Professional Web Design Services for Tampa
Professional Web Design
One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to web design services. At thirteen05 creative, all of our website designs are custom and many of them have won awards. Every website we design is tailored specifically to your company’s business needs, brand, and target audience.
We are a web design company that designs responsive websites that look great on all devices and screen sizes and are SEO (search engine optimization) friendly. Whether you want to develop a new custom website, redesign an existing website, rebuild or update a website, thirteen05 creative is your custom web design partner.
No matter what type of web design project your business has in mind, thirteen05 creative is a web design company that you can trust to deliver stunning website design services. Take your business to the next level with stunning web pages created as part of a custom website design.
Custom Web Design Services
If you’re looking for Tampa area web designers, we understand creative web design, offer a wide range of web design services, and have an extensive web design portfolio extending back more than 20 years. Thirteen05 creative is one of the top web design companies, as our many awards and 5-star reviews show. Website design covers several different services:
Responsive Web Design
Today, the majority of Internet users are accessing websites from their mobile devices. As a result of this as well as the wide variety of screen sizes, responsive website design is critical to the success of your site. Our responsive web design services ensure that your website looks great and functions properly no matter what type of device is being used to view it. Don’t settle for an out of the box web design solution. Custom web design enriches the user experience and highlights the values of your brand.
WordPress Website Design
WordPress is the most popular website platform and content management system in the world. Many of the top websites are built using WordPress. We make WordPress website design the basis of our Tampa web design services. You will be able to make changes yourself. You could settle for a generic, mass-produced theme for your WordPress site, but if you want to stand out from the competition, satisfy users, and properly reflect the branding elements of your business, custom WordPress web design is essential.
Website Redesign
Already have a website but are not happy with the way that it looks or works? At thirteen05 creative, we offer website redesign services that can give your site a much needed new look. User expectations are always evolving as technology and design standards improve. Don’t fall behind the competition because your web design is dated. Thirteen05 creative’s skilled team of web designers can make your website look brand new with a thorough redesign. Just because you are unhappy with your current web design doesn’t mean you have to build an entirely new website. Save time and money with website redesign services.
eCommerce Design (Online Stores)
The majority of eCommerce websites are built on platforms like Shopify and Volusion. These tools are great for eCommerce websites because they provide a ton of important functions that make life easier. However, these platforms don’t offer the best web design capabilities. They may not offer the functions you need. If you want your online store to really stand out from the rest and generate high volume sales, you need a custom eCommerce website design that utilizes your brand elements. At thirteen05 creative, we are experienced eCommerce web designers with more than 20 years experience building eye-catching online stores.
Web Design Visitors Will Remember
At thirteen05 creative, website design is a collaborative effort. You supply familiarity with your business, branding, and customers. We work closely with your business to identify what you like and don’t like. Your feedback and approval are required at every step of the web design process, so you end up with a website you are proud of, and a website that visitors remember and return to over and over again.
Whether you are located in Tampa, Clearwater, St. Pete, elsewhere in Florida or the world, you get:
- Eye-popping, unforgettable web designs that make people stop and look and which builds confidence.
- A professional, but friendly website design that fits the nature of your business and your personality.
- Simple, clear navigation that doesn’t confuse visitors, but helps them see what you do and rapidly find what they are seeking.
- A built-in content management system leveraging WordPress.
- A user experience that results in continued use and ease of access.
- Site construction that is search-engine friendly and designed for easy changes and additions.
- New to the Internet? We regularly help clients through every step of the process of creating a successful website, including help when choosing the best URL (website address).
Good Web Design is The Most Effective Marketing Tool
Conversely, a cheaply designed website can be the most expensive line item in your marketing budget because it turns away potential customers and fails to convert visitors into leads. We have documented a new website almost doubling the leads volume of a company with no other changes.
No matter how someone hears about you, your company, products or services, they are going online to check you out and find out more. What they see will most likely determine whether they pick up the phone to call you – or go elsewhere.
First impressions are critical. A creative web design makes a strong impression on visitors and encourages them to do business with you.
At thirteen05, we supply the artistic creativity, technical back and front-end development skill, and marketing know-how to make your website design a success.
While we love designing and developing websites for all industries, we do have extensive experience in creating:
- Construction and home improvement industry sites
- Website designs for small businesses
- Real estate website design
- Website design for healthcare practitioners
- Websites for recruiting (staffing) companies
- Ecommerce website design (online stores)
- Tourism websites
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How We Create a Design you Love
With some web design companies all their websites look the same. At thirteen05 creative, websites are first of all appropriate to the nature of the business and what the client is trying to accomplish with their web design.
One client came to us as a relatively new business in a highly competitive industry where a high level of professionalism is expected. He wanted to look like a large, well-established company. That website gave the right (desired) impression and helped that company launch into a rapidly expanding and successful company.
There are web design considerations that vary for different industries. Children’s websites should tend to primary colors and simple shapes. But that wouldn’t work for a health care website which should be dignified and professional looking. And green tends to be associated with health. Very proper and dignified industries like banking get darker blues and gray tones. And so on.
When you are looking for a web design company to bring your brand to life online, make sure that you choose one that understands the nuances of custom website design services.
Design for the Modern Era
Sometimes the client’s representative we are working on web design with, is a graphic artist. This is someone who designs for print – magazine ads, flyers, billboards, etc. It is often a problem because they are used to designing something to look EXACTLY a certain way.
