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Creating a strong first impression is crucial, especially through your company's website. Here's a powerful fact: 97% of consumers check out a company's website before deciding to visit their physical location. Your website should swiftly and clearly communicate your vision, mission, and values. Think of it as a virtual handshake, a friendly digital greeting, and a warm welcome to your visitors. It's your opportunity to connect with them, to resonate with their aspirations, and to inspire action. Your website isn't just an online presence; it's the heart of your brand, ready to build genuine connections and make a lasting impact. Time is of the essence, so let's work on transforming your website into an influential powerhouse.
It only takes a fraction of a second for users to form an opinion. 1/10th of a second to form a first impression about a person and 50 milliseconds for someone to form an opinon about your website. So if your website doesnât resonate with the user right away, guess what, they are gone.
To keep visitors on your website, you need to invest in a quality website for your business. Websites can either be developed by using a pre-existing template or developed from the ground up with a custom design.
A template is a pre-made design that can be customized with images, videos, and copy. It only allows for limited customization and since itâs premade, it wonât always align exactly with your business model. Itâs a good option if you have a very limited budget, no idea how to code, and little pages or content.
A custom website design, on the other hand, is built from the ground up and tailored to your brand and your audience. A custom website functions exactly how you intend it to.
A custom-made website reflects your brand, company culture, and values.
After the agency feels they really know your business, its strengths, and what your goals are, theyâll begin to design a website layout that will appeal to your target market and encourage users to take action. A personalized design will resonate with your audience and help solidify your brand.
Anything is possible with a custom website, so the designer (and you) will have the freedom to build in whatever features you want and features that will make it easy for you to manage your website in the future. On a templated website, custom or added technologies arenât possible to be installed.
Your layout, calls to action, navigation, toolbar options, photo placement, colors, and backend project management can all be customized to your preferences. This makes it easy for the website to mimic the branding of your business.
A website made with a premade template wonât be designed to convert your specific users.
Every business is unique and no template can capture the specific user path needed to make a conversion happen. An agency will build a structure that optimizes your conversion rates.
First, custom websites donât have any extra âbloatâ. Bloat includes extra features or code that your website doesnât need. This can include extra JavaScript and CSS files and even poorly coded third-party extensions that can slow your website down. Google prefers clean-coded websites with quick loading times.
Professional web designers will optimize your website for search engines. This means including keyword-rich content on every page, ensuring browser compatibility, fast page speed, and quality coding.
If so, when your business grows, a custom website can grow with it. If you want new functionality, integration, or content, the designer can leave room in the code to expand when you need it.
The best part? You wonât need a whole new website because your existing website can be updated, changed, and modernized easily.
Since a custom website is built with your target audience in mind, it will automatically be more user-friendly than a templated website.
A custom website will be well-formatted, offer easy navigation, fitting calls to action, quick loading times, and will make it easy for users to find the information they need for a positive user experience.
A custom website will cost more than a templated website. This is because more time, labor, skills, and creativity go into it.
We have clients that have invested in custom websites that have served them well for years. As their business grows and as their website changes, there are simple adaptations made to keep them at the forefront.
To use a Chipotle analogy, itâs like paying extra for guac-- you wonât regret it.
Questions about a custom website?