professionals take you on this journey, the right way.
I mean seriously, we built 60 plus websites last year, we know what we’re doing.
Vital’s award winning web design and development team builds the best websites on the web. Our years of web design experience have led to a results driven process that ensures successful outcomes.
We start with analysis, research and planning followed by architecture, wireframing and content creation.
Once completed we move on to award winning web design and SEO driven content including copywriting, photography and video.
With the planning behind us, the design and content assets in place the website development stage begins. Our development process takes place on the best website platforms and use the best web development languages.
We add tools and applications that produce results. The end result, award winning website design, strong SEO and a website ready to take on any inbound or digital marketing strategy you can throw at it.
A top web design takes experience and process:
Collaborative design process
Award Winning Web Design
Built-in SEO best practices
Easy to use CMS
Responsive Web Design
Ecommerce & Application Development
Rigorous analysis and reporting
The best web designs take planning, experience, talent and execution. Make your competitors jealous and look like a fortune 500 company work with Vital’s team of digital marketers on your next web design.
We think you and the Internet are going to get along great. Ask us your questions about your next web design project.
Website Design & Development Services
Your website is your business's online home. It's the place that potential customers go to when researching your business and the products and services that you offer.
It's also the place where potential employees understand your business better, including your and credibility within the local market. It's therefore, it's critical for your business's long-term success that your website truly represents your brand.
VIET SEO has been building websites for businesses located around the world since 2005 and have a vast portfolio of clients, from homegrown businesses to multinational companies.
We also provide a range of Performance Optimisation services for businesses that need support maximising their return on investment for websites.
We can assist you with CRM integrated websites, as well as e-commerce sites if need be. Whatever your business's requirements are, VIET SEO is equipped with the best solutions on the market, whether you need a completely new website or the revamping of your existing one.
Our agency has an IT team and content producers and designers who can cater to your website. By having a well designed and developed website, you will increase your customer conversion rate, among many other benefits. VIET SEO can provide custom themes that are fit with integrations, plugins, HTML, your choice in software.
We work closely with our clients to ensure they are satisfied with the result and provide ongoing maintenance support if required.
Website Designing Services
If your business aims at reaching potential customers faster, you need a website!
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As a discipline, web design has already exhausted its possibilities
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Things are moving in the direction of digital assistants like Siri, and especially Google Now with the new changes announced for Android M: they aim to provide you the exact bit of information you need, when you need it.
This implies a shift from web pages to web services: self-sufficient bits of information that can be combined to other services to deliver value.
So if you are looking for a restaurant, you get the reviews from Foursquare or Yelp, the directions from Google Maps and the traffic conditions from Waze.
Even more: we are transitioning to a push-based model of content consumption, where the right information arrives without you even requesting it.
Google Now, for instance, warns you of how early you should depart in order to arrive on time to your meeting. All of this is already happening thanks to APIs—interfaces that let other services interact with your data. In this world, web pages are not required at all.
This is not to say that web pages will die—they will be around for a long time, because they are —and will continue to be— useful for certain purposes.
But there’s nothing interesting there for designers anymore. They are a commodity and a medium, no longer the default state for digital products and businesses.
Web pages are static content that need to be found and visited (pull-based).
But in the emerging push-based paradigm, the content finds you. Through data obtained from your context, your activity, and even your biometrics, content and tools will smartly present themselves to you when you are most likely to need them.
That’s the big thing about the new breed of smartwatches: they obtain data from your body and show you proactively tiny bits of information for your brain to chew on. Computer technology is already making big steps in order to dissapear from your sight.
Where does this leave us?
Web Design is Dead, Long Live UX Design
Here’s the good news: designers are really far from being obsolete. Quite to the contrary, you can see that the demand for UX designers is still on the rise, and everyone seems to be redesigning their digital products these days.
This switch from web design to experience design is directly caused by the shift from web pages to digital products, tools, and ecosystems.
Web pages are just part of something much bigger: mobile apps, API’s, social media presence, search engine optimization, customer service channels, and physical locations all inform the experience a user has with a brand, product, or service. Pretending that you can run a business or deliver value just by taking care of the web channel is naïve at best and harmful at worst.
And all these touchpoints need to be designed, planned, and managed. This is a job that will continue to exist, regardless of the channel.
We will still need cohesive experiences and valuable content across smart climatizers, virtual reality devices, electronic contact lenses, and whatever we invent in the decades to come.
