Web Design & Development Lancaster, PA

Our Work Speaks for Itself: Lancaster’s trusted
web design partner for over 16 years!

Our Process

Step 1: Call Us

Begin your journey by giving us a call. This first touchpoint is where you tell us about your business needs and what you envision for your website. It’s the first and oftentimes hardest step, but the fact that you’re on our page lets us know you’re ready to make a change.

Step 2: Free Consultation

After our initial conversation, we’ll schedule a free consultation. This session is dedicated to diving deeper into your requirements, discussing potential design strategies, and outlining the scope of your project. We ensure our plan aligns perfectly with your business objectives.

Step 3: Design Your Website Alongside us

The exciting part—designing your website! Work closely with our team as we bring your vision into reality. You’ll be involved throughout the process, from initial drafts to the final touches, ensuring the end result not only meets but exceeds your expectations.

Hello!

I’m Cameron Hess (owner of Schweb Design), and I’m thrilled you’re considering working with us. Our team is committed to crafting websites that are as unique and dynamic as the businesses they represent. We’re proud to be serving the greater Lancaster area for many years now. We welcome you to join us and learn how we’ve maintained so many great relationships with the websites we’ve built. Consultations are always free, so give us a call today!

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Pre-Built, Pre-Designed or Custom-Designed Websites

When you hire Schweb Design for website development, we’ll explore three approaches to building your business’s website.

Pre-Built Theme
Websites

A Pre-Built Theme is a basic theme or template that’s chosen from several options. Small changes to the design & publishing of content is done within this theme and is kept basic, simple, and clean. This allows very little time for design work beyond what the template provides, but will save you time and money.

Pre-Designed
Websites

A Pre-Designed Theme is a website design or layout will be purchased and integrated as a flexible theme with the website framework. We research the best option(s) focused on your ideal visitor experience, design quality, and consistency with your brand image. This is our middle-tier option with plenty of customizations available.

Custom-Designed
Websites

A Custom-Designed Theme is a fully unique design exclusive to your business, designed by us, and integrated as a flexible theme. The design will be catered exactly to your brand, ideal visitor experience, and content presentation for your product or service. Design consideration is placed into several contexts (e.g. home page, landing pages, and product pages). A website wireframe and/or prototype preview are drafted for your review & approval.

Our Design Philosophy

Website design should be simple, clean, beautiful, and consistent. This doesn’t mean it can’t be elegant, unique, and detailed. Design should be focused on making the website as easy-to-use for your visitors as possible. The design should also be catered toward guiding your visitors’ eye to your calls to action & your unique selling points, helping them complete the task they came to your website to do as quickly and easily as possible.

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to build a website?

The time it takes for a full website design build or renovation from initial design to launch can be several weeks to a couple months, depending on the complexity of the website being built. Contact us to discuss the scope of your website and we can give you a better idea of how long it will take.

How much does a website cost?

The cost of a website can vary greatly depending on which design route you take, what functionality you need, and how much complexity and/or user interactivity is required. At our initial phone call, we can give ballpark figures for your website, once we understand what your vision and requirements are for your new website.

Will my website be mobile-friendly?

Yes, all website designs by Schweb Design include a fully responsive, mobile-friendly design. A responsive design will not only greatly improve the accessibility and experience of your website but improve your online visibility.

Can I update the website myself once it’s built?

Yes, typically we build and integrate our website designs with a content management system (CMS). The CMS that we typically use is the latest version of WordPress: the most popular Open Source (free) CMS, however depending on the technical requirements for your site, different frameworks may be recommended.

With a CMS website you’ll be able to create, edit, delete, and organize all content on your website including photos and tags important for SEO, navigation menus, etc. This is easy for anyone to do without the need to know code whether you’re managing basic pages, ecommerce products, or complex inventory listings.

Do you provide hosting and domain services?

Schweb Design provides hosting on our privately managed and optimized cloud servers closely fully managed, monitored and maintained for security & availability by the Schweb Design team. Schweb currently provides hosting for 300+ client websites on our servers.

Schweb also provides domain registration services. Your domain is registered in your name (you own your domain) and under your own account, but are managed by Schweb as the admin name saving you management time and headaches. All domains registered with Schweb include private registration to hide your personal information on the domain in the WHOIS domain database.

What SEO features do you include to help my website rank on Google?

We provide monthly monthly digital marketing to drive traffic to your site including: Search Engine Optimization SEO, Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising, and Social Media Marketing and Advertising

What is the process for designing and building a website?

Our website design and development process follows these steps:

1. Ideation & Discover
2. Content Creation & Strategy (if applicable)
3. Design Creation
4. Design Prototype Review & Revisions
5. Design integration to stage
6. Content publishing to stage
7. Stage website review & final edits
8. Launch

How do you handle website maintenance after my website goes live?

Schweb Design provides and recommends performing quarterly security maintenance which includes: Quarterly security updates, bug patches, review & testing, troubleshooting, support, or quick website updates & changes. This is recommended every 3 months as a proactive measure to keep your website up-to-date and protected against your website becoming compromised.

Regular updates help prevent and protect against: loss or interception of sensitive information on your website by malicious parties; the cost of rebuilding your site in the event of an incident; the cost of notifying customers/clients of a security breach and their information; the website being ‘hijacked’ to send spam or deliver malicious software to your regular website visitors, even without you knowing it; regular continued maintenance is a small price to pay compared to a site getting “hacked” due to a vulnerability that could’ve been prevented with regular updates.

Schweb also provides ongoing support at our hourly rate after the site goes live, on an as-needed basis. We’re happy to provide time/cost estimates for future projects or changes needed after the site goes live.

How do I get started with my website project?

Just reach out via phone or email/contact form to schedule a call and a free in-person or remote consultation.

Our Work Speaks for Itself: Lancaster’s trusted web design partner for over 16 years!