Professional Web Design for South African Businesses

Web design or website design is the process of creating a website. This includes disciplines such as planning and maintenance. It all starts with a plan. The following questions among others will crop up:

What do I want to achieve from having a website?
Do I have a specific target market?
Is this a niche market?
How much online competition is in this industry?
Do I need to have a strong social media presence with my webdesign?
What is my competition offering?
Web design is not all about good graphical representation and special animations. It is a form of advertising and it should be an essential component of your overall marketing strategy.

Your website must be designed in such a way that it answers your customers’ questions while at the same time selling your products or services. However, web design is not only about creating your online presence. It also includes research about your industry. This planning will give your website a solid foundation as you already know more about the online marketplace than before.

With your web design foundation firmly put in place, the other post-design factors become extremely important. These include SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and website maintenance. SEO will continue to drive your website to where you want it to be, page 1 of Google. Maintenance will ensure that your security is up to date, regular backups are done and content is refreshed as needed.

So, before we create your web design, make sure that all your bases are covered. That’s why web designers are here, to make sure that you have everything in place. Contact us now!

Generally, any web design project will in one form or another incorporate 4 main pages/ideas as your foundation. These will be your Home page, About us page, Services page, and Contact us. This structure ensures that when potential customers land on your website they know where to go, your home page should give them a good idea of what you do and where they can get additional information. Immediately they need to know how to get hold of you and what services you offer and who you deal with and have dealt with if you are not a start-up. Your about page sets you apart from everybody else because no one has your story, it will always be unique and can give a personal feel to your business.

 Supporting information like testimonials improves your credibility and gives customers a sense of trust in what you do. People like to see what other people have to say about your company. These are really easy to come by, just ask your customers to drop you 3 or 4 lines, the effort is worth the reward.

This is the start of building your website and adding additional pages as you go will continue to build your brand and your search engine rankings.

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E-Commerce refers to the idea of conducting business or commerce online. Relative to a website it is normally referred to as an online shop or store, where customers can buy products and services directly from your website and you receive that money in your business bank account via a payment gateway like Payfast, which is one of the more popular local gateways.

 Supporting information like testimonials improves your credibility and gives customers a sense of trust in what you do. People like to see what other people have to say about your company. These are really easy to come by, just ask your customers to drop you 3 or 4 lines, the effort is worth the reward.

This is the start of building your website and adding additional pages as you go will continue to build your brand and your search engine rankings.

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The timeframe to deliver a website, as you can imagine varies greatly depending on the size and complexity of its requirements. It can take anything from 5 days to 2 weeks to a month or more.

Our Business Basic package takes about 5 days to complete and our Business Standard package about 7 days.

Landing pages web pages created in relation to your marketing or advertising efforts. Visitors will end up when clicking on your product or service ads directing them to your landing page. 

So when they click for example your Facebook ads they “land” on this web page which is used to close a sale for example.

In simple terms a domain is a location on the internet that is generally accessed by typing in its name in your web browser eg. gwebdesign.co.za.

Hosting refers to the service of storing and displaying your website files on the internet. Your host server will provide the required computing resources to make this happen. 

Hosting is normally split into various types the most common being shared hosting where you share a server with other users, this is normally the cheaper option. VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting where there are much fewer people using the same server. Dedicated hosting where only you make use of the server is normally extremely powerful and more expensive than the other alternatives. Cloud hosting is also available where it is easy to scale or add resources as you require.

In short, yes. In most cases, your hosting provider has a control panel that provides an email setup service to get your business looking even more professional.