Website Redesign

Website Redesign in Philadelphia

I replace slow, thin, hard-to-use websites with hand-coded ones built around how your business works. The pages that already rank keep their addresses. $150 a month with nothing down, or $3,500 once.

The Philadelphia skyline at dusk, seen across the expressway from the South Street bridge

Our sites load in ~1 second or less. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone else promising (and delivering) that.

Performance

Why Your Current Website Is Slow

You'll find the content on our website talks about website speed a lot – and rightfully so! Speed is critical to a website's success and we believe it deserves to be a major topic of discussion, despite how little our competitors talk about it. It's not that our competition doesn't know the importance speed has on a website (if they don't, run), it's just that it's often out of their control. Why? They're fully dependent on and constrained by the page builder they chose to build your website with (e.g. Wordpress, WIX), all of which come with unnecessary plugins that bloat the site, have poorly structured website templates which make it difficult for Google to parse, and require slow on-the-fly rendering of website content by loading it from a database first.

What Makes Us Different?

  • No page builders! Fully custom, hand-crafted websites with pixel perfect results.
  • Faster websites yield more traffic, higher rankings and better conversions.
  • Structured content, mobile-first design and accessibility are all built-in, not an afterthought, making both your visitors (potential customers) and search engines like Google happy.
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The previous Philly Printing site: a dark single page with a press photograph headed "In business since 1907", a nine-tile grid of product photographs captioned Labels, Folders, Flyers, Direct Mail, Catalogues, Postcards, Custom Packaging, Calendars and Letterheads, one short paragraph over an orange abstract, and a quote form

Before the Redesign

What Was Wrong With the Last Site I Replaced

The old site was slow, and there was almost nothing on it. A company that prints, binds and finishes everything under its own roof had a website that mentioned a fraction of it.

That combination costs a business at both ends. A search engine ranks what a page actually says, so a thin page does not come up for the work they want. And someone who has to wait for a page often gives up first.

The ones who got there anyway found a site that was hard to use and answered very little. Nobody hands a print run to a supplier on that basis. They go back to the search results and pick a printer whose website told them something.

What the Redesign Did for the Business

The new site says far more about what this company does, and says it in a structure a search engine can read, so more people find it. It is laid out around the way a print buyer decides, so more of the people who get there ask for a quote.

2x
The traffic of the old site's previous two years, inside seven months
2x
The leads, over those same seven months

$0 Down, $150 Per Month, Cancel Anytime

Get a standard 5-page small business website with $0 down. This includes design, development, hosting, 24/7 support, unlimited edits and a lifetime of updates. For projects requiring more pages or custom features, pricing will be tailored to the scope of work, the number of additional pages, and the time involved.

You retain full ownership of your domain, content, listings, and profiles. Cancel anytime, with no fees or hassle. See the full website design pricing for both packages, or common questions about how this works.

  • Hosting fees included

    01

    Hosting fees are built-in to the monthly price.

  • Unlimited Edits

    02

    We make the changes so you don't have to. Reach out anytime.

  • 24/7 Support

    03

    Call or text anytime, no automated responses or prompts. You have a direct line to me, the owner and lead developer.

  • Design and Development

    04

    Custom design, development and testing included.

  • Google Business Profile Review

    05

    A strong Google Business Profile and website go hand-in-hand. We make sure your profile is fully complete, optimized and helps customers find you.

  • Content Creation

    06

    I write search optimized content to help your website rank and keep customers engaged.

  • Guaranteed Performance

    07

    Speed matters to search engines like Google. We know precisely how to make your website as fast as possible and boost your search ranking.

  • Analytics

    08

    Google Analytics is included for free to monitor and visualize where your traffic is coming from.

Our Process

How a Redesign Works

You fill out a short questionnaire that gives me enough context to get started. I design the site and write the copy myself, then we go back and forth until you're happy with it. Once you approve the design, I build it. That takes 2-4 weeks for a standard website, counting from when your content is in my hands.

  1. Step 1

    Questionnaire

    We send you a short questionnaire to get to know you, your company and brand.

  2. Step 2

    Design

    The information we learned is transformed into a website design. We iterate on this design until you're 100% satisfied.

  3. Step 3

    Development

    We get to work bringing your design to life. We share a demo link with you to get your sign-off before launching.

  4. Step 4

    Switch-over

    I host the new website and review it with you. Once you're satisfied, we reroute where your domain name points, from the old site to the new.

Before You Ask

Questions About Replacing Your Website

I already have a website, can you just use that instead of building a new one?

No, we start our process from scratch intentionally to ensure we can deliver a high quality, custom built website that has everything in place to be an effective tool for your business.

I already have a website, how do you replace it with a new one?

I custom build and host the new website and review it with you. Once you're satisfied and ready to switch over to it, we simply reroute where your domain name points from the old to the new. Moving forward the new website will be loaded and you can take down the old (and put it in your keepsake).

I already have a website that shows up on Google. Will a new one hurt that?

Handled properly, no, and handling it is part of the build. Any page that is already bringing you search traffic keeps its web address on the new site, so there is nothing for Google to re-learn. Where an address does have to change, the old one gets a permanent redirect to the page that replaced it, so a saved link or an old search result lands where it should instead of on an error page. Google's own guidance is that a permanent redirect doesn't cost a page the credit it has built up. What does happen after any significant change to a site is a settling period while Google re-crawls it, usually a few weeks, and positions can move in either direction while that happens.

Can you use the domain name I already own?

Yes, as long as you have access to login to the domain provider we can use your existing domain. If you don’t have access, be sure to reach out to whoever purchased your domain (i.e. a previous web design company) and have the domain transferred over to you.

Why a custom coded website over something like Wordpress or WIX?

Every business needs a website; page builders like Wordpress and WIX make it possible for anyone to get started, and that’s great! They also come with a lot of bloat, plugins that require updates, poorly structured website templates, security risks and regular maintenance. Writing the code ourselves allows us to avoid all of the pitfalls of a pagebuilder and achieve our goal – delivering high quality, fast and SEO friendly websites that make search engines like Google happy and encourage customer engagement. Custom building the site lets us create an effective tool for your business that can grow with you, not just a digital placeholder.

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