One Stop Web Design
Starting your own website for personal blog or for business purposes is daunting if you are not so knowledgeable in this area. Building and designing a modern mobile friendly website that is mobile responsive is very important now.
Our company is a Singapore-based Web Design Company specializing in designing websites using self hosted WordPress Content Management System (CMS). There are many reasons to use WordPress such as fast loading speed, mobile responsive, ease of use, high security, built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and large numbers of free or paid plugins and themes to enhance the features of WordPress.
Upon completion of clients' projects, we offer content update and maintenance services to keep content up to date and maintain websites at a fair and reasonable price.
One of the reasons why this company was formed is that we want to give clients value for money services depending on the complexity of the project. There are different packages to meet needs from different clients, so that the completed website is both reliable and affordable for our clients.
The designing process is kept in house so that the integrity of the various plugins that we use during the website designs process are completely safe from malicious codes.
All in all, we promise to provide good local service that is secure and affordable.
Our Services
These are the services that we believe that an effective website should have and we will offer these to our clients so that their websites can be an effective online presence for business and services. Some of these details can be further found in the web design packages so that we can meet the expectation of our clients according to the design packages they choose.
Costing is an important part to consider when hiring a web design company to design a website. You can find out in general the cost in designing various types of websites to meet your objectives. Here we are transparent to let visitors to know our costs related to the design and maintenance of websites.
Domain name registration
Help clients to register a suitable domain name depending on the reach of their business.
Web hosting
Assist clients to look for a suitable hosting if they do not have a host to host their websites.
WordPress for websites
WordPress will be the primary content management software to build websites.
Responsive web designs
> 50% of internet users use mobile devices. Our designs are mobile responsive.
Website security
Security measures are included with the hosting side and the WordPress core side.
Search Engine Optimization
If clients prefers to use cloud based website builders, we can design websites based on them.
Website Traffic Analytics
Each website that we design is configured with Google Analytics to track visitors engagements.
Business email account
If your business has high email volume, we help you decide between Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
Website design cost
The cost of designing a website and maintaining it will be transparent.
Website maintenance
Here we will show clients our maintenance package to maintain and update websites.
Domain Name Registration
Having a website is a very effective way to get noticed by your potential customers. The very first thing to consider is to register your own domain name for your website. The most obvious for most people is to get a .com domain as it is the most popular Top Level Domain (TLD).
However, if a business is providing plumbing service that is restricted to a geographical area such as in Singapore, a “.sg” domain is more suitable. Even though the cost of registering a “.sg” domain is about 3 to 4 times more expensive than a .com, it is beneficial to let search engines such as Google know that your service is most relevant for Singapore consumers or audiences compared to a similar plumbing website located in another country.
Domain name is your branding for your business or personal identity. If your business is ACRA registered, we can help you register your ".sg" domain under SGNIC. For registering a Singapore domain, the rules are listed in the SGNIC website.
For other top level domain names such as ".com.my" or ".com.au", the various registration conditions such as registering a business entity in that country is a prerequisite before you are allowed to register that domain name in a particular country.
When you engage our service, we will guide you on the selection of the name and check if it is not registered by someone else.
To get ranked in local SEO
.SG Domains
Registrant needs to have a valid ACRA number for .com.sg or valid Singpass account to register for .sg domain.
The world is your oyster!
.COM Domains
This domain is the most popular and domain registration comes with free privacy screen to protect your personal information.
Web Hosting
Owners of websites also need to know what type of web hosting is required to host the contents of the websites and also ensure the reliability of web hosts to keep running 24/7 so that the website is available round the clock. Nowadays, there are many types of hosting services that are common in the industry. We are happy to be able to offer OpenLiteSpeed web hosting to our clients to enjoy faster and more robust web hosting services. Our OpenLiteSpeed web server is supported by Linux which is one of the most popular server operating system.
Open Litespeed Web Server
The work horse residing on the Linux stack to ensure speed consistency.
Linux Distributions
Ensure most efficient & optimized OS is operating the server for your websites.
