Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What makes our websites Stand Out?
A: There are a lot of options when it comes to websites these days. You can design them from scratch, use a template that has been pre-made, hire your friend, a friend of a friend or hire a professional firm like us!
Not all web companies are created equal
In some cases, you won’t even own your own website, you pay monthly for someone else to own your site and when you stop paying-you lose all the money you put into your brand and must start over. Working with us, you own what you paid for, that’s one of the reasons we stand out in the crowd and apart from our competition.
Q: What makes your web design services different from others?
A: What You Can Expect Working with WebSolutions Maine
With personalized experience, you will get a website that is tailored to be attractive and engaging to your clients and helps grow your business.
Discovery and Strategy
We start by looking into your business goals, your audience and new customers.
A Design That Reflects Your Goals & Vision
Your site will look polished and professional. Every page is tailored to match your brand, your voice, and the experience you want your clients to have.
User Experience
Your website’s navigation and layout are user friendly so visitors can move through the site naturally. It is clear, intuitive, and designed to help them find what they need easily.
Mobile Optimization
Your site will look and work great on every screen.
Post-Launch Support
You will not be on your own after your website has been launched. We are always here when you need anything, from a simple update to adding new pages.
Q: What makes web design with WebSolutions Maine different?
A: We collaborate with you on content strategy to imagery, to colors and fonts, to custom coding. When you work with us;
• Our discovery process, to zoom in on your needs, get us both on the same page, and solidify our content strategy for your website.
• We offer On Page SEO and Off Page SEO expertise, to transform your unique products and/or services into messaging that reaches your ideal audience and ranks on Google.
• A beautiful and functional custom website designed to sell your products and/or services.
Q: What website platforms do you work with?
A: Our platform of choice is WordPress, both for ease of use and for search-engine friendly structure. WordPress empowers you to update your own website and leaves plenty of room for powerful add-ons and ability to grow with your business.
With times changing rapidly, we create your business a custom design with a solid foundation. With our foundation there is the ability to change for tomorrow’s new products and/or services without starting new.
Q: Can we start right away?
A: Yes! Our build timelines are typically around 8 weeks, perhaps longer if we’re engaged in a complex custom website.
Q: What do you need from me to create my web design?
A: For us to present your business, we’ll just need a few things from you during our work together:
Share Your Vision: Any your thoughts you may have, goals you are looking to reach and the vision for your website.
Logo: If you currently have one, if not, we can work with you to create one for your brand.
Answers to our questions: Our Discovery process involves communication with you so we can get an in-depth look at your business and create a strategy that works just for you.
Prompt Feedback: We’ll present a home page look in our process, so you can review the look and feel and let us know what’s working for you! Our timeline depends on your prompt feedback and approval.
Q: What can I expect to spend on a web design?
A: We will let you know about costs up-front and get your approval on any additions before we start work. For more information, https://websolutions-maine.com/pricing/
► User experience (UX) design is the process design teams use to create products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users. This involves the design of the entire process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability and function. more…
► Just imagine if you could show all of your website’s visitors exactly what they need, when they needed it. Customers would land on your website and see what they are looking for. What an exciting world that would be! Well it’s not a dream! You can make that happen! We can help! more…
► Not sure what you need? Don’t worry about a thing because we will guide you through the process. You don’t need to deal with separate companies for your website, hosting domain, and never mind trying to figuring out how to get email with your domain or even security on your website. Web Solutions Maine will handle all of this for you because we do it all. more…
► While graphic designers try to create a visually pleasing pixel-perfect design, UX designers try to create the best possible experience—which includes graphic design, information architecture, interaction design, and more.
► Many web design companies offer pricing per-page, with no two projects are alike; there is no way to quote you a fair price for the work you are looking for until we discuss your needs. Once we discuss what features and functions you need on your web pages we then can give you an fair and accurate price /quote.
Large projects, including new website designs or major upgrades, will be outlined in a detailed proposal specifying the scope of the project and the nature of the work that will be performed. On-going maintenance will be billed hourly.
► A typical website will take 14 weeks at a minimum from start to launch. This includes 3 weeks discovery, 6 weeks design, 3 weeks initial development, and 2 weeks of modifications. It could take much longer if you wait until the end to start writing content. more…
► Contact us and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
► SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” … All major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo have primary search results, where web pages and other content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users. more…
► Search engine optimization is important because: … SEO is not only about search engines but good SEO practices improve the user experience and usability of a web site. Users trust search engines and having a presence in the top positions for the keywords the user is searching, increases the web site’s trust. more…
► SEO is an acronym that stands for search engine optimization, which is the process of optimizing your website to get organic, or un-paid, traffic from the search engine results page. … In order to do this, search engines will scan, or crawl, different websites to better understand what the site is about. more…
► The main difference between Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC) is that traffic coming from SEO (organic) is free while traffic generated from PPC is not free (as the name implies you have to pay a cost per click). more…
► When it comes to boosting traffic to your website, you have two basic options: pay-per-click (PPC) advertising or search engine optimization (SEO). You can pay for traffic using the PPC advertising programs provided by Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and others. more…
► What is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client—typically a web server (website) and a browser, or a mail server and a mail client (e.g., Outlook). more…
► SSL is the backbone of our secure Internet and it protects your sensitive information as it travels across the world’s computer networks. SSL is essential for protecting your website, even if it doesn’t handle sensitive information like credit cards. more…
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