Not all websites are created equally. Anyone's cousin's nephew's kid can put up a website. It takes professionals with experience in a wide range of businesses to develop the site that will help your business succeed.
While no website is 100% secure - just ask any bank or government website that has been hacked - Web Narwhal puts your site security first and foremost. With regular scans, proper firewalls, scheduled backups, and security updates.
Our primary development platform is whichever platform works best for you. Is WordPress the best option for you? Perhaps it's Duda or Shopify. Perhaps you need a fully customized solution for your website. Our goal is to build the solution that is best for you, not us.
While it’s relatively easy these days for anyone to slap together a website, having a site that isn’t properly designed is about as productive as just registering a domain name, but never actually tying it to a site. That’s where professional design/build services come into play. A professional designer can build you a website that is attractive and functional on all devices, able to rank well in search engines, helps convert visitors into customers, and satisfies the legal requirements.
And that is what we specialize in at Web Narwhal!
With many websites today receiving half or more of their visits from users on mobile devices – mostly phones, it’s crucial to ensure that not only can the site be navigated efficiently on a mobile phone, but that the content is presented in a way that doesn’t make it more difficult to find information and complete desired actions than it would be on a desktop.
There’s a lot that goes into making a website search engine friendly… security, freedom from malware or deceptive practices, encryption of data, speed of page loading, useful content, relevancy to the search query… but there’s still a lot more that goes on under the hood. Schema markup may be called for, meta descriptions, appropriate use of headings, alt attributes for images, and more. All of these aren’t necessarily ranking factors, but they can indirectly affect a page’s ability to rank – or even be indexed.
There are several different facets of compliance that must be addressed. Privacy First Web Development (GDPR / COPPA) has become a major issue in nearly every market area, with security of personally identifiable information and transparency being the key factors. Accessible website design (WCAG) is equally critical, if not more so, with severe penalties for sites that don’t ensure equal access and utility to users who experience any limited abilities - and there are many accessibility factors to consider. And of course, as has been the case for years, ensuring that all financial transactions are executed in a secure manner.
Every website needs to be maintained. From plugin updates to security updates. and more, failing to keep your website up to date is a primary vector toward having your website compromised, or to it crashing entirely. At Web Narwhal we provide regularly scheduled maintenance and updates to every website we build and host. If we don't host your website, we can still provide maintenance services including:
*Accessibility updates are to the best of our ability to maintain WCAG compliance. No one guarantee 100% compliance since every accessibility issue unique.
Web Narwhal designs every site we build with all the foregoing in mind, with the goal of achieving as high a level of success for our clients as possible. Obviously, none of these four criteria are ever complete, as the driving factors are in a continuous state of evolution. So what is considered a success today may need adjustment at a later date. Think in terms of a journey, rather than a destination… as requirements evolve, so should your website. And we design with that flexibility built-in.
Contact us today and let’s chat about your needs. Let us learn a bit about your business and your goals, so we can give you a proposed course of action that will make those goals achievable.
Our mission is quite simple – to provide our clients a way to establish an effective web presence without having to learn all the intricacies of design, coding, security, compliance, and SEO/SEM themselves, or having to spend a small fortune to have others do it for them.
Website development timelines are based on your needs and the features you want. A simple brochure website can be built in less than 4 weeks while a full ecommerce solution can take three months, and a full custom coded website with unique features can take 6 months or longer.
Hosting is as important as website design these days. We are happy to host your website on our servers where we can maintain complete control, but we are also just as happy to work with other quality web hosts.
Yes! We wouldn’t even consider building a website that did not work on mobile devices. With Google’s “mobile first” mandate, it makes more sense than ever to build mobile ready websites.
Of course! We love clients that want to take the time to learn how their website works and how to manage their content themselves. But, we always recommend that you leave updating the programming on your website to us.
No. While we do specialize in WordPress, it is not the only platform we work with. Our primary goal is to place your website on the platform that will work best for you and your business.
You do! There are plenty of platforms out there where that is not the case, but our websites always belong to the customer when we are finished. We hope to work with you for years to come, but you are free to take your website and anything you want with it at any time.
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