Optimized hosting to host WordPress websites
WordPress Web Hosting
The web host is based on OpenLiteSpeed web server.
WordPress for Websites
The most popular content management system for blogs & websites is WordPress where it has over 43% of the market share on the web. We design and host our clients’ websites based on this popular open source platform for obvious reasons.
Responsive Web Design
More than half of all internet users use smartphones or mobile devices to access the internet. With the growing number of mobile users accessing the internet, you will start losing visitors as your website is not adaptive to the different types of devices accessing them.
Website owners are constantly vying for attention from audiences these days and with a responsive website that is also adaptable to any browsers in any devices helps you to keep your visitors longer when they are visiting your website.
Mobile responsive is a feature built in the WordPress CMS. The website layout will resize and display the most suitable screen size and resolution according to the devices of people accessing your website.
A website being mobile responsive is one of the 200+ ranking signals that Google uses to index and rank websites. As part of the feature of Google Search Console, the Page experience gauges how webpages in a website perform in terms of impressions gained from the website URLs. Core Web Vitals and Mobile Usability check for errors when a mobile version of googlebot crawls in the URLs of the website and report any poor URLs which may affect users' experience.
Using WordPress to design and publish websites is able to meet all these requirements as responsive web designs is native in WordPress.
Website Security
Web security is very important especially with many security leaks in both business and government entities. The need to protect private information is a very critical part of operating a website. Good practices like using different names from “admin” and using strong passwords can deter brute force attacks, regular updates of plugins and WordPress core, and finding a good hosting company that does regular server updates is also a strong deterrence to keep hackers away.
Website security certificate
When we recommend a web hosting for our clients, the website security certificate or known simply as a SSL certificate is a very important feature so that visitors' information will be secured and encrypted from unauthorized persons. Most of the hosting companies renew the SSL certificate automatically before it expires.
Having a valid security certificate protects personal information such as credit card details, email address or contact details from hackers when visitors send such information to our websites. It is also a ranking signal that Google recommends websites use HTTPS rather than HTTP. Normally a well configured server will be able to force non HTTPS requests to HTTPS.
Integrity of WordPress plugins
As mentioned earlier, we keep the design team in-house so that we can ensure the integrity of our plugins that will be required during the website designing process. By doing this, we can be sure that our clients’ websites are free from malicious codes or software.
Secure WordPress hosting
The hosting companies usually have security measures to protect the servers by doing regular server updates to patch any security holes that may be found by security experts. Such security patching is usually transparent to hosting subscribers as a feature of a managed web hosting service. It is very important as it stops illegal entry to our website via an insecure server.
Search Engine Optimization
A very important design consideration that we need to know as an owner of websites is to design our websites to meet our customers’ or audiences’ needs. We show our solutions and services to help them solve or improve a situation that is bothering them. We will look at the relevancy of your products and services and establish a seed keyword so that the website can satisfy users’ search intentions.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important step of a website design process. This helps the search engines to rank our contents in our websites so that it will serve the most relevant page to users when they search online to solve or answer a question.
Another feature of a well optimized website for search engines is the traffic from search engines is free if it is ranking in page 1 of a search engine results pages (SERP).
We help our clients to ensure that the on page SEO is properly filled and configured so that we can rank better in search. Depending on the design requirement of individuals, the structure of your website and tags for each page are written with relevant keyword phrases.
By following Google SEO guidelines in mind during the design phase, it ensures that the completed website structure is indexed by Google as soon as possible when we submit the website sitemap to Google.
Website Traffic Analytics
The most common tool for website data analytics is Google analytics where it collects and analyzes traffic of a website it connects to. Google analytics is an important tool to measure the performance of a website with regards to visitors reading the website and how the visitors interact with the website. The next phase of evolution is Google Analytics 4 (GA4) where currently web traffic data collection using Universal Analytics (UA) will be phased out after 1 July 2023.
Using GA4, website owners will be able to understand how a user interacts with web pages such as how long the user spends in a website or what is the percentage of the bounce rate when users landed in a website. This gives an indication of how relevant the content is to a user in general and how we can improve and reduce that bounce rate that causes users to leave our web page prematurely.