In fact, as technology fades into the background, all we can see is the value transmitted by it. The designers who want to stay in business need to be experts in managing content and value across channels.
Now more than ever, in a world flooded with cognitive noise, the world needs simple, intelligent, integrated ecosystems of information. The sooner designers embrace this need, the better prepared we’ll be for the future.
Your website inspiration journey starts here.
Deciding to create a web presence is a big decision, but the best websites are a culmination of many small decisions.
Choosing the right content management system and web host, opting for a template, refining your content, and selecting the best layouts to display your products and services are just a few of the details that establish your business’s online identity.
But one major decision that takes time, diligence, and a great deal of inspiration is the design of your website.
From familiar corporations to small businesses, to international organizations, the following sites push the status quo on the web. Whether it's the design aesthetic, usability, interactivity, sound design, or value that the site provides, each one is a masterpiece in its respective industry and something to aspire to.
Not surprisingly, many organizations exist to highlight these sites and the contributions they make to the web.
To help surface some of the most inspirational designs, I gathered several award-winners that have made their way through several key awards organizations — including Red Dot, Awwwards, UX Awards, The Webby Awards, SiteInspire, Best Website Gallery, and FWA.
As you browse through the list, know that each site excels in its own way and seeks to serve a unique purpose. While one site may be an excellent example of visual design, another may be an excellent example of interactivity.
This means that not all of these sites may be "conversion machines" or blueprint ideas that you can easily copy over to your site. Rather, they're great ways to gain some website design inspiration and see the cutting-edge marketing that's happening in the different corners of the web.
Keep in mind that web designs are fluid and change often. Some of the designs in this list have changed since they were awarded, but we do our best to keep them up-to-date. We’re confident you’ll find a design here that sparks your creativity.
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a website.
Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.
We aren’t going to discuss the design implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles.
Heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.
Please notice that you might be interested in the usability-related articles we’ve published before:
Designing A Perfect Accordion
Designing A Perfect Responsive Configurator
How Do Users Think? #
Basically, users’ habits on the Web aren’t that different from customers’ habits in a store. Visitors glance at each new page, scan some of the text, and click on the first link that catches their interest or vaguely resembles the thing they’re looking for. In fact, there are large parts of the page they don’t even look at.
Most users search for something interesting (or useful) and clickable; as soon as some promising candidates are found, users click. If the new page doesn’t meet users’ expectations, the Back button is clicked and the search process is continued.
Users appreciate quality and credibility. If a page provides users with high-quality content, they are willing to compromise the content with advertisements and the design of the site. This is the reason why not-that-well-designed websites with high-quality content gain a lot of traffic over years. Content is more important than the design which supports it.
Users don’t read, they scan. Analyzing a web-page, users search for some fixed points or anchors which would guide them through the content of the page.
Web users are impatient and insist on instant gratification. Very simple principle: If a website isn’t able to meet users’ expectations, then designer failed to get his job done properly and the company loses money. The higher is the cognitive load and the less intuitive is the navigation, the more willing are users to leave the website and search for alternatives. [JN / DWU]
Users don’t make optimal choices. Users don’t search for the quickest way to find the information they’re looking for. Neither do they scan webpage in a linear fashion, going sequentially from one site section to another one. Instead users satisfice;
They choose the first reasonable option. As soon as they find a link that seems like it might lead to the goal, there is a very good chance that it will be immediately clicked. Optimizing is hard, and it takes a long time. Satisficing is more efficient.
Don’t Make Users Think #
According to Krug’s first law of usability, the web-page should be obvious and self-explanatory. When you’re creating a site, your job is to get rid of the question marks — the decisions users need to make consciously, considering pros, cons and alternatives.
A clear structure, moderate visual clues and easily recognizable links can help users to find their path to their aim.
Don’t Squander Users’ Patience #
In every project when you are going to offer your visitors some service or tool, try to keep your user requirements minimal.
The less action is required from users to test a service, the more likely a random visitor is to actually try it out. First-time visitors are willing to play with the service, not filling long web forms for an account they might never use in the future.
Let users explore the site and discover your services without forcing them into sharing private data. It’s not reasonable to force users to enter an email address to test the feature.
As Ryan Singer — the developer of the 37Signals team — states, users would probably be eager to provide an email address if they were asked for it after they’d seen the feature work, so they had some idea of what they were going to get in return.
