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We offer an array of services catered specifically to the needs, goals and budget of each project. Website projects are much more involved than just creating an attractive site. Consideration of user experience, functionality based on the needs of the business, search engine optimization, ease of use, as well as marketing are just a few elements that are involved in developing a website that is designed to perform in today’s robust marketplace. For our larger projects, we offer a range of advanced options from custom development and graphic design to online advertising and non-traditional marketing.
STANDARD SERVICES
Web Design
A well designed website represents much more than just a pretty page. They help visitors understand the company, branding and their products through a variety of ways including graphics, text, and interactive measures. Every element of a website needs to work well together and function toward achieving a clear goal. Our design process is very holistic and takes into consideration both form and function.
Responsive Coding / Mobile-Friendly
With over half of all web traffic coming from a mobile device, creating a mobile-friendly website is no longer optional - it’s a necessity. It all starts with responsive web design and is key to the user experience.
Responsive web design allows websites to adapt to and provide an optimal experience on all devices it’s being viewed from. This means that your website will look great and function flawlessly for a user on a desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Each person will have an experience catered to their viewing device.
Every website designed and developed by Websites Hawaii since 2016 is mobile-friendly and utilizes responsive web design.
Basic Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization, also known as SEO, is the process of optimizing the website architecture, code and content to create relevancy for targeted keywords and subject areas. It is essential to any business that operates on the web. Often misunderstood, search engine optimization needs to be built into the web design process, not worked on after the site goes live.
With all of our websites, we offer Basic SEO - keyword research, selection, page optimization, content optimization. Keep in mind, we do not guarantee that your website will rank high for any specific keywords and searches. Search engine ranking relies on hundreds of factors many of them outside the scope of the website. What Basic SEO does is create a solid foundation for the website to be search and indexed properly by the search engines.
If increasing traffic to the website is critical, we offer select projects a variety of paid marketing options to drive up traffic.
Site Maintenance
The internet is a dynamic media and needs constant care and maintenance. Updating content, making changes to the back-end coding, adding new functionality and fixing broken links are integral parts of running a live website. It is critical that projects include a budget for future work after the site is launched in order to achieve the website goals and to grow in a competitive environment.
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
eCommerce
Software and coding options for websites to offer buying and selling of goods and services through the internet, and the transfer of money and data to execute these transactions. We are able to integrate eCommerce into small stores selling a few items to building large systems offering hundreds of products and advanced capabilities.
Content Management System (CMS)
Software applications and sets of programs used to create and manage website content. CMS’s require instruction and training and are only recommended to those who have experience or time and resources to learn and work with software and design programs.
Blog
Online blog and journal capabilities that can be updated by the owner. Blogs can be used to publish opinions and personal stories or list articles and information in chronological order such as providing latest news and upcoming event information.
Social Media Integration
Various types of social media integration for websites, including coding in social icon buttons, social share / follow buttons, social widgets and embedded social feeds all of which we can accommodate.
ADVANCED SERVICES (for select projects only)
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Our Approach
Once a project proposal is accepted, we then embark on the journey of designing and programming your website. The process goes through the following stages to get to the final launch of the new website.
Project Definition: Defining the purpose and goals which the website should fulfill.
Functionality & Scope: Listing the pages and features required to fulfill the goals, including the timeline to complete the project.
Sitemap: Creating the sitemap and ensuring that all the key pages in the site have been considered. Visually shows the relationship of each page and section to each other and defines how the overall navigation will be structured.
Visual Design: Working on the visual brand with layout, graphics, color, fonts and other design elements. Depending on the project, this may already be well-defined. But in some cases, the visual style does not exist and is designed from the ground up.
Content Creation: Creating content for the individual pages, while keeping in mind user experience and search engine optimization (SEO). All add-on applications and functions are programmed and integrated during this stage.
Testing: Testing the website before the site is launched. The site will be placed on a production server where it will be tested and reviewed in various devices and viewing scenarios. Testing of the site is critical as there might be issues that need addressing before the site goes live. At this stage, the client is provided with a private link to review and test the site as well.
Launch: The site is launched after review and approval.