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Webolutions has been Denver’s premier web design and development company since 1994, developing over 2,000 custom website solutions.
We provide custom website solutions built to address your specific business goals. As the hub of your digital marketing efforts, your website performs many crucial functions. At Webolutions, we’ll work closely with you to create a website that will build your brand, effectively convey your story to your audience and convert more leads.
We’ve refined our web design process based on decades of industry experience. During this time, we’ve discovered that there’s no substitute for meticulous planning. As part of our multi-tiered website design process, we’ll help you achieve clarity about who you can be in the world and discover your unique niche in your market. We’ll then bring all that is great and special about you to life in your new website to help your business grow and thrive.
The specific nature of your industry and your overall business goals should determine your objectives for your new website project.
Depending on your specific goals and priorities, our expert team will custom create the information architecture (IA), designs, functionality, calls to action (CTAs), and the user experience (UX) to maximize the effectiveness and results of your website.
• Generate more qualified leads
• Effectively convey your company’s industry thought leadership
• Share your portfolio projects with new potential clients
• Facilitate more product sales via a robust eCommerce solution
• Attract and engage new, dynamic employees
• Differentiate your company clearly and effectively from competitors
• Serve as reinforcement for your sales team presentations
• Become a powerful marketing tool to attract new qualified prospects
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We incorporate and utilize a tremendous amount of data intelligence in our website creation process. Before we start your website designs or any programming, you will come to fully understand:
The result of this collaborative deep dive is a specific target keyword list which we use to reverse engineer your website structure and generate top search engine listings.
Understanding your specific competitive landscape allows us to create unique and compelling messaging that differentiates you from your competitors. Typically, we tend to see many of our clients using common, generic, and uninspiring marketing language prior to working with us. Some of the common statements we see include:
In reality, most companies within an industry all sound the same, and this is largely due to the fact that they all use some variation of these generic, clichéd statements. By reviewing the messages used by your competitors, we can create unique, highly relevant messaging that is far more compelling. This automatically provides you with a competitive advantage that will engage and attract new potential customers.
As we review your competitors, some of the items we’ll evaluate include:
We use this information to make more informed decisions regarding your website size, areas of focus, URL structure, messaging, content, calls to action, and other key factors critical to you outranking, outperforming and beating your competitors online. We’ll collaborate with you as we make these important web design decisions to ensure we’re aligned with you in a common vision for your new website.
A successful brand is a memory bank of positive associations between an organization and what it believes (stands for) and moments of happiness in people’s lives. This creates an expectation in the hearts and minds of those who hear your name or interact with your organization.
Effective branding creates an immediately identifiable emotional connection – beyond rational reasoning and logic, product superiority, product attributes, or technical specifications. It is the culmination of the experiences someone has with your company. These experiences are driven by a core set of innate values and a clearly defined organizational purpose.
Building a strong brand will help you succeed by:
Your Brand Story Should Focus on Transformational Messaging
Effective brand messaging creates a transformation in your target audience. It does not focus on what you do and/or how you do it. The latter focuses on the product or service you provide, which does very little to explain why someone should choose you over your competitors. The former creates an indispensable relationship between you and your audience, which will compel them to choose you over your competitors.
In order to achieve this transformation, your messaging must create an association between the experience of using your product/service and a set of psychological emotions which aren’t typically associated with consuming this type of product/service. By pairing your product or service with this unexpected psychological emotion, a transformation occurs within the user.
There are several criteria which must be met to achieve this transformational messaging:
Before building your website, we engage you on a guided discovery journey evolving the mindset of your leadership team, allowing them to see themselves through a series of new lenses. This advances them away from a focus on the products and services they sell towards spotlighting the real transformations they create. This Market Positioning Acton Plan™ establishes your true marketplace differentiation and creates the ability to more effectively connect fresh and unique brand messaging with the needs of your target customers.
While planning your new website user experience, we review and understand how users engage with your current website. As part of your new website success planning, we uncover how people are interacting with your current website. This includes your:
Armed with these insights and intelligence, we create a more engaging user experience for your new website. We make sure your most popular content is front and center, and we develop more dynamic user journeys to maximize your website conversions.
After this extensive prebuild success planning has been completed, we move to the next phase of the web design process. This involves developing your website functionality and architecture. We are one of the only Denver web design companies who go through this aspect of the process.
As with the success planning phase, there are many aspects involved in creating your website functionality and architecture. We’re extremely meticulous about this process because we’ve witnessed firsthand the ways in which this level of care and planning is crucial to a successful website design.
