Website Design

Website design is more than just making a page look nice. User experience is incredibly important. We work with you to determine your visitor intent and ensure that your site is set up for customer conversion.

The end result becomes an beautiful and engaging website that walks potential customers easily through the steps o learning about your business and product or service to ordering, signing up, or logging in.

We also work in responsive environments when we design, ensuring mobile and tablet-sized functionality for potential customers visiting on the go.

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What We Do

New Website Design

Whether you are just starting out or growing enough to take the leap from social media only to the searchable big leagues, our ground-up design services are perfect for you and your business.

Website Reconstruction

Already have a website, but know that you need a better one? We can enhance your existing site to help attract new customers, convert more visitors, climb the search rankings, or streamline internal processes.

Website Enrichment

If all you need is a few quick image changes and some text updates, our enhancement packages may be the perfect fit. We offer hourly rates as well as monthly retainer options that take these tasks off your plate.

Hosting

If you're new at the website game and don't have hosting or want to put all your digital bags in one basket, our hosting options offer you the speed, flexibility, and rates you're looking for.

Domain Names

Whether you need to get creative because your preferred URL is already taken or want to make sure your domain name meets best practices, MCS can help. We will make sure you get found!

Email Services

From G-Suite setup to simple web mail options, all with your custom domain name, Merrill Creative can help your emails look professional and function with ease.

Frequently Asked Questions

You’re going to hate this answer: it varies. 

Pricing depends on a number of variables, including complexity, size, functions (e-commerce, membership areas, etc.), content creation services, optimization requests, and so much more.

But keep in mind, Merrill Creative Solutions designs top-notch, customized websites that get businesses found online and convert browsers to buyers with incredible reliability. Our services behind the scenes are priceless, and we are positive you will be thrilled with your results. We aim to help businesses grow and business owners reach that next level of success and abundance, whatever that looks like to them. Plus, we won’t create something we wouldn’t put our name on and showcase to other potential clients. We want to be proud of your website, too!

If you still want a more figure-y kind of answer, you can expect to invest $2,500 minimum on our most “basic” website, which is still miles ahead of what most agencies consider basic. We also offer interest-free financing options, so don’t hesitate to ask!

You’re going to hate this answer, too: It VARIES.

We have a process in place to streamline building your site as much as possible, but how long it take to actually compete the site depends on a lot of the same elements that determine cost: size, content creation, customization, functions and third-party integrations, etc. 

We get as much of this information as possible from you up front, in our Discovery step, just to make sure we have everything we could possibly need to move seamlessly through the project. We want you to have your beautiful new website just as quickly as you do. But we also want to it be accurate, functional, and finalized* when it’s launched live. We can’t do that if we rush the process or skip steps. Well, we can, but at an additional premium. 

They are both!

At MCS, we create visually pleasing sites that are user-friendly AND focus on conversion.

It’s great to share lots of information with your visitors, but is that information encouraging visitors to purchase your goods or services? Can they navigate to your online store to purchase? Can they sign in to their member account? Do they know the value of what you offer? Are they engaged and excited to visit again? 

These are crucial questions to consider, and they are top of mind when we’re designing your website. 

Your website needs to be hosted by a hosting company that specializes in WordPress hosting, like WP Engine, Siteground, Pagely or Pantheon, just to name a few. We also have a list of providers we do NOT recommend, including one we will request that you transfer away from for a myriad of reasons. We will be happy to elaborate, if necessary. Merrill Creative Solutions offers hosting via Siteground at a very competitive rate, so if you would like to host with us, we can arrange that. We also offer domain registration through Siteground, so if you are starting from the ground up or need to transfer from a platform like Wix, Squarespace, or Weebly, we can bundle everything into one place you, making future payments and customer service inquiries easy and streamlined.

WordPress is open source content management software and currently powers around 25% of all websites on the Internet. The project is contributed to by tens of thousands of developers all over the world and becomes more versatile and powerful every day.

WordPress allows us to develop flexible and customizable websites to modern standards and observes web development best practices.

Furthermore, WordPress is the most SEO-friendly platform out of the box. Even if you don’t intend to pursue monthly SEO work with MCS, WordPress allows us to make sure Google and other search engines can find you when your customers need you.

This is what we call “scope creep,” and it happens EVERY time. While we like to be flexible and responsive to your needs, we also like to deliver what we promise within the time frames and budgets we have presented. If you ask us to add new features to your website while we are building your site, will most likely ask why.

If we all agree that your new request will help us achieve our collective objectives without disrupting the timeline or budget, we will be more than happy to oblige.

If your new feature is something you would like to add to your website but is not directly tied to your original objectives or deliverables, we will suggest you schedule it for a second iteration of the website once it has been launched. This will require a new proposal.

Once your website is launched, we will provide 30 days of support to make sure any wrinkles have been ironed out and that you are confident using your new website. After the 30-day period, you may to subscribe to one of our ongoing website care or SEO plans to make sure your website is maintained. These website care plans include updating your software, regular backups, security checks and making sure your website is online and open for business 24/7/365.

More information on our website care and SEO plans is available upon request.

This answer is super similar to the last one.

Once your website is launched, we will provide 30 days of support to make sure any wrinkles have been ironed out and that you are confident using your new website. This 30 days does not cover adding new content or making major revisions to the site or any of its content.

After the 30-day period, you may to subscribe to one of our ongoing website care or SEO plans to make sure your website is maintained. These website care plans include updating your software, regular backups, security checks and making sure your website is online and open for business 24/7/365.

More information on our website care and SEO plans is available upon request.

We absolutely love helping business reach their goals. We have done a lot of work with clients of trusted partners like business coaches, agencies that offer only some of the services we do, and even companies that offer their own website design. 

However, we have found that white labeling work becomes difficult, especially for services like ads management or lead generation, when there is someone between the client and us. 

Instead, we offer an attractive referral program for partners who want to consistently send work our way. Reach out to us for more information. 

"It was a pleasure having Michelle on our team as a website design consultant. Her work was excellent."

Diane
Marketing Specialist