Web Design for Small Business

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Graphic Design, Marketing and Web Development Studio

Web Design for Small Business = WordPress

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Are you a small business from the Greater Toronto Area planning to launch your first website or do you wish to re-brand an existing site? Theme-based websites (such as WordPress) are ideal and handy for customers that wish to maintain their own content, posts regular news, manage a photo / media library and even sell retail products on-line using a plugin such as WooCommerce. 17 Designs offers Web Design for Small Business just for you!

WordPress was first developed as a Blog tool but quickly expanded to include themes for all types of businesses. Today, it is a common practice to choose an existing WordPress theme with clients and re-style it to match their corporate identity.

We recommend that clients investigate reputable WordPress theme depositories such as,

Custom WordPress Themes Available

17 Designs can also prepare a WordPress theme from scratch. We are WordPress certified developers and we have the experience / expertise to set up your site correctly and securely.

Dearcroft Montessori is an example of a WordPress theme we developed in-house.

Whatever option you prefer for your small business, your website will benefit from the integrated SEO capabilities and simply to use interface of WordPress. Contact Us for a demonostration.

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Looking for a Hand-Coded, Scratch-Built Website?

Custom Websites for Small Businesses

We can create something fun!

A hand-coded, scratch-built website can be extremely powerful as it allows the web developer to take advantage of the power of CSS3 styling options available:

Transparencies
Rounded Corners
Overlapping Content
Shadowing
Background Imagery
Embedded Custom Fonts

In addition, organic search engine optimization (SEO) can be coded directly into the site content ensuring your website is highly recognizable by search engines.

Old School Web Design Means Better Security

The strongest benefit of a hand-coded website is SECURITY!!

Hackers love to attack WordPress websites. Hackers will take advantage of WordPress security flaws. To keep hackers at bay WordPress must be constantly updated which means on-going support costs. 17 Designs is fine at protecting your WordPress site from hackers but it is important to know WordPress maintenance cannot be ignored.

By constrast, a hand-coded, scratch-built website will OUT LAST any WordPress website and likely need less maintenance.

WordPress vs. Custom Wesbite - Who Wins?

The long and short of it is small businesses are concerned about costs, and frankly, WordPress is still cheaper! We will glady hand-code a custom, scratch-built website but if your business is on a tight budget stick to WordPress.

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Secure Back-End User Interfaces

Which Hosting Solution is Right?

Shared Hosting

A WordPress website will function perfectly on a shared hosting environment that supports the most current version of PHP and allows for MySQL databases. WordPress is written in PHP however it interacts with several MySQL database tables. To keep your WordPress website safe, error free and secure from website hackers we recommend regular site updates. As part of a regular maintenance service 17 Designs will happily keep your WordPress website current.

Dedicated Hosting

Dedicated hosting would be overkill for a small business and is recommended more for medium to large product-based websites.

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Web Design Related Services

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)

Through efficient design and coding practices, by making code error free and browser compliant, many of our websites achieve naturally high organic ranking on numerous search engines. Other factors also come into play including naming conventions, page descriptions, meta information, .htaccess browser redirection, keyword management and various tags.

WEB HOSTING

17 Designs believes in focusing on what we do best, web design. As such, we will not put a mark-up on another company’s hosting services. If you are looking for the very best in hosting services with a company that is as customer focused as we are, we highly recommend Connected Technologies Inc. – our business partner for 20 years.

Summary of BEST WordPress Features

100% ADAPTIVE LAYOUTS

Adaptive, mobile-friendly layouts that will resize to fit any screen.

CUSTOMER FRIENDLY

Our customers come first!

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CORPORATE DESIGNS

We create designs that are suitable for any business.

PIXEL PERFECTION

Our work is clean and precise.

LASTEST NEWS

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17 Designs recently updated the custom PHP website of our Oakville-based client Bronte Collection www.brontecollection.ca...

November 19, 2018

Mobile-friendly WordPress Website for BRC Restoration

17 Designs was excited to create this mobile-friendly WordPress website www.brcrestoration.ca for start-up company BRC...

November 13, 2018

Local Manufacturer Taylor Pipe Supports gets a New Website

17 Designs developed this custom HTML 5 / Twitter Bootstrap mobile-friendly website for Burlington, Ontario...

November 7, 2018

TESTIMONIALS

Congratulations to 17 Designs on their 20 years in business, I am proud of their accomplishments! Superfitness was 17 Designs’ first client in 1998, the first project was the design and booking of the Billboard located in High Park. Because of their creativity and professionalism, we continued to work with them for many years. In 2000 we opened Christine’s Fitness and 17 Designs was invited to created the branding for the new gym with a full range of marketing collaterals such as advertisements, mailers, vehicle decaling, signage, website and testimonial videos. Thank you 17 Designs for their dedication to our success!

Christine Steiger, CEO and Founder of Christine’s Fitness

We have worked with 17 Designs for more than 14 years on a range of design concepts, publications, advertising campaigns and website design and have found their service to be creative, timely and accurate. Their input and suggestions have helped us develop and enhance our marketing material on a range of projects, and to a high standard of production.

Manny Mendoza, Marketing Manager – Bondfield Construction Company Limited

Since 2006, 17 Designs has been a creative source for many exciting projects from our Corporate Identity and marketing collaterals, to the most recent venture -- the conceptualization and production of the “360 ̊ Perspective” Coffee Table book, a commemorative piece of art that journals the history of the Perspective Condominiums built by our company and brought to life into this book by the 17 Designs talented team and Eniko Campbell, the author. 17 Designs’ Creative Director and Artist, Stella Jurgen created a series of paintings, the “Natural Perspective” collection that was commissioned to adorn the walls of the public spaces and the creation of the elegant sculptural stainless steel signage that completes the entrances of the condominium towers. We trust 17 Designs’ talented team with their expertise and we look forward to our next project.

Ian Pianosi, President – Pianosi Development Corporation
www.pianosi.com

17 Designs has provided my companies with outstanding support for over 15 years. From development of our first website to ongoing support in creating advertisements, logos, product photography and promotions. Always professional, 17 Designs has continued to provide creative solutions for our growing business. Great work and congratulations on your 20^th Anniversary!

Paul Weber, President – Profile Accessories Inc., Alpha Precision Abrasives and Flex-I-File
www.profileaccessories.com

Congratulations on your company’s 20^th year in business! A tremendous accomplishment that you should be proud of. Working with 17 Designs over the past 12 years has been nothing but first-rate. The various services you have provided us including the creation of our company logo, producing marketing materials such as brochures and presentation folders and photo shoots you did to build our company website has been a very positive experience. I would describe your company as professional, creative, and very attentive to client needs. I have and will continue to utilize your services and recommend your company. As you know, Link-On Communications is also celebrating 20 years in business this coming June and wanted to thankcontinue to utilize your services and recommend your comp you for designing our 20^th anniversary banner. I look forward to working with you again when we update our company website. Again, congratulations on this very impressive milestone and I wish you many more years of success.

Jose Justo President & C.E.O. – Link-On Communications
linkon.ca