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The user experience (UX) encompasses all aspects of your website, including:
For nearly three decades, we’ve watched and meticulously tracked how users engage with websites. We’ve seen the trends – where their mouse moves, how far they scroll down a page, what actions they take, and the types and ways in which they respond to calls to action. When we develop the UX for your website (based on your specific business goals), we incorporate tens of thousands of hours of real-world knowledge and insights to ensure your website outperforms those of your competitors.
Planning an engaging architecture is a critical element of the web design process. We always do this from the ground up:
All this data is utilized in planning your new website architecture before design, ensuring your website is optimized to rank well and generate far more conversions.
We reverse engineer the new website navigation, URL structures and keyword list to take full advantage of the better search ranking opportunities identified in the Market Positioning Action Plan™. This process involves a comprehensive keyword selection and analysis:
We use the cost per click information to put a valuation on the organic search traffic. The higher the cost per click, the higher the volume of search traffic. These terms are valued higher when determining which keywords to target for organic traffic. This information is used to formulate an overall SEO strategy that will work for your business. During this process, we develop a plan to optimize the website to generate relevant traffic that will achieve your business goals.
Utilizing our decades of website design and development experience, we collaborate with you to determine the specific website functionality best suited to meet your specific goals. We provide fresh ideas and options to ensure that your users have an amazing experience.
To create alignment, we are diligent about collaborating, communicating and documenting your desired website functionality. Not only is this best practice, it creates clarity and eliminates the possibility of unmet expectations for your website.
Typically, technical requirements fit into two categories:
Native website functionality refers to data and functionality fully contained within your website. Examples include:
We work with you to outline:
Through our collaborative process, we will explore these possibilities with you to differentiate your website from your competitors.
Third-party website integrations are the incorporation of third-party functionality or data into your website. Some examples include:
We work closely with you, your third party, and their documentation and team to clearly and accurately document how this functionality will work within your website. When we create these connections, we work with you to outline:
We evaluate, plan and successfully execute these system integrations to streamline your operational efficiencies and create a seamless user experience on your website.
Collaborating and creating clarity around the designs, user flow and functionality of your website is critical to achieving your vision. To achieve this clarity and facilitate collaboration, our website projects use a variety of development tools.
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After we’ve created the technical requirements for your website, we’ll develop wireframes to create additional functionality clarity and alignment. This is especially critical for complex projects. We identify the specific pages needed to create your enhanced user experience. Then, we use UXPin to create interactive visual wireframes of your website pages.
A wireframe is a visual representation of a website page which is easily adjusted and edited. As we collaborate, review, and adjust these pages, we create clarity about the content and flow of information on these pages. This provides an extremely effective tool for individuals who process information visually. It allows us to evaluate the UX of a page without the cost of designing the page and performing backend programming first. This saves a tremendous amount of time and resources.
Our tools also allow us to provide you with links to share your website wireframes with your team for their ideas and input.
Once we have clarity around the functionality of your website and best user flows, we create full mockups of your key website pages in a collaborative, cloud-based tool called InVision. Mockups incorporate your brand standards and are fully designed visual representations of the key elements we will create for your website.
The creation, collaborative review and adjustments of your mockups ensures we are 100% aligned with your website vision. As we create, review and adjust your website mockups, it provides another opportunity for fresh ideas that will improve your overall website user experience.
As with the wireframes, we provide you with links to share your website mockups with your team for their ideas and input.
As we move through your website development process, you will evolve your thinking and new ideas will surface. We create a website technical requirements document which will keep track of all adjustments that occur throughout the process. Any functionality modifications made while working within the wireframes or mockups will be logged in this document. This ensures that all functionality requirements will be met once we program your website.
During the Market Positioning Action Plan™ and Brand Platform™ development, we establish your key messaging and brand story to convey the transformation that your customers/clients will experience. This information will drive all messaging in the content we create for the new website, ensuring a consistent story, tone and voice throughout all pages.
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We use a collaborative content development tool called GatherContent to manage your content creation project. This tool provides several benefits which facilitate a smoother process:
During the development of your keyword list, our SEO team identifies specific pages to be written as “champion pages.” These contain longer, more comprehensive content that will help the page rank higher on Google. Champion pages are determined based on your priority keywords, and they are reverse-engineered to help you rank for these target keywords.
Pay Per Click (PPC) landing pages are created as needed to support any paid search campaigns that will be launched after the website goes live. These campaign landing pages are specifically designed to maximize visitor conversions. Some key elements that help a campaign landing page convert at a much higher percentage include:
Our content team works closely with your team throughout the content process to ensure all messaging is on brand and factually accurate. We create a customized workflow to address your unique needs and best leverage the expertise of all stakeholders involved in the process.
