HOW TO CREATE YOUR WEBSITE

Are you a small or medium-sized business and you don't have a website yet or your website is outdated? You can then modify or create your new website to make it a beautiful showcase for your business! A website is essential to bring you visibility on the web and new prospects to whom you will want to sell your services.

If you already have a website and it is no longer current with the issues and trends of the web today, then it must be redesigned. On average, it is good to renew your website every 5 to 7 years maximum. Obviously, your website must be adaptive and responsive in order to navigate easily on computer, tablet and phone. Working on the responsive of your website is also valued by Google in the positioning of your website on the search engine.

After the creation or the redesign of your website, you may very well want to add other elements to your site and improve it on a daily basis. This is the perfect opportunity to subscribe to a website maintenance service. On the other hand, if you regularly need to make changes and updates to your website, it may be better to opt for the creation of a custom CMS. A CMS is a management tool that allows you to directly modify the different elements and contents of your website.

At the very least, you should count on $1,500. The budget can go from 0 to 40 000$. It is rare that it exceeds $15,000.

Depending on the size of your website, the contents and the features you want to have, a website for a small business can take up to 2 months of work. But on average, for a classic showcase website, you can count 2 or 3 weeks.

It takes between 1 week and 3 months to design a CMS. It all depends on your needs.

A custom CMS creation costs between 1 500$ and 25 000$. Again, it depends on your needs. The more features you want, the more expensive it will be.

A custom CMS has many advantages, we have listed the main ones:

• Ease of use
• Makes logistics intuitive
• Represents the company
• Usable by everyone
• Profitable investment
• Little updates to do
• More secure
• Not more expensive than the others

Indeed, it is possible to replace or modify it. 

Taking into account web design trends and web issues, it is appropriate to redo your website every 4 or 5 years. Do not neglect the importance of a website for your business and the need to have one. Today, your customers will find you on the web, that's why it is essential to ensure an optimized presence for search engines. 

Analyze your needs, desires to know the positioning of your company, your strategies, your content ... The goal is to achieve a web design that meets your needs.

Think of an original design to give you an idea of your website. Thus, you can propose your ideas to a web design agency; what are the dominant colors, what are the sites that inspire you, what is the font you want to see... Following a consultation, a more elaborate graphic model will be presented to you by the agency. Thus, the agency will bring to this "image", all the modifications until reaching your full satisfaction. In the same way, they will work on the design of the interior pages.

Once the design is approved, the integration and development team brings the site design to life. An access is provided to you to see in real time the evolution of its layout. The custom content management system will be developed in parallel if necessary.

Tests are regularly performed to ensure that the site is fully supported by the main browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari) and media (including phones and tablets). Tests on the site's functionalities are also conducted. Once all these verifications are completed, your site can be put online.

Dubuc Marketing web agency offers web design and development services for small and medium-sized businesses, especially in Montreal and on the South Shore. Since 2007, our development team has put hundreds of websites online. To obtain a quote for the design or redesign of your website, contact Dubuc Marketing web development agency.