WordPress Company Virginia
WordPress Web Design, Development, Optimization, And Management
As a WordPress company in Virginia, we want you to have a website that makes money and grows with your business.
Why Choose Us To Design & Develop Your WordPress Website?
Hello, this is Mike the owner speaking. I’m so thankful you visited our website. I’m just going to say a few words about how we might be beneficial to you and your business. I’ve striven to make our company as friendly, trusted, and committed as possible.
First, every website we design is custom and tailored to your business and its target audience. Second, we are a local company in Richmond, VA, which means you don’t have to deal with a company that’s unable to meet in person.
Finally, When you work with M.J. Web Design, you will deal directly with me, not one person who sells our services, another who designs the website, and a third who manages it. Plus, choosing to have your website built on WordPress makes it simple, easy to manage, and highly converting. Keep reading for more!
What Is WordPress?
WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world.
- WordPress is the the most popular content management system and powers more than 45.8% of the internet.
- WordPress users can use it for free but can extend the software's functionality and code however needed.
- WordPress is an open source software and CMS that allows you to create websites, blogs, enterprise websites, apps, portals, and more.
- You can use WordPress for commercial purposes without any licensing fees from the company.
More WordPress Facts: And Why You Want It
More Website Traffic
Do it yourself website builders are filled with unnecessary code. The code is required to make them operate but the excess bloat makes it harder for Google to read the content. This results in lower Google rankings and less website traffic.
Faster Loading Speeds
As mentioned before, the extra code and bloat that makes do-it-yourself website builders run makes it harder for Google to load t he page, especially on mobile phones. WordPress has more optimization options and faster loading speeds.
More Functionality
When you use a website builder to design and build your own website, you are at their mercy. WordPress is a platform that allows anyone to create a plugin that expands on it's functionality. With 50,000+ free plugins, you can't compete with its functionality.
More Professional
Most do-it-yourself website builders/content management systems help you design your own website but they limit you. Most of the templates they come with are limited and that also limits your design abilities. Professional web designers using WordPress can build websites that outdo anything you can build on a DIY website builder.
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More WordPress Web Design & Development Facts & Benefits
This section will tell you more about WordPress’s history, features, and benefits for you.
Easier to Use
WordPress is one of the easiest content management systems to use when you’re designing a website. The platform has tons of templates, themes, and plugins that improve your website’s design and expand its functionality.
When you mix this with a WordPress website designed by a professional agency, the sky is the limit. Our agency is proficient with multiple coding languages that allow us to manipulate WordPress and further expand its abilities.
Remember the days when a small business website cost $10,000 or more to create because web developers coded it from scratch? WordPress is essentially the software that dropped that cost. It’s how we can provide so much value for the price point we do now.
Second, although WordPress makes it easier to learn how to build a website, it still has quite a learning curve depending on how much effort you put into it. That’s why we offer our WordPress web design services.
If you would like to have a free 30 – 60-minute strategy session with us, feel free to visit our contact page. Keep clicking the tabs for more WordPress information!
Tons of Functionality
WordPress has over 60,000 plugins available. Some of them are free, but the paid ones offer much more functionality and features. Some of the biggest features the plugins can add to your website include:
- Adjust the website builder.
- Prevent and remove spam.
- Block hackers and malicious code.
- Add contact forms and live chat.
- Embed social media on the page.
- Integrate with other marketing and business tools.
- Improve speed.
- Create interactive elements.
- Improve SEO.
- Add eCommerce functionality.
- and more!
There is so much you can do with WordPress and its massive library of plugins. Unfortunately, we have seen some do-it-yourself WordPress sites that have gone “overboard.” If you’re not careful, downloading too many plugins can slow down your website, increase vulnerability to hackers, or break the site.
WordPress Websites Have Higher Rankings
When you hire a web designer or build your own website, what’s the number one thing you want it to do? You’re probably thinking “Make me money,” but it has to do one thing before it can do that.
Your website needs to rank highly in the Google search results, and that’s why having your website designed and built on WordPress is a good start.
WordPress websites tend to rank highly on the internet. In fact, 40% of the world’s top-ranking websites are WordPress websites. But, why do they rank so well?
WordPress was coded and structured to be friendly to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, or Duck Duck Go. WordPress has plugins that provide a framework for good SEO practices, and help you easily write highly optimized meta descriptions, page titles, and URLs.
There are over 200 SEO ranking factors, so having a WordPress website alone won’t ensure high rankings. That’s where M.J. Web Design comes in, we are professional web designers with plenty of SEO experience and can help you make your WordPress website explode with leads!
Build Any Site With WordPress
WordPress was created in 2003 as a content management system for bloggers. Out of the box, its core features are still geared towards creating a blogging site. But, because it is open source and developers started creating plugins, you can develop any type of website on the platform including:
- Blogs
- eCommerce
- Forums
- Nonprofits
- Entertainment
- Landing Pages
- Person Portfolios
- Enterprise
- Small Business
- Personal
- Info Sites
In a nutshell, whether it’s a hobby, small business, product, or other venture, WordPress can make that dream a reality. M.J. Web Design has now designed websites for small businesses in industries such as construction companies, real estate agents, healthcare workers, international manufacturers, trucking companies, caterers, and technology.
Custom WordPress Web Design
WordPress is an excellent option if you want a professionally designed website. The CMS has over 20,000 different themes that can help guide a designer to create a blog, portfolio, service-based site, eCommerce, or other type of website. We can design your site with the following features:
- A custom design found nowhere else on the web.
- Contact forms.
- Unique landing pages.
- Live chat.
- Integration with other marketing platforms.
- Responsive website that works on all devices.