Websites created by us will be connected to GA4 where they have additional data collection points such as user scrolls and other ways to measure how a user interacts with a website. One important reason why Google evolved towards GA4 is the current method of tracking is using cookies is a privacy concern to web users. This is also particularly important that authority in European Unions implemented the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to govern how users’ personal data are processed by websites.
Business email account
Having your own domain name can create an email address using your own custom domain name. This is an important business image where potential clients may scrutinize the business if the business uses a personal email address from Yahoo or Gmail. Some people may even wonder if this is a serious business if we use our personal email address for business purposes. Some companies in Singapore we deal with even require their vendors to use an email address with a custom domain.
Some business email volumes may be low and may be able to host their email with the hosting company if they have an in-house email host. But as business generally grows, the more emails accumulates will take to the storage spaces from the hosting and may slow down the web server.
Having a business email account is a great solution to ease the workload and storage from the hosting server.
Most web hosting companies offer email hosting service to clients to host the business email as part of the web hosting feature. Some clients may prefer to use the email service from Google or Microsoft due to their large capacity and more features in the email software. We can integrate the system to clients’ websites so that visitors’ engagement of the services can be quickly attended.
Website design costs
When a client engages us to design a website, the website design cost and maintenance of a website after completion are important considerations to think about. The website project begins when a client accepts our quote depending which package they choose. The main cost of the web design is usually the cost of labor and the cost of the plugins that we use to extend the function of the wordpress website.
When we complete the client’s website, it is strongly recommended that clients sign a maintenance package to ensure the website is updated regularly of its WordPress core and the plugins. If a client uses managed hosting, they do not have to worry about server side maintenance as the task of server maintenance is done by us.
When a client confirms our web design quote, it is usually in 2 payments where the first payment is usually 50% of the quote and the remaining 50% is to be paid to us after handing over the website to the owner. The other one time cost is payable by the client when they pay for the domain registration fees and the hosting subscription to the hosting company.
Below are the summary of the cost for the web design service and the packages that cater to wide range of needs of our customers.
Owners of websites must be aware of the recurring cost of operating and maintaining their websites. These costs are directly related to the hosting service, domain renewal, email hosting subscription, web maintenance of website and content updates if they prefer us to update.
Our Web Design Packages
1. Startup Package - Website up to 5 pages
1. Startup Package
Easiest way to get your business online.
Mobile responsive web design.
Install SSL & SEO Plugin
Install Google Analytics & Search Console.
Integrate Google Business Profile.
Integrate email to custom domain.
Test website before going live.
Up to 5 pages.
From S$1500 onwards.
2. Standard Page - Website up to 10 pages
2. Standard Package
For the serious business builder
Same features as Startup Package.
SEO: Up to 3 keywords
Optimizing Google Business Profile.
Up to 10 pages.
From S$2500 onward.
3. Premium Package - Website with SEO focus
3. Premium Package
Get your business optimized for page 1 on SERP.
Same as STARTUP & STANDARD.
Choose template or custom layout.
SEO: Up to 10 Keywords.
Identifying Keywords competitions.
Develop SEO strategy based on main KW.
From S$5000 onward.
Website Maintenance
Due to the open source nature of WordPress, any security issues or glitches are quickly spotted by developers and users and the foundation will quickly do patches or updates to address the problems. The various plugins and themes will also be updated according to the WordPress core. We can help you to have the latest backup of your websites according to your requirement. Having a maintenance package for your websites is essential.
Website loading speed is important now and having a maintenance package helps to make sure your website loading speed is within Google Page Speed Insight criteria. As mentioned, it is also important to gauge user experience when they visit your website.
Find out more about maintenance of website:
Website Maintenance Package:
An essential part of operating a website you should not ignore.
Ensure website is fast loading.
Monitoring website uptime.
Update of WordPress core when required.
Update of plugins and themes.
Backup of website at regular intervals.
Updating of Contents.
