eCommerce Website Design
Get Your Shopify Or WooCommerce Online Store
There are numerous ecommerce platforms available and choosing the right eCommerce platform can be difficult.
Shopify is one of the most popular and easy to use platforms but can be costly and limit your long term goals.
WooCommerce is a free, flexible, customizable, open-source eCommerce platform built for WordPress and can be used to set up small or large sized online stores.
Cost
The cost effectiveness of ecommerce platforms is an important factor to consider. Shopify’s monthly subscription and transactional fees can increase cost specially for high sales volume.
WooCommerce doesn’t impose a percentage fee on transactions, which is a significant advantage for businesses looking to minimize costs. WooCommerce supports various payment gateways like PayPal, Stripe, and credit card payments.
Flexibility
Shopify provides a streamlined approach to customization through themes and apps, while WooCommerce offers unparalleled flexibility and control through the extensive WordPress ecosystem. Adding numerable features with help of plug-ins, turns Woo commerce to be highly flexible offering the tools and resources you need to build a successful eCommerce business that aligns with your business goals.
Scalability
Both Shopify and WooCommerce are scalable solutions, but they offer scalability in different ways. Shopify provides a more turnkey approach with built-in scalability and support, while WooCommerce offers unparalleled flexibility and customization options. Your choice will depend on your business’s specific needs, resources, and growth trajectory.
Integration
Both Shopify and WooCommerce offer robust integration capabilities, allowing you to connect your online store with a wide range of third-party services, tools, and applications. Shopify provides a centralized App Store for easy access to apps and integrations, while WooCommerce leverages the extensive WordPress plugin ecosystem for flexible customization and integration options.
Reports
Both Shopify and WooCommerce offer robust reporting capabilities that provide insights into your store’s performance and help you make informed business decisions. Shopify’s built-in reports may offer more depth and customization options out of the box, while WooCommerce’s reporting capabilities can be extended through its plugin ecosystem.
Discover
The first step of the professional web design process is to collect some details about your business to identify the end goal of the website design. Questions to explore and answer in this stage of the design and website development process include:
Plan
After understanding your vision and goals, we conduct an in-depth research and develop a plan to achieve the best results. This phase involves keywords research, competitors research, development of your website structure, content, pictures, sketches and page layout.
Typically you will submit us with the page content’s text but we will help in tweaking it for the best SEO keywords. You will also submit all your social media pages so we can integrate them into your website. If you would like to analyze your website traffic you will also provide us with your Google Analytics code as well as Google Search Console verification codes. We can definitely help you finding these codes from your Google account.
design
Now that we have a bigger picture of the site in mind, we can start setting up the CMS, theme and all required plugins, creating the site structure and sitemap for the individual pages.
With the site architecture in place, we can start working on the visual design. We setup the look and feel of the website including colors, fonts, menus, pictures always keeping search engine optimization (SEO) in mind to help keep pages focused on a single topic.
We then provide you with a username and password so you can access the website and see the progress. You can also give us your feedback and suggestions while your website is in the design phase.
Review
Once we complete the design of your website, this is the time for you to review the final design and request changes so you are completely satisfied with the final result.
We recommend that you do a full functionality test of the website including checking all external links to your social media pages, Google my business and any other links as well as the contact forms making sure it’s sending messages with the desired settings.
Launch
After implementing the final changes this is the time for us to test your website performance and optimize it speed and loading time. We do a thorough analysis using the best tools to make sure your website is performing at it’s best to help increase your websites ranking on search engines.
We finalize the setting of the caching and minifying plugins to improve speed and performance. We also optimize all images and provide them in the next-gen WebP format to help you improve your website visitors experience, achieve your marketing goals and improve you SEO position
We setup your website with the Google Analytics tracking code so you can easily track your website traffic. This will help you understand your site visitors and where they are coming from, improve your website according to real metrics and improve your SEO ranking.