All content is thoroughly researched to ensure factual accuracy. In situations where we are creating content around a unique product or niche industry, information gathering meetings will be scheduled as needed to ensure our content team has all the information necessary to create highly accurate, quality content.
In addition, all content goes through a rigorous editing and review process before being finalized. This process is a collaborative effort between the Webolutions team and your team to ensure everyone is aligned and the content is achieving the goals established at the onset of the website creation process.
Enterprise-level websites continue to evolve and advance in their level of complexity. At Webolutions, we keep you at the forefront of creating a compelling and engaging user experience. We are able to create and program any functionality seen on any website.
Common website functionalities we incorporate:
For well over a decade, every website we create has been designed and programmed to provide a great user experience on tablets and mobile phones. This is an essential component of modern website design.
We adopt a fully fluid design to ensure that your website will look great to the user on any screen size or resolution. This fluid design shifts images around, resizes images and automatically creates a mobile website that is clean, easy to navigate and inspires user engagement.
Each of our websites provide 100% custom designed content blocks. When you’re creating a new page on your website, you can use, move and adjust these content blocks to create a virtually unlimited number of website page layouts. Unlike cheap, out-of-the-box themes, we are able to quickly and easily adjust any facet of your website content blocks to create exactly the right look and feel for you to tell your brand story.
Many of our content blocks can provide additional customizable features, including the ability to:
Using content blocks to create your website pages distinguishes your website design as a more professional experience, and it also provides you with the ease and flexibility to customize your website in a way that excites and engages your visitors.
On-Page Actions for Higher Engagement
The purpose of your website is to educate and engage. Our websites are designed to turn your traffic into engaged clients. When we create your website, we’re always cognizant to include multiple opportunities for you to engage your website visitors. These opportunities may include:
Armed with these tools, your new website will drive more engagement and customers to your business.
We can also help you develop custom functionality for your website. Some custom functions we’ve designed include:
If you have an idea about how to create a better website experience for your business or how to add value to your customers through custom functionality, we can design a great interface that will bring this custom functionality to life.
Many businesses utilize numerous systems and data sources, making it necessary to pull data from multiple resources. We are experts at aggregating the data from our different business systems into an easy to use, highly functional website. Through the use of APIs or web services, we are able to incorporate your business information from multiple systems into a streamlined online user experience.
Once we’ve reached this point in the process, it’s time to populate the website with content, images and other assets that will convey your brand story. We provide robust training to ensure you understand how to navigate the back end of your website. This ensures you feel comfortable making edits to your new website.
There are several important benefits associated with teaching you how to work on your website:
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We’ll provide live training to any of your team members who will be working on the website to ensure they feel comfortable making all necessary edits. During this training session, we:
We can also record the training session for future reference. This can be a valuable tool to refresh your memory in the event that there is a significant amount of time in between the training and when your team needs to make updates to the website.
We provide you with a user’s guide that will help you make updates to your website moving forward. This gives you a single document for reference purposes, delivering an exceptional user experience. As an added convenience, you’ll be able to access links to your website and the training session recordings from the user’s guide. The user’s guide also makes it easy for new team members coming on board after the training session to get up to speed on how to make updates to the website.
During the content population process, we add all content and visual assets to the pages on your website. The visual assets may include:
During the design process, our web design team will create a series of content blocks that can be used interchangeably on each website page. There are several benefits to using content blocks:
When content is added to each page, our team will insert hyperlinks, making it easy for readers to navigate to related pages which may contain additional information of value to them. The use of internal hyperlinks also provides important SEO value.
If you have blog content from your old website, we can easily transfer these over to your new site during the population process, ensuring you retain this valuable content.
During the website launch, our IT team addresses all the technical items necessary to ensure your website will function properly. This is a highly detailed process that involves several important steps.
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When launching your new website, we will coordinate your Domain Name Systems (DNS) to ensure your primary website domain and any pointer domains are configured correctly. We ensure that your MX record(s) are configured to avoid any email interruptions. We also configure redirects for the www. versions of your domains to the root counterpart to avoid any canonicalization issues. This increases your search engine rankings.
Whether we configure your DNS or simply coordinate with your IT team, we will ensure these configurations are done correctly.
Server caching is always included with Webolutions WordPress hosting. This is the process of storing copies of all your website files locally for quick access. WordPress is a highly database intensive application, and our specialized caching engine allows website visitors to load your website dramatically faster than if caching was not active.