When it comes to the web design these days you can’t do that. Why? Because a website has to look right on a wide variety of different screen sizes and for mobile device types, both in portrait and landscape orientation. If you try to nail the look down too closely, there will be screens on which it just doesn’t look right at all. This leads to compromises as the only feasible solution.
These days, sophisticated software minimizes this web design problem and makes it easy to see how the site would look on different screens. But it doesn’t eliminate the issue.
When we design a website we don’t even deal with mobile appearance until the site is fully approved by the client on desktop. And the client should be looking at the site on the most common screen size. This will achieve the best possible result without driving either the web designer or the client crazy.
Different But Not Too Different
Another principle we’ve evolved over the years to help us create award winning website designs, is that a website should be different, but not too different. This applies in many ways but especially to the overall look and feel of the web design.
If a website looks the same as every other site in your industry, how will anyone remember it? I’ve actually run a test on this with an attorney looking for a new website. After looking at the top ten search results, he was unable to remember one site from another. Every legal website shows an attorney standing on the steps of a courthouse. If not, it is a panorama of the city they service.
The flip side of that is to be too unique in your web design. Like the circular menus we once occasionally saw. Your site ends up looking weird to people, and that, makes people run away. So there is a happy medium – a website that is appropriate for your business, that is different so people remember it, but doesn’t scare people away.
A Website Design Should be Aesthetic
A website designer should be an artist and a website should be a work of art. It doesn’t have to be a Rembrandt, but it should be attractive in its own right, regardless of site content. They’ll remember your site more easily, and they’ll be attracted to your company and like you better.
Clashing colors, inappropriate colors, shapes that don’t go with each other, items that look unbalanced all repel the viewer whether they know anything about art or not. Likewise, text which is difficult to read, too large or too small, in weird inappropriate fonts or colors that get lost against the background, all are examples of bad web design. The thing is, there are good art classes which teach these basic design principles it isn’t a matter of being born an artist.
The typical web design company is more technician than artist. They know HOW to design a website. They don’t know how to do something people will like the look of. Really, website designers should have taken classes in art. The best web designers were probably drawing things since they were 7 years old.
You could say it is a bit much for them to be an artist and also know the mechanics of developing websites. But every art form has technique the artist must learn if he is going to be a real professional, whether it is writing novels, painting portraits, or dancing.
Taste
Despite industry specific design considerations, there is a lot of room for taste. As we are doing all custom web designs, we need input from the client to guide our web designer as they design your new website.
Over the years we worked out the most efficient and effective way to do this. We ask the client to give us examples of 3 to 5 websites they like and what specifically they like about them. This bypasses the difficulty of getting someone who is not an artist to describe something that is essentially visual.
This at least gives us a starting point for a dialogue. We’ve found that 3 to 5 is an optimum number of web design examples. Fewer than 3 doesn’t give us enough clues. More than 5 and we find ourselves with insufficient guidance because there’s too many clues.
If the sample websites give us visuals that are appropriate for their business, we’re good. If not, we tell the client. We are never shy about sharing our twenty years experience in creating web designs, in even being a bit pushy with the client. But if you really want a green and red website, ultimately, it is your site, and you need to be happy with it.
Two "Solutions" to Website Design
Two solutions are widely used to just completely skip web design and issues of art. They are very inexpensive compared to a full custom web design, and make it easy to get a website done. The biggest disadvantage is no professional is involved. It’s either do-it-yourself or done by a partially trained web developer. These are the theme based websites and the hosted platforms.
Custom Design Versus Theme-Based Sites
A website design theme is a skeleton of a website with a preexisting design. There are thousands of these available online, usually for a small fee, or free. Most website designers are actually web developers who build websites on themes. The client can choose the theme and that establishes not only the look and feel of the site, but often functionality as well.
It’s fast and it is inexpensive. Whether you pick the theme yourself or someone does it for you, it has a couple of major disadvantages. All the design considerations described above are out the window. It often comes down 100% a matter of taste. While taste has a part in web design, it shouldn’t be the entirety of it. This is how people end up with a website completely inappropriate for their business which drive people away in droves.
Just as important, themes are often poorly built and inflexible. We’ve seen a site with six award badges in a horizontal row on their home page. When they wanted to add a seventh they found out the home page had to be completely rebuilt to do that. Themes are often not future-proofed nor well supported. You might be surprised how often we have to completely rebuild a theme-based site to accomplish a client’s goals.
Don’t settle for a web design company that is going to simply use pre-built themes to create your website. Professional website design services are more expensive, but when you work with a web design agency you end up with a website that will look better, offer more customization, and will be easier to maintain as it ages.
Hosted Platforms
Hosted platforms are largely in the realm of the do-it-yourselfer. As with theme based sites, you pick a design from some number of options. In addition to liabilities of themes, with a hosted platform, they are often quite inflexible and may just not do what you want them to do at all.
Your website can only be hosted on the vendor’s servers, it can’t be moved. They are often poorly supported as many of them have a tiny following compared to WordPress and can even disappear entirely if the hosting company goes out of business.
Hosted platforms do have a place in the web design industry. If you can’t afford a true custom web design, you are better off with a well chosen hosted platform, which at least can be expected to work right.
