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Custom Websites / Responsive Web Design

Custom websites built by experts who understand your needs

Umbrella Consultants believes that your success is our success, and we know a strong online presence is crucial to your business. That’s why we built Umbrella CMS, a hosted custom website development platform with fully customizable templates and extensions.

Our professionally designed and developed website templates are unique and specifically built for our client's industry or niche.

EFFORTLESS SETUP FOR YOUR CUSTOM WEBSITE

We’ll do the heavy lifting.

Our integration experts will help migrate your old website to Umbrella CMS. In the process, they’ll work with you to streamline your site and optimize your content and messaging flow.

Our templates include all the features you’ve come to expect from your website — slideshows, photo galleries, blogs, customizable pages, contact forms, Social Media widgets, and more.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Industry-specific features on a simple and user-friendly platform.

Our content management system is built especially for small and medium sized business and integrates seamlessly with our inbound marketing platform, RevSocial, which makes understanding how to market your business a breeze.

Umbrella Consultant custom websites are built on our powerful yet user-friendly Umbrella CMS (content management system), so you’ll feel at ease when writing blog posts or making changes.

Once set up, you’ll have the ability to edit and add content yourself, although we’re always available to help.

MOBILE FRIENDLY WEBSITE DESIGN

Designed with mobile in mind.

Over 45% of our clients views on their websites come from tablets or smartphones, so we know that an effective mobile website is key. Umbrella CMS websites work beautifully on mobile, which means more happy visitors and more pageviews with a lower bounce rate.   

Custom Website Design / Responsive Websites

SEO & ANALYTICS BAKED INTO YOUR WEBSITE DESIGN

Optimized for search engines and integrated with analytics.

We’ll help boost your search engine rank with search-friendly content and keywords. Plus, our templates are coded with cutting edge SEO insight coded into the site.  We even ensure development for compatibility with sharing on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.  

Our sites also support a whole suite of analytics and testing services, like Google Analytics, RevSocial, Facebook and AdRoll pixels, Optimizely, and more.

OPTIMIZED DESIGN FOR YOUR CUSTOM WEBSITE

Best practices mean happier customers, more sales, more subscriptions and more engagement with your community.

We’ve worked with 100's of companies’ websites and spent countless hours thinking about the most effective ways to present your business online.

We’ll use this knowledge to create a customized, easy-to-navigate website, making it easy for your visitors to find the information they need and make the purchase or community engagement that’s right for them.

SPEEDY, SECURE, & STABLE

Managed hosting means less downtime and fewer worries.

Since we manage the entire technical stack, you can be confident we’re working to make your site load as fast as possible while keeping it 100% secure.

We host all Umbrella CMS websties on Liquid Web Web Hosting, the gold standard for reliability. In fact, we run our company website on the exact same platform as yours!

Plus, our e-commerce sites come fully equipped with SSL, making your website more trustworthy to customers and search engines.

 

As you can see, Umbrella Consultants take extra steps to ensure that working with us on your custom website is smoother for your customers, better for your business, and easier for you to manage.

 

Ready to discuss your next project?

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Website Design / Development Costs

How Much Should Your Website Cost 

Determining how much a website should cost is one of the most frequently asked but rarely answered questions in the web design world. Even now, with millions of websites online, there exists no magic formula for calculating either the cost of a new website or the cost of a redesign.

But why not? Questions about website design cost are common online, but very few people are prepared to answer, even when it comes to professional web design prices.

For this article, the Umbrella Consultants team of professional web designers, developers, and SEO specialists have worked together to examine some of the most important factors that go into a web design quote.

These include historical website development costs, as well as web design costs for different components. The data also includes current website features and design costs.

A website can cost anywhere from $500 to $15,000 so it can really be a challenge to nail down a specific professional website cost. That's why we made a website quote calculator that you can use to ballpark prices for websites you want to create.

 

 

Want a uniquely custom quote for your website?

