Armada Law Redesign
The latest website produced by Nextwave Concepts is a redesign of the website for the California-based law firm Armada Law. Check out the video for a before and after look.
Don’t let your website just sit there. Put it to work.
So many websites are just “brochures,” telling generic information about your company. But a website can should needs to be so much more if you want to get ahead.
We’re ready to turn it into a lead-generating, money-making machine.
The latest website produced by Nextwave Concepts is a redesign of the website for the California-based law firm Armada Law. Check out the video for a before and after look.
Let me tell you about the time my website got nuked. Completely blew up. Utterly destroyed. Alderaan meets Death Star level gone. It all started several years ago when a
I love Gravity Forms. Long ago I used to use Contact Form 7 on all the sites I built, but when I discovered Gravity Forms, it was game over for
The STOP Clinic website redesign has just launched. The site was originally built circa 1995. I rebuilt it in WordPress around 2013, but the client, the charming Leslie Lyon, wanted
The cost of a website varies a lot.
The first thing in pricing a site is to ask what it does. An informational or “brochure” website is going to cost a lot less than something that needs to do more. Ecommerce, user accounts, any sort of extra functionality you can think of can cost more.
Let’s say you do just want a brochure website, which is what most small and medium-sized businesses want.
Are you writing the content and taking pictures, or are you paying a copywriter and a photographer? Does the site have one or two pages or does it have 30? Do you want it to be really fancy looking or do you want to go minimalist?
Alright, we’ll go with a brochure website with a moderate design: not too fancy and not too plain.
You could do it yourself for free (though it’s not likely to look at good or be as effective).
You could get your friend’s niece’s roommate to do it for maybe a few hundred, but a) it likely won’t be designed with any marketing savvy built into it and b) what are you going to do when you need an update and your website builder has a “real” job now?
You could hire someone from a gig website. That raises all kinds of questions, the most important of which is: How well vetted are they? Sure, they’re probably cheaper than an agency, but…
And then you get to the professionals. Our prices are all over the place. I’ve shopped pricing around just to get a feel for the market, and you can pay anywhere from around $1,000 for someone new who doesn’t understand their value to over $10,000 who overestimates their value.
So how much doe sit cost to build a website? Anything from free to five figures.
The important thing is to read reviews, maybe call some of their other clients, and have a discussion to make sure they understand your needs.
There are lots of website builders out there that you can use to build your own site. There are even AI programs to do the whole thing for you.
Are they going to look good? Properly convey your message? Convert visitors? Hell, will they even get visitors?
Probably not.
That’s why, if you believe in your business, you should consult a professional web designer.
No. Let me clarify.
There are free website builders out there, but you’re always going to sacrifice something. You can’t attach your customer domain (the yourbusinessname.com) to it or it’ll have ads on it.
At the bare minimum, when building a website you’ll need a domain and hosting to store the files for the site.
Of course you can teach yourself web design. Most web designers I know mostly taught themselves.
You can also teach yourself to ride a unicycle, but do you have time to do that?
Doing your own business website can be a money saver, but it’ll actually cost you money in the long run because your site is not likely to be built in the best way to convert visitors into clientele.
Your website is an investment to help grow your business.
The one whose site you’re on, obviously.
We’ve been in business since 2012 and Zach, the owner here, helped run all facets of a web design company for seven years prior to starting Nextwave Concepts.
We’ve got great reviews, a proven track record of helping businesses grow and make money, and we’re pretty easy to get along with.
Plus Zach has four kids, so…
Sometimes you can figure out who built a website. Oftentimes the creator will put a little link in the very bottom of the footer of the websites they build. Sometimes they’re not links, just text, and in those cases you can usually find them by hitting up your favorite search engine.
Web design is important because if done wrong, your website is basically useless. People won’t find it unless they’re specifically looking for you, and the people who do make it to your site won’t take actions that help enhance your business unless you know how to design it in a way to intrigue people and get them to take an action.
You should hire a web designer because, if they have experience and keep up with what’s going on in the world of web design, they will know how to build a site that accomplishes the owner’s goals. That could be making sales, building leads, having people schedule an appointment with them, or any number of actions.
You could do it yourself, but instead of researching trends, learning design and coding, and stressing over every detail to build your own site, you can have someone who already knows all these things do it while you make better use of your valuable time, be that working on your business or having some free time away from it.