- Special and easy-to-use menus.
- and More
Even better, if the designer has enough skill they can use HTML, CSS, PHP, and other coding skills to manipulate the site and design something truly unique and custom for your business.
WordPress Optimization
A website is just like anything else. If you don’t optimize and regularly maintain it, it’s going to slow down and not operate at full capacity. Luckily, as a WordPress company in Virginia, we can make your WordPress website run like a dream. Here’s what we can do to optimize your WordPress site:
- Choose a lighter theme that loads faster.
- Optimize Images.
- Set up caching.
- Deactivate and organize plugins.
- Set up a CDN.
- Minimize third-party scripts and code.
- Optimize the platform’s code.
- and More!
A lot of customers we have met in the past had a WordPress website designed in the past, but optimization was never completed. When it went down they reached out wondering why. Optimization keeps the site running faster, longer. But, that leads us to tour WordPress maintenance and management service.
WordPress Maintenance & Management
Even if a WordPress website was designed and optimized the first time, it can still slow down, crash, get hacked, or become obsolete. That’s why we offer website maintenance. Specifically, M.J. Web Design offers WordPress maintenance and management. Here’s what we can do for you.
- Ensure your website remains secure from hackers.
- Consistently optimize the site so it stays faster than the rest.
- Ensure the site is regularly backed up.
- Regularly clean up the WordPress database.
- Make sure pages are indexed by Google.
- Test contact forms.
- Update WordPress and plugins to be sure nothing is broken.
- Design new sections and add content.
- Check server uptime.
- and More!
FREE NO Obligation WordPress Web Design Quotes
Let’s just sit and chat about what a WordPress website can do for you.
Our Featured Custom WordPress Website
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The WordPress Plugins And Functionality We Can Provide Your Business.
Our Web Design Process Is Simple And Tailored To Grow Your Business
Everyone gets a FREE 30 – 60-minute strategy session with the owner to discuss your needs, provide information, and discuss whether our web design agency is the best choice for your business.
We have extensive questionnaires for you to answer that will give us insight into your business, your brand, and future goals. That way we can figure out where to take your website’s design.
With your info in hand, we will investigate your competitors, research your target audience, plan the website’s structure, and get everything ready to begin development.
Your branded graphics will be drawn and the first draft of your website’s copy will be written. This will then be adjusted properly as we develop the website.
At this point, we will have a wireframe of the website ready to go and we will put your graphic and written content onto a staging website.
Your website will be submitted to focus groups and content editors to be sure it’s igniting the right response and is easy to read and navigate.
All the technical SEO aspects will be completed so the website is ready for launch. This includes making sure the right keywords are in the SEO title, meta description, and other first-time optimizations are completed.
The website is uploaded to the hosting and connected to the domain name, at which point we submit the sitemap to Google and Google will crawl it and give initial rankings.
WordPress Web Design: FAQ
If you don’t see the answer to your question, contact us.
Why should I hire a WordPress Web Designer?
Your website should be designed around your customers’ problems and how your business will solve those problems. It should be designed to sell your goods and services, not be an online billboard they use to compare you to your competitors. M.J. Web Design’s goal is to help your Richmond, VA, based small business sell.
What will you use to build my website?
We can develop websites from scratch using code, but this method has long been outdated. We use specific content management systems to design and develop your website. Most of our experience is with WordPress, but we have designed websites on Joomla, Shopify, WIX, and Squarespace. The CMS that’s chosen depends on your specific needs.
What if I already have a website on a different platform?
This usually isn’t a problem. If your website needs to be moved to WordPress, we can always redesign the website and then point the domain to it. Then we will redirect the old pages to the new ones, and you will be the owner of a more advanced and modern WordPress website.
What are some reasons to move my website to WordPress?
WordPress is a content management system that’s lightweight and SEO ready. Do it yourself website builders like Squarespace, WIX, and Weebly do not fully optimize the code, and they usually load slower. This is a problem for Google and results in lower rankings. The big G doesn’t like slower websites.
How much does it cost to design a website with WordPress?
If you want to try designing a WordPress website yourself the costs come down to the hosting and features you want. Many web hosting companies offer plans for WordPress hosting that usually cost between $100 – $300 per year. Then you will have to purchase a monthly or annual license to use the plugins you want.
How much does a WordPress web designer cost?
When you search online for a WordPress web designer, you will likely see a massive price range. Overseas WordPress designers can be as little as $200, but you might have communication issues, content problems (English isn’t their first language), or low quality. WordPress web designers and agencies in the United States could charge anywhere from $3,000 – $10,000+ depending on the website’s features, size, and design complexity.
What are your service areas?
M.J. Web Design is a web designer in Richmond, VA. But, we don’t just work with local small businesses. We can work with any business in the continental United States and Canada. Our specialty though is to provide WordPress services to businesses across the state of Virginia.
Do you only work with specific industries?
We have a few industries we have worked with. You can view them on our portfolio. But, unlike most web designers who specialize in a specific niche and do the same work over and over again, we do it a little different. We don’t want to only work with the same type of business and design the same type of website time and time again. We want you to be unique. So we put our heart and soul into learning your industry and designing a website unlike any of your competitors.
Are you also a WordPress development company?
The company started as a web designer and then moved to offering website maintenance and management services. As we expanded our services into marketing, we also expanded our WordPress abilities. That’s how we can now offer more than WordPress web design. We are a WordPress developer, manager, and expert.
Will I have access to my WordPress website?
Of course. Unless our clients want us to take care of it all for them, you will have your own WordPress dashboard login. We can help you maintain the website and provide free website consulting. In the end, should we ever end the working relationship, you will have everything turned over directly to you.