Caching also provides several other important benefits:
Our caching engine is optimized for WordPress websites and is constantly being updated as WordPress-specific rules change. This ensures a seamless server caching process throughout the lifetime of your website.
Cloudflare provides an additional caching/content delivery network (CDN) layer at the DNS level. CDNs allow your website visitors to pull resources from a location closer to them geographically rather than from where the server is physically located. Cloudflare also provides additional security that helps block and contain the continuous stream of attacks that happen on the Internet every day.
For eCommerce sites and websites that receive high levels of traffic, we suggest the Cloudflare Pro plan which includes a web application firewall that provides added real time threat detection and mitigation. The Pro plan also includes additional on-the-fly image optimization that compresses and delivers optimized images to visitors.
When combined, server caching and Cloudflare provide a faster and more secure experience for visitors.
A 301 redirect is a tactic that points an old url that is no longer in use to a newer url containing the same page content. It passes the full ranking power of the old url to the new url, ensuring that optimal SEO results are maintained in the event that url extensions for each page are changed when we build your new website. When redirects are needed, using a 301 redirect reflects SEO best practices. During the website launch process, our SEO team will implement any 301 redirects that are required.
After your website is launched, our SEO team will run a website audit and ensure all internal links to pages are optimized. In addition, backlinks to pages will be built. This process ensures that your website is properly optimized to receive best possible SEO results from the moment your website is launched.
Our work doesn’t end when your website is launched. We also provide a wide range of ongoing services to ensure your website delivers the results you need. There are several important components to this process.
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Adding fresh content to your website is crucial to achieving the best possible SEO results. Google places a significant value on regular content updates as this shows the search engine your website contains the most current information available. This will help improve your search engine rankings.
Your dedicated Webolutions strategic lead, content strategist and SEO specialist will collaborate to establish a strategic, long-term content strategy, including setting an appropriate content cadence, to achieve your specific communication and business goals:
Content mix recommendations will be based on our thorough analysis and may include:
While most people have access to Google Analytics, we have found that most businesses do not have a lot of intelligence about their website traffic, page engagements, and how they can vastly improve their website’s performance results.
Using your analytics data and data from other sources, we aggregate this information into dashboards and systems that tell the entire story regarding your website’s performance. This intelligence enables us to identify the specific actions, paths and pages where small changes can greatly improve your overall website performance.
Our team will collaborate to identify how you are performing against industry benchmarks and help you make changes to your website that elevate its performance on an ongoing basis.
Our team will use your performance intelligence dashboards to improve the conversion rates of your website. A conversion refers to a situation when someone visiting your website takes a desired action. This can include:
By understanding your audience, your unique selling proposition(s) and how your visitors are engaging with your website, our team of experts will make active recommendations that will continually improve your overall website results.
We utilize a variety of tactics to continuously improve your online presence and drive more traffic to your website. These include:
Monthly SEO efforts will be geared towards improving organic search results to drive more traffic to the website. This may include a combination of:
Pay per click (PPC) campaigns will be set up as needed to improve visibility and drive traffic for priority areas of your marketing strategy. These paid ads are an especially effective tactic immediately following website launch to help you gain additional traffic while your organic search results gradually improve.
We will also work with you to garner more reviews which will build trust among your target audience. Reputation management is becoming an increasingly important strategy since individuals are relying on reviews as part of their decision-making process more than ever before.
As Denver’s leading website design company, Webolutions is uniquely positioned to help your business thrive. Our transformational Intrinsic Multiplier™ Approach allows you to grow your business faster, smarter and easier. We’re the only web design company in the country that utilizes this unique approach, and it reflects a much deeper, more thorough web design process than you’ll find at other agencies.
The Intrinsic Multiplier™ Approach provides you with a collaborative, expert led journey to identify what is special about you as a company. We’ll combine this intimate knowledge about your business with our comprehensive market research and competitive analysis to establish your industry leading market positioning. This will clearly differentiate you and make you stand out from other businesses in your market.
We use this information to develop your key brand communication elements, and we integrate your brand story into the overall experience conveyed in your new custom website. This creates an amazing user experience that converts more leads and grows your business. Our robust communications and tracking systems allow us to measure your results to ensure we achieve your goals. Based on these performance metrics, we’ll provide ongoing recommendations that will help you continuously improve your website’s performance and grow your business.
Contact us today to schedule a free consultation. Our Denver web design agency serves clients nationwide.