Give us a call today at 252-573-8027 or contact Umbrella Consultants!

FYI...

Our website cost calculator can help you determine how much you should expect to pay for a site with the functions and features you want. It is meant as a ballpark quote.

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8 Ways to Increase Engagement Web Design / Development

Best Engagement Types Through Web Design and Development

Content

In order to stand out amongst competitors in your industry, you need to provide content on your website that is relative to your market, and informative to your audience.

A website design that includes strong content, along with an exceptional user experience, will increase your search engine optimization and make your business easier to find for potential customers looking for your services. These features will raise the level of trust that search engines put in your business, and in turn, the qualified traffic that comes to your site.

Our integrated marketing team specializes in SEO, content, and online media relations that can help design the necessary content for your website, and strategically market it to solidify your online presence.

Rich Media

A picture is worth a thousand words. When you have a lot to say, sometimes visual media can help alleviate that presentation problem.

Pictures, videos, and infographics give you the opportunity to show audiences what you do, rather than just telling them. It provides content to audiences in an engaging and concise format that is easily sharable through other digital platforms. As a full-service digital agency, we can help to generate the media that can bring a whole new look to the design of your website, and essence of your brand.

Compelling CTAs

Make visitors want to engage with your business through inviting calls to action.

Compel them to get involved by navigating audiences through your website, presenting them with interesting content that keeps them informed and attentive along the way. When used strategically, these CTA’s can lead right to a conversion that feels natural to the customer, and true to your brand.

At Umbrella Consultants, our strategists can create a plan for your website that uniformly fits into the rest of your digital efforts.  With a thorough website strategy in place, your calls to action will engage visitors in a way that feels exciting, but still united with your business.

Blogging

A blog is a great way to create a discussion around your brand. You can generate content covering topics that span throughout your entire industry, and help your company stand out as thought-leaders within your market.

This forms a whole new funnel to drive traffic to your website. An individual can share a blog post that in turn drives new potential customers to your website that want to find out more about your company.

Our content specialists can help design, write, and manage a blog that reflects your business and your knowledge within the industry, while engaging audiences through compelling content.

Social Media Integration

Social media has allowed audiences to engage with brands more than ever before.

Including access to those channels is a great addition to any website design, especially within blog content. Social media gives you the opportunity to expand the personality of your company, and a lot of customers enjoy connecting with businesses on a casual level.

Our online marketing teams can help to integrate social media into your digital practices, and grow your online audience in order to create a more interactive and engaging environment surrounding your brand’s website.

Effective Design

You want the design of your website to reflect the identity of your company, not just the standards of the industry you operate in.

An effective website design will portray the unique essence of a brand, while still making it stand out against other competitors within your market. Details about the products and services you provide, contact information, and thorough instructions laying out the steps to make a purchase should be available to visitors. Providing the material needed in order to get to know your company will help potential customers more easily find all the information they need in order to confidently make a conversion.

At Umbrella Consultants, we work to get to know the people behind the brand so that we can better your digital efforts. We want to help market your business to an online audience through engaging designs that will grow your brand online.

Responsive Design

With the growing popularity of mobile devices, the importance of designing a website that is compatible with all of these platforms is essential.

You want your visitors to be able to view and navigate your website from whatever medium they are using. Whether that be a laptop, tablet, or mobile phone, making sure that your website accessible and functioning in all of these formats should not be overlooked.

Not only does it give you the most value from a business perspective, but it makes engagement easier than ever for the customer.

Quality Assurance & Usability

At the end of the day the most important aspect to a well-designed website, is that it needs to work. Your site needs to function properly, and on a consistent basis.

If a visitor gets to a page and is unhappy or confused by the usability, they are going to leave. Our developers test the quality of each website we develop in order to ensure that they are functioning in the best possible way, and are quick to make changes to alleviate any issues that may arise.

This guarantees an effortless experience for our clients, and an engaging one for their audiences.

 

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