Web Design

You need three things:

1. A Domain Name - A domain name is what your visitors will type in the address bar to find you (for example: www.mrtechnique.com is my domain name).  A .com domain name is the most commonly used extension.  There are many other extensions (.net, .org, .gov, .edu, .tv, etc).  You can do a quick search and buy domain names at Namecheap.
2. A Web Hosting Company - A web hosting company is like your space that you lease for your business except it's on the web. This is where all of your website files go. Choose whoever you want, but be wary of dirt cheap web hosting companies. We offer some awesome web hosting packages.
3. A Professional Web Designer - You wouldn't get your brother-in-law unless he builds websites professionally. Do you remember the old cheesy MySpace pages?  You don't want your website looking like that.  We're assuming that you're thinking about using us, and we are thankful that you are here.

We've met almost every web design client that we have in-person, and we prefer to keep it that way. We do have clients located throughout the United States, but our main service areas would be Atlanta, GA and St. Petersburg, FL as well as their surrounding cities. We have visited clients headquartered in NJ, IL, and AZ though.

You can have as many pages as you want. Some of the main pages you'll want to consider are: Home, About Us, Products or Services, Contact Us, FAQ. In addition to these main pages, you'll want some complimentary pages as well to enhance and expand on your main pages. For example, you may want to add a testimonial page or a page to describe a service in depth.

We could have an informational 5-10 page website done in a week or less if you respond to our questions in less than 24 hours. Many of our websites have taken less than a month to complete because of their timely correspondence. If you don't respond to us, the website could take a few years. We had past clients that have taken 2 years to get their content to us. Don't be that client. Please.

How long is a piece of string? Prices vary. Our basic WordPress sites start at around $3500 - $3750. We stopped giving fixed rates on Web Design and Development services a while ago because the client scope was always changing, so we work on an hourly basis. We can give you an estimate of how much your site would cost. There have been times where we've completed websites below the estimated price, but there have been times where the final cost was a good bit higher due to a complete change in product scope.

Sure you could spend $500 for a 10 page informational website with somebody else, but don't expect much of a return.  With your help in generating content for your business, we can help you make your money back and then some.

Yes, Iwe do. We believe in establishing long-term business relationships. Please read my mission statement.  The majority of my clients ask us to update their website and help improve their search engine ranking. We put quite a bit of effort in maintaining and keeping our clients' websites secure especially if they were built with WordPress.

No. Once we design your website, you own it. I can give you access to one of my Dropbox folders with your website files and database (for WordPress sites) to take to another web designer.  If we purchased the domain name for you, we always make your company the legal registrant.  Many web designers will make themselves the legal registrant either out of pure laziness or because they want to make it hard to leave them.

Yes, if Mr. Technique is hosting your website, you are provided with website visitor stats. We like using Google Analytics though. It gives really detailed visitor stats like city, state, what keywords they typed, what search engine they used, etc. Google Analytics even let you compare data from different months.

Yes, some hosting companies will give you the ability to set up email addresses under your own domain name.  If you let Mr. Technique host your website, you can set up as many email addresses as you want. Google Workspace and Microsoft Outlook 365 are other options. If you need help with Google GSuite setup, I'm quite capable of doing that since we know Google Workspace pretty well. 

Yes, your website will eventually be indexed by search engines. Along with setting up a Google Analytics and Google Search Console account for you, we'll do some basic optimizing with your home page title tag. If you want more than that, check out our search engine optimization services. 

Most likely. We have worked with different types of websites (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Zen Cart, BigCommerce, Custom Coded HTML/PHP, etc). We would need to have the FTP login information, and if you have a CMS, We'll need the admin login and passwords as well.

We know WordPress quite well, and we use it for most of the websites that we build, but we're also capable of manually coding sites in HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL to accomplish some customized tasks. We use git repos to document changes to websites. In case a mistake was made during the web development process, we can always revert back to a previous version.

Other notable CMS' that we have built website with include:

• Drupal
• Zen Cart
• Joomla
• BigCommerce

We've also built our own basic Content Management System from scratch.

If we're coding Static HTML/CSS websites, then the answer is no. If we're building a WordPress site for you, we can work with a customizable theme that can give you the design that you wantor we can build you a custom WordPress theme. 

A website with design templates doesn't exactly mean you will have cookie cutter web design. A design template is just a layout that you can use on multiple pages. An example of a web design template page would be an individual product page on Amazon. Every one of those pages have the same format. Amazon didn't custom code every one of those pages. It would be inefficient to do so.

Someone can manually code your website, and it could still look like a cookie cutter website. Conversely, someone could use design templates for different sections of your website (i.e. service pages, case studies, etc), and it could have a